Essays on Family Page 229

The Hmong people are known as mountain people who originated from China, migrating to Laos, Thailand, Burma and Vietnam. They were recruited by the American CIA to fight in the Vietnam War. Due to persecution after the war, many Hmong people fled to Thailand and later resettled in the United States and other parts of…

A child always dreams of having a family as perfect as the books they read describe them. A family that sticks together in the good and bad times, where their parents show love and respect towards each other. But all these changed one chilly and windy fall night an eight-year-old innocent girl realized those stories…

By the time the average U.S. school child finishes elementary school, he or she will have seen about 8,000 murders and 100,000 other acts of violence on television, and if the child also has violent games, films, or cable TV these numbers are even higher (“Denial”, par. 1). There has been intense debate about whether…

The first poem Balaki ko ‘Day Samtang Gasakay Ta’g Habalhabal by Adonis G. Durado is a simple poem yet the images portrayed in the poem catches the imagination of the reader. Durado used the Cebuano language beautifully. For anyone who has tried riding a habalhabal, a local form of transportation that can carry as much…

With obesity in America rising more and more every day the question must be asked, who is to blame? Today children ages 2-19 have an 18.5% chance of becoming obese during their childhood and adolescence (CDC, 2020). That being said there must be something that could be done to help kids with weight gain, but…

If I asked you what love is, what would you say? You might not be able to express it in words, but if you were to answer with a picture, what would it be? Your favourite dog or cat, the house you grew up in, the warm, familiar hug of your grandmother or the smile…

On a blustery cold day about a week before Christmas two years ago, I was in my bedroom when I heard my mother’s high pitched voice coming from downstairs. She wanted me to come downstairs and help my father put up the Christmas lights. My dad laughed with a cheesy smile as said,” we get…

When looking at the definition of resilience (Oxford English Dictionary, 2018) it speaks about bouncing back from challenges and overcoming difficulties, defining “the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness”. Interestingly the same source also makes the comparison of resilience with elastic due to it’s extreme flexibility and mould-ability. When a child is of primary…

Paul Kirschner and Aryn Karpinski define Facebook and other social network sites as an online directory that allows people to find their friends, family and colleagues through looking them up on social network sites (Kirschner and Karpinsk, 2010). Curtis states that teens all over the world are starting to lose interest in the use of…

Teen Pregnancy. Informative Speech Did you ever have a doll when you were younger. That you would play with and pretend was your own, real baby? Did your sister ever make you play dolly house with her, starring as the mommy, taking care of all sorts of children? Life examples like these are proof that…