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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I am outside today with a couple other S.S. Soldiers we saw a Jewish man who had some weird curls so we decided to stop him and surround him and make fun of his hair and outfit. Many of the S.S. Soldiers have taken over homes of the Jews. Also today is the last day for all the Jews to move into the ghetto. While the Jews are walking to the ghetto some kids are standing on the sidewalk while screaming and throwing things at them one girl was even screaming “Goodbye Jews.” Once the Jews got into the
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Abbey Martin WGSS Discussion Paper #1- Personal Narrative I grew up in a traditional two-parent household with an older sister and younger brother. Although I was born and raised in Southern California‚ we relocated to Corvallis when I was nine years old. Many years after moving‚ the influences of Southern California are still very present in my family through the slang we use‚ tastes we have‚ and overall perspective on the world. Although it can be beautiful‚ Southern California is a very materialistic
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dinosaurs pass exams? With extinction!” The women in the middle roared with laughter. When she laughs‚ it looks like as if the parts of her body are disassembling. As I watched the golden lady‚ her head tilted and dropped onto the ground. Her head rolled away‚ still mouth wide laughing. I stared in horror as the servants picked up the head and put it on her headless body. I panicked and fell off my chair. The music stopped and everybody stared at me as I scrambled up. As I was going to run‚ I saw everybody’s
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Moving Away Moving away from all of your best friends can be a real tragedy in a sixteen-year-old teenagers life. It’s hard to get up and go eight hundred miles away from everyone you know and everything you grew up around. I had this happen to me about three years ago and it is the largest change I have ever had to adjust to in my life. It wasn’t the changes around me that I was bothered by; it was that I did not know one living soul for hundreds of miles and all I wanted was a friend.
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Clack‚ clack‚ clack. That is the noise my feet make when I usher myself up the stairs to safety. By safety‚ I mean my bedroom. Safe from? Not from the world‚ this isn’t a narrative about how the world is too hard for me to handle. Safety from my family rather. No‚ they’re not abusive and I don’t need to be saved from them. It’s more safety from not having to talk to them and just be by myself. Again‚ no‚ I don’t have long black straightened hair and listen to Metallica. I don’t like to be alone that
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When I came from Africa in 2007‚ I was really excited. To me coming to America was like going to heaven. It was all I wanted‚ after all I could leave my violent country and finally come to the land of the free and the home of the brave. No matter how you put it the expectation for this country around the world is overwhelming. As for me coming to the United State was part of my everyday dreams. I remember my uncle my used to tell me‚ “Musa the statue of is capable of sitting down”‚ and due to the
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“Why is she so quiet?” “Why does she not talk? Growing up I was a very shy girl‚ very nervous to talk to anyone. I was the person who would keep their thoughts to their-self. I was very timid and to make matters worse I move to a new school sixth grade.Heart racing‚ legs shaking‚ hands sweating‚ I did not know what to expect during this school changes. I was the kid that would always be alone at recess. I was the kid who did not have a partner in group assignments. I was the kid who timid and
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“Hurry ” called my brother-in-law outside from the deck. I was taking shower in the bathroom. He said‚“Today I have good surprise for you.” Two years ago‚ we moved to the United States from Afghanistan with my beautiful family and exciting travel. First‚ one day my family was sitting on a beautiful sunny day around the deck‚ and front of us was a bunch of mangos. Mangos are very tasted like sweet sugar‚ melted on my red lips. And my brother in law came from America‚ for us to bring here. My two sisters
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He had it all‚ he had everything. Nothing could go wrong for him‚ he thought. Too bad he moved away‚ he’d soon meet his fate. It was mid-winter in Minnesota and young boy named Thomas was about to move out on his own after living with his parents for 18 years. Thankfully he had nothing to worry about‚ his parents will be funding all of his housing payments. Thomas always had an easy life‚ the most terrible thing he can remember happening to him was not making the hockey team in 7th grade‚ but that
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