Kim played a bit more with the several buttons and dials on the monitor and suddenly weird sound came from it. ... She pointed the living room and said "The baby monitor is being weird, can you fix it?... Suddenly the weird sound increased and the voice was heard again. ... Then Kim realizes that Dylan was talking weird just like the baby monitor and her dad. ...
You might think this is a weird thing I had going on with Gags, but I loved being able to tell someone so important in my life everything without having to be embarrassed. ... He's a weird looking man (I can say that, I"m related) who doesn't care about his appearance and often wears clothes that he finds off the beach. ... It seems weird that my grandpa married someone like my grandma. ...
Everyone has a narrative about their life, and this is my story. My life has changed for the better since I moved to America. I implemented into my life that created amazing, compounding change, and completely shifted the direction and energy of my life. That has totally changed my life, we left eve...
It has always been a tradition in my family to always to go to Marathon Monday this year was no different. We usually sit on top of heartbreak hill with all my family including my cousins. My aunt and uncle have always been apart of the marathon. This year only my uncle was running and a close neigh...
Beloved The setting, time, and main characters of the film Beloved all point to struggling aspects of African Americans and African American women in particular. Sethe, the mother, is determined to keep her children from slavery no matter what the cost. She knows what the life of slavery enta...
Shortly after that, my parents finally arrived, I saw a weird face of my father, not a worried face but like someone that just received a big surprise news, I was eager to know, my mother sat on the bed, my father did the same, I didn't want to take a seat. ...
October 26, 1995 is the day that I was born. Back then, my parents used to live in a small village by the name of Almishtaya. There weren't any hospitals nearby in the village, so a day before my mom was due, my parents travelled to the city to give birth to me. During the night of October 25 they w...
The Third-Floor Bedroom The third floor room of the cabin was glowing with laughter and the radiance of young boys, playing with their new Christmas presents. The morning was fresh, and yet the kids had been up for hours, playing and giggling and drinking hot cocoa. Today was the big day for us a...
It might seem pretty weird to you that my dad would do this, but it was actually pretty funny when I look back on it, its just one of those things you had to be there for I am sure because you must be thinking that he was crazy, he wasn't he just liked to play jokes. ...
As a teenager, my grandmother always told me, "The people with whom I surrounded myself can have a big influence on me." She was inspired by the scripture that said, "Bad friend corrupt good character." I always kept that advice in the back of my mind and putting it in practice was very challenging,...
They were both having lunch until they heard the front door open, with a voice coming from a manly background, Sajda sat her boyfriend down in the living room and went into the kitchen to tell her mother who she had brought home, but Saida had this weird feeling it might be Ali, so she asked Sajda who it was and Sajda replied mum its Mohsin, my boyfriend, that was the moment when everyone went silent. ...
A parent-child relationship is a special relationship that has a huge effect on the way that the child will turn out. This relationship is formed through love, disappointment, and discipline. Parenting requires a great deal of adaptation. The parents want to develop a strong bond with their child bu...
Societies in the past, are also somewhat similar to today societies. This is evident in the comparison of many black plays and movies from history to the present. We see this main focus through the plays read this semester. In many of the plays and movies, several characters suffer through the same problems and setbacks causing the outcome to be similar. Some of the most frequently mentioned problems are the dependency of races upon each other, overcoming obstacles to read, the struggle to overcome a troubled past and the importance of family. ...
Living in a Pakistani household and trying to fit in an American life style is not that easy. At home you have to fulfill your parents expectations and you are thought things very differently than any normal American. At school or outside you need to try to blend in with your American friends. At ho...
Minorities from all over the globe wishes to immigrate to North America hoping to find a better living situation, enhance education and ironically to live in a country where individual's mind and self are valued with no oppression and power struggles. Despite these wishes, the movie The Joy Luck Club, originally a novel written by Amy Tan raises the questions of oppression and power in the lives of four mothers and their daughters. The director, Wayne Wang is a Hong Kong-born American filmmaker, he was sent to America to study medicine, however, his eyes widened to new experiences and dev...
