Essays on My Mother

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Introduction As a child, the mind is easily in awe and wonder about the simplest or most basic experiences. Experts argue that this may be the case because children’s brains are wired differently compared to when they grow up as adults. When children grow up, their brain physiology and chemistry change so as to accommodate other sections of the brain that are necessary for adulthood. Consequently, individual loses her child-like wonder when experiencing ordinary events as an adult. Therefore, childhood is a time when the brain focuses on allowing the child to develop by ...

2012 was the most important year for me because it was the year my entire family was waiting for one moment: my graduation from high school. Unfortunately, I failed to do this, and was ignored by everybody who had waited so long to see it happen. It was a surprise to everybody, as before 2012, I had been the most hardworking one of any of us. Starting in secondary school my GPA remained above 3.6. As I went on to high school it stayed the same. Last year, however, I experienced a valley in my educational career. I had ...

This essay looks at my heritage and how I define myself by race through skin colour, family history, the advantages of privilege and the disadvantages of race. Finally, I look at what life or historical events have influenced my identity and what written works I have read in order to learn more about where I come from. When I was a child I did not know that my skin was the wrong colour. Being loved and sheltered as a child hides you from the nastiness of the world until you have to go out into it. My parents were ...

In order to get to collage, I had to make many challenging decisions. At a particular time in my life, I realized that most of the things that we do come as an instinct. However, that marks the difference between these events is the outcomes that are associated. The difference is also observed from how they affect our lives in a different way compared to the possible outcome in case they could have been done differently. Eventually, the occurrence of these events and how we influence them is a matter of our mindset. The outcomes always depend on whether ...

Personal Statement

“Sasha, ihre fahrt ist hier.” At my teacher’s demand, I ran from my seat with such enthusiasm that I have never experienced before, and left behind everything I owned. I raced to the parent pick up line where my mother stood eagerly waiting to inform me of what she thought was good news. My parents were in military, so I spent most of my early life apart from them as they relocated every three years. This day was not only peculiar in that my mother came to pick me up, but it was the last Thursday I would ...

a) Elements of Ecology In “Kampung Boy”, the author has portrayed an intrinsic biography of a Muslim boy born in Kampong in Perak. How the young boy grows up in rural Malaysia is explained in a vivid fashion, from which the reader is able to draw various inferences on ecological factors and their influence on childhood. The Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological System Model analyses the child development paradigm in a framework of simple yet meaningful relationships with environment. The essay focuses on how these elements have been embedded in the childhood of the Kampung Boy.

The Microsystem

Urie Bronfenbrenner has identified microsystem ...

"Education is the key to opportunity, It's a ticket out of poverty." George H. W. Bush. My life began in the inner city Housing projects in East Orange, New Jersey. I was born in a large household being the sixth of seven children. My father died when I was two year's old and my mother had to struggle to bring us up on her own. My mother was the third of nine siblings, born and raised in Brookneal, Virginia in abject poverty. As was the norm during her childhood years, children had to work in plantations and tobacco fields ...

My name is and I was born on the 23rd of December, 1988 in Keelung, Taiwan. My parents were and . I have one older brother who works as a firefighter for the FDNY. He also was part of EMT (FDNY) for 3 years. My family immigrated to the United States in 1994. Our only support here was my uncle . He is the only one from our family who speaks English. We moved to the United States because my parents wanted me and my brother to have a good education and have a better job. It was really hard for ...

Through the years, I have had several chances of a leadership position. One of my favorite leadership experience was being the captain of our high school football team and being the leader of the youth group from my time at a Christian school. I took the initiative of being the leader of my youth group at my church as I believed I would optimally direct my peers to living a positive life that adheres to Christian values. Through these positions, I attained significant qualities associated with good leadership. The various leaderships traits I obtained through these positions include: being ...

b) A memoir from the point of view of a person who must care for a person who has autism. Every little girl from her childhood dreams about an unclouded happiness and a fascinating prince that will come one day and take her to the Fairyland. Though that girl is growing up and each new year is transforming into an experienced mature woman, there is still hope in in the depth of her heart that a better future and a happy family life is going to knock in her ajar door. In some cases, however, God has slightly different ...

