Family relationships are vital, and true friendships are indispensable. People say true love is the rarest thing on this earth; they have not experienced true friendship. A friendship where you are more then friends and even more then sisters, you are two halves of one whole. When I first received this assignment my immediate thought was “who can I write about?” and “what family member should I write about?” I though maybe I can write about my mom but I already wrote about her, then I though maybe I could write about my dad but there was not much to try about him and then I though I could write about my cousin Ellen but that did not sit right with me. I went through all my family members or so I though until I realized that my family does …show more content…
The other kids would pick on her and to this day I still don 't understand why. She thinks its because they thought she was a cry baby and a princess but I think it was because she was alone and new. I had my brother so no one dared picked on me when I first arrived but she had no one. Yet, because they picked on her we became even closer. As the days went by we would spend almost ever waking hour together. We would play house/school, take our stuffed dogs for a walk and play board games. She became one of the most important people in my life in a matter of weeks. Its scary how fast she took over my world and turned it around. Unfortunately our paradise did not last. About a little more then a year went by after we met that I had to move 200 miles away to LI. Some friendships would have weakened and disappeared but no ours, our friendship only became stronger. At first we would talk on the phone but then I got skype and we would talk every possible hour on it. We would talk about school, boys, friends, teachers, classes, you name it we did it. It was like I never left. The move didn 't break our friendship but it did have its weight on us. A couple of months after I moved we started to fight frequently. We would fight over the smallest things almost every single day. There would be days that we though our friendship was over but it always ended …show more content…
Mira and Bharati, two sisters from Calcutta have that similar relationship. In the tale the author tells a story about two sisters and how one embraced America and the other didn 't and how one changed and the other stayed mostly the same. This tale reminds me of my friendship with Diana because we are like Mira and Bharati. Just like them, we came from a different country to America to seek a better education and, just like them, we were affected differently. At the beginning of our friendship “ we were almost identical in appearance and attitude. We dressed alike, in saris; we expressed identical views on politics, social issues, love and marriage in the same Calcutta convent school accent” but as time went by we changed. Diana embraced the rock, the metal and the more pessimistic view of America, I embraced the country music, love for romantic movies, and the more optimistic view of America. We are like ying and yang, balancing each other every step of the way. But there is one thing that never changed for us that changed for the sisters from Calcutta we both still love our country Ukraine. Diana and I would never trade it for anything. Diana Splavnyk is one of the most important people in my life. She is my rock and my world. We might fight everyday, and might not know why we are friends. Nether less at the end of the day I can truly say
The explicit illustration of how close Bharati and her sister were aids the argument because, together with its contrast revealed throughout the story, place emphasis on their similarities showing that people with the same past can have different futures, and those futures were both helpful to America and arduous to the sisters. Finally, the exemplification of how Bharati and her sister deviated from their own goals supports her argument because it clearly displays how America influenced both of them, and this in turn, leads to the idea that because America changed two, almost identical persons, into two complete opposites, both Bharati’s and her sister Mira’s lifestyles are valid, and congressmen should not seek to destroy what America’s culture has
The story is about two sister who currently lives in America. It has to deal with moving to the United States in the 1960’s. Both sisters moved to the United States in hope to pursue their dreams and to achieve they goals with college and further education. Both having similarities in appearance and religious values. Both Bharati and her sister Mira had planned to move back to their homeland India after their education. This story relates to our point of culture having a major impact on how people judge each other because it has a huge impact on how people view the world differently because, in this example, I feel manipulated and discarded. This is such an unfair way to treat a person who was invited to stay and work here because of her talent” it is basically stating on how even immigrants (like the sisters themselves) who have come into the U.S., are sometimes given fewer benefits and rights than everyone else and that they feel discluded from being able to express themselves if they wanted to, or to have good thoughts that America is as good as people has said it was, with all this freedom. The last example is, I feel some kind of irrational attachment to India that I don’t to America. Until all this hysteria against immigrants, I was totally happy.” This demonstrates that it isn’t the country itself that makes people unsafe or unsure, it’s the people running it who try to put limitations
When faced with the choice of true love or a soul mate, not many people would know what to choose until the last possible moment. They dream of a romantic beginning and a happily ever after ending. These are often found written in the dark and twisted romance novels. One of the many favorites is written by Gaston Leroux, and is one of his best works, The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra), which is a notable example of the Gothic genre, which was popular in the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century. By studying his early life,
The south continuously passed unethical segregation laws also known as Jim Crow Laws. The laws ranged voting laws to segregated schools but they all had one thing in common, to deny blacks their rights. The absurd voting laws were put in place to make sure blacks in the south could not vote therefore, the government was lacking in representation of black people. In the legal systems eyes the laws were called “separate but equal” but in reality African Americans were considered far from equal. There were many organizations designated to harming black people, groups such as the KKK, The Mississippi Red Shirts and many more. Thankfully, the African-American community refused to be silenced, they created many groups and organizations to fight against the racism and segregation. Arguably, one of the most influential groups was the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The NAACP got the court to toss out “separate but equal” in the court case Brown v. Board of Education. All in all, Jim Crow Laws were horribly racist laws made by white supremacists and thankfully the United States had many leaders willing to fight against injustice in order to move forward as a
The times of segregation between whites and blacks are a perfect time to look at when talking about how people have the power. Back then when it wasn't okay for blacks to go into any restaurant they wanted they still did it for a greater purpose. The hope to someday be free and do whatever they want and eat where ever they want. It shouldn't come as a surprise when i say it worked, and today the United States is better for it. In reality some laws that are mad are bad laws and they need people to peacefully ignore them in order to make a change. That leads into my last point that laws need to change as society changes. The Constitution written by James Madison isn't the same today as it was when he first wrote it. That because society isn't the same as it was back then. Sometimes laws fall behind because society is changing so rapidly these days and you need people to participate in Civil Disobedience in order to change them and catch them back up. An example would be after the 9/11 attacks immigration laws changed dramatically the year
There are some needs for us a humans to be in relationships. The first one is humans are a social species. We as humans feel the need to belong, which means there is a human desire to develop and maintain social ties. It has also been shown that having quality romantic relationships lead to better health and quality. So what is love? It is a set of cognitions, emotions, and behaviors observed in an intimate relationship. There are two subtypes of love, passionate and companionate. Passionate love is an all-consuming love where those involved can’t stop thinking about one another, have intense sexual attraction, and are extremely sad when they are separated. Companionate love is having a strong emotional attachment, accepts the flaws in their
One day, I thought I was going to save the world, I really did. I wanted to fix it all. I wanted to become the “Superwoman” of the world. Then something hit my head and changed my mind. It was systems. If you are reading this paper you should be laughing now. Anyways, one day I gave an advice to someone on a probability of something happen and it did. At least I know that I am not always wrong, that I right most of the time on my feelings and thinking.
