...Being a single mother is a difficult in itself, but it becomes almost impossible when adverse life events keep happening. After much adversity, I have a new outlook on life, and aspirations for my career. I have already achieved some goals, and I am on my way to accomplishing more. I am a single mother of two girls ages 10 & 13, I am currently working toward my Master’s degree in Regulatory Affairs at Northeastern University. I have two full-time jobs: working fulltime and being a mother. I work full-time and I have my children full-time as well. Although it could be worse, life hasn’t always been easy for my children and I. The father of my children is not involved in their lives. He has seen my children a total of about 3 weeks since we moved to Tennessee in 2012. When we got divorced I was left with nothing. My car was repossessed, my house was taken, and my husband would not pay child support. I had been...
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...The Mother of the Child in Question, written by Doris Lessing, is a short story from 1988. The story is about a social worker, named Stephen Bentley, and his attempt to persuade a Pakistani family to send their youngest daughter to a special school because she is mentally retarded. The family in question is the Khans, an immigrant family consisting of Mr. & Mrs. Khan, their son Hassan, their daughter Shireen and two older daughters whom we do not hear anything specific about in the story. Mrs. Khan, the mother, will not realize that her daughter is not a normal girl, so she does everything she can to convince the social worker, Stephen Bentley, that there is nothing wrong with her daughter. The family lives in a very poorly milieu in England. It is described as a lowly ranked social area where the hallways for example are described as urine smelling. The buildings are described as poor block buildings with many apartments where everything is grey concrete. Generally, these milieus take place in ghettos. Even though the family lives in a poor place, they still keep it clean and presentable with cramped furniture. Steven Bentley, the social worker, is the main character in the story. The story is told through his eyes, thoughts and observations. He has been assigned the case of the Khan family, and has made preparations by phoning Mr. Khan the day before he shows up. As mentioned earlier, he wants to get Shireen into a special school for mentally retarded children. Hassan...
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...|Email |thogan@au.westfield.com | | | | |Unit Code |SSK12 | |Unit name |Introduction to University Learning | |Date |31 March 2012 | |Assignment name |Essay 1 | |Tutor |Kersti Niilus | |Student’s Declaration: | |Except where indicated, the work I am submitting in this assignment is my own work and has not been submitted for assessment in another | |unit....
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...5/17/2016 WEEK 3 The Essay An Overview of Essay Development The INTRODUCTION The BODY PARAGRAPHS What it contains? Background information, which attracts or ‘hooks’ the reader. What it contains? Topic sentences which follow the thesis statement. Transitions introducing each sub topic. Relevant and generous convincing support (unity) and coherence. A closing remark (concluding sentence) showing the relevance of the support. A thesis statement, which limits the topic and states a precise opinion. The CONCLUSION What it contains? A paraphrase of the thesis statement. INTRODUCTION A summary of the main points. A closing remark (final remark). 1 5/17/2016 Introduction dna noitnetta s’redaer eht teg ot koo H ::::kooH koo H koo H .1 .1 .1 .1 eht ni ecnetnes tsrif( .cipot eht secudortni )hpargarap .2 tnempoleveD .3 .3 .3 .3 neme a S s sehT neme a S s sehT :::: ttttnemettttattttS siiiisehT neme a S s sehT secnetnes lareneg 4 ot 2 : fo sucof eht ecudortni ot )hpargarap eht fo ecnetnes tsal( )hpargarap eht fo ecnetnes tsal( )hpargarap eht fo ecnetnes tsal( )hpargarap eht fo ecnetnes tsal( .yasse eht 1. Start with a general statement (funnel approach) HOW DO YOU CREATE A HOOK? 2.Start with an idea/situation that is the opposite of the one you intend to develop We live in an era where television is the national pastime. Since the invention of the television set, people have...
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...“Failure is the mother of success” – I usually comfort my friends time to time, but I never expected that I would have to console myself the same way until I faced the dreadful failure for a Vietnamese student: to fail the Entrance Exam to get into the High School for the Gifted. As a Vietnamese student, learning in a High School for the Gifted means you are in a “higher class” compared to students in unspecialized schools. Being in a High School for the Gifted means you have an 90% chance of getting into top universities; it means you have everyone’s respect, you made your parents proud, and you would have opportunities meet friends who could help you succeed in life. All in all, by any means and at any price, I must get into a High School...
