Dozen

It begins with the essay, your AP Lang teacher scolds your class after mass complaints about constant in-class timed essays, and this will help you get into college. You’ve done your best work under these time constraints so you decide to test the theory beyond rhetorical analysis and synthesis. Yes, a timed handwritten rough draft will be The Big One, the piece of writing that will possibly be copy pasted into the application for the colleges that you are applying to, a fatal plea to pretend the

“Sorry about that shit man. That’s why I don’t like bringing friends over here ever; my brother just does whatever he wants at the house since my dad died. My mama can’t control him.” His comment hit me like a brick had just been thrown at my face. I had known Jarrell for almost three full years of middle school now and he had never mentioned his dad dying to me, or that he didn’t like his life at home. “Wow man, I’m sorry. I- I- didn’t even know your dad passed.” I remarked genuinely, thinking

Harmonia was 17 going on 18 that year. Working at the Diner and going to school was all she knew. Staying at home with her mom, Jessica, was her happy place, except for the fact that her step dad, Chris, was a complete and total cotton-headed-ninny-muggins. He didn’t know how to treat people, especially her. She didn’t know much about her real dad though, she never asked her mom about it because Harmonia wouldn’t know how to respond. Harmonia works at the 3 Toupiotas Diner. One day an old man came

Let's start off before your existence. Your mom and dad met on a small island off the lower west coast of Canada. Your mom Janice had spent her whole life on this island. Spent her whole life seeing the same couple hundred people and riding her bike along the coast of the ocean. She had an two older brothers and a younger one at the time, plus a sister. At twelve she would lose her youngest brother to a camping trip where his best friend would watch him pulled under the water by a current in the

Death, her mother had once explained, was not life’s greatest tragedy but life’s greatest adventure. Anne Caskey Vaughn had been a woman to see all of creation with the eyes of a child, so ready to take on the next challenge and the new day that it was almost impossible to imagine a world in which she did not inhabit. But yet here sat her daughter, Anne’s one and only offspring, half-listening to the gentle murmur of “please, call me Brandon,” talking about… What was he talking about again? “Miss

The story, “Cheaper by the dozen” revolves around some of the captivating adventures of the Gilbreth family. The family comprises of the father, Frank Gilbreth, the mother, Lilian Gilbreth and their twelve children. Frank was a proficient bricklayer and famous efficiency expert who thinks that a household can be run just like a factory. He loved kids and took them almost everywhere he travelled, even on business trips. Lilian was a psychologist from University of California, Berkley who always supported

“Cheaper by the Dozen” has a humorous, yet sentimental storyline surrounding Mr. Gilbreth and, his daughter, Anne. It is set in the 1920’s and during the story the children are reminded of sweet memories about their father who has died. They have brief discussions about the remembrance of their father and then it leads into the memories playing out and the audience becoming part of the memory and witnessing it. This storyline really gives us insight into how all the characters feel and makes us think

In Cheaper By the Dozen, the Gilbreth family values and standards were taught to the children as the priorities. It was ordinary characteristic to be raised using time effectively and being accountable for their duties. Mr. Gilbreth was the main reason they were fast and very dependable. The discipline was highly important and they always were leaders for one another. Chiefly, the Gilbreth kids would always be quick to respond when taking family drives and getting ready. They had to make

of walking, running, doing a sport, and even going to the gym. However, if a person does not work out at all, that's an immense problem. In fact, people even convey that not exercising is as defective as it is smoking a cigarette. The article, “A Dozen Reasons to Exercise,”(Source 3) by the author, Rosie Alvarado-Martin, essentially gives the audience 12 significant reasons on why people should consider exercising if they want to avoid having a higher chance of having a heart disease. Generally speaking

As a product of a very big family, life with 10 siblings humbled me with patience and selflessness. Childhood was Cheaper By The Dozen. After my mom's first husband passed away, she moved from Peru to the United States with five of my siblings for a safer life. She then met my dad and added onto the family with five more kids-- including me. Mornings had messy breakfasts and fights over shower times, and of course over packed vehicles. The house wasn’t silent, but we survived together. One needed