PAC

Classification: Traveling By Plane

There is Security, luggage, and delay when traveling by plane. Not remember the little things can be real big to yourself and others.

Cause/Effect: Learning to Travel

I never really knew what was traveling was like until I was in Upward Bound.

Persuasive: The fears that Some People Have

Everyone has a fear about traveling if its not by plane, its by car. So, is traveling worth the risk?

Priscilla Carlson

My Family

Argument

Section 06

11/4/07

Racism has been around for a long time. In the United States today there isn’t much racism, but it’s still around. Not every family is the same. Looking at most families you probably think that they’re all one nationality. The truth is that most families today have different nationalities. I am glad that my family has mix races, and were not all the same race. I have to say Inter-racial families cause other people to show their hidden racism.

Here is a story that happened to my family years ago, which deals with some racism in it. One day my niece Natalie and her mom Sherri went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin to go and see her friend Amy. When they got to Amy’s house they crashed after their long drive. The next morning, Sherri and Amy left to browse through the town and catch up. They left Natalie at Amy’s house to baby-sit Amy’s five kids. Natalie was old enough to baby-sit and to be left alone. The kids were playing in the house for awhile, until they wanted to go to the candy shop up the block. Natalie and the five kids walked up the street and went to the shop to get some candy. Natalie, who was around thirteen years old at the time, was very scared in a place that she wasn’t familiar with. Natalie and the kids got their candy, and left the shop. Then they started to walk back home. They were a few houses away from Amy’s when a couple of African Americans came around the corner, and started to get in Natalie’s face. These kids were about seventeen years old and they weren’t acting their age. They started harassing my niece Natalie. These kids would ask, “Why are you in our neighborhood whitey?” She was also asked, “Why she was with those black kids?” Natalie would just shrug her shoulders and keep walking towards the house. In a way she was ignoring them, but she still heard them. When they got home Natalie told her mother what happened, but she didn’t believe her. People don’t believe racism is still around, but it is. My niece was harassed, and was stereotyped at the same time.

People still have a problem with the idea of inter-racial families. One summer my mom, my nephew Kirby, and I went to Park Point for rummage sales. Kirby, who is African American, held my hand while we walked, and we got looks from people around us. We mostly got looks from older ladies, and they would keep staring at Kirby and me. I wasn’t sure what those looks were for. It could be because I’m young and they thought Kirby was my child, or that he is African American. I can’t believe that inter-racial families are still around. These were the thoughts that were running through my head. All I hope that the second thought of mine was wrong.

I have two nephews that are African Americans. People don’t really look at them differently, but some people still look at them differently. One day my nephews Kirby and Kyjuan were being themselves. They would play outside on the block that we live on and ride their bikes back and forth, and just laugh. They would always play tag with their bikes. Our one neighbor isn’t very social, and one day he told my mom to keep my nephews away from his house. The truth is that he is racist. He never pay-attention towards the boys, when his girlfriend would baby-sit the kids. I just have to say our neighbor is different, and that’s how he is going to be. I just hope he will change his thoughts about my nephews, and start playing with them like they do with the other children on the block. Just because all the other kids are all the same race, doesn’t mean that their bad kids. These kids are very happy boys and they’re a blast to hang with. I hope my neighbor will change for the better. Only time will know.

I do believe that my family is different, and that’s what I love about my family. The best part about my family is that we are unique, and we have different nationalities. I am blessed to have such of amazing family. I am happy that my family is not the same and I can learn from them. I hope that I can teach my children about the wrong of racism and my experiences. Racism is a big deal in the United States. Everyone should just accept the fact that everyone is different and we all have to deal with it.

” In three years I learned more about standards, commitment, and, yes, life then I did in six years of university.”

“The men and women on active duty today and their compaions in the National Guard and the reserves- have seen the willingness, and that of their families, to make sacrifices for their country stretched thin and family abuse.

