Joseph McKelvy ENG 1123 Essay #2 Ms. Coleman Moving Away From Home At the age of eighteen I found myself faced with two choices. I could stay in my hometown try and find a job and go to school‚ or I could enlist‚ go see the world‚ have my education paid for while gaining work experience. I choose to enlist. The first step was to find a recruiter. After finding the recruiter I enlisted. I was given an itinerary to follow. The itinerary listed times‚ places and dates. Before leaving for
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make an effort on working. In addition‚ international students usually encounter in many troubles in daily life. Being away form hometown‚ students cannot eat the food they want. Fast food is always the first choice. Nevertheless‚ few students enjoy trying the local food‚ and they think it is an interesting experience. If food is not a big challenge‚ loneliness must be the biggest one. They miss their friends and relatives‚ and their life is not exciting and interesting like other people think. But
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up to the wellbeing of their family. Where is the wellbeing in that when the parent detaches from the family? A lot of things are sacrificed. Alright‚ we talk everyday on long distance phone calls but do we always get to just hangout? OFWs would miss a lot as time would pass especially seeing their son grow. Being a child of an OFW is not easy too. Growing up‚ children ask a lot of questions from necessities to trivial things about their parents. Questions like “What should I do?” or “What did
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Trying to understand the concept of other is a complex one. It is not an easy task to pinpoint exactly what it means. In some way we are all others to someone and everyone else is also other to us. If the other is constantly changing then how do we strive to know the other. And at the same time the other cannot exist without us trying to understand ourselves. I do believe that culture is important and it helps us to understand ourselves as well as the other. I do not believe that culture is
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We get all caught up in our pleasures of vacationing‚ that we fail to see things from the perspectives of others. For relatives wanting to travel to different countries‚ saving enough money is no easy task. In the wake of the Vietnam war‚ economic hardship runs rampant in communities with run-down neighborhoods and disheveled street beggars. My Vietnamese cousin‚ Thai Minh‚ doesn’t let these difficulties deter him from traveling. Minh travels not only to search for job offers‚ but also to escape the
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live in this oppressive country any longer‚ and plans to flee‚ "escape". Truong successfully escapes his home‚ in search of a new one. Leaving on a small‚ open boat with his older brother‚ niece and nephew in 1981‚ he finds himself displaced. Without a home and treading dangerous waters‚ he speaks of the tragedies many refugees such as himself faced‚ "Half of the people who left died on the ocean". He considers himself lucky to have even survived on the boat. Mr. Nguyen spends five months living in
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day‚ no conflict would take place‚ and no one ever would feel hurt or injured. A perfect world‚ or utopia‚ is the exact opposite of a dystopia‚ which is the type of the literature the stories “The Lottery” and “The Veldt” are. I would never want to live in the dystopian lives of “The Lottery” or “The Veldt” for two reasons‚ and in the “The Lottery” for another reason.The first reason would be that I would feel fairly controlled in the stories. In “The Lottery‚” society seems to control all of the community
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The stories I have read: "The Lottery"‚ "Never" and "Harrison Bergeron" all can be similar by one certain theme. I believe that theme would be change. All of these stories’ characters needed change in their lives. In "Never" the main character was hopeless and felt trapped and unhappy with her life. She needed to change this routine by seeing the world in a better light or leaving her past behind and catching the train mentioned in the text. In "Harrison Bergeron"‚ the main character‚ Harrison fights
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converse shoes come in high top form and low top form. When deciding between the two‚ you should compare and contrast to see which is right for you. That means to basically find the similar things in both and the differences too. I have done this many times when shopping but I use this skill mainly when reading. Using this same skill I am going to compare and contrast these stories‚ “Charles” and “The Lottery”‚ both by Shirley Jackson‚ in this essay. First‚ comparing. In the first story that I read
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