Losing My Cousin Essay Examples

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A Personal Essay of Losing Your Family and Growing Up in Another One (3220 words, 4 pages)

It happened for as long as I could remember. I was ten and my sister was four. I am middle- height with light brown hair, which goes blond in the summer. I have pale skin, and when the heat and sunlight touch it, my skin develops in to a sea ... Read More

A Personal Narrative on Losing a Father (610 words, 1 pages)

A person who has impacted your life? I keep remembering odd things his love for cars, jokes he told at the dinner table, his subtle brand of sarcasism, the look in his eyes when he tlaked about my future. I knew college before I'd ever hear of high school, I ... Read More

Dealing With the Death of my Cousin (658 words, 2 pages)

My cousin Payton died when he was 13 year old in February of 2002. Otherwise healthy, Payton became critically ill with a staph infection in his heart. Payton fought hard. The sepsis from the staph infection and the impact it had on his organs was akin to a nuclear attack. ... Read More

My Mother My Hero (595 words, 2 pages)

What makes a person a hero? What actions does a hero take? A hero is someone who has impacted your life in any way. My special hero is my mother Martha, a hard-working individual with an enormous heart. My mother has never failed to be there for me when I ... Read More

A Personal Account of Our Adoption of My Cousin Jacob (799 words, 4 pages)

When the state deems a person unfit to be a parent, whether it bebecause of past misdeeds or the likely perpetuation of such a lifestyle,it maintains the ability to remove said parent's claims to parenthood.Sadly, this was exactly the situation of a relative of mine in 2008.Happily, their loss turned ... Read More

My Interview with my Grandmother (980 words, 3 pages)

The person that I have chosen to interview is my grandmother, Mary Murphy. Mary is my fathers mother. She is 80 years old and she lives here in Stillwater, Oklahoma. It was not hard to conduct a time and place for this interview because she lives so close. Interviewing her ... Read More

My Grandpa Is My Hero (1075 words, 3 pages)

Ounce upon a little girl met her best friend, her rock and her inspiration that person happens to be her grandpa. He isnt only my grandpa but he is the reason for my smile and he has made me into the person that I am today. He has never given ... Read More

Losing a Friend and Classmate (436 words, 1 pages)

As Czarrah a fellow classmatefriend would say "Great day to be alive". This has been by far the hardest thing to grasp as we finish up the last couple of months of 2013.It took the death of my classmatefriend to start to making a change in my life, and also ... Read More

A Mother’s Worst Nightmare: Losing a Child (1544 words, 5 pages)

I remember the exact moment I saw Harry. It was in Grimdales pub, I remember because they only had red lights in the joint, which cast a seductive tone over all its inhabitance. I was sipping on my beer listening to the band when I looked up and made eye ... Read More

Losing My Mother to Swine Flu (340 words, 2 pages)

Just by looking in to your eyes, I could swear you have some thing to tell me. Speak up. Dad, just spit it out! In the back of my mind, I already knew what he was going to say and I could already feel that ball of fire building up ... Read More

The Experience of Losing My Mother (535 words, 2 pages)

When I lost my mother back home in Ghana I felt like I was shouldering the whole worlds weight. I felt like was being crushed with a huge stone and didnt know how to respond to the news. I was not used to living without that particular person for a ... Read More

My Father is My Hero (413 words, 2 pages)

As you go through your life you come across many people and among themthere is always someone who touched you in some way. I got inspired bymany people in my life, but only one has changed my perspective of life,my father. My father acquired his life lessons by overcoming the ... Read More

Losing A Loved One (1397 words, 3 pages)

Loosing a loved one will leave anyone empty, hopeless, helpless, and depressed. It is like someone burning a person's heart with a cigarette leaving the cigarette marks all over the heart to burn down to the flesh. Smelling the fuels in the air and the person searching for help and ... Read More

My Relationship With My Father (745 words, 2 pages)

As a small child, I was always with my father. Id going riding around with him, go to stores with him, and Id even be there when hed get tattoos in the living room of our apartment. My mom would work during the day, so it would just be me ... Read More

Short Story About Losing Someone (517 words, 2 pages)

Just yesterday, I decided to re-explore my Playlist on YouTube for a great tune to listen to while baking Wildberry Jam Pastries with my grandmother. One of my Playlist songs, however, caught my attention and immediately led me to reminisce about one of the most life-changing moments in my life. ... Read More

Short Story of Losing Someone Special (895 words, 3 pages)

