Essays on Family Page 229

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…

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…

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…

The Purge films are a series of films based on a government that allows its citizens to “purge” once a year from sunset to sunrise. In this film To purge means to get rid of something or someone from society and the population overall through a violent manor. The government legalizes all crimes for twelve…

In order to carry on tradition with strength, we must experience loss, and in order to experience loss, we may carry on traditions. When you have specific traditions whether it is with your family, your heritage, or your religion, you must carry them on even with loss. The loss of my grandmother was a burden…

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…

In this message addressed to the Philippine Youth, Jose Rizal emphasizes his concern for those innocent Filipinos who received subpar education during the Spanish rule. Rizal’s aim is to inspire the youth to overcome the feelings of inferiority imposed upon them by their colonizers and “Lift up your radiant brow”. Presently, the potential of the…

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…

Childhood obesity can be very harmful for our nation’s children and not only cause health problems but psychological issues as well. We made assumptions when they were young where the fat would melt away and a healthy adult would emerge. Unfortunately for some adolescence this was not the case. One section that I related to…