units. In a state of "total war"‚ the major participants placed their entire economic‚ industrial‚ and scientific capabilities at the service of the war effort‚ erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources. Marked by significant events involving the mass death of civilians‚ including the holocaust and the only use of nuclear weapons‚ it resulted in 50 million to over 70 million fatalities. These deaths make the war the deadliest conflict in history. The years leading up to the
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you hear and half of what you see‚” Dad reiterated as I became a young woman. But growing up‚ I relied on what I could see‚ what I could touch‚ and what others shared with me. I held my peers and teachers words as peremptory and gained a sense of false dependence. As I entered my third year of high school this changed. “I need you to translate what this man is saying‚” Dad explained as he drove through our neighborhood. An older Hispanic man with a hat‚ long sleeves and jeans‚ an unusual outfit for
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A time long ago at the age of fifteen‚ My sister Mia and I were browsing throughout our family home looking for something to do. Mia who had just turned nine the day before had been wanting to play a board game. Although‚ it had just been her birthday‚ our family was poor and could not afford games‚ toys and the etc. Most of our time as children was spent outside‚ no matter the season. It could’ve been Winter‚ Summer‚ Fall or Spring‚ and us kids would still be outside playing those typical games
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It was the morning of move in day. I said goodbye to my home and headed out. I passed the local shopping market and my high school where I enjoyed a fun four years. As I headed to Norman I realized I was leaving everything I had ever known. All my life has consisted of living in the same house‚ going to school with the same kids‚ and going to the same supermarkets and restaurants. While I’d like to say I have developed a good idea of the world around me by visiting so many cities around the
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Dexter was smaller than everyone throughout his entire life. Dexter being short made life a little harder than it would have been otherwise‚ but all of the bullying and the overlooking he had to deal with gave him thick skin. He had problems at home like most people but his were a little worse and he was always looking for an escape or a happy place. Then one day on a walk he stumbled onto a basketball court‚ and that was the day that changed his life forever. He was 10 years old and most of the people
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a couple days after my birthday; Feb.2; I went home for a school vacation. It was Presidents Break actually. When I got off the bus for transportation‚ I was rushed to the emergency room. A couple days later I was told I had a tumor. Have you ever realized something’s wrong with you but you couldn’t quite figure out what exactly? Twice in the past four years I’ve struggled with an illness that was challenging to fight. But the struggle made me a better person and look at life differently. “Can
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Tears poured down my face. The tears won’t stop I thought they would never stop. I laid there at night wishing someone would know. Anyone. Someone. But no one ever knew the truth because I didn’t know where they would send me‚ or what would happen to me. Then my alarm clock blared reminding that I had to go to school. I didn’t even sleep at all. But it’s been like that for days. It’s 6 AM time for school. Great‚ another day of pretending like everything’s okay. I put on a bright smile and pretend
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not have a cure. Luckily‚ I was spared the memory of being diagnosed‚ but I often wonder what it would be like if I had been diagnosed later in life. I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes‚ an autoimmune disease that affects the body’s ability to manufacture a hormone called insulin. I have to prick my finger four times a day to get a blood sample to test my blood sugar‚ which wasn’t easy as a toddler at first‚ but eventually I became used to it. From the time I was two till when I was five‚ I had
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At a very young age I learned I was only good at a very select number of things. I failed miserably at soccer‚ and my experience on the kindergarten basketball team was nothing short of catastrophic. I was far from the avid reader I am today and have needed a tutor in math since I learned how to multiply. It wasn’t that I was particularly bad at all of these things‚ but I used to be so remarkably unambitious that I couldn’t bring myself to commit to anything long enough to become good at it. That
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the early summer heat with absolute admiration as I watch my mom walk across the stage. Like thousands of others across the United States‚ I wait with the hundreds of other family members waiting to honor their survivors at Relay for Life as they make their way to the microphone to proudly state their names. When I was just a month old‚ my mother became very ill. After days of being sick‚ she was finally rushed to the emergency room in my small town and from there she was sent to the Medical Center
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