Leave me out with the waste," Oh no! Don't play that song again! "This is not what I do Its the wrong kind of place.""Would you turn that radio down please," I yell to the waitress. "What?" She stares at me. "Lower the volume!" She returns back to the kitchen, ... Read More

My Mother is My Hero (864 words, 2 pages)

Tonya is worthy of my praise for many reasons. When I was 5 years old she would walk into my room and remind me why I am so important in her life, tucking me in for a bedtime story. Her tender love, and care keeps me motivated still until this ... Read More

The Worst Experience in My Life: Losing My Father (660 words, 2 pages)

Tuesday, November 10, 1987 will be a day that I will always remember. I was getting ready that day to go to work. I had graduated in May from high school and was starting on the third week of my first real job. My younger sister and brother had already ... Read More

My Mom as my Hero (324 words, 1 pages)

An example of a hero would be Sandra Simon. Sandra Simon was born in southern California in 1969 and grew up with four other sisters, Sandra being the oldest, her dad, Gene Carter, had his own bee farming business that supplied some of the biggest companies with their honey. Sandra ... Read More

The Pain of Losing a Loved One (1377 words, 2 pages)

There were beads of sweat dripping from my forehead, it had been a long first day of summer spent jumping on the trampoline with a friend and eating popsicles until our lips and tongues were stained Very Cherry Red and Giddy Grape. Just the day before, I had been saying ... Read More

My Personal Experience in My Quest to Lose Weight (851 words, 2 pages)

For a large chunk of my life I was fat. Theres no other way to put it to me thats how I see it. With that being said I never thought myself capable of doing any kind of running let alone doing a 6.2-mile race and actually finishing it.On New ... Read More

My Brother My Hero (627 words, 2 pages)

Usually when people write about those they find more admirable andinspirational in their lives they write about great heroes, parents, orelders whom they look up to. However, te person who has had the mostsignificant influence on me and my life is my younger brother who's 9years old, Rayan. Before his ... Read More

Will Technology Make Us Lose Our Humanity? (539 words, 2 pages)

Our time is now, our generation advancing at a faster pace than everthought possible. Reaching into every corner of our economy, offersjobs, and economic growth in industry, defense, and transportation manyof these advancements are moving towards life science and scientificadvancement. Some may say that we are moving too fast for ... Read More

The War That America Was Bound to Lose (502 words, 1 pages)

Document 5, in Chapter 10 of the Wheeler text, features an interview of a Vietnam vet named Mike. He was born in Tennessee and grew up in a rural environment. Some of Mikes family had served in the military so enlisting was something he felt was expected of him . ... Read More

The Beauty of Losing My Innocence (338 words, 1 pages)

Innocence is a kind of insanity -Graham GreeneI am glad that I lost my innocence in certain aspects, because it helps me be realistic and take the world as is. If I were still so innocent, I would go crazy because of all the pressure and the lack of understanding ... Read More

Losing My Mom in a Blink of an Eye (1381 words, 4 pages)

My phone rings, and from the way my dad sounds on the other end of the phone, I know something must be wrong. I immediately stop putting on my Cracker Barrel apron and begin to listen. My dad, nearly yelling, begins to tell me that my mom was in an ... Read More

Losing a Loved One in Funeral Blues, a Poem by W.H. Auden (1019 words, 3 pages)

Funeral Blues (530) was written in the 1900s by an author named W.H Auden. It is a popular poem, and was included in the British movie Four Weddings and a Funeral, in which it is read at a funeral. The poem is about losing a loved one. The narrator has ... Read More

A Personal Account of the Devastating Social, Psychological, and Academic Impact of Losing My Mother due to Domestic Violence (477 words, 2 pages)

When a girl loses her mother at a young age, everything she would have become changes. Many people would have had good impacts on their life but not me. Growing up for me was very hard. My life took a turn for the worse when I lost my mother to ... Read More

A Study on What Temperatures Certain Proteins Lose Their Natural Qualities at (1735 words, 11 pages)

AbstractThe purpose of our lab was to figure out at what temperatures certain proteins would lose all of their natural qualities.To ask what proteins can really be put through and do all proteins denature at the same temperature? Denaturation is when proteins lose their structure after solvents like alcohol, strong ... Read More

Losing Sight of Humanity with Advancing Technology (515 words, 2 pages)

Observational Mini EssayMy phone rings. Its my sister. She just got called into work and was wondering if I could watch my nephew for the night. Of course! I exclaim, as I think about all of the fun activities that we could do together. As Im gathering games and the ... Read More