I think the main Idea for lopate Yourself as a character is to let everyone know that we are all the same. Anyone can view himself as a character as long as they are not afraid to talk, also people tend to think of themselves as boring or what would be diffferent. Not knowing that they also have the potential to write. I plan to think of an important issue that all the people can relate to, or to write an experience that people would not have experienced so that I can get their attention. By looking at my story and to look at myself as a third character, and I will try to judge honestly.
10 important events in my life:
1-(jan/22nd/1996): My birth date. I was born in Kansas. I was an early born child.
2- (may/15-20/2001): was the day that we went back to Kuwait. I met my family for the first time. It was a great experience
3-( may/27th/2013): was the day I graduated from highschool. It was the greatest day of my life. I was so happy I could not sleep for 2 days.
4-( july/29th/2013): It was the day that I came to the USA. It was a day filled with a lot of tears some of them were from joy of getting a scholarship. but saying good bye to my parents on that day was the hardest thing I had to do in my life. went to Arizona state university to study English
5- (May, 29th/2014): Moved to western Kentucky university to get my degree in civil engineering. I was so excited to start University
6- (Jan/15/2016): It was the day that I got married in. It was an event that filled my heart with joy. It is also the day that I felt I had a family to take care of , and that got me to be a better person. I can still remember how it felt like I was dreaming and did not want to wake up.
7- (july/10/2016): was the day of the wedding. I was so nervous, but at the same time I was happy. but It was a day that a one can not forget.
8-(7-15-2017): It was a day that I lived hoping it would not come. It was the day of my grandfathers death. Me and my grandfather were really close. He was like a father to me. he was my friend. he was everything a grandson could ever hope for. When I received a call from my mother she was crying. and I kept asking her what happened she kept crying. Then she told me what happened. I was in a really dark place
9- ( July/28th/2017): Was the day that I was blessed with a beautiful daughter. I never thought there would be a day that my wife would see me cry in, but when my daughter was born I found myself crying although I tried to hold it in. Just hearing my daughters voice crying for the first time was something undescribable and it was a joyful that cheered me up after my grandfather’s death
10- ( 9/5th/2017): Was the day that my wife and daughter had to go to kuwait due to immigration purposes. I had 2 more years to go in college to graduate. I did not get to spend enough time with my duaghter she was around 40 days old, but i knew as a fathe I had to do my best and do what i had to do so that she could have a pleasant life later on in the future.
Three pictures that would define me:
this is a picture of a family. I think of myself as a family person. I really would give anything for their sake.
this picture defines me, because I love wisdom. It is not something I have, but I wish to obtain it. I really like stuff to be logical, I hat nonsense.
Although I am not a successful man yet. I really think one day I will be. But people must sacrifice the time and effort when they are young to achieve success.
Swimming under water with john:
In my opinion the article was effective, but at the same time there are things that can improve it. I think that the author has some parts where she just repeats sentences, which in some parts it could be effective but in this case, I think it made it less intersting. Talking about how people with disorder may feel was the part which I see that gave it a lot of meaning. Trying to get people to feel each others pain is something that would pull the readers attention. sympathy is a strong feeling and in this article the author feeling bad for her brother, gave the article depth and meaning.
A memoir about someone I love:
The most important people in life for a person is his parents. If it were not for them we would not even be here.No matter what I do I can not repay their debt, and in my opinion no matter what I do it is never good enough they always deserve more. But in this article I will talk about my father although it would not describe him fully. My father has gave up a lot of things in order to give us a pleasant life. He spent 13 years of his life studying to become a dentist. All that time instead of going out with his friends having fun he spent his life studying. Living in a different country away from our family in order to acheive this amazing goal. I remember walking down to the basement, adn I saw my father siting in his desk looking tired, and I remember telling him that I am bored so he looked at me with a huge smile and said “come let me show you something”. he opened his computer opened up a game it was sonic, and he sat there with me just watching me play for a whole hour. he taught me great things like a man never goes back on his word. I remember one time I told my father I wanted to go to the store to buy a game and he was very tired he just got back from work so he said ” I will take you there tomorrow that’s a promise”. The other day my dad had to stay in work and he sat there until it was night time, so when he arrived he was even more tired than the day before. I told him “dad I want to go to the store”. he said how about tomorrow . I replied ” You promised”. He laughed then he said ” a promise is a promise”.
What I think of the Gaga movie, and was it effective or not:
In my opinion the gaga movie was the worst movie I have ever seen. I thought it had no content. That it was just about a famous person who thinks they have trouble but they don’t. the movie made me realize that her life was empty of meaning. I do not know if she was trying to tell us if she is happy or sad what she accomplished. The movie was just showing us her going to the studio dancing going to family events. It made me wonder why would someone that has accomplished so littel be so important. Just because she could sing or that she has a talent does not make a person special in my opinion. I think that many people would want to trade their life’s for hers, but in my case I would never want to be in her shoes. It was like seeing a person living without values, although she may have seemed to care for her family, but other than that I did not enjoy watching that movie. I thought it had no purpose no meaning. If people would ask me for my opinion if they should watch it or not. I would advise them I would advise them to sit in a room and stare at a broken TV screen. That would be more enjoyable, and would have had more meaning. The reason I thought the movie was not effective. Was basically because nothing is special about her story.
