Aunt Essays

Camping has always been one of my favorite childhood memories, especially when we play the game flashlight tag. Flashlight tag has always been a fun game my family does when we camp. On a dark night my uncle Pat, aunt Ellen, uncle Mat, and I travel down to the Manistee woods with flashlights and walkie talkies. We split up into teams and one team hides while the other team counts. The team that is hiding can communicate by the walkie talkies. It was a clear night

BORN ONTO NIGHT Government had already used army before my birthday. Guerilla warfare was haunting the sleeps of people. Citizen had to fear both revolutionary and military. National Strike were like the Saturdays, regular holidays. I have seen the killing by government at the same night I started my schools .With fear, prays and thanks to god, the army bunker stopped at my uncles. What would have happened if it had stopped at my house? I still remember the person they gaged, release of agony

as a reaction to her parent’s tragic death. She was immediately quartered by her aunt and uncle. In their close proximity, the relationship between her and her older cousin, Danny, escalated. Jonah Brickley showed us how the absence of love consumed and destroyed our protagonist. In Zombie Crush, we were shown how the absence of love obliterated the protagonist as she allowed it to weary her awareness. Judy’s aunt and uncle, Marta and Luis, worked two jobs

JANE JACOBS- “PAPER ON USES OF SIDEWALKS: SAFETY” Jane Jacobs , that “little old lady in tennis shoes”, who shook the white collar planners of the American cities, had written the book “life and Death of Great American cities”, which was published in 1960. I started reading this essay “Uses of sidewalks: Safety” from that book when I was in my first year and I was so moved and it was so amazing to read about planning which was completely different. This essay really looks at how the crowded neighborhoods

Time in One Hundred Years of Solitude Time is related to myth in this story as it goes from linear to circular timeline process. the timeline of novel is simple and linear as Jose Arcadio Buendia marries Ursula, they will live in a town named Macondo which is found by them and they grow a family that later will destroy by a hurricane and will be faded on earth. Within this linear timeline we can see events which is repeated throughout the story. As it says in the book “ ‘What did you expect?’ he

Balancing the Yin and the Yang: Expedition towards Harmony in The Bonesetters Daughter by Amy Tan Asians began immigrating to the United States in 1849. The immigrants from Asia and America of Asian descent have been writing in America since the 19th century. But, Asian American literature as a branch of writing came into being only in the early 1970s. Since then, the field of Asian American literature and of Asian American literary criticism has grown rapidly. The Chinese immigrated to America

I looked down at my uncles dead still body and I did not recognize him. He laid there in a coffin dressed in a deep black suit so uncanny to his normal casual attire of navy blue sweatpants and a maroon sweater. Where was his black thinly rimmed glasses that hung off of his large nose? Why was his dark brown hair neatly slicked back off his forehead when it always messily hung over his hazel eyes? This was not David Cunningham. How could it be? I had just seen him a few days prior, we had shared

hauled aboard the boat. “Mom, it’s not good,” I hear Chris say. “I can’t feel anything”. Someone calls an ambulance which meets us when we make it to shore. Chris is lifted onto a stretcher by the EMTs who rush him into the ambulance. Uncle Vinney and Aunt Kathy join him. Their faces stricken with grief as the doors slam shut. As the ambulance pulls away my mind continues to spin. “What just happened?” I wonder as I sit down on a white lawn chair on the

The Radicalized Mind Joesph Strorm is a loyal brute, an extremist. He is an unwavering leader to Waknuk and the Repentances. He would sacrifice anything for his religion. Joseph is the kind of character that will do what he believes in with asking anyone one else. He is very cantankerous and hard to deal with and is a huge threat to David. Firstly, Joseph can be very dangerous because he will punish anyone, no matter who, especially those who go against the repentances, including his only son

It was Christmas time! My aunt and I did not really get along especially over the topic of discipline and girls don’t do this, girls don’t do that but we managed to keep it together by focusing on what made our bond worthwhile. Just like every other Christmas, this was the year when Aunt Christina was coming to visit us. She lived in the States and would come by every other Holiday season. Aunt Christina was like a nightmare dressed like a daydream. She was like

