My Dad Created A Safe Haven For Me

My Grandmother’s 1994 Eagle Talon’s DNA was created inside the concrete walls of the Chrysler Headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan. Subsequently, it was transported as a blueprint to a manufacturing center in Belvidere, Illinois, then put together piece by piece in a large assembly plant. Finally, it was driven home by my grandmother, Connie. She thought the car was “high tech” due to its two cup holders, small cassette player, and a manually operated sun roof that could open at the touch of a

calamity, what left of humanity that survived formed three groups that created their own haven and army to fend off the Crunchers, each named after Evie’s first three children. The Hydrus search the seas, the Corvus patrol the skies, and my faction, the Lupus, defended the lands. The only thing we know about Crunchers is that they ignore all other life and seem to target humans. They do not hunt for us for food since we have been safe behind our kingdom’s walls for sixty-four years now and are still

however for my grandparents in 1950- it meant a chance for freedom. As darkness filled the crisp air, voices were silenced, and the three-day journey continued through the snow covered Himalayan mountains. While many lives were lost along this journey, my grandparents made their way safely into a refugee camp. At this refugee camp, my parents eventually took their first breath in a foreign country. Most people tie their identity to a specific place, unfortunately I do not have a country to call my own.

• My parents got married the same year I was born. Five years later they were having serious marital issues and my mother got pregnant with my sister in order to “safe the marriage”. They got divorced 2 years after my sister was born and my mother became clinically depressed and contemplated suicide. She seek spiritual help and bounced back from her depression and as a fervor Seventh Day Adventist • My father had many romantic affairs but two of them are of special significant: one with his sister

I was trying to sleep on the night of November 9th, 2016 when I heard screams coming from my floor in my dormitory. Not screams of happiness, but screams of pain, screams echoing the feeling that chances to better the nation were thrown to the wayside. That night, Donald Trump, a joke throughout the election cycle, was elected the President of the United States. The next day, a gray sheet of cloud covered the skies, rain occasionally pattered on the roofs of buildings, and trees looked lifeless.

Squad. “I remember telling my mom about it afterward. Here was this kid who was sort of a nerd and wasn 't one of the cool guys; he got out there and suddenly he was in charge. He became a totally different person, so much so that I as a seventh grader was impressed. He had all the football players out there, all the neat guys, and he was telling them what to do. An hour ago at home or on the campus he was the guy you kicked dirt in his eyes. It was miraculous. It just blew me away." The parallels between

fifty years, technology has made such a huge impact on our world. Back when each specific piece of technology was created, things like refrigerators, televisions, cellular phones and etc. used to be luxuries but now they are necessities. Although this does not seem like too much of a problem to us humans, the constant updating of technology is a factor as to why we neglect nature. Both of my parents were raised spending sunrise to sunset outside. They both played with neighborhood kids in their backyards

over the house and shades the entire lawn. This small, suburban yard not only housed my mother's imagination, but mine and all my cousins' as well. My grandparent's backyard might seem ordinary, but it is actually quite special. The giant oak tree, the shed, the swing set, and my grandmother's garden are all special locations in the yard that continue to be sacred places for me. The outdoors has been one of my favorite places to be for as long as I can remember. As a child, I spent most afternoons

there and around us. One of my favorite things about living here was that my family was only about a 15-minute drive away. I loved being around them and I even “ran away” to one of their houses once. Now, I miss out on birthday parties, reunions, and just regular old Sunday dinners after church. When I am with them today, I soak up every last second before I leave because I never know when I’ll be back. The best thing about living in this house was not the distance to my family, nor was it about the

“The True Meaning of Family” The word “Family” is a noun and is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary “a group of people consisting of one set of parents and their children, whether living together or not. In wider sense: any group of people connected by blood, marriage, adoption, etc. Also: a pair of animals and their young” (OED). According to its etymology the word family originated from the Latin word Familia. The first usage of the word family was in 1484 Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables