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The day is nice and sunny. I’ve just finished up with classes and decide it’s time to go to the gym. I get there and start to get into the groove of my workout. Things are going great. Then, I decide to look into the mirror, where an unfortunate sight awaited me. My face was burnt red for some unexplained reason. I couldn’t come up with a reasonable explanation for my facial redness. Finally, I decide that it’s just dry skin. However, when I clean up and put moisturizer on my skin, a painful, stinging sensation shoots across my cheeks? Why is that? Well, I discovered that my dry skin was in fact not dry skin. Instead, it was a sunburn.   Now look, my skin is light, so it’s not like I am not familiar with the sun overstaying its welcome. However, just to add context, this happened in the middle of February, which is during the winter for those that don't know. How the heck did I get a sunburn in the middle of winter? I know Los Angeles winters are not like the typical winter experie...

After getting further through the book “American Like Me,” by America Ferrera, one thing that really struck me was America’s relationship with her father. In the book, America visits her father’s grave in Honduras even though she had lost contact with him when he left their family and went back to Honduras when she was seven years old. What struck me about their relationship, and what Ferrera mentions in the book, is unanswered questions. Ferrera mentions that she never had an answer as to why her father abandoned her, and that she buried her feelings regarding her father growing up rather than finding closure and moving on. So, it made me think of a question: is it better to know or not why close relationships come to an end? Better yet, is it a good idea to rekindle a relationship that has been lost?   We all probably have someone that we’ve lost touch with. In Ferrera’s case, that relationship was with her father, and it had an abrupt ending when he left her family and moved bac...

Jack McAdams Professor Clark Hansen WRIT340, Section 66722 Assignment #1: Expert Article It's finals week. You're exhausted, and you've been staring at your computer for hours, trying to cram in all the information you will trash after your exams. You've been locked in your seat, completely drowned in all the material you're convinced you never learned. Finally, the night's end creeps around, and you call it a night. Your brain is euphoric, but your body is physically upset. There's an unusual amount of tension in your neck and back, and it doesn't seem to want to go away. You may even have a little hunch working. Well, ladies and gentlemen, this is the work of bad posture. Most likely, you will become its next victim if you continue to spend hours leaning into your computer screen (like you might be doing right now).  You may think, "Not my problem," or "I'm young; this isn't something I need to be worried about." I would kno...

I chose"American Like Me," because I was interested to listening to all of the short stories compiled by the author, America Ferrera. The book has been a great read, and it's intriguing to hear the backgrounds of individuals I am and am not familiar with and how their upbringing in America unfolded. The book has made many impressions on me, as many of the short stories share different experiences from one another that all vary from my upbringing in America. However, here is one of the main impressions that I have gotten from the novel: Love has many avenues in which it can be expressed, as I've found out from reading "American Like Me" by America Ferrera. Some people are better at displaying love than others, while some express love in other ways than the traditional gestures tied to the feeling. When I think of love, I think of how people express love to one another when they are with someone else. This could be as simple as stating, "I love you,"...