Narrative Essays - My life

I, like many others have lived a pretty hard life. Well for starters, mother use to hit me
and my younger sister, almost on a daily basis. No matter what we did, or didn’t do for that
matter, she found ways and reasons for hitting us. But what made all this worse was that my
father knew about it all and still did nothing to protect us. As years went by, we grew older and
the hitting or the beatings got more severe. Until one day I stood up to my mother. I told her that if she ever hit me or my sister again she would regret the day she laid her hands on us. She
stopped of course but our relationship has never been the same since. Going through school was
even harder on me as well. My mother made it a point for me to not enjoy myself and have a
good time. I rarely went to school functions, only because I didn’t want to deal with all the
arguing and fighting with my mother. When I graduated, I thought that would mean freedom.
Boy was I wrong. I had to find a job. I tried to go to school. But at the age of 18, you think you
know everything. So I ended up just working at minimum wage jobs. Where I met the father of
my first two children.

Bryan is my first ex. We were together for 9 years. I like most women young in love thought for sure that our relationship would last forever. He did ask me to marry him and I did of course say yes. But as the years went by I could no longer picture him as being the one I would sit next to on the swing in the front porch when I’m 65 years old watching our
grandchildren play. But we did have two beautiful children together. And I thank him for giving
methe best gift ever. Now even though we had our fights and our major differences, we are
friends to this day. We both realized that we make better friends than we did a couple. But after
our relationship ended, I then met my second ex.

Billy. We spent 4 almost 5 years together. And had one gorgeous son together. I, again thought that he would be the one. But after our son was born, he seemed to change. I became his everything but the person he fell in love with. And what I mean when I say his everything, well I was his chef, maid, launderer, babysitter ( because he had a daughter from someone a previous marriage) secretary, you name it and that was me. I started to realize that I was just a giving person and that I never asked for anything in return. I was being taken advantage of, but never given the respect I felt I deserved. I thought too little of myself and in turn didn’t respect myself enough to find a better life for me and my children. So I finally took a stand for myself and left Billy. He took everything and left me with nothing. And I had no choice but to move back home to my parents, to the house where my mother use to hit and abuse me. To the memories I spent so long trying to forget.

Since being here at my mother’s I realized that I can’t keep living the way I was living. So, I decided to go back to school and get a better education. That way I can finally get a career instead of working at some minimum wage job and living paycheck to paycheck. I started seeing the “light” and came to a conclusion. I was being to giving to the wrong people. I needed to be giving to myself and allow myself the things I needed and deserve to make it in life. I was shorting myself and my children. And I that’s not fair, so I’m turning my life around and being a hard working single mother of three who is attending school and going to a full time job, but most of all being there for my children the way my mother wasn’t there for me. Because I don’t want my children to have the same life I did.

Opinion Essay - Studying Abroad

Studying Abroad
Have you ever thought that studying abroad can make a positive effect on people? Actually, Studying abroad has a lot of advantages, it make people involve in good things. To me, one of the good things in studying abroad is that it can make people more social, this is in my opinion.

This is because once any one can take their decision to study abroad, they can know the importance of their family and their relatives which is in my opinion is being social. One should stay out or abroad to know the importance of the culture. They even felt the same experience. Staying with the family and the knowing their importance is impossible so one should be far from the family. It is true that families won’t be there when the situation gets tough but with the new technologies in the modern world one can get in touch with the families and take their suggestions time to time. In the beginning it may be difficult to adjust but everyone will get used to it as a part of gaining knowledge. Many people even claim that studying abroad spoils the children because there won’t be any one to care for them, control them. So many parents don’t allow their children to go abroad to study. Even in my own country many people consider that the children or the students are spoiled when they go abroad to study. This might be true in some case but it won’t be applied to all the students that have gone overseas to study. There are many students who have done very well in the foreign university and returned back to serve their motherland. There are many students who forget their own culture and become attached to the western culture. They even forget about their family and their relatives who will be waiting for them in their country.

I think that studying abroad helps to think more originally and to help to see one perspective of the issues in different ways of the mind. When one is studying abroad they feel more comfortable with dealing with the complex situations and develop the ability to cope with the ambiguous information and the flexibility develops. Studying abroad helps to improve the foreign language skills helps to increase tolerance for the other opinions like compromise in every ups and downs in life. One will become more emotional mature as they deal with living apart from their families. While studying abroad we can be familiar with the new technologies that are very much difficult to find in the country like mine. We don’t have any access to the latest technologies that are been found here. The courses taught here are up-to-date and they are very much helpful for the student to compete in this hi-tech modern world. The courses that are designed in the abroad universities are always up dated with the change in the world. In the foreign universities the student aren’t allowed to take their major courses but
they have to take other courses that are supportive to them and they can have the al round knowledge. This is very helpful for the student at the time of searching the jobs and all in the future. The foreign students have the basic ideas in the entire field that are necessary in the life time. When I was searching about the advantages and the disadvantages of studying abroad in the internet I found some social websites, where I found that the studying abroad destroy the relation between the family and the friends because we won’t be able to meet them for the long time period and sometime we can’t make a time to make a phone call as well. Despite of this facts as well those sites as even said that it is better to study abroad because we can get more opportunities in abroad rather than in the own country. Those sites has made an emphasized in
studying abroad.