Summers have an air of relaxation to them for most people, but for me I can barely find a moment's rest. Because I work in the hospitality industry, summer is the busiest time of the year. My apartment is a 3 minute walk from the beach and yet I only rarely get to enjoy it. Although there are days, there are precious days, when I can just stop and smell the ocean. Where I can just sit there all day, seemingly without a care in the world. They don't happen often, but that's what makes them even more

The motion picture, Arrival, written by E. Heisserer and directed by D. Villeneuve, depicts the story of a translator, named Dr. Louise Banks, and her job translating alien messages for the United States government. Heart of Darkness is a novel, written by Joseph Conrad, about a man, Marlow, who travels to the Congo to find ivory and meet the famous ivory collector, Mr. Kurtz. By comparing and contrasting these two stories, one can see the problems and benefits of using visual imagery versus using

Amy Tan: Background and Success Amy Tan is a very famous author and is known for successful moving stories of Chinese-American mothers and daughters. Currently, Amy Tan has written over 80 books/novels with many reaching New York Times as bestseller. Amy Tan’s passion for writing was strong ever since as a child. When she was eight years old, she won a essay contest, which ignited her passion for writing. Afterwards, Amy Tan dreamed of writing novels and short stories, which later became a reality

Have you ever been in a nursing home or in an environment where there were senior citizens? If so, have you ever wondered about their journeys and experiences? Well, I’ve most certainly have, creating this biography gave me an opportunity to have an insight, on how someone once lived their life and the obstacles they’ve overcome, to be who they are today. I was blessed with the pleasure of interviewing my Great-Uncle by the name of Gary Belizaire, who is a retired Veteran. This assignment couldn’t

A NEW WOMAN Feminists as Lucy Irigaray, Judith Butler and Helene Cixous have explained in their essays how men are historically empowered by their own speeches that explain men are the only subject, the main model to equal. The aim of this essay will be to provide an analysis of Lethal, Embrace, The Mother and Love, Forever by Carol Oates and explain how society affects characters’ behaviors in these stories considering feminist ideas. Lethal shows a man’s action caused by patriarchy, created by

Golf is a sport that youth can begin playing at a very young age and enjoy as a casual and/or competitive activity for the rest of their lives. While having fun playing this lifetime sport, young people learn valuable life lessons in sportsmanship, honesty, patience and integrity and use these attributes in a variety of situations they encounter throughout life. Golf also encourages juniors to set goals and develop communication skills with other players. Overall, junior golf helps shape the lives

At my elementary school, there was a big field right next to the playground where my male peers would play football. I always wanted to join their game and try to play, so they put me on a team to be nice to be nice but they never hurled the ball to me. This was because I am a girl and they believed girls couldn’t correctly play football, little did they know this made me feel as invisible as a ghost. This is a common feeling for a lot of innocuous kids because they don’t fit in. An outsider is what

The story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is a short story of horror and realism. Residents of a small New England town come together in the town square every year and hold their annual lottery. The head of each household goes up and pulls out a slip of paper from the sacred black box. The person who pulls out a slip of paper with a black dot, wins the lottery. This time around the Hutchinsons were the family who pulled out the black dot and one of the family members gets the chance to win the

Hours drag on and so does misery. Those words exemplify how people going through depression feel. Hours go on day after day and so does depression. The Hours is a complex film, which all the characters are interconnected. The Hours was directed by Stephen Daldry in 2002 and staring in the film is Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf, Julianne Moore as Laura Brown, and Meryl Streep as Clarissa Vaughan. The story is about how one novel “Mrs. Dalloway” written by Virginia Woolf affects her and two other

literary analysis: Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets I’ve read Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets, a book written by J.K. Rowling. It’s the second book in a series of 7. The book is about Harry Potter, a 12-year-old wizard going to Hogwarts. This year, people are getting stupefied without anyone knowing the reason behind it. At the same time, Harry can hear voices that no one else can. The main character’s name is Harry Potter. He is a 12-year-old orphan and has lived with his abusive