The sunny days of summer have assuredly faded. On my end of the street, leaves transitioned from green to brown and now line sidewalks of all ethnicities, awaiting their fate along with discarded cigarette butts, animal fecal matter and a host of other unidentified entities. As the temperature changes, the weather, in a way, becomes as refreshing as a lager on a hot day and something about that change is rewarding.
Here in San Francisco, even during this time of fleece leggings and puffy jackets, warm days periodically emerge like lovesick ex-significant others. Gusts of cold winds support the idea of a change of season with those random warm days providing a much-needed form of distraction from reality. San Francisco's weather is
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This duality makes for good memories, frequent beach visits, arbitrary flooding, traffic, and sometimes school closures - particularly when those hurricanes stop by to say hello.
As a child of the sun, growing up in the Caribbean meant rampant squinting. Countless childhood images show peculiar facial expressions as a means of trying to look decent while the sun shone blindly into disinclined eyes. As a result, the constant questioning of the need for picture-taking, in the sunlight, became habitual. What a silly girl some may say, but, when most of your childhood pictures look odd because of an odd facial expression, then you too may find yourself questioning the need as well. Throughout childhood and early adulthood, these eccentric facial expressions remained constant. As an adult, the frequency of squinting in photographs gradually got better. The difference? A newfound understanding of how to evade the power of the sun when being photographed outdoors and the purchase of my first pair of glasses.
Scrolling through old newspaper clippings, I stumble upon a newspaper clipping with an image from my days as a delegate in the Miss Trinidad and Tobago pageant and one tainted by squinting.
As delegates for the Miss World Trinidad and Tobago pageant, immersion in all sorts of pre-pageant preparations and events became a natural part of life. Packed schedules
All questions courtesy of Houghton Mifflin's The American Pageant Guidebook; A Manual For Students, Eleventh Edition, 1998
Instead of your heavy winter coat, you decide on a raincoat and boots for the upcoming rain. With the wet dirt and uncovered tree’s, earthly smells enclose your senses. Seeing the newly grown grass. Hearing the birds chirp after returning back to their homes. Critters have just begun to come out of hibernation and everything starts to become the active beaten path you used to know. As the clouds start to disappear and the sun comes out of hiding, trees and plants start to bloom with new life with the vibrant colors of summer. Leaving behind the pastel colors of spring, summer brings noisy vibrant colors to life. The animals wake and scamper across the cement pathway while the flowers open to the morning rays. Different smells meet you halfway to fill your nose with aromas that have not been discovered since last
pushes Asia to practise a routine one more time, for her Western Wear routine. The final scene also shows that the very next day after the pageant, Asia is practising and preparing for her very next pageant. This shows how she has obviously lost her childhood, and how the parents have a forceful attitude, having absolutely no break, even after such a large and significant pageant. Therefore further selection of images has positioned the viewer about the effects that beauty pageants and the participation in them can have.
It was July of the year 1965, and I was experiencing the hottest summer of my life. The temperature rose to about 105 degrees and it wasn’t going lower any time soon. Although it was hot, my town of Mayfield was far out as any other town in the county. The grass was bright green, the trees and flowers were blooming with colors and overall added a nice vibe to the day. This sure was nicer than the cold winters that I had to live with during the earlier years of my life. The north snow always put me in a gloomy mood and it made me bummer around my friends, making me a unbearable to be around. So since we moved from the north to the south, we hardly have winters which was really boss.
