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    travel in the US, Europe and Asia. Living the American dream, my parents lived in the Bay area for 12 years where I was born in Walnut Creek. My early childhood memory of Dougherty elementary school in Dublin, CA includes "Million word books reader club" & spelling bee awards received vying with much older elementary school students. In early childhood, we celebrated birthdays

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    Thought About Writing

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    help my communication at work and with others. I would like to write some of my ideas and thought down as legacy for my family so when I am gone, dead, they will have some way to read my memories and to remember me. As I get older, I am well aware that I forget many things. I don’t recall conversations, vacations, dates and the like. I also notice when I think, I have emotions, and images and references and links to other thoughts that don’t translate into words. On paper, I have to add additional

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    relationship with him that is more like a friendship and camaraderie. He makes for great company in a place with very little noise. Our relationship transformed after my mother passed and now our vacation week on Lake of the Woods involves us to create conversation and shared experiences. Our vacation retreat is on a small island that now has several walking paths, the necessary boat dock and a very modest cabin. As my mother used to say, “It’s a cabin in the sticks”. The island’s inhabitance

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    My Childhood Experience

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    Everybody has grown up differently. Everybody has different stories, different memories, and different hardships that have shaped who they are as a person. When most people think of their childhood they think of family night board games. They think of running off to the park with their best friends, laughing on swingsets and hopping scotch until they were out of breath. They have memories of vacations, funny stories at family gatherings, or that one time they fell of their bike and their dad carried

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    E.B. White’s essay “Once More To The Lake” describes the author’s memories of childhood vacations at a lake in Maine. In this essay White recalls a later trip to the lake with his son. In the week they are there they go swimming, fishing, canoeing and they take their meals from a farmhouse. The essay has several prominent themes: role reversal, change in technology, and the importance of human memory. By the end of this essay, White comes to an understanding of his own mortality.     White’s use

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    The Home: Mr. and Mrs. Beavers reside in the Denbigh section of Newport News, Virginia. Their home is in an established neighborhood located within minutes of Patrick Henry Mall, Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport, schools, Riverside Regional Medical Center, Mary Immaculate Hospital as well as many restaurants and retail shops. Their house is a ranch style home with three bedrooms, one and half bathrooms, eat-in kitchen, and living room. It is adequately furnished and housekeeping

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    An Outsider

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    things to gawk at while giggling. We’ve all felt the feeling of not being in the loop with friends, families, and in your home town. One of my most powerful memories of one such feeling is when I lived in South Korea where I felt an outsider even after living and working there for 3 years. Me and my family were taking a small family vacation to one of the largest mountains on which you can hike up.while I was looking at one interesting sites in the local area, a giant stone statue of a Budda, two

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    dinner. While driving home thinking about the grandson awakened the childhood memories and the constant battle, Andrew wrestled with on a daily basis as he tried not to dwell on them, but to leave them in the closet of his mind. Today it was as if the doors of his mind opened wide and the memories poured out clear and haunting, even though, he had resisted. Remembering how much he detested visiting his grandparent’s during summer vacations. Nevertheless, his parents insisted he go, leaving his elder brother

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    Family Bonds In My Family

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    Family bonds are created at home, where your heart is during your childhood and stays throughout your life. The house at 4015 Sherman Church Avenue is more than just a living space, it’s a place that has allowed me to advance my maturity through strengths and weaknesses, it reinforces the comfort that my family abides by, while memories are being constructed every day. From watching movies in the living room on the couch to having a colossal party occupying the backyard, we always try to keep each

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    take his son on the family vacation to the lake he took with his father when he was a child. During the essay, the author reminisces on his trips to the lake during his youth and tells the reader about how things have changed. The author uses wonderful detail and at some points in the essay feels as if he is a boy again standing in his son’s place with his father next to him. The author shows the readers he is a man who enjoys time with his family and cherishes his memories at the lake by expressing

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