Essays on My Mother

Things happen…Indeed, they do happen when you are not waiting for them. And the worst is that bad things happen to you when you are not waiting for them at all, when you are disarmed, they like stab you into your back with a knife, like a traitor…the next feeling is devastation, despair and darkness. These three ‘Ds’ overwhelm you like a big wave and it seems that the world has collapses. Not so long ago I’ve had these very feelings – my world stopped functioning for me. Its engines broke down and the whole system of ‘worldbuiling’ collapsed – ...

My family’s situation has always caused me to be a thoughtful and caring member of the community. Born in Tehran, Iran in 1982, I was born into a country full of conflict and so, when I was just five years old, my family and I moved to Sweden to seek safety from the Iraq/Iran conflict. Then, two years later, we moved to Vancouver, Canada. Upon arriving there, my Mother had to re-sit exams so that she could continue to be a nurse and my father, unable to find work in his field, took work as a taxi driver; eventually buying his own ...

1. Split infinitives – interrupting an infinitive by putting in an adverb; split infinitives are not advisable in formal situations, but encouraged in informal ones. a. Correct: Our profits are about to more than triple in the coming year. b. Incorrect: To quickly drive to the auditorium, we need to take a shortcut. 2. Personal relative pronoun – A personal relative pronoun can be useful when needing to refer back to a person who was mentioned earlier in the sentence in reference to an action. a. Correct: I am writing this to the person for whom I am holding ...

There I was lying in my bed crying, “Why me?” “What is wrong with me?” “I wish I had a different family, I hate my life!”

My mom and father, Walley, were only fifteen when I was born. I was living with my grandmother before I was even a year old but was often passed back between her and my later divorced parents.

Being the only child at my grandmother’s, I got anything I wanted and this made my age mates envy me though they never knew how lonely I felt. My grandmother owned a liquor store in front of our ...

Personal Statement

My greatest wish has been to be part of UCLA and later become a nurse. Nursing falls in line with my intellectual interests and I have always been fascinated by the human body and all its intricacies, how it functions, what happens when it malfunctions, and what is done to restore its health. I majored in neuroscience because it contributes to my understanding of the human body and feeds my interest (Huber 21). This interest also extends outside school. On a monthly basis I read through the American Journal of Nursing, American Journal of Critical Care, and Critical Care Nursing. I ...