There have been multiple people in my life who inspired me to be better, who inspired the role that I want to play professionally, who inspired my sense of fashion, and more. However, if I had to select one person, who has personally inspired me to take my education to the next level it is my mother. My mother has inspired me to seek a degree in my current area of study, because she also has a degree in a field which allows her to help those with disabilities. More specifically, my mother’s education prepared he to specifically ...

I want to learn how to manage my stress. As well as other people, I experience stressful situations every day, and I notice that inability to manage the received stress disturbs my sleep and causes neurosis: I constantly feel anxiety and often experience excessive sweat, trembling of my hands, and inability to sit motionlessly for more than 2-3 minutes. I hope that the ability to manage my stress will reduce its negative impact on my nervous system and release me from these symptoms. I think that at the moment, my perception and reaction to stressful situations are habitual, and ...

My name is XXX and I would like to share with you my story. I do not say it much, since I am not the one used to complain, but life has bit be quite a lot on my way to where I want to stand. As the result, I had to learn to be something more, than I could have ever expected. Today I am a 34 years old woman, a student, a single mother, a member of Student National Pharmaceutical Association, a social activist at school, an already 3 years unemployed pharmaceutical tech with 10 years of ...

Personal Ethics Statement

Personal Ethics Defined The ethics which are central to the healthcare industry, at their core, are based in the idea of providing support in a dignified and respectful manner. These fundamentals form early and support the premise that the ethics serve to guide the application of assistance. When such assistance is applied, while striving not to marginalize morale or treat individuals de minimisly, personal ethics are the guiding principles which define an individual's personal moral philosophy. These principles are the basis of character. Our principles ultimately determine which decisions we make and how we feel about those decisions in ...

Gender identity is one of the fundamental characteristics that a person acquires and which will influence her choices and opportunities in life. Gender is not only a trait that one has, but also, gender is performed every day, according to certain theorists (Wood, 2011). One is expected to behave according to his or her gender, and to adhere to the norms and values associated with that gender. To “do” gender from this point of view means to behave as a woman and as a man respectively, simply because others expect one to do so. While I did not give ...

Below you will see the genogram of my family created using GenoPro 2016 software (No author, 2016).

Despite the fact that currently my family is quite large, it is almost impossible to trace the genealogical tree too far. I have managed to find information about my great-grandparents from my mother’s side. From the side of my father, the situation is much worse, as only scraps of information could have been found about his parents. My Granddad o my father’s side grew up in an orphanage and then immigrated to the USA from England. Here he met my Grandmother and they got married. Grandma Karen was not much of a source of information, even if ...

Emily sat and explored just purchased ancient manuscript with unknown runes. She tried not to miss any symbol and understand its true meaning. For a long time she sat in front of her laptop monitor at her desk, surfing the Internet. After all, she could not hold everything in her head and her memory was not perfect. And it can filter out some information. For Emily it was very important, what she did, after all, she dedicated her life to this. Well, but when she was a child, she could not even imagine it. It was already too late ...

Conditioning

1. Classical conditioning is a learning technique that occurs when a potent stimulus like food is paired with a neutral stimulus to elicit a response like salivating. (McLeod, 2014) When I was in high school, my mother used to cook meat every Friday and it was always ready by the time I got home. Immediately I reach the door of the main house, I could start salivating due to the smell of the meat. The practice continued and whenever I reach the door of the house every Friday, I could start salivating due to the smell of the meat. ...

As a young girl, I used to fantasize about one day becoming a doctor. When I grew older and attended school, this remained my primary professional aspiration until I became a teenager. My academic career was challenging because I was routinely absent due to illness. This caused me to fall behind in my classwork and made it impossible to catch up with my classmates. As a result, I had to repeat a couple of grades, which had a significant impact on my level of self-confidence as a student and learner. I was filled with doubt and insecurity, and I ...

Complementary treatment is a term used to refer to interventions that are consumed alongside the conventional treatments (NHS, 2016). Complementary treatments are non-mainstream, meaning that they cannot be prescribed by the physicians. Evidence exists to substantiate the importance of complementary interventions in the recovery healing process. It is advisable, however, that a patient consults with the physician first before commencing on any complementary intervention. The purpose of this paper is to share a positive story in practice about a complementary modality experience that influenced health. Undertaking this exercise will broaden my knowledge about the use of complementary treatments, and ...