This quote supports this essay a lot. It tells that the soldiers were promised but eventually it came into a lie. So their were soldiers that got disappointed also families. The essay also tells that cause of the draft; result of young americans being sent to fight and die in a war that became a disaster. While the soldiers were in Irag thousands of soldiers died and thousands were lied to.

Evidence:

-Keys in her hand

-Not really smiling

-Car almost in the water, but was saved by the boat.

-The car is over the parking blocks.

Conclusion, I think that might of happen is maybe she thought she was in reverse but instead she was in drive. I think this because she is over the stones, and I can’t see what else it could be.

“After dark, on the warrenlike streets of Brooklyn where I live, I often see women who fear the worst from me.”

I chose this quote because sometimes when you walk by someone in the dark, you get a nervous feeling from passing them in the dark. Its more scary to walk in the dark then the daylight. It all depends on the first impressions, without getting to know the person. When I pass someone I just smile and say Hi. Some people just ignore looking at the person that they passed, and just look at their feet. I think this quote is improtant I think its best to describe the essay and don’t think about first impressions, stay positive, and don’t be scared.

” As I swung onto the avenue behind her, there seemed to be a discreet, uninflammatory distance between us.” This quote is telling basically what the big event of this essay is about. This thesis is telling the readers that there was a victim in this incident and the two people in the story felt uncomfortable with each other. They didn’t feel comfortable at all.

I am planning on meeting with Mildred on Thrusday, October 18th at Keystone Bluffs Nursing Home. My topic for my next interview questions are basically going to be on her husband and kids. It’s going to cover on her family.

Interview Questions:

1. Where did you meet your wife?
2. Did you and your wife, and family went on any vacations?
3. Did you and your family moved a lot?
4. What was your wedding like?
5. What are the things that you love about your husband?
6. How did you decided on the names of your children?
7. What is a memory that you have with your children, when they were young?
8. Were you a housewife or did you work in the working world?
9. What kind of rules did your children had to obey at home?
10. What was christmas like at your house, with your family?

1. What’s your full name?
2. Where did you grow up as a child?
3. How many brothers and sisters did you have? And what are their names?
4. What was your living situation like?
5. What are some of your favorite memories?
6. What was education like in your day?
7. Do you have any children?
8. What was your first job like? and what kind of work was included?
9. What was traveling like back then?
10. What did you and your friends do for fun, through life, did they change as you grew up?

My grandparents were around when the holocaust was going on. But at the starting point of the holocaust they weren’t living in america yet. In 1939, my grandparents moved from Norway to america. Before they moved my grandpa lived in Swedan, and my grandma lived in Norway. When they arrived in america they weren’t americans yet. But they didn’t really know about the holocaust when they lived in america, only the starting point. But they were around during the holocaust period. I think one thing that our century won’t have to deal again with is the holocaust. I say this because the people that survived the holocaust tells their story, and always say, “lets try not to have this happen to us again.” Our new century is more open up to say what we believe in. Definitley the United States. United States have rights to speak our minds, and try to keep our country free. Everyone in the world knows what happen during the holocaust period. To me that was a terrible event at that time in the world. I might not never really known who my grandparents were; but stories I heard from family in duluth and overseas they seemed like great people.

” It follows that once marriage is redefined to accomodate same-sex couples, that change cannot help but lock in and reinforce the very cultural separation between marriage and parenthood that makes gay marriage conceivable to begin with.”

I think this quote is trying to tell his readers that once the amendment of marriage change, that all families are going to change. To me change is a great thing. Not everyone has to be the same, if your different go ahead and be unique.

I think this essay is trying to tell his readers that the public considering gay marriage to the amendment that families, and the world will change.

The writer’s point of this essay is that all families have some emotion moments. just because you have no father in the picture or from a broken home. It dosen’t mean that they will more likely become a gay couple. All those facts about no father in the picture, from a broken home, and so on dosen’t mean a thing. That’s all false information.