Essays on Childhood Memories

In my lifetime I’ve come across many different people who have shared a piece of their souls in my formation and left their marks on me. I look to people who have had an impact on my life and who I know on a personal level. One person who has and continues to greatly influence…

Childhood has always been a wonderful theme in poetry, and an amazing one to write about, as it dives our emotions deeply to childhood memories whether good or painful. Therefore, I have chosen from our given anthology the following poems for my coursework; “Piano”, by D.H. Lawrence, “Hide and seek”, by Vernon Scannell, and “Once Upon…

The following posting will define temperament and its relation to nature and nurture. The following posting will also discuss the relationship between child temperament and parent disciplinary style as it relates to goodness of fit. In conclusion, the following posting will share real-life observations of my sister’s temperament that are supported by recent research. A…

Thank you Dr. Nadine Burke Harris for addressing a truth that is too often denied. Your courage to speak out on this issue is extraordinary. Most people do not realize how early childhood trauma affects people into adulthood. For instance, the leading cause of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, is not military combat, but rather growing…

Growing up, I was embarrassed of being Filipino. In fact, I frequently recount my shame in many of my childhood memories. As a child, I grew up in the countryside located in the northern tip of the Philippine islands. I grew up in nature, playing traditional Filipino street games and eating adobo, a famous Filipino…

Picture a family of Gorillas. Imagine fuzzy monkey babies and loving parents that are lazily dwelling in the rainforests of Africa. Who would save these innocent creatures from being killed by poachers? Hello SVMS! I’m Dian Fossey and I spent decades as a zoologist studying the endangered Mountain Gorillas. I worked my hardest to end…

Speech is something that is powerful, we use it to persuade, to convert, and to compel. Growing up I had speech problems, I had a stutter, and I had problems with pronouncing words. Sometimes, I would talk and no one would understand me. I still remember spending long afternoons, after school in the compact room….

A strange thing is memory, and hope. One looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today , and the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day. Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the…

James Mcbride wrote an interesting and nice to read story based on his memories and memories of his mother. The first four chapters of „The colour of water” I read made me curious to discover more as there are several questions I want to find answers to: how did that happen that a Jewish girl…