Discussion Board Question on Writing Two

First, read chapters 31 and 32 of A Pocket Style Manual. Then, revise each of the five sentences below so they follow all of the instructions of integrating and citing quotations mentioned in those chapters. These are copied and pasted from actual student essays written in this course. You should re-type each sentence directly into your post or into a separate document you attach to your post as a PDF. This time, I will be grading your correctness to make sure you understand what the PSM says about citation. 1. On page 59 in the story, you see Vollmer ...

I am like my brother in some ways and different in other ways. It is a natural phenomenon. No two persons can be alike albeit twins. This is the very beauty of nature that no two individuals share the exactly same characteristics. The very evidence of it is that finger prints of each and every person on the earth are different. However, it does not nullify the presence of resemblance between two or more individuals. Resemblance is basically based on genetics and sociological environment of persons which create their behaviour. Thus, it can be safely said that besides that ...

The stars lined across the April night are peeking through the blinds and illuminating the parts of my bedroom that the straining night light by the bed cannot reach. I am seldom without sleep but this night is different. "You should see my bedroom I mean there is nothing special about it, just an ordinary bachelor bedroom – you should see how the light from the stars tear through the curtains and draw patterns on the wall. It is beautiful just like you my Darling." It was easy to write about the night and the moon and stars and Camilla's ...

<Course> It is a fact that who we are today is a result of multiple influences, which include influences from different social factors (e.g., economy, education, religion, family, and many others). Personally, sociology in my everyday life has shaped the major decision that I made in the past. Specifically, my motivation to continue my studies and the faith that I hold have been highly influenced by several social forces that surround me. First of all, my motivation to continue my studies have been highly influenced by my family, especially my mother. Growing up, I have seen how my ...

[First Name Last Name]

The mentioned 15 wishes are arranged according to the rank of their influential strength. I chose Maslow’s Need Theory to address my needs because I find this theory to be more precise, convincing, practical, as well as, easy to represent my needs and drives. According to this theory, every individual possess a distinctive motivational system that is unrelated to unconscious desires or rewards. In other words, our unsatisfied needs are our actual motivation drivers. Although according to the Maslow’s Hierarchy of Need, first comes the psychological needs, then safety, belonging/love, and then Esteem ...

I have this constant question about why there is a stark difference in the role of men and women in my country. I am an international student from China, and my arrival in the United States in 2014 made me realize how gender roles are way different in my country. Women’s interests are protected through a systematic legislation, and women’s rights and gender equality are supported by the Chinese government and many organizations. However, my exposure in the US society made me realize that women in my country continue to experience discrimination and inequality. Women in the ...

Introduction

When growing up, my mother always insisted that I should always THINK before speaking. You may think that I have poor grammar due to the fact that I have capitalized every word in ‘think’ but far from it, it is correct. I am grammatically correct. You see THINK is an acronym. My mother always insisted that my words should always inspire and motivate and not discourage people. She therefore used the acronym THINK to gauge my sentiments. Are my words truthful, helpful, inspiring, necessary and kind? However, it seems that very people have forgotten this acronym as most of ...

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Introduction

I am a student, a wife, a sister, and a daughter. Currently, I take on many roles, but being where I am now is not without many struggles and challenges. Growing up, I faced several difficulties which helped me develop and grow as a person. Right now, I intend to be my best here at the University of Maryland University College or UMUC. I started taking my first semester at UMUC as an undergraduate in the year 2002. I was stationed at Misawa Japan during that time as part of my service in the military, and through ...

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The Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI) that I took allowed me to understand myself better from my own perspective and from the perspectives of the people who I constantly interact with. Below is an overview of what I have found out: As seen from the table above, I asked the help of my mother and my childhood best friend, who also happens to be my cousin, so that I would have a better understanding of my own personality. I believe that both of them provided helpful insights because they have known me for a very long time, and ...

Although globalization and integration processes in today’s society favor and encourage race, ethnicity, nationality, religion and gender equality, people will always identify themselves as representatives of a certain social group. One’s beliefs, attitudes and ideas about gender have always been a result of his or her personal experience, childhood, education and of course, parents’ influence and authority. It has been traditionally assumed that gender segregation in labor and education signal some kind of gender discrimination and tendency to define some professions as male ones and others – as the women’s types of occupation. It is also worth ...

