Essays on How Parents Influenced My Life

In Alicia Gaspar De Albas book, Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders, the story follows Ivon Villa as she travels to Juárez to adopt a baby illegally. Little did Ivon that she’d be getting involved with more than just a baby. Upon her arrival to El Paso, Texas she read in magazine article that states more than over a hundred mangled bodies were found in the desert outside of Juarez, Mexico. Ivons intention weren’t to get involved until the woman carrying…...

One of the greatest titles on can have in this world is parent. Being a parent is one of the greatest responsibilities that one can possess in this world. However, with great responsibility comes great pressure and sacrifice. Parents are the ultimate role model for their children. Every word, movement, action and behaviour has an effect on children. No other person, from friends to outsiders, can have a greater impact on children than parents themselves. Born A Crime is an…...

“Be the person in your life who will craft a sway on everyone and will assist the society with uttermost care and helpfulness”—an exact rebound of the words my father once whimpered to me when I was a child. My father, a man of fortitude and resilience, never saw his inability to walk right—down to an incurable disease named limbed-girdle muscular dystrophy—as a responsibility in him. For me, my father’s chronic disease was a life-changing event that ever happened to…...