How to improve my intro:
I think in order to improve my intro it should have a hook. To get the reader excited to read the paper. To let the reader know that what he is going to read is something enjoyable and benificial.
What I will work on after peer review:
I will definitely try to improve my thesis statement. I should explain why I used this source. Also fix grammar mistakes.
Name: Ali Akrouf
Professor: Heather Wyatt
6/11/2019
Home
My father use to study in the USA to get his degree as a dentist. Due to immigration purposes since my mother was on a tourist visa we had to go back every 6 months and come back to the USA, but this time it was different I turned 6 years old and my parents wanted me to attend grade school back at Kuwait. I remember that day it is still crystal clear to me. On the way to the airport in the car my younger brother crying he was hungry, my younger sister was eating candy, and my father was talking to us trying to make us laugh. It seemed to me that he was feeling really upset, and he was trying to hide his feelings about it. As if he felt guilty for letting us go back. I was young and did not know that my father was not coming with us. When we arrived to the airport my dad carried out bag. When we arrived to the TSA my father had to say good bye. Suddenly the smile on his face disappeared “ Listen you are the man of the house now you’re going to take care of your mother , sister, and younger brother” he said. I told him “of course I will, come on lets go in I want to sit in the window’s seat before anyone gets there”. He the smiled again and said “I’m sorry I cannot come with you I have to go to school, and when you go back home you’re going to start school to do well at your studies”. I was shocked I did not know what to say, but the words that came out were “you don’t have to go to school come with us”. He said “I’m sorry I can’t, but I can count on you to take care of them can’t I”. I replied “of course you can”. That was the first time I felt responsibility. This was the first time I learned what it meant to be a man, but deep inside I was filled with sadness. As my family were saying their good byes my sister started crying. Thinking about that day it must’ve been really hard on my mother, but it must’ve been even harder on my father. Whenever something would happen until today I would still think of my father’s words. Going back to Kuwait to me I did not know what Kuwait who are my family is.
As we boarded the plane my mother started telling me about my family. I did not know what to think at that time. Great were going to live with people I do not know. We arrived at Kuwait we went to my grandparents’ house. We got in suddenly I see a living room filled with people. I have 4 aunts, and 5 uncles. Suddenly everyone started greeting us joyfully. My mother was crying she was happy at the same time sad. For me I did not know who they are suddenly an old guy smiled “come closer” he said. I walked towards him he hugged me and started smiling “do you know who I am” he Asked. I started nodding no. He laughed and he pointed at my mother and said “I am here father, so what does that makes? “ I replied “that makes you mother’s father” .Everyone started laughing my mother said he’s your grandfather. So she said go play with your uncles. They were around my age they are a couple of years older than me. I entered a room I remember them playing “Sonic the hedgehog, on a Sega “. I was not fluent in Arabic. “You must be Ali”. I said yes in English. They started laughing do you want to play. I did not know how to play Sega. So they started joking I got angry and got into a fight with them. My mother came and said “what is going on?” They replied “we were joking and he got angry” . In my case I did not have older brothers or sisters. Although I got into a fight with them that was the first time that I felt that I have older brothers, and sisters.
As in my case moving into a place that has new traditions that I had to learn, a new language that I had to be fluent. But I knew that I had a family that are so supportive my grandfather is like a father to me he raised me. But in terms of speaking Arabic I was getting fluent, but as soon as School started academic Arabic was even harder, and this time you are in a class room so if you make a mistake 20 strangers would listen to you and that is not a good sign. Thankfully I do not care I would Always talk good in presentations, but when it comes to test it feels bad when you get a bad grade and everyone else does good, and the reason is not that you did not study or did not do hard. The reason is simple they learned it since they started talking you are just learning it. But as time got time I got better.
After 2 years my father graduated, and he came back to Kuwait. We threw him a party. I remember the song “Sweet Home California Was played” .At that moment I learned that. Home is not a country you live in. it is a place that you have people that you can share your feeling with, It is a place where if you made a mistake you have people to correct you, it is a place where you can find unconditional love. Do not rush into thinking going to a new place is something hard, but it might be the best thing that ever happens to you. As there is a saying that I read “Home is where love resides, memories are created, friends always belong, and laughter never ends”.
Work Cited
Shutterfly. “The Best 50 Quotes
About Home.” Shutterfly, 13 Sept. 2018, www.shutterfly.com/ideas/quotes-about-home/.
3- Sweet Home Albama
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How did the paper go ? Strengths? Weaknesses?
I thought that it was great. Although this is the first time for me to write a memoir. I put a lot of feelings, and thought into it that would be the strength of the paper. The only weakness that I think that I had in the paper might be grammer and format, In terms of citation this is the first time I have cited a song.
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