I learnt to read the alphabets when I was three years old. It is my mother who taught me to read the alphabet before I joined formal schooling. This process of reading was a bit unorthodox since I learnt specific letters of the alphabet before others and, consequently, how to put them together. Specifically, I learnt to read A-F and then G-S and finally T-Z. My mother made sure that I was supplied with picture books and read me bed stories regularly. Every night, I would sit on the lap of my mother and father, and they would read ...

Book Review: Integrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity

Book Review: Integrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity

Summary

Entwistle’s (2015) text Integrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity: An Introduction to Worldview Issues, Philosophical Foundations, and Models of Integration is a text that explores the intersectionality between psychology and theology, and asks one important question: to what extent, if at all, should these two disciplines be connected? It might seem an esoteric question at first, but it has very deep, important roots. These questions, according to Entwhistle (2015), speak to the very root of both disciplines—and both have something to offer the other, suggests the author. Despite the ...

Communication

Communication is irreversible in a way that once words are said they cannot be taken back. I also faced a situation of irreversible communication, and I wished I could erase all the words that I spoke at that time. The situation or example is when my mother and I were in an argument regarding mu habit of not fulfilling my responsibility of taking care of my things in the house. My mother complaint that I was very lazy, did not pick up the things, and did not put them in proper places. She said that it was not her ...

It all started back in September 2013 when my mother died. My mother and father had been married for close to 53 years. No sooner had I had my mother buried than another woman came into the picture and started moving in and about with my dad. This woman seemed to be materialistic and opportunistic, only interested in exploiting my father financially. She started asking for material things from my father, something that made me very sad considering that the somber mood had not gone away following my mom’s death and here she was busy exploiting my dad ...

I was born in 1830, in a small village called Londontowne, which sits on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay about a few miles from Annapolis. I was the third of my parents five children. My parents, who had immigrated from northern Europe in the 1820s, did the best that they could for us but my early life could be best described a s humble. My father worker as a fisherman for one of the many boating companies that fished the bay for crabs and oysters. His dream was always to one day have enough money to have his ...

The Guest is a short story written by Albert Camus and first published as a part of the collection Exile and the Kingdom in 1957. The main character of the story is a teacher in a remote school Daru. The man was alone because of the snowfall, until gendarme Balducci with the apprehended Arabic person appeared. Daru was asked to take prisoner to a nearby town Tinguit where he would be tried for relative’s murder. The teacher did not want to take part in these events, but Balducci still left Arab in the school. Daru did not treat ...

With ages, we start to realize all our mistakes and things which we thought were right in the past. Sometimes we can be selfish and ignore the fact of our wrong actions. Some people need to go through hard time and come to have an awareness of reality. All we had something in the past, when we were like the prisoner chained up in a cave, but later we always turned head to see all this. I thought that children should have both parents to be happy. But there are many other things which are important too. And I ...

Abstract

My motor skills developed on time, although my motor coordination is still not very good. My physical development is in line with normal course of development of a person. I have sustained healthy weight throughout my childhood and adolescence, and my height and weight started growing rapidly during puberty that started at the age of 11. My height and weight during puberty were different from my peers, which made me feel self-conscious and lowered my self-esteem. Puberty was also marked with emotional and behavioral changes that affect many adolescents. I have completed Piaget’s stages of development on time ...

The Autobiography of my Mother and Fresa y Chocolate are masterpiece works that comprehensively develops the idea of rebellion. Authors of the articles explore this subject from unique and diverse perspectives. Characters in these works present attitudes and undertaking that seem to be very rebellious. Examining this rebellion is of high significance as it attracts serious conflicts in the society in different ways. The Autobiography of My Mother focuses on a young woman who is brought up in a loveless household. The girl’s mother died while she was giving birth. Fresa y chocolate (which is a Spanish phrase ...

Since family has played an important role as one of society’s basic structures, it is important to recognize the factors that are responsible for creating this institution. Some people might argue that a family is a unit connected with genetic factors – that it includes parents, children and other relatives. However, to better understand a family, one must understand that the term ‘family’ is constructed in a social way. The value of family has different meanings in different parts of the world depending on a variety of social and cultural conditions. Even on specific aspects like aging, education, or ...

Amy Tan writes speaks to the ways in which the culture, traditions and the language differ across regions. The narrator in the story shares similar experiences as Tan’s mother was also an immigrant who migrated from China. But there is conflict between the two as the daughter is less receptive to embracing the idea that her mother has for her and her assimilation into a new culture. The truth is that the narrator’s mother represents the typical mother in the society who wishes that her child will get the best of everything that life has to offer. ...

