As one recalls their childhood, there is always one person that sticks out in their mind's eye. Some favorite person who they looked up to and loved with that fierce, innocent love that only children possess. For me, that person was my uncle Gerard.
Maybe it was because he was the youngest of four kids, but, to me, it always seemed he understood me best. Only he could make my mom forget she was angry with me, and at Christmas, his were the presents I could hardly wait to unwrap. He always knew the places I loved to go and which restaurants served the best ice cream. Besides being fun, he was loved. Not only by me, but also by all he met. He was that type of charismatic person you meet and feel an instant connection with. I looked up to him. He was everything I knew I wanted to be one day - successful, happy, and surrounded by friends. I remember how hard I"d try to make him proud of me.
I don't remember exactly when my mom broke the news to me, but I remember how I felt. She told me that my uncle had AIDS and was in the hospital. I didn't know what this truly meant, of course, but soon he was home again and everything seemed to be fine. After that, I became aware of frequent hospital visits, but they seemed so routine I soon considered them unimportant. The thought of death never entered my mind. He had been okay for so long, I didn't see how that could change. Then, one day, my uncle was back in the hospital with pneumonia.
I went to visit him with my mom and my sister that night. When they left the room in search of snacks, I finally had a chance to be alone with him. That's when my uncle, Gerard, the one person who had never shown weakness, began to cry and tell me how he wished he would be there to watch me grow up. I suddenly became frightened and couldn't bring myself to ask him the question now plaguing my mind. I was too scared of the answer. Just then, my mother and sister came back and the moment was gone.
Education There are many things I care about in my life. One is my family who has been behind me. My friends who have given me advice when I needed it and helped me in school and in my life as well. My own personal health without it I do not think I would have made it this far. One thing I...
In the story, " A Stillness in the Air", the old lady and the author are characterized as having similiar characteristics of lonliness. ... Lonliness was enjoyed by this women and the author revelled in the gift of solitude as well. ... As one, the old lady and the author shared the same passion for lonliness. ...
There are many characters where lonliness is evident throughout parts or all of their life. ... Characters like Curley's wife and Crooks are unmistakably lonely, but they show how their lonliness is the opposite of the two main characters, George and Lennie. ... Therefore lonliness is quite a strong and influential theme in the story but it only features as a bakground th! ... Themes such as sacrifice, comradship and freindship feature under very similar circumstances as lonliness but are also evident within the main characters. ... Lonliness may very well be a pervading theme but only a...
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The massive bombings and the corruption of the Lon Nol military and civil administration, "made it easier for the Khmer Rouge to attract popular support and march victoriously into Phnom Penh" allowing them to take control over the government. ... More then a million people had been "killed, wounded or maimed" in the months before the fall of the Lon Nol government. ... To achieve this, the lives of the urban and middle class people and employees of Lon Nol's government, were considered "expendable" . ...
The Nuremberg Trials following the Second World War are often subjected to a problematic question: were they the application of actual law or simply the exercise of arbitrary power? While the Nazis caused unspeakable damage, many would still argue that the punishments they received should have been ...
In John Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice and Men there are three such characters, Crooks, Candy, and Curly's wife that shows signs of lonliness. ... All of these characters are alike, not just because of their lonliness, but that they wanted to end their problem. ... Lennie and George's friendship help them to cope with their lonliness. ...
To show how a poet achieves a sense of menace, using part of "Glasgow Green" by Edwin Morgan. Edwin Morgan's "Glasgow Green" is a poem that deals with male rape. Morgan confronts the reader with the violence of the rape and focuses on the outcasts of society. In doing this he eexplores the lonl...
Perchance it never departs from one's essence, but is simply veiled because of a fresh hero that comes to one's heart to distract the effects of lonliness untill that attatchment runs dry, or maybe loneliness is simply a state of mind that comes and goes as it pleases in this emotionally dented world in which we exist, but never actually clings. ... There is never a lonliness with a child and parent because that special bond will not fade. ...
