Everyone sprang from their beds and chaotically packed the car with luggage and snacks. The minivan could hold a family of seven, but it was not easy packing our belongings along with the seven members in the car. These members included my two sisters, two brothers, my parents, and I. As soon as everyone was stuffed into the van, we began our journey to the greatest destination on Earth: The Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I had never been to the Upper Peninsula, which was bizarre for a Michigander of sixteen years
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mostly concealed in clouds of smoke. The unusual and unexpected nature of the occurrence gave me a sudden awakening. An unexpected encounter with a forest fire and the sense of danger awoke me from my thoughts of how dismal it felt to sit in a car for that amount of time and how I would rather stay at home. Seeing a forest fire on TV differed greatly from seeing one in real life. The sense of danger exists only when in the vicinity of the fire. I suddenly felt almost like I had five years earlier
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Italian culture is part of me because my dad was born in Italy, and almost every single one of my relatives is born in Italy too. My dad was born in a small town outside of Foggia called, Volturino. Italians have many cultural practices like eating pizza and pasta, and playing soccer. My family relates to the Italian culture because we were born there, have Italian pictures on our walls, and speak Italian. It is exhilarating to learn about my family’s Italian culture, and what it is like in Italy
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later realized “books are going to make me educated” (347-348). At home education was not the greatest, his parents had little education and he was so embarrassed of it. In the third grade he would come home from school and he would ask his parents for help but they would not understand. He stated “I was oddly annoyed when I was unable to get parental help with a homework assignment” (339). At some point everyone needs to get help at home with homework and if you aren’t able to like, Rodriguez, it would
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1304 March 20, 2012 Lake Jackson My Community. When asked where I live, I usually respond “I am from Lake Jackson, Texas. Next they usually follow up with “where is that located?” Lake Jackson is a community comprised of several neighborhoods in Brazosport County, south of Houston. The city grew out of Dow Chemical's need for employee housing in the early 1940s. The company began constructing communities on the former Lake Jackson Plantation. After the town incorporated in 1944, Dow built its
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The average person, at least in the United States, will most likely either grow up in their home town or move two or three times before graduating high school. Well, I am not the average person, while I did spend a majority of my childhood in my home town of Brownsville, Texas, my family and I began moving a lot after I was about eight years old. Brownsville is a city that is right next to the United States and Mexico border, thus, the city had a lot of Mexican culture. Brownsville is also right
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later realized “books are going to make me educated” (347-348). At home education was not the greatest, his parents had little education and he was so embarrassed of it. In the third grade he would come home from school and he would ask his parents for help but they would not understand. He stated “I was oddly annoyed when I was unable to get parental help with a homework assignment” (339). At some point everyone needs to get help at home with homework and if you aren’t able to like, Rodriguez, it would
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I am 13 years old, and my name is Victoria. I was born, and presently live in Boston, but my family came here from England to start a new life for themselves, and soon their family; me. I walk around my city, my home, and I observe that many different people of many different backgrounds reside in my town with me. I names like Puritans, and Quakers, and I often wonder why we are all the same, but labeled differently. My mother tells me that we all have different labels, but we all worship the same
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not because of my current clinical practice, but because I grew up in a small rural community where the limitations of healthcare were evident to me even before I chose a career in it. I grew up in a very small town with a small community hospital that consisted of mostly nursing home patients admitted for acute exacerbations of chronic conditions. If you went to the ER for an emergency, you knew you were most likely going to be transferred to a larger hospital in the nearest large town 45 minutes away
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Suburbs I think of the housing area right outside a major city with people in middle to upper-middle class living in homes that are all the same shape and style. To me the suburbs are where people can live near the city but commute into the city for work. There are many stereotypes that come to mind when I think of the suburbs many were discussed in the book, the book describes, a small town atmosphere, overscheduled parents and children, safe gated communities, and two working parents (Palen, 135). People
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