Brown University

Re: Summer School Application for Business Program It is with great pleasure and honor that I submit my application for business program in micro and macroeconomics and international business at the Brown University. I am purposely interested in this program because I believe that it will come in handy in terms of equipping with business skills necessary to face the modern-day world where emphasis is on practical skills. I have an enthusiasm in physics and while the two subjects may seem unrelated, I believe that there is a vital link between the two. Physics entails experimentation and understanding our ...

Reflect on your Own Cultural Competence and your Current View of Your Culture as Well as Other Cultural Groups

I live in the developing state of the USA, known as Dallas Texas. My roots belong to White Americans who share the most common culture. From a religious perspective, I am Protestant, unlike, the other Americans who follow Catholic, Muslim or Jewish practices. As I am White American, so my spoken English is quite clear than Latin Americans living in the same region. White Americans share a common culture, unlike the Black American people. My parents got separated when I was a child; my mother is a single parent who rose me up. As America is comprised of different ...

Ta Chia Chiu

Who I Am God created me to become a unique person. When I was getting older, I have learned how to use various ways to travel around the world. Unlike the greatest part of people, I have my own way. God gave me a precious gift at birth. These are three words that my whole life contains: uniqueness, freedom and respect. This is a gift that provides me with a great opportunity to become who I am. In 1990, a unique baby was born in Taiwan. I was the unique baby. Why I said I was a unique baby? ...

Each of us has a set of events or traits which make up the unique person that they are. The various sociological factors that may not be special on their own come together to create a society who is a different as they are the same. My story is not that different from millions of others, but it is what has formed my life and who I am. I grew up in a middle class home in Kuwait City. I am the youngest of three children, and the only boy. My father owns his own business, while my mother ...

Executive Summary

Introduction The family is entering into the property market by developing a four-floor rental building. The rental property will be completed in one year and will have forty units.

Statement of needs

The aim of the family is to gain financial stability in the face of the imminent retirement of the household head, the deficits in the family budget, and the financial struggles to finance the college education of the two children.

Financial Information

The cost of the development is 2,583,000 dollars. The family will seek financing for 250,000 dollars at an interest of 17% to be paid in 5 years. ...

Personal Statement – Reflections in the Garden

The butterfly garden has an ethereal quality about it. I have found a warm and quiet spot to sit. As I observe the little garden around me, I study its features to determine what gives it this special mood. Spring is arriving and I am grateful for the warmth of the sun on my back, through my jacket to my skin. It reminds me that warm weather and longer days are coming. Anticipation of better weather ahead lifts my mood. Perhaps even the butterflies and insects that fly around here are also excited for warm days ahead – they seem ...

A family is a unit that consists of two or more people defined by marriage, blood or even adoption and they share a commitment to the mutual relationship. The family has got varied definitions, and it depends on the situations which an individual refers to. In the work place, for example, employees are referred to as a family because they cooperate and share a common commitment daily (Eshleman 19). Furthermore, family definitions vary and typically depends on who defines it. Different people from different areas all over the world have their meaning of the family. Therefore, the region also ...

This myth is very popular. It is not surprised that I used to believe in the myth about left and right brains. It seems to me that almost all my friends, relatives, acquaintances believe in the idea that people who have more developed right hemisphere are more talented, creative and even genius. I do not remember when I learned this myth the first time, but I know that even some of my school teachers hold this myth. I used to believe that left-handers are very special or that to be left-hander is better than to be a right-hander. One ...

PSYC9120: Psychology Fact & Fiction

Entry 1 For many times since I was in elementary, I always hear that there is the left side of the brain and the right side as well, and that the two sides make different contributions to the behaviour of people. Over the years, I learned and believed that the left side was solely for analytical thinking and sequential thinking, while the right side was for creativity, the hearing language, visual, spatial, and the holistic. I thought that either the right side or the left side of the brain works, depending on what a person is doing. After the ...

I was ten years old when my parents decided to bring an angel to our home. This incident changed everything about our family. Ever since children started seeking refuge in our home, none of them were older than me apart from the new one. My parents gave her a new name; a new identity and she fully became a member of the family. My mother prefers calling her Lisa, and that's what the family goes with though her full name is Lisandra. I had very hard time accepting the fact that I was no longer the only child leave ...

