My Sister Erin

She and I had an especially close bond. Shortly before my dad’s accident, both her parents had died. I was the one who supported her through a very difficult year. As a result, she always treated me differently from the other kids—almost like an adult.

I think of how she calls me now, crying out for some brotherly love. But she has distanced herself from the family and its awkward when I say, "love you," upon ending the conversation. All of this from reading a strong essay.

My mentor would have to probably be my sister. She has been through alot, good and bad. And that is all that has made her very strong. She has 4 daughters and she is always there for them helping them out as much as possible, and she then yet still tries to help everyone out as much as possible.

Every night I would watch her working hard to pass her classes to become a repertory therapist. I would help her study and help her make flash cards and what she was learning about seem very interesting to me. So after a while I would start studying her flash cards with her. She taught me a lot of things.

She thought I was really weird, well she still thinks I’m weird but that is beside the point. At first we spoke two different languages and shared completely different customs. Being the new kid from another country, my conversations with her were tended to be short and awkward and we never had much to talk about. I would laugh when she and her friends laughed, even if I didn’t understand the joke at all. I tried using slang as often as I could, even though I wasn’t sure what any of it meant. However, after an entire year of frustration and self-motivation, I was finally making progress. I picked up some more English and learned a lot about American culture and customs. Then I became even more engaged, I joined the school tennis team and even became the only Chinese cheerleader in our school. Slowly, I found out that Daniela and I share a lot in common: we both love reading, eating healthy and working out. Nowadays she helps me enhance my English and I help her learn how to be more

She is someone I feel I could look up to and use her journey to help me. I am going to enjoy meeting with her more over the school year, as I may need her to answer more questions along my journey. She is an inspiration to me, because even when obstacles got in the way of her fulfilling her career she took hold of the situation and kept moving forward. I do not know anyone else who would have kept moving forward. I believe she can teach me a lot, because she has seen all the things that I have to look forward to, the good and the

Jane and I grew up in grade school together. She was in the class ahead of me, but her and I were still friends. My father was into politics and involved himself in whatever he could with Jane's dad. Since our fathers were away quite often, we would spend a lot of time together. Since Jane didn't have a mother, my mother would often include Jane in whatever my sisters and I were doing. We would have great talks together talking about what we wanted to do when we grew up. Even though neither one of us knew what we wanted to do, Jane was someone that always had the biggest heart for helping people. She was always talking about the stories her father told her about President Lincoln, and even though she didn't know how, she knew she wanted to be someone to make change like he did.

Cynthia Stackhouse. We tend to believe that mentors must be higher in the organization’s hierarchy and in all fairness, although most mentor-mentee relationships are setup that way; a mentor is simply an experienced and trusted adviser and Ms. Cynthia has been both! She emptied her knowledge “tank” and diligently taught me the

I fell in love with her at the age of six. Her and I were going to be together forever. When the teacher came up to me and told me how perfect we were each other at the bake sale in second grade, I knew. When I went to fairs to sell cell phone cases with my dad and she was always with me, I knew. As we grew older, the closer we got and the more her and I understood each other. At this point, she had turned into a part of me, it was no longer her and I but rather we. Coming to University of Texas at Austin, has admittedly created a strain on our relationship. I was not sure if our relationship should continue, were we really meant for each other? I did not know her, I did not know how we would change the world, but now I do. This is the story

I was only two more years older than J and even though we never shared any bonds by blood she always treated me as her own and for that I had always been grateful. J and I had always been thicker than thieves and we confided everything to each other, there were absolute no secrets between us and we had our own pact of loyalty. We functioned better with each other and I think that's why we also seemed to fit together perfectly like a puzzle because we thought so much

For the past two years, I have had incredible mentors who were personal motivators and supporters. They are the reason I have become a confident sonographer. So thankful for them, I aspire to have that same impact on someone in the future. Being able to continually help people and give back is not something that everyone is able to do.

Sigourney’s poems were difficult to read and understand however, I found that the two most different were “Erin’s Daughter” and “To a Shred of Linen”. “Erin’s Daughter” featured a rhyming scheme while “To a Shred of Linen” did not and was written in blank verse. Additionally, the poems varied in stanza length.

I’ve known Venus since she was born. She’s so beautiful and the youngest in their family and they used to live two doors away from us. We used to call her Nono when we were kids, you know how each one had some sort of nicknames. Anyway, Venus is my cousin, her father was my father’s brother (in spirit, because they grew up together). Venus and her siblings (4 of them) and us (also, 4 of us) were really, really close, as in best mates in everything. We played together, went on holidays together, did all the usual teen-ager fun, parties, secrets, messing around, experiments, and on and on. We shared a lot of experience and memories. Now we are all in different places with our own families, but we still keep contact and through social media, have

“The youngest child gets everything.” I could not agree any less with this phrase when I was the youngest in my family. Every child would know the kind of ‘power’ their younger sibling has over them. Therefore, I am guilty of taking advantage of this privilege against my older brother and sister. To begin with, I purposely placed both of them in trouble whenever they made me cry or whenever they don’t obey what I want them to do. In short, I was very spoiled and stubborn child, but nevertheless, I treasured those moments where I was always their center of attention. That was before my parents told me that I was going to have a younger sister.

My sister Evett, now age 28, was born in the Philippines on October 7, 1987. She grew up in Manila and attended an international private school. After completing high school at Brent International School, she went to University of British Columbia majoring in Biology and minoring in Psychology. After graduating she worked at BC Children’s Hospital, Childhood Obesity Foundation, and in the UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Since moving, then she has grown accustomed to the Canadian culture and resides in Richmond with her husband. She was raised in a protestant Christian home, and is ethnically Chinese (Fuchian and Foochaw). Evett has a unique and strong personality. I will be using the Five-Factor model to analyze her characteristics, since this model has received the most support and attention from personality researchers over the past few decades. It has been replicable in studies with items using English-language trait words, by dozens of researchers through different samples, item formats, and language (including Chinese, Indian and German) every decade over the past 50 years. Thus, historically the Big Five trait taxonomy has the highest consensus in personality trait psychology (Larsen & Buss, 2014). Many psychologists today continue to endorse the five-factor model in various applied settings and research designs (Larsen & Buss, 2014). This leading taxonomy consists of openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion (surgency),