Essays on Homesick

Analysis and synthesis

There are four summaries of articles that have been read by other people. While we do not get to read the articles themselves, we get brief ideas of what the subject was. We also get the impression of people who read it and understand whether they agreed or disagreed with the initial articles. The structure of the essays look similar, however they cover completely different subjects, which however eventually show that they in common more than just a presentation.

The very first summary of an essay talks about how young children in kindergartens are taught foreign languages. The article ...

(Summary) The article gives a list and reason as to why people feel homesick(1). It is one of the common experiences that people deal with at one point in their life(2). The reason people feel homesick is because they miss the familiarity of their home when they are in a new place(3). It can be a person’s bed, items, and family members that cause it(4). Homesickness usually causes a person to feel sad, stressed, or even lonely(5). However, there are ways to fix it according to the article(6). One way is to ...

Homesickness is a feeling that every person can have when they are far away from home. It is a feeling of missing home. For me as a student who goes to university abroad, the homesick level always jumps out when I feel lonely. Chekhov’s “Gusev” tells about homesick man who feels anxious to return to home, but he finally dies like other sick patients on his way home. The short story “Gusev” shows its reader the feelings of homesickness with the help of literature and many people can relate to it. In "Gusev," the author offers two drastically ...

Music has always been popular, people have always loved it. I am not an exception. Music is a part of my everyday’s life. There is a French word “mélomane” that comes from Greek words “melos” – sing and “mania” – craze, passion. The word “mélomane” means “music lover”. There are no doubts that our generation can be called the generation of melomans. Music is my passion. I believe music is not only melody and words. For me it seems that music has the ability to reflect my inner world; it can sometimes help me even better than everybody else. ...

Jeanne Louise Henriette Genest Campan was close in age to Marie Antoinette when she acted as one of the young queen’s attendants. She was by all accounts an intellectual, an educator, and fairly progressive during the Napoleonic era. Madame Campan was sent to wait on Marie Antoinette in 1774. She served in that capacity until 1792 when the French Monarchy was overthrown. Madame Campan wrote about waiting on Marie in a fairly sterile and very removed fashion, especially given the circumstances that occurred at the end of her service to the queen. After Marie’s death, Madame Campan apparently ...

I am applying to the Colorado State University Master’s program in Management Practice. I hold a Bachelor’s in Home Economics from the University of Tabuk in Saudi Arabia and I am determined to continue to develop my knowledge and acquire new valuable skills to become a successful marketing professional. At the moment, I am applying to this study field because my mother owns a small firm in Jordan that designs bicycles. My responsibilities at the firm include designing new types of bicycles for rent and help attract customers. After obtaining my Master’s degree, I will be able to assist ...

In these recollections from his two years living in Botswana, Sher recounts moments and describes images from the daily life in a remote village there. His message that comes through from his writings is that although he clearly loved the “timeless” nature of life there, he was always an outsider in his adopted village of Bobonong. Though he says that he almost never felt homesick for his family home and birthplace in Montreal, Canada, and loved the village where he says “I could have stayed forever”, he describes himself as perceived by the villagers to be “someone in the audience, a ...