Spring, 2016

I was raised in the conservative Christian family in the atmosphere of strict rules and respect toward elder people, especially toward parents. My mother is a nurse and my father is a pharmacist. I also have one younger and one elder brother. My parents raised me and my brothers using authoritative parental style. They were highly controlling and demanding and disciplined us for minor misconducts. However, I`m very glad that my parents were so strict, demanding and controlling they made me a good and respectful person. The theory of Skinner can be applied to how my parents raised ...

`Reflection Assignment: Color of Fear

After watching the film, I came to know about the intense and disgruntled feelings of the ethnically different people, who go through the demeaning experience in their daily lives. It reminded me that, even in the twenty second century, the ugly heads of racism keep raising their heads. It provoked my mind and forced me to question why the color of skin comes in between the people and their humanism; why this stereotype image is associated with the people of ethnic background; why the people of different culture are not considered as human beings ...

Personal Weekly Journal: The Journey to Developing Skills

A fascinating week full of experience and much learning. I learn many things this week. I put the raw egg over the flat bread, then I put the cheese on the egg. What do I come up with? Dessert!!! Dessert is a common word used in the food industry to employ a variety of food course that entirely consist of a sweet array of foods. It involves such foods like the snacks, sweet soups, fruits or what is called pudding in other contexts. Delicacy sometimes may sometime be mistaken for flavor. The food was so sweet and we did ...

My parents’ child-rearing style was authoritative, but not authoritarian. They instilled firm values within me, such as the need for an education and hard work in order to succeed. My parents both went to college, but only my father earned a bachelor degree. My mother often reminded me that her career opportunities would have been better had she been more intelligent or educated. Both parents worked hard throughout their lives and started their own business, which I worked for from a young age. My mother also worked in an office and then for the business as it grew. The ...

Epigenetics is the process of studying cellular and physiological phenotypic characters within the field of genetics. The study falls within the subject of genetics and the phenotypic differences which are affected by the peripheral environmental matters. These factors are notorious for switching genes on and off and also affect the way in which genes are read by the cells. Therefore, Epigenetics is the study that seeks to establish the dynamics alterations in the transcriptional potential of the cell. The alternations in this case, may or may not be heritable, even though it is controversial to use the term epigenetics ...

How much a person consumes depends highly on their culture. Eating disorders, for example, are most often seen among European American women than the African American women (Durand & Barlow, 2016, p.291). This has been the effect of certain cultural beliefs, such as those that has something to do with the ideal body shape. It only appears that those who value thinness all the more tend to do more to attain a lower weight and thinner body. A small change in culture can influence the rate of eating disorders, such as seen in Asian women who attend Western universities and ...

I moved with my mother and two brothers from West Helena, Arkansas, my father’s home town, to Jacksonville, my mother’s home town, when I was around age four. My father, who was a Vietnam War veteran, met my mother when he was stationed in Jacksonville. I still remember my mother taking care of us and managing the affairs of our home all alone. As a little girl growing along with two older brothers, I have seen my mother enduring great pains toward making things comfortable for us. She always did things with a radiant smile, and was ...

The day of every year, dearest of the dear, knocked doors of my heart.

Mother's love and care, nice was the pair, gave mother’s day a start. This time I tried, searched a thing every side, similar to my mother. Everything I took, at the start only shook, fell like birds feather. I asked a flower, about motherly power? Open up and say.

Flower thought for a while, told with a smile, I am not in fray.

I turned to windy wave, showed what mother gave, in reply shook its head.

It said in my ear, showing mom’s path found near, I will never tread.

I asked tall sky, that appears only high, are you only at the peak?

The sky tells me brother, if it is mother, every peak is weak.

I moved to sea deep, showed it mothers love with peep, I wanted it to tell.

Are you deepest worldwide? It said nothing to hide, it was like a well.

Then I stopped the richest ...

The Name of the School

My Life as a Slave My name is Elijah Johnson and I was born a slave. I say I was born a slave because that was what became my identity for the first fifteen years of my life. It did not matter that I was a boy, a child, a brother or a son. I was looked upon as a slave and treated like one all through my formative years. I was born in the year 1850, on the 23rd of October. I know because like every other child born on the plantation my birth was recorded too. Even ...