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...“Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.” (Cesar Chavez) Culture does not deserve disrespect as it is what determines a person's views on the world. Imagine moving to a place for the first time, Everything would be completely different from the past. Experiencing a new aspect of culture never explored. Culture is the main root in informing a person how to see the world around them. In the essay “Where Worlds Collide”, written by Pico Iyer, Iyer describes his time first moving to a new place. Coming from out of the country he anticipates that every step he takes is going to be a glance at paradise. “The blue skies and palm trees they saw on TV are scarcely visible from here: just an undifferentiated smoggy haze, billboards advertising Nissan and Cannon, and beyond those an endlessly receding mess of gray streets.” (page 51, Springboard). Here he describes how his picture of L.A was so...
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...story as a Stream of Consequences, which helps to give the impression that Ellie is under the influence of drugs. The character uses a lot of short sentences with only a few words. This makes the story more confusing and it often speeds up the action of the story. The sentences work perfectly with Ellies thoughts because they are short, hectic and out of order. A girl named Ellie is a student and the main character in the story. She is a troubled nineteen-year-old girl, who probably has a drug problem, I quote: “…Coke. Does she have any left…?” One day she wakes up in her bed at half past four on a Monday and realize that she has a very important essay due to Thursday and she haven’t even started yet. Ellie has not applied herself enough at school, and risks getting kicked out of school if she doesn’t hand in her essay assignment. She is still high on drugs and alcohol from the day before when she realize that she haven’t got any ink in her printer. Her thoughts are confusing and out of order because of the drugs, but she decides to go out to find some ink. When she walks around in the city searching for ink, she comes across an iron railing where a black leather glove is laying on the ground. Its middle finger is raised up to the sky in glorious salute. This glove is a big turning point in...
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...A Gap Of Sky by Luca Adriano D'Alessandro. 952 words. The short story is written by Anna Hope. The story takes place in London and is told by a first-person narrator that leads us through Ellie's thoughts and eyes, and guides us through the whole story by her inner monolog with herself. The situation described in the story is recognizeable for some people, it can be illustrated as if life has some obstacles you need to overcome, especially in the teenage years where you detach yourself from you're chilldhood and enters the adulthood. We finde ourselves in some kind of dormroom monday afternoon, Ellie has overslept and is very hungover from the day before. There is an essay for tuesday morning which is terribly stressfull for our charather. While she is freshing up we are going through flashbacks from the day before where she remember her being with some girl and a guy named Toby, she remembers going out for booze and taking coke and most likely a drug called K which gives hallucinations –she is quite sure she took some K because she remembers the barn in a deeper more hallucinating way L.22: ”looking up at it and thinking she was in a barn somewhere, a beautifull spacious lightfilled barn”. It seems like she is almost addicted to drugs. One of the first things she think of is if there is any coke left, and luckily there are some saved in her bra. It shows us that she is desperate to get some L.30: ”Coke. Did she have any left? Find the wrap, in the bra. The bra, in...
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...A Gap of Sky Being a teenager is not always a nice experience. You can evolve in many different directions and people start to demand and expect something special from you. At this stage you are expected to create an identity and some people can’t stand the pressure. In the short story A Gap of Sky Ellie might have felt like everyone, especially her parents, had too high expectations, and therefore decided to join a specific group of friends where she knew she could do what she wanted, relax and feel free. Unfortunately not everyone is making the right choice and ends up somewhere it’s hard to get away from like Ellie. The short story was written by Anna Hope in 2008. The story is told by a 3rd person narrator from Ellie’s point of view. It is written as a stream of consciousness, which helps to give the impression that Ellie might be under the influence of a drug. Ellie is a 19-year-old girl who lives in London. Throughout the story, which spreads over an afternoon, she digs deeper into herself, through sleepiness, drugs, university and a general indifference towards life. Ellie likes to party and do drugs in the evenings instead of staying home and study. Throughout the story the only thing, which is in Ellie’s mind, is that she has a paper for the next day, which she hasn’t started yet. It’s important that she hand in her paper, because she is probably not engaged with school and risks getting kicked out. To do the paper she needs printer ink and she goes to the Student...
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...following: a. Relevancy to chapter topic; interesting presentation; eye contact; time limit 7. Article summary is to be presented (not just read) to the class (3 to 5 minutes) – there is a penalty for late submissions. Summary: A high school English teacher in Denton, Texas, gave his students an assignment to write about a topic of their choice. One student chooses to write about a gun show. The teacher had threatened to give the student a zero for the writing assignment if he did not change his topic. The student's mother says she disapproved with the teacher's response to her boys’ essay. The teacher said the paper was unacceptable because of his concerns about school violence. The mother said that her son's paper did not mention firing guns that was on his gun show attendance. The mother and other readers want to know if the teacher grades on content, style, or personal feelings? Along, with does an English teacher assigns an essay to measure how a student...
