Personal Narrative: The Moua Family

Inside Out and Back Again Imagine if you had to leave your home, the place you know and love, all your memories good and bad. If you had to live in an entirely different place with completely different cultures. Everything would appear, flipped inside out. Thousands of refugees go through this everyday.

When I saw Wayne Thiebaud’s painting, Pie Counter, I immediately started to think about the first time I saw a table full of desserts and the pleasure I felt. Every Sunday or every other Sunday, my church would serve food to the members of the church after our long church service. I was always eager to race down stairs so that I could see the great table of desserts every child in my church would fantasize about. However, each time I tried to run downstairs, someone would always call me to do something. I could not disobey the elders at my church, so I would happily obey them, in hope of seeing the glorious table of desserts upon returning.

With all this going on we forgot all about father’s day, and we figured he probably won’t even want to celebrate because it will be his the first “Father’s Day” without his dad. Even though, we thought our dad wouldn’t be in the mood to celebrate father’s day, he actually showed us and told us that we can’t be upset forever because it is apart of life and that we are all going to “have to go” someday. He told us the exact same thing his father told him before. It was a very fun family get together, all my brothers and sisters were there to spend time and celebrate together as a family with my

Did she not like chicken? he wondered. So, he finally asked her why she wasn’t eating the chicken with his brother and himself. She responded saying that she does not hurt anything. Followed by informing him that the chicken he is eating is actually chicken.

One appeal used in Rosetta Stone ads is logos, which contributed to the idea that language can be a huge impact to life verbally. Rosetta stone persuaded their audience by including loaded words into their advertisements. In ad #3, a farm boy wants to impress an Italian supermodel so Rosetta Stone’s presented their new version of software by describing it as “the fastest and easiest way to learn Italian”. Rosetta Stone uses the appeal, logos, by using loaded words to create the effect that their language learning software is the fastest and easiest way to learn a language than any other company. The company believes that a supermodel wouldn’t think highly of a farm boy because of how distinct they are.

As Geneva is laying on her death bed she started to talk but doesn't consciously know what she's saying. "'It isn't fair to your father, I shouldn't have married him'... 'Such a ridiculous- wast of years'" (Carr 142). Saranell heard this come out of Geneva's mouth even if Geneva didn't realize she said this it probably hurt Saranell's feelings.

Therefore, I know Flurry had the finest time ever.

The first thing I did when I got home was go to my favorite restaurant—Glory Days Grill. I got a huge over of boneless chicken wings and cheese fries. This was something that I had missed a lot at college and craved almost everyday. Next, I went and said hi to all of my closest girl friends and their mothers. We had a diner together where we just all sat around

Is there a right price for paradise? Le Guin starts out by describing the Utopian society. She very graphically describes the beauty of the city, “In the streets between houses with red roofs and painted walls, between old moss-grown gardens and under avenues of trees, past great parks and public buildings,” (Le Guin, 136). Le Guin also cleverly introduces the happiness of society, “Children dodged in and out, their high calls rising like the swallows ' crossing flights, over the music and the singing,” (136).

When I visit her and her family, I observe all the love she pours out into her children, and it is a beautiful thing. She treats her children just like she treated me when we were younger, and I cannot help but smile every time I see it happen. I look at the children's smiling faces as they dance around the hallways, filled with excitement and glee. I am inspired to become a mother just like Danaka is. I watch her fill up her children's mind with imagination and wonder.

It was two months before my fifth grade graduation and three years from my parents divorce. Little did I know the news my mom told me that day would change my life forever. Tears came down my face when she told me we were going to be moving to New Jersey. At this moment I was feeling very confused and startled. Not only was I upset because I was leaving a place I have called home for eight years, but because I was leaving my friends and most importantly my dad and brother.

Wyatt and Christine both blushed, it was so romantic. On Saturday Christine went to her home. When she got there, their was a game going on, she immediately ran in the locker room to get changed and then she went to coach walker. Coach Walker was so surprised that she was there, he said, “Omg you are here you are hear.”

Refugees are often forced to flee their home due to war just like Ha. Today, more than 60 million refugees from the Middle East have fled their homes due to the advancement of ISIS (Graham,1). Like Ha, their lives will also turn “inside out” as they face a large amount of harassment from wherever they are able to find safety, but eventually they will find peace with whomever they are surrounded by and turn “back

History does repeat itself. For instance, discrimination will always occur. Just because slavery stopped, does not mean forms of it will stop also. People are still negative towards people with different skin colors than them. Skin color is really deep for some people.

Enhancing My Roots Being Mexican-American has been such a blessing to me. Growing up I would feel embarrassed to have brown skin and to my speak my first language, which is Spanish. I would feel jealous hearing the other kids speak English so well as I struggled more and was placed in English Language Development. I would detest to get pulled out of class and get asked trivial questions like “what is this?” when it was a simple book.