GO GREEN!

The importance of environmental awareness and activism is high, at least to me and my family. People in the communities work better when others are leading and giving the example. Being “green” is important because we a re trying to savage the planet earth and the future generations. Using high efficiency energy saving lightbulbs and recycling is not something I was doing because of reading a magazine or watching the television, it was something I begun doing because others were doing it. With time people come to the realization that we have to collaborate to the earth somehow, simply because it is a healthier way of living. Eating organic helps not only body by also the environment because we are using products that are grown without any pesticides or animals that are not being fed steroids or being mass produced. If every home in the United States recycled at least once a month, it would make a difference to the earth. 

War Stories

Chapter Five: War Stories

“The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien was a war story that impacted me from the beginning. This is because as the story develops he describes how a soldier Ted Lavender was shot in the head and killed back in Than Khe, carried double the ammunition and the soldiers wondered a lot if he died because they made him carry all that weight. The other soldiers carried the necessary, however Lieutenant Jimmy Cross was emotionally tied to this woman Martha. She was his God, the perfect woman, however he had not initiated any sentimental feelings because war is tough. The story was very touching for me, since one of my brothers went through war and when he wrote letters he would always “sound” different than before, he always carried a rosary that my mother sent him and a picture of his girlfriend in his helmet. He carried that as a reminder of the memories he left back home. 

Impact on Growth and Development

A memory of my childhood that made impact throughout my entire life, and that had the most importance is the one when my parents decided to move to the United States. At the age of 10, changing schools, moving to another town, and making new friends is hard; however doing all of those changes in a different language and another country made it so much harder for me at 10 years old. The sacrifices my parents made were unbearable because they only thought about the future my brothers and I would have. The opportunity of attending a university, and working in a field that we actually liked (or to even have a job at all). To them the sacrifice they made 12 years ago, has no price compared to how far their children have gotten in life. The only thing they wanted was for the three of us to be professionals and that would make them proud.