Immigration has been a controversial topic for the United States for many years and immigration law, which is structured to import workers and family members (Posner, 2013), has been a concerned with mid-term elections and recent events. There has been a lot of attention in the media as of lately due to the entrance of over 57,000 unaccompanied Central Americans entering the country illegally. To take control of the situation Sen John Carnyn and Rep Henry Cuellar proposed a bill that would give birder control the opportunity in deciding rather children should be sent back immediately or if they should be allowed to have a court hearing. If they are allowed to have a court hearing, judges would then be required to make a final decision within seven days. The push for immigrants cases to be moved to an earlier date could undermine children’s rights and lead to a greater backlog of cases considering that it takes children longer to acquire lawyers and the chances of being granted citizenship without a lawyer is significantly lower than the chances of staying if you had a lawyer which is nine out of ten. By speeding up the process such cases would be ignoring the due process rule, would create a higher risk of legal errors, and clients are not being properly aware of their changed court date. For example, in the passage the author mentioned the case in which two illegal immigrants were seeking shelter with their Guatemalan father in Virginia received
Despite the shocked, concerned, and altogether flabbergasted look on my friends’ faces when I told them I would enter in my first pageant at fifteen years old, I stuck to my plan and competed amongst the most experienced, poised, and articulate pageant veterans in a statewide event. Even my closest friends could not understand why a shy, quiet girl like me would suddenly want to perform for hundreds of people, and honestly, this whim surprised myself as well. Whether a subdued dream from my childhood of becoming a beloved Miss America reemerged or I simply wanted to prove my confidence to my worried mom, I still do not know; nevertheless, I mustered up enough courage to conduct interviews, deliver an onstage introduction, and showcase poise
In the coming months, the days will become shorter and we’ll be seeing less and less sunlight, but before we wind up stuck inside on cold winter days we should take this time some would describe as “perfect weather” and get outside. From farmers’ markets and apple houses, to pumpkin patches and fall festivals, our community and its surrounding locales
I ran outside the backdoor into the backyard on a beautiful, hot, sunny day in June of 2009. I could feel the hot, scorching sun blazing down on me as soon as I hit the fresh summer air. It smelled like fresh cut grass and fields of dandelions. The sky was as clear as the ocean. The trees were dancing to the beat of the hissing, humid wind.
Glitz, glamour, lights action, let’s welcome contestant number five! Anyone who has ever tuned in to watch or attended a beauty pageant will be familiar with the extravagance of it all. One knows they’ve entered the pageant world after you’ve noticed the lavish ball gowns, tight curls, cans of hair spray, and sequin swimsuits all in the same place. Since the launching of Miss America in 1921, thousands of girls have tried their luck at becoming the next Miss U.S.A. For any aspiring pageant star, becoming the next Miss Universe or Miss America is very quintessential, but these titles are not the only ones aimed for. There are thousands of pageants held each year across the United States, offering different incentives and titles; and depending
The purpose of finding this article was to discover the base amount a contestant has to pay to participate in beauty pageants. Along with a breakdown of the cost of other expenditures such as gowns, coaches, salon visits, and tanning, contestants also pay entrance fees and the audience pays for seating. This article describes how much veteran contenders pay for and consider necessary items. Understanding expenses explains the pressure felt by both pageant participants and their support to succeed.
Among the Sahaaba is a group of ten Companions who are known by the title Ashrah Mubash-sharah which means the ten Sahaaba about who Rasullullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) gave the glad tidings of Janaat. Rasullullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) informed that these ten Sahaaba have already been promised Janaat, hence we have to believe with certainty that the following ten Companions are Janaati.
This just shows how weather can affect people's moods. At first the storm seemed exciting; getting to leave work and school early sounded like a good thing. However, throughout the day, little things happened that made it no longer be so exciting. And eventually, that excitement was gone and it was replaced by
The fleeting changes that often accompany seasonal transition are especially exasperated in a child’s mind, most notably when the cool crisp winds of fall signal the summer’s end approaching. The lazy routine I had adopted over several months spent frolicking in the cool blue chlorine soaked waters of my family’s bungalow colony pool gave way to changes far beyond the weather and textbooks. As the surrounding foliage changed in anticipation of colder months, so did my family. My mother’s stomach grew larger as she approached the final days of her pregnancy and in the closing hours of my eight’ summer my mother gently awoke me from the uncomfortable sleep of a long car ride to inform of a wonderful surprise. No longer would we be returning
As I am studying to become an elementary teacher, I am discovering new strategies and disciplines that have helped me become a more active learner and efficient educator. I admire the saying; we teach what we learn. From my elementary education program and classroom field experiences, I have learned that what might work for one student may not work for another. As a future educator, I believe it is essential to continue to fill my teacher toolbox with research, exploration, and application of new methods and approaches to find what best fits the needs of my students. If I discover an activity or strategy that has worked for me personally or has been scientifically proven to work, I am more open to implementing it
Many people think getting ready for a pageant is time consuming and stressful. But, in reality it can either be time consuming and stressful, or if you are prepared it will not be time consuming or stressful. Here is the process that it takes for one young lady to get pageant ready, but yet has not competed in the pageant. When preparing for a pageant it’s not just waking up in the morning to go get your hair and nails done, to putting on the dress and walking the stage there is more behind the curtain that many do not see. A few things that will be discussed in preparation will be things like calendar prep, budgeting, mental prep, and many more things like that.