There are some things we never get over because they scar so deeply they become a part of us. However, it is not scars that define us or how we hide them, it is the ability to heal the lacerations and tend to them until the risk of infection is gone. It is our ability to shape a painful moment in time into something positive that helps us define who we know ourselves to be and strive to be a better version of that person. Mental scars are the most difficult to surpass because they poison the mind, and, in turn, the mind poisons the body. I experienced this through death of my middle sister, Laura. Within it, I found my inner strength and my love for science and literature.
When I was seven, Laura was diagnosed with leukemia. She lost her battle during the eighth year. My father worked hard to earn money to sustain us and cover her hospital costs, while my mother became her sole caretaker. My four siblings and I grew to be very close while secluding ourselves from the outside world. Shyness became a Lopez family trait and from shyness came the need to express ourselves. We went our separate ways to do this- I tettered between art and literature. I carried paper and writing utensils, religiously, everywhere I went: I used my pencils until they were an inch tall and my pens until they ran dry. They were my safe haven. As my siblings and I grew together and apart, I became increasingly interested in science because it provided the explanations I craved. However, the more I learned, the more I began to see the gravity of her situation. Scientifically, she didn't stand a chance; spiritually, she needed a miracle. My family functioned together as one body, and she was its center, so when her heart stopped beating, the blood no longer pumped into the ligaments and organs that gave us life. .
The weight of the world crashed down on me, but, surprisingly, I did not coil in pain; I felt hollow. Upsettingly, in place of pain came understanding; I could not scream and move with frantic urgency, and tears did not flow like rivers from a dam that was years overdue.
After reading and analysing Victor Chang: A Tribute to my Father by Vanessa Chang there is no exception. ... The sad part of this story is that Victor, his brother, sister and father never saw May again. ... Sister Bernice, St. ... Sister Bernice, St. ... He has personally taught me to be proud of my Asian heritage and about being Australian. ...
To begin with, Katniss saves her younger sister Prim and volunteers as tribute because she cannot stand seeing her name chosen at the reaping when she states, " 'I volunteer!... "I volunteer as tribute'" (Collins, 22). ... Secondly, Katniss sacrifices her hearing to destroy the career tributes food supply hoping to kill them by starvation. ... This not only helped her but other tributes as well by cutting the careers food supply, it would give other tributes a better chance for survival and sacrifices her ear in the process. ... She tries to hide her feelings from othe...
To begin with, Katniss saves her younger sister Prim and volunteers as tribute because she cannot stand seeing her name chosen at the reaping when she states, " 'I volunteer!... "I volunteer as tribute'" (Collins, 22). ... Secondly, Katniss sacrifices her hearing to destroy the career tributes food supply hoping to kill them by starvation. ... This not only helped her, but other tributes as well by cutting the careers food supply, it would give other tributes a better chance for survival and sacrifices her ear in the process. ... She tries to hide her feelings from oth...
"I flatten out on my belly and slide under a two-foot stretch that's been lose for years.... ... I shove the boy away from her and pull out my knife, freeing her from the net. One look at the wound and I know it's far beyond my capacity to heal. ... It terrifies all the districts and forces to young adults to be tribute in a gladiatorial game to the death. ... She does not agree with the games, but never thought much of it until she had to volunteer for her younger sister. ...
These tributes have to fight for their life by eliminating other tributes. ... The chain of action and reaction of the struggle started when the main actress, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) from District 12, volunteered for her sister and become a tribute in the 74th Hunger Games. ... The Capitol decided that the tributes are going to be taken from every district's Victor Pool. ... However, in this review, I would limit my explanation about the dynamics from government's point of view in its effort to assert authority upon its people. ... From my observation, it is safe to say ...
Katniss is a girl from District Twelve who volunteered to go to The Hunger Games for her sister. ... During the games There is a pack of tributes that are known as the career's where they were trained in their district for the games and when they turn eighteen they volunteer as tribute, even if they're not volunteers the group normally consists of Districts 1,2,3, and 4 in The Hunger Games. ... "I pick my tree carefully. ...
A close cousin of mine named Rick Calderon was involved in the Desert Storm war and with his involvement my life personally changed. I remember the day my cousin said he was going to be shipped out into the Persian Gulf, although he was many years older than me, I looked up to him like a dear brother. He came from a home with a single mother raising my cousin and his three younger sisters. ... When the news came that my cousin would be deployed into hostile territory our entire family was petrified with pure horror. ... Rick survived through the seven months he had been in hostile territory ...
In his speech, Spencer expresses personal grief and demonstrates deep appreciation and respect for his deceased sister. ... In his reverent yet sober eulogy for Princess Diana, Earl Spencer, an author, print journalist, and younger brother to Diana, recalls some of her remarkable characteristics in order to celebrate the ordinary humanity, and not so much the celebrity, of his sister. ... In his quote: "My own, and only explanation is that genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum". 1 he also allures to ethos, by suggesting that those who dislike...
It is a more remarkable tribute to Diana than I can ever hope to offer her today. ... She sparkled of course, but I would rather cherish the days I spent with her in March when she came to visit me and my children in our home in South Africa. ... "It is a tribute to her level-headedness and strength that despite the most bizarre-like life imaginable after her childhood, she remained intact, true to herself. ... "My own and only explanation is that genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum. ... Above all we give thanks for the life of a woman I...