In short, I would like to say that it is very good to study abroad because it helps to become independent, develop confidence in own self. While studying abroad, student can get used to new technologies and the courses that are taught in the foreign universities are up-to- date. Foreign educations are very qualitative. While studying abroad one can know the importance of the family and relatives and their culture. Even though there are many disadvantages of studying abroad I would like to suggest everyone to study abroad at least once to know the opportunities and share the culture.

Cause and Effect Essays - Global Warming

Global Warming

Global warming is the rise in the Earth's average temperature as a result of the accumulation of greenhouse gases. Water vapor, methane and carbon dioxide, three of the most important greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, exert control over the temperature of the Earth through a phenomenon called the greenhouse effect. Energy from the sun warms the Earth’s atmosphere. A portion of this energy is radiated back into space while the other portion is absorbed by heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere. According to scientists, the Earth’s average temperature would be below freezing without the greenhouse effect.

While the greenhouse effect maintains the appropriate temperature for life on Earth, problems arise when the quantity of greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere increases drastically. When this occurs, the amount of heat energy that is insulated within the Earth’s atmosphere increases correspondingly and results in a rise in global temperature. Since 1860, the temperature has risen 0.3 degrees Celcius, and if global warming continues at the same rate, the temperature will have risen 2.5 degrees Celcius within a century.

On paper, an increase of a mere few degrees does not appear very threatening. However, numbers can be deceiving. When you consider that the Ice Age resulted from temperatures only slightly cooler than those today, it is obvious that even very subtle temperature changes can significantly impact global climate. The repercussions of even a slight increase in global temperature are frightening. Global warming threatens to destroy the natural habitats of living organisms on Earth and disturb the stability of the Earth’s ecosystem. The climate changes that would result from global warming could trigger a variety of natural disasters such as droughts, heat waves, floods and other extreme weather events.

Like most other environmental problems, humans are the cause of global warming. The burning of fossil fuels is largely responsible for the increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Every time someone drives a car or powers their home with energy derived from power plants that use coal, carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere. The atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane have risen meteorically since pre-industrial times, mainly due to the contributions of factories, cars and large-scale agriculture. Global warming has resulted from these increased concentrations of greenhouse gases, and we’ve only begun to see the ramifications of the temperature rise. Even if we immediately stopped emitting greenhouse gases, we would continue to see the effects of global warming for decades because of the damage we’ve already inflicted.

Despite this pessimistic outlook, there are things that can be done to reduce global warming. Alternate energy sources, such as wind and solar power , need to be exploited and implemented on a large scale. This would reduce fossil fuel consumption and cut back on the amount of greenhouse gas being released into the atmosphere. Forest preservation is another way of reducing and even reversing global warming. Plants remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and release oxygen into the atmosphere through photosynthesis. The desecration of the world’s forests not only destroys the habitats of forest-dwelling organisms, but exacerbates the problem of global warming.

Although the problem may seem overwhelming, individuals can make a positive difference in combating global warming. Simple things like driving less, using public transportation and conserving electricity generated by the combustion of fossil fuels can help reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases. It is important to realize that it’s not too late to make a difference. If everyone does what they can to reduce their contributions of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, the efforts of people around the world will act in concert to thwart the progression of global warming. If the effort isn’t made immediately, the delicate global ecosystem could be thrown irreversibly out of balance, and the future of life on Earth may be jeopardized.

Suoi Hanh Lake

Outline: Suoi Hanh Lake
• Introduction (Thesis statement):
- Honest to say, Suoi Hanh Lake is one of the most beautiful beauty-spot in my hometown with a lot of hidden charm inside.
• Body paragraph:
- Adjectives used in body paragraph:
alive, amazing, beautiful, bright, calm, colorful, creepy, crowded, deserted, different, dry, arid, enchanted, hot, incredible, interesting, magnificent, modern, mysterious, natural, noisy, perfect, pleasant, quiet, remarkable, shiny, silent, stormy, strange, terrific, ugly, unique, unusual, warm, wild, windy, tranquil, peaceful, traditional, tropical, harmonious, fresh, sensational, romantic, magical, fairytale, mystical, narrow, foggy
• Conclusion:
- Although there are many scenic spots in my hometown that attract me, I always proud of unknown beautiful Suoi Hanh Lake, my favorite place with a lot of hidden and unique charm inside.
My descriptive essay:
Suoi Hanh Lake
I had been to many scenic spots I my hometown when I was young boy such as: Hòn Lao - Monkey Island, Hòn Tằm Island, some famous beautiful beaches in Nha Trang, etc. They all seemed to be very attractive. I just thought that they all were the most spectacular, beautiful ones in my hometown and maybe in the world. But I changed my mind when I had a chance to travel with my family to visit my uncle Hong’s cabin that is nearby an unknown lake called “Suoi Hanh” which is five kilometers to the west of my house and near the Khanh Son tropical forest. I really surprised about Suoi Hanh’s unique charm when I officially put my first step viewing the beautiful spot on its high arid bank. Honest to say, Suoi Hanh Lake is one of the most beautiful beauty-spot in my hometown with a lot of hidden charm inside.

