When I was twelve, my father, a member of the Air Force, was stationed on the coast of Southern California for three years. Since my grandparents lived in North Carolina, it became our family’s summer tradition to drive across the United States for a yearly visit. As a child, I viewed the annual summer crossing with dread. Being cooped up in our old pink station wagon – with my parents, sister, and two brothers, for six days of monotonous travel – was not something that I anticipated with enthusiasm. At that time in my life, I was unable to understand the importance of those family trips. In hindsight, I realize they provided six days, which were void of life’s delay distractions, filled with cherished family memories and opportunities to learn about life. Certainly, this was a legacy worth passing on.
Our summer trips always began in the same way. My siblings and I moped around the house whining about the injustice of being subjected to such a boring fate. In the hope of soliciting our interest, my father pulled out maps and brochures depicting an endless array of possible tourist attractions. My mother, choosing a different line of attack, spent a small fortune buying a myriad of snacks, games, and books, which were intended to entertain us for six days. Regardless of their efforts, we spent most of our time endlessly fighting and bickering among ourselves.
Usually, by the third day of our journey, even my mother was obliged to join us in this noisy pursuit. Today, my sister, brothers, and I laughingly agree one of our fondest trip memories is of our mother, leaning across the back of the front seat, flailing her arms wildly in an effort to smack us, while we cowered in the back of the station wagon. In recent years, my family has spent countless hours happily reminiscing about the once dreaded summer crossings. Amazingly, sometime during the passing decades, like a flower blossoming from a weed, recollections of arguments, boredom, and fighting, have evolved into cherished memories.
The Essay on School Day Summer Back
Summer 1990 It was finally here, the last day of school! For me, the last day of school was like being an emancipated slave. I was one of those kids that never liked school (I did pretty well though) and would much rather spend the day at home helping my mother around the house. For that reason, summertime was always my favorite time of the year (I even liked it more than Christmas time) I got up ...
My father, who was doggedly determined to make his family enjoy their vacation, never tired of cheering us on. Invariably, he would begin reading the roadside signs for the coming attractions long before we were close to reaching them. I can still clearly picture him looking back over his shoulder, a giddy grin on his face. “Look! There’s another sign. It’s only one hundred miles to the home of the fifteen-foot alligator,” he would declare. At the time, I thought that his unbridled enthusiasm, at the prospect seeing the fifteen-foot alligator, was undoubtedly part of his plot to annoy me.
Now, looking back, I have a clearer understanding of my father’s motives. He knew that neither the fifteen-foot alligator nor the two-headed snake, another favored roadside attraction, would have a profound effect on my future. Rather, he was teaching me to embrace the experiences of life, helping me to focus on the excitement of the adventure, instead of the discomfort of my surroundings. He knew then, something I wouldn’t learn until many years later, that a fast-paced world left parents a limited number of chances to interact with their children. To him, those long hours of travel represented an invaluable opportunity to teach me some of life’s most important lessons.
Next summer, when I buckle my headset-wearing, CD-toting, thirteen-year-old daughter into the backseat of the family van, planting her snugly among the snacks, books and games, I will reflect fondly on the memories of my child hood summer trips. When she looks at me with pleading eyes and pitifully whines, “Do I have to go?” I will draw strength from knowing how my own memories have enriched my life. As I smile at her and assure her of the boundless excitement that lies ahead, I might take a moment to envision a time in the not so distant future when, if I have been moderately successful as a parent, she will joyfully inflict a similar fate on her own children. In so doing, she will be insuring that the legacy of the family trip – a chance to create the memories that bond a family, and teach children life’s deeper meaning – is continued.
The Essay on Government Influence On Family Life
Do government programs influence family life? Some of these programs are Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. These programs have changed family life not only in a positive way, but also in a negative way. These programs are targeted at giving older citizen some form of money or medical care, while other programs are geared at taking money from the working class. Yes, government programs do ...
My family ended up making the long trip across country seven times. The once dreaded summer crossings left me with a cache of cherished memories, broader insights into life, and a stronger connection with my family. Most importantly, they taught me the value of providing my family with an opportunity, free from life’s distractions, to share the gift of each other’s love. Today, living in a stressful, hurried world, where computers allow work to follow us into our homes, and our children travel on the information super highway, quiet times of family interaction are needed more than ever.
Sometimes, when my husband, daughter and I seem to be pulled in every direction, I find myself wishing that we could squeeze into the back seat of that old pink station wagon, joining my family of the past on their adventurous journey, down a monotonous highway, in a simpler time. Since that isn’t possible, we do the next best thing – pull out the atlas, brochures, and credit card – and begin planning the next family vacation. Its legacy secure, the family summer trip will continue to enhance our lives.
Essay Components: Body or development paragraphs Conclusion Thesis Introduction Title Order: 1. Title 2. Introduction 3. Thesis 4. Body or development 5. Conclusion
Evaluation of Computer Competency Assignment Department of Languages – Sandhills Community College Demonstrate proficiency in the following areas: 1. Locate the assignment by finding the Web address, navigate the Web site to locate the link to the assignment, and download and save the file. Open the file and copy and paste text from the saved file into a new Word document. For the file name, use CCA, followed by your last name and then your first name. 10/10
The Research paper on Family system thesis
INTRODUCTION Not all children grow from infancy through their adolescent years without experiencing some bumps along the way. While every child is unique and special, sometimes they encounter emotions, feelings or behavior that cause problems in their lives and the lives of those around them. Parents often worry when their teens have difficulty coping with their things, emotions, get involved with ...
2. Set the page margins to one inch. 10/10 3. Create an automatic header for each page with your last name followed by the page number. Align this paragraph on the right margin of each page. 10/10 4. Change the line spacing of the entire document to double spacing, aligned on the left margin with no extra spacing before and after the paragraphs. 10/10 5. Change the font size of the entire document to 12-point Times New Roman. 10/10 6. On the first page, begin on the first line above the title, aligned on the left margin with a separate line for each item: your name, the name of your instructor, your course number and section, and the date month year. 10/10
7. Center the title of the essay and indent the first line of each paragraph. Indented each paragraph too far. 7/10 8. Use the spelling checker to locate the five misspelled words in your document, choose the correctly spelled word from the list given you by the spelling checker, and add bold facing to each word that you have corrected. 5/10
9. After you have modified the essay, create a page break. On the new page, create a bold heading with the title “Essay Components,” aligned on the left margin. Under the heading, also on the left margin, create an automatically bulleted list of each component of the five-paragraph essay: body or development paragraphs, conclusion, thesis, introduction, and title. 10/10
10. On this same new page, create a new bold heading titled “Order,” also aligned on the left margin. Under that heading, create an automatically numbered list on the left margin that shows the order in which each of those essay components would be presented in an essay. 10/10