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...life providing background for what the personality of the person concerned ends up to be. Every person has different ways of looking at freedom. Some people like to take a run in the nature, open their minds and others do drugs to escape from reality. In “A Gap of Sky” the girl called Ellie deals with the issues of drugs, freedom and responsibility. She does a lot of coke and seems to be addicted and needs it so she can write her essay. “and then more coke arriving”(l.20) “Coke. Does she have any left? … Yesssss! Clever Ellie. Little bump just to get things started.” (l.30-33). Ellie also likes to party and the night before seemed to be pretty rough with booze, smoking crack pipe, taking drugs and ending up with some bruises. “rests her swollen cheek against her palm” (l.3) “her chest hurts.”(l.11) In the morning of this wild night, she wakes up and realizes that she has an essay due to the day after and if she doesn’t hand it in she will be kicked out of university. This makes her choose between having many days of complete freedom or doing the essay and continuing the course which she loathes. Even though it’s very tough on her and she definitely doesn’t want to continue, she knows that this is what she has and needs to do. “She thinks of this past...
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...In this essay, the writer J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur is writing to people during the time period 1782. The purpose for writing this article was to promote Americans as Europeans who have gone into another country because they weren’t happy with their current standing in their own country. While, reading this essay, the author’s inspirational tone would have persuaded anybody in 1782 that America is just as good if not better than European countries. Although Crevecoeur’s wrote this essay in 1782, his diction, similes, and other rhetorical devices still have an impact on the world today. In the essay, the writer states that “in Europe they were as so many useless plants, wanting vegetative mold…” by using this quote the writer is talking about the people of America before they arrived like how they were just trying to survive in their homelands and they weren’t thriving because they were at the bottom of the social ladder and they need the right soil to grow and prosper. The essay also states that “the love of a kindred as poor as himself were the only cords that tied him” what the writer means by this is that they only thing that is holding these people to that country are their loved ones. Family was everything in that time period and some members either didn’t want to start over with a new life or they were...
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...Favorite Essay Of the many styles and topics of writing my English course has reviewed; the reading I found most interesting was “Being a Man” by Paul Theroux. The essay was over Theroux not liking the masculine identity or being a man in general. I enjoyed Theroux’s essay because he goes straight for the point and the topic was very controversial. Theroux’s essay is about how difficult it is to be a man in America. Men are generalized to be tough, sport crazy and unemotional. I believe that generalization is still common but has deteriorated over the decade. Theroux thinks the way children are brought up is wrong, just because a boy does not like sports does not mean there is something wrong with him. From personal experience, I know that not every little boy likes sports or has the opportunity to be active in sports. I grew up in a small apartment with my father, mother and sister. Living in a room with my sister was very hard to deal with. I had a Nintendo 64 and she had Barbie dolls. There was nowhere to play sports and no place to keep the equipment. We made do with the things we had; I sometimes enjoyed taking the Barbie dolls clothing off and she would play the Mario Brothers. Eventually moving into a house allowed me to be active in football, soccer and baseball. I believe the child’s surroundings can change their path to adulthood. Theroux expresses many things that I find insulting. According to Theroux, to be a man is to be “stupid, be unfeeling, obedient,...
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...The task was simple: write an essay based on this prompt, “A Biola University education is designed to equip students for a life of following Jesus. The Bible plays a significant role in the life of a Christian. Using meaningful verses from the Bible, in 1-2 pages please respond to both of the following prompts: 1. Describe how and when you made a decision to follow Christ 2. Using personal examples, share about your growth as a Christian over the past 3 years.” Yet, the the essay was much more difficult to write than expected. Not only did I have to meet the essay requirements, I was also attempting to win over the admissions board to be accepted into Biola University. I remember as I wrote this essay, I was terrified. Seeing as my father is a Language Arts teacher, I always felt pressured to have “perfect” writing. Always keep your formal writing in the third person. Do not use contractions. Make your essay fight for your topic, not against it. All the added...
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...story written by Anna Hope and published in 2008. It is about a 19-year-old girl struggling against the inner voice of her, which is telling her to cut out her studies and have fun instead. By having fun I mean drinking and doing drugs. Because that’s what Ellie is good at. She has been sent to London by her parents to study, but she is not taking it as serious as her parents are expecting of her to do, because she has been partying all night and can’t remember much. She wakes up and starts stressing because of an essay that she has to write, about Virginia Woolf. But she needs printer ink, so she goes out into the world searching for printer ink. On her way searching for printer ink she experiences a lot. The 19-year-old Ellie is the main character. Her parents have sent her to London to study but she doesn’t really care, instead she drinks and does a lot of drugs. But at the same time it seems like Ellie has two sides. Because she’s also stressing about the essay that she still needs to do and she’s okay staying up all night doing it as...
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