Sitting in as mall coffees shop on the side of a southwestern Turkish mountain looking out over the Mediterranean sea I took a deep breath and began to relax after a very busy day of acting as a tour guide for my American friends. Answering their questions all day long about Turkey provided a contrast with how little knowledge I thought I knew, to how much I really did know about Turkish culture. Thousands of different shades of pink, orange, and yellow came blasting at me from the sun as it was setting. I started to think about the greatest challenge I ever faced in my life, the summer my family moved back to Austin Texas after living in Istanbul, Turkey for four years. I remember sitting in my bedroom that day trying to figure out if I would ever be able to adjust to the Texan culture after living in a Muslim country. The thoughts of what is "cool" to say began to flood my ten year old mind. The fear of knowing I would walk into a public school lunch room full of kids with totally different lives started to hit me. Fear spread through my mind like a raging forest fire as I became scared to go back to my homeland. .
We were welcomed back to Texas where "the bigger the better" is most commonly believed. I clearly remember the day that we drove down the street and came up to our house. What had seemed so old and small compared to my few other American friends suddenly seemed so big and open. As I walked through the ack yard I figured that on the same size lot we have here in Texas I had once shared with 40 other Turkish families in a 14 story apartment skyscraper in Istanbul turkey. Next I went up to my old room I would have once again. It looked like a McDonald's Play land because it seemed so big compared to my old room in Turkey. I knew I would love it until I wondered, could this room even compare to my room in Turkey with a twelfth story private balcony view including thousands of skyscrapers and millions of people represented by the skyscrapers? then I figured yes, it will be better because of the luxurious air conditioning to lower the grade of the scorching heat.
Comparatively, Turkey is slightly larger than the size of Texas, but unlike Texas, Turkey has a population of 65.6million people. ... The majority of Turkish people are Muslims. There are two ethnic groups: Turkish 80%, Kurdish 20%. ... Next, I will analyze the Turkish educational system. ... In conclusion, Turkey's economy is steadily growing. ...
Later the next day my aunt arrived from Texas to visit for Thanksgiving. ... Normally he would carve the turkey but this year he seemed much to weak to even stand on his own. As my grandma started cutting the turkey he stood up on his crutches and walked over to the counter and carved the turkey. ...
Bonnie's Background: Bonnie Parker was born October 1, 1910, in Rowena, Texas. ... She had a job as a waitress and decided one day to visit a friend in West Texas in 1930. ... Clyde's background: Clyde Barrow was born in Telaco, Texas on March 21, 1909. ... Clyde never finished school higher than the fifth grade, and tried to go back after the family moved to West Texas but felt it would be better to start selling stolen turkeys with his brother Buck. ... Jones was later captured in Texas and Bonnie and Clyde were again on their own (FBI, 2004). ...
Christmas at Home When I was a child growing up in a small East Texas town called Tenaha, it was the custom to have a blissful celebration during Christmas. ... My stomach rumbled with hunger and I could smell the turkey roasting and the sweet potatoes baking; it was wonderful. ... The sparkling crystal, beautiful arrangement of flowers placed so neatly in the middle of the table and the light brown of the glazed turkey made our eyes gleam with anticipation. ...
A U-2 was shot down over Cuba and EX-COMM received a second letter from Khrushchev demanding the removal of U.S. missiles in Turkey in exchange for Soviet missiles in Cuba. ... Kennedy feared having someone go public with the Turkey proposal because it could potentially ruin his career, thus, he kept this part of Khrushchev's proposal extremely secretive. ... buckled under pressure and removed its missiles from Turkey, where they had been long before the crisis arose, then it could be political suicide and a demonstration of Soviet influencing power. A political enemy would have a fi...
He is the suspected killer and gunmen who sat in the Texas Book Depository window on November 22,1963. ... Some said they saw them from the window behind them, which would have been the Texas Book Depository. ... They had the power to set up a turkey shoot in Dallas by rearranging the route of the motorcade to take that left turn into Dealey Plaza. ... Abraham Zapruder stood on a hill at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. ... It seems strange to this writer that he was assassinated in Texas, considering this law. ...
Clyde was born to Henry and Cummie Barrow in Telice, Texas, one of eight children. ... His first crime was stealing turkeys, and that started his criminal life. ... Bonnie Parker was born in Rowena, Texas in 1910. ... In March 1930 Clyde was arrested as a fugitive and sentenced to Texas Penitentiary. ... In 1934, a detective, former Texas Ranger name Fred Harmar, had started to chase them. ...
Clyde's crime streak started with helping his brother steal a small flock of turkeys and transporting them to Dallas to sell for Christmas money. ... Clyde soon quit his job at Proctor and gamble and began burglarizing small businesses in Dallas, Lufkin, and Hillsboro, Texas. ... Bonnie was born in the small town of Rowena, Texas. ... It all started with a man named Howard Hall, a meat clerk in Sherman, Texas. ... In Crockette, Texas, a prison guard was killed while trying to escape. ...
