Pepe the King Prawn's Thoughts on Life

Educated: A Memoir Educated: A Memoir proved to be the most impactful book I’ve read throughout my college career. It was intimate, sincere, thought provoking, and also painful. The entire memoir stirred up a lot of emotions in me but all of those feelings were worth it in the end. The memoir begins with Tara reflecting on childhood. She grew up as a Mormon survivalist and lived in rural Idaho. Her dad, who didn’t believe in anything from the government, insisted that government officials were out to get her and her family around the time Tara was a child. She notes in the memoir that her dad had a breakdown because a family nearby had been shot to death for essentially not following government orders as he described. He forced Tara and her siblings to pack “head-for-the-mountains” bags to prepare to hide for when the government was going to “attack them”. Ultimately the Government never comes and years later Tara finds out that what her dad was describing was actual...

LA Kings Communications Associate Job Description  Out of everything I have done in life, working for the LA Kings has definitely been my claim to fame. Can you imagine having the opportunity to chat with LA Kings forward Anze Kopitar every game? Or going into the away team’s locker room and seeing the Pittsburgh Penguins team captain Sidney Crosby? Well that’s what I do on a consistent basis and the best part is that I get paid to do it.     Communications associates at the LA Kings are typically undergrad or recently graduated students. The associates are part time and the LA Kings have between 3 to 4 associates each season. We only work home games, which is great for our schedules because it gives us free time to either take on another job or go to school. Every home game we arrive three and a half hours before and leave about an hour after the game ends. During the roughly seven hours we are working in Staples Center, we do a lot of running around t...

For this reading assignment, I decided to choose a novel not listed on Professor's book list. I chose Educated: A Memoir  by Tara Westover instead. My mom actually encouraged me to read this book. She read it last month and wouldn't stop raving about it. Out of curiosity, I googled the book and it quickly caught my interest. I have a big soft spot for education. So when the time came to chose a novel for this class I figured what better novel to chose than a book I was planning to read anyway. Tara Westover's Educated: A Memoir is an autobiography about growing up with unconventional parents who did not believe in education. In fact, Westover was seventeen years old when she first stepped foot in a classroom. Despite her lack of education during her childhood, Westover managed to make it to BYU for undergrad, Cambridge for her masters, and eventually became a teaching fellow at Harvard. Her novel also outlines the difficulties of growing up with a brother who was violent ...

Olivia Marie Osborne  From Chino Hills, CA, I am Olivia Osborne and I am studying communication and minoring in Spanish. As great as Chino Hills was for my childhood I never plan on living there again and intend on staying in Los Angeles. I accepted a job offer to work at an agency in Hollywood after graduation so my dreams to live in Los Angeles are no longer dreams, this is my reality. My family has played a fundamental role in my life and I could not imagine growing up with anyone else. I am privileged to come from parents who have emotionally and financially supported me.  They have always encouraged me that I could do anything I wanted and instilled confidence in me at a young age. Thanks to them, I was a badass first grade female who scored the winning goal in my championship hockey game on a primarily all boys team! Because of my parents’ relentless encouragement in my life, I have always been one to set high expectations for myself. Like my mom I am ...