There was, I remember, still fairytale and romantic fog covered overall the circle of hills surrounded the big peaceful Suoi Hanh Lake’s surface in the early morning. So it’s hard for us to see anything in that situation, except for fresh, light and wet green grass with morning dew in the sidewalk which seemed to be waving to greet us in tranquil breeze. Actually, fog was one of the first difficulties for us to overcome that foggy day. Thus, my family and I had to walk along the narrow and creepy sidewalk to my uncle Hong’s cabin in the top of the hill to avoid fog and cold for a while. On the way going to my uncle’s cabin, we had to walk across the road went through a gap between long, mysterious and creepy bushes. Actually, I was surprised about some mystical and sensational wild plants which were naturally growing and covering the whole of the strange and unusual bushes. Some of them were shaped like alive translucent green snakes coiling themselves around the bushes, the others were in a weird shapes like aliens or monster, etc. I was completely interested in those remarkable wild plants as a result, so I continued going goggled deeply at magnificent wild plants for a while and I didn’t know that I got to the top of the hill. Finally, we could find uncle Hong’s cabin to avoid fog a while. Fortunately, A pale, watery and shiny sun shone through the crowded clouds and fog. Hence, fog was disappeared little by little; After that, we could see an amazing view that greeted us at the top at the top of the hill, a bright and colorful rainbow above my uncle Hong’s cabin began running to the other hills. At that time, the romantic and remarkable landscape admired me. Up to now, I still have a strange feeling of watching a such magical and terrific sightseeing.


Generally speaking, Although there are many scenic spots in my hometown that attract me, I always proud of unknown beautiful Suoi Hanh Lake, my favorite place with a lot of hidden and unique charm inside.

OUTLINE: True Martial Arts.

            When I was a fifth grade student, I just thought that learning martial arts is to fight or attack other people. At that time, I always wanted to pick a quarrel with my friends so that I could prove that I was good at martial arts. Once I attacked a newcomer boy in my class just because I didn’t like his face, I punched a lot in his face and made his nose bleed. However, surprisingly, he didn’t want to strike back, that boy just wanted to accept failure with resignation. After school, I went home as usual but on the way going home, I was intercepted on the way by three strong hooligans, they all were my victimizer’s brothers and they wanted to take revenge of me. So, I had got a free-for-all fight, at that time I couldn’t do anything except I was driven to dead end. Luckily and surprisingly, I was rescued by the newcomer boy who was attacked by me that morning. After that, I felt ashamed of attacking that boy before. Then I made up my mind to change my opinion about martial arts that: “True martial arts is like philosophy, we learn martial arts to sacrifice and save the human life”. So, learning true martial arts is something useful for our life, it makes us become more gentle and righteous little by little for several reasons.
            But why can martial arts make us more gentle and righteous. First of all, because when we are in a very hard martial arts’ training environment, martial arts tell us what is the great purpose of its learning to reach real martial arts. Indeed, when we are in the difficult martial arts’ training, there are a lot of secrets, oracularities and inaccessibilities in martial arts that make us think them over a lot. For example, my close friend, Tuan, is one of the best martial artists in my class who just know practicing martial arts a lot, but he don’t want to take an exam to get a new higher belt, because he just want to learn martial arts to make his mental and physical strong, and he don’t want to get a black belt to show off to his friends or gain some benefits from that. In my opinion, I think the circumstance mentioned above is something belongs to a real martial arts.Moreover, impacts, challenges, and difficulties in martial arts also help us realize that we are not a good ones in physical and personality because when we learn martial arts, it will help us find out our weak points and strong points, but all of them are simply emanated from our physical and personality .So, to be the best ones, we must perfect ourselves by practicing hard and living selflessly.
            Last but not least, when we get a high level in martial arts, we can easily hurt someone else if we are careless in our actions and behaviors. To avoid doing it, the higher level we get in learning martial arts, the more gentle and righteous we become. Finally, when we’re “full” of abilities in protecting ourselves, we find it responsible to defend people against dangers.

            In conclusion, learning martial arts is a useful mental tool to perfect ourselves to be the best one. When we understand what is a real martial arts, it can make us become more gentle and righteous naturally.