Darlene Mendoza Stina Attebery English 1A 3/9/15 My Remembered Event It was toward mid-senior year in high school. Maybe February. I was anticipating which colleges would accept someone like me‚ and trying to enjoy as much time with friends as I could. I was with my best friends‚ appreciating a beautiful Southern California day‚ and had come to realize my last days as a senior were coming to a close. I was a perfect day; big white clouds covered the skies‚ along with the beaming sun hitting the
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A mole is just another common mark on the body‚ which everyone has‚ so what’s the big deal‚ right? Well‚ some are just common markings‚ while others can be life threatening. My family learned this all too well back in February of 2014. It’s never a perfect visit to the dermatologist when you get a mole removed from your head‚ only to find out after testing that it was positive for melanoma. I remember a minor surgery was performed on the neck and two lymph nodes were removed to be tested. Great news
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Smoking and Friends. It was a nice and warm afternoon on a summer holiday. I have been waiting for my best friend‚ Obinna to come back from a little vacation that he went to. I was so thrilled to share the news with him. I finally smoked marijuana‚ and the day that I tried it for the first time he was not present because he was on a vacation. I had always been the one who criticized people that smoked marijuana‚ including my best friend‚ so it was exciting to me to finally share the news
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Often times we find ourselves thinking about the past only to try to force the memories away and return to our current delusion. We can never erase the past‚ but if the past is who we are‚ then should we just welcome pain back into our lives? Embarrassment‚ guilt‚ and pride betray us as we choose to bury our darkest memories in our head and look to a positive future without ever having to readdress them and acknowledge that they had ever happened in the first place. Thinking back now my weakest
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A Day That Will Never Be Forgotten It was the morning of what was about to be a one the most significant days of my life‚ the date was December 11‚ 2010‚ my wedding day. I was still tired and jetlagged from the flight home from my deployment overseas just a couple days prior. It was about to be a busy day due to the fact that I had returned home a week later than planned and everything was going to have to be done at the last minute. Both my wife and I had a lot to do before we were
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best leaders in the history of the country. An important question about Abraham Lincoln is what was his legacy or what was he remembered for? There is plenty of things that Abe is remembered for but these are the main reasons he is remembered. Lincoln was a vital leader of the Union in the civil war leading them to victory over the Confederates. He was also remembered for issuing the emancipation proclamation that lead to the end of slavery in the U.S.. When Abraham couldn’t be on the field with
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‘King Sugar’ as the late Trinidadian Prime Minister‚ Eric Williams put it‚ is what the poem ‘Gasparillo Remembered’ by Anson Gonzalez is about. The economic and personal loss coming from the rise demise of the sugar industry is the central theme of the poem. The title of the poem suggests a duality of reminiscence and loss for an industry that is ‘gone’. The poem is told from the point of view of an old man reminiscing years connected with the sugar industry; fond childhood memories‚ hardship and
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A birthday remembered essay Love is very complicated‚ not just butterflies in one’s stomach‚ but it also involves a lot of pain. The pain is not easy to drain. We have to confront ourselves with the pain and get over it‚ but that’s easier said than done. We restrain our feelings and try to forget them. This only causes an even bigger pain. That is the situation for Ellen‚ the main character in this short story. Ellen’s love life has been complicated‚ she is a lesbian and obliged to listen to people’s
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The poem entitled “Gasparillo Remembered” by Anson Gonzales is a pantoum about an ex-slave reminiscing about the past and the experiences he has had on the sugar plantation and how they have changed. Anson uses imagery and figurative language to highlight the theme of change in his poem. The theme is developed gradually as Anson takes the readers on a step by step journey of life working on the sugar cane plantation to life free of the plantation and the experiences good and bad faced by the people
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I. A Raisin in the Sun play‚ written by Lorraine Hansberry shows how ones personal experiences can become a great story. Hansberry was born on May 19‚ 1930‚ in Chicago‚ Illinois‚ which also serves as the setting of the play. She wrote this play about a struggling African American family that is about to receive an insurance check for $10‚000. This money comes from Mr. Younger’s life insurance policy. One way or another a writer somehow writes something they can relate to in their work to make
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