After reading this short story, “Recitatif,” it sums up the story exploring the relationship between the two girls never revealing the ethnic background from any of the characters. Even though the story shows many controversies that should pull the girls apart from one another based on their ethnic background it does not stop the girls from knowing each other better only letting their similarities and the memories bring them close together as friends at the end.
Ha and other refugees face the struggle of dealing with discrimination to their culture and where they come from. When Ha went to school, some of her classmates discriminated against her. For instance, “A pink boy with white hair on his head and white eyebrows and white eyelashes pulls my arm hair. Laughter” (Lai 145) Ha gets bullied because she looks different than everyone else in her class because he does this makes her feel inside out or out of place, in the atmosphere of the new country. Other refugees feel like their life would be better if they stayed in their home country. For example, “Sometimes I wish I’d stay here, watching the war, rather than being here, safe but without friends. (Brice) Brice wants to go back to his home country because he feels out of place in this new country. This affects the new country and how he feels being around others and the new culture since he is not used to the environment and how they are
Although, initially I was not sure what I would gain from this assignment I believe that I gained a whole lot of needed information that will help me personally as well as have a better understanding of how my family operates. Although my mother and my father 's families are different there are many of the same things that occurred cross generationally. Even when it comes to my own relationship with my own parents I have to keep in mind their familial experiences and understand how that impacts them as individuals and as parents. I realize that one day when I become a parent I will need to take into account these familial patterns and find ways to change them for the better. Gathering this information was a cumbersome experience but it was an eye-opening experience the taught me a lot about who I am solely based on my family.
From a young age most people have gone through many relationships with other people who were not their family. Thus, we often acknowledge these relationships as friendships. But the word friend is too broad, so people categorize their friends to several types. In her book “Necessary Losses: The Lovers, Illusions, Dependencies and Impossible Expectations That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Grow”, Judith Viorst divided friendships to six types. Those are convenience friends, special Interest friends, historical friends, crossroad friends, cross-generation friends and close friends. In my life, I have been friend with many people since I was little. Although I have met all six kinds of friend of Viorst, convenience friends and close friends are two important kinds of friends in my life.
Bharati Mukherjee’s story, “Two Ways to Belong in America”, is about two sisters from India who later came to America in search of different ambitions. Growing up they were very similar in their looks and their beliefs, but they have contrasting views on immigration and citizenship. Both girls had been living in the United States for 35 years and only one sister had her citizenship. Bharati decided not to follow Indian traditional values and she married outside of her culture. She had no desire to continue worshipping her culture from her childhood, so she became a United States citizen. Her ideal life goal was to stay in America and transform her life. Mira, on the other hand, married an Indian student and they both earned labor certifications that was crucial for a green card. She wanted to move back to India after retirement because that is where her heart belonged. The author’s tone fluctuates throughout the story. At the beginning of the story her tone is pitiful but then it becomes sympathizing and understanding. She makes it known that she highly disagrees with her sister’s viewpoints but she is still considerate and explains her sister’s thought process. While comparing the two perspectives, the author uses many
Friendships are one of the most important things you can get out of life. It’s something that everyone has to have because without it we would all go insane. Just think if no one talked to each other and we never made friends, this world would be a ticking time bomb. Studies say human need friendships and love to survive. So friendship is a big part of your life.
During our lifetime, many relationships are formed with family, friends, and significant others. These relationships are key to forming friends, work bonds and intimate connections with others. Family, friends and intimate relationships are necessary for everyday life, below I am going to discuss interpersonal relationships with each and challenges that may come.
When I was a young girl in elementary school I developed a friendship with a girl that lived a block from me. We began visiting each other’s homes every day. Having sleep overs, riding the bus together and even sitting with each other during lunch. We developed a friendship that couldn’t be broken. It didn’t matter that I was African American and she was Caucasian her whole family made me feel like I was one of their own. While I didn’t know much about anything and didn’t really know what family meant I learn it from her family. She taught me how to line dance and I learn to love his strange music that was peaceful and full of love called country music. It had a way of making your feel happy when you were down. We formed a bond and became best friends she was the only friend I had and I remember when her other friends came to visit I grew kind of jealous because I thought they would take her away from me and I would be all alone again so I became distant. She was such a great friend and for somehow she knew what was bothering me without me even having to say anything so she told me that it shouldn’t worry we will always be friends and it’s okay to have more than one best friend. She was so wise for her age I use to think to myself. As I grew older my mother and siblings and I moved out of town and I lost connection with her but with the increased technology like Facebook we have reconnected. I believe attraction played a major part on us becoming friends. Our friendship started on the school bus on the ride home from school. A couple of bullies started picking on her because of her freckles and fi...