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Academic Writing English for Academic
Childhood in Wa
r and Peace Historical events change children’s lifestyles. Some children lead carefree lives while others have not childhood at all. For example. my mother spent her childhood when there was a war in my country. Poland, but I did not spend my childhood during wartime. Therefore, my mother childhood and mine were the opposite our schooling and our activities after school show the dramatic differences in our lives. My mother and I begin to study when we were seven years old, but we studied in different ways I begin to study at a school close to my home. According to a law in my country. all children between the ages of seven and fifteen have to study eight years in school. On my first day of school, I had many books. notebooks, and colored pencils in my backpack, all of them bought for me by my parents. My backpack was heavy, but I was very proud of my "luggage;" all the people who saw me knew that I was a student! I liked school because there were many children. When I had break between my classes, I played with my classmates or I went to my favorite place, the big library. I was very excited by the books on the shelves, and I knew I could look at them and read them. For me, a little girl. it was an inspiring experience. I liked to study, and the fact that I was studying in my native language was not dangerous for me and my family. Why did I say "dangerous"? Because when my mother began to study, studying in Polish could have been the cause of severe punishment for her and her family. When my mother was seven years old. her father, who was a professor, told her: “you are big girl now. You should know how to read and write in Polish and also how to count. I will start teaching you how to do that. But remember you cannot talk about it to anybody who is not a member of our family." On my mother’s first day of school, she did not have special books, notebooks, and colored pencils. She wrote on pieces of paper that my grandfather burned after she finished her work. She also did not have library books, so she tried to read the newspapers that my grandfather kept at home. It was necessary for my mother to begin studying this way because my country was occupied by the Germans. No Polish could exist at that time. Studying something in Polish was illegal, and people who did it could be killed. My mother's "class" was small; it had only eight students, children from my mother's neighborhood, and only one teacher, my grandfather. They studied while risking their lives. Not only were my mother’s and my schooling different but also our activities after school When I returned home after school, dinner was usually ready and waiting for me. Sometimes I helped my mother and father when they were cooking. That was very nice. Because while we were cooking, we talked about many things. After dinner, I did my home work, and when I finished, I went to swim in the school swimming pool, or I went to the public library in my city, and I read books. I could do these hobbies because I did not have to work. I only helped my mother take care of our home, but this activity was quite pleasant. During the weekends ,I went with my parents to the sea, and I played with them and with other children. Sometimes we went to the movie theater or to a museum. That was the way I spent my free time. In contrast, my mother and her relatives lived near a German weapons factory, and they had to work at that factory. The work was very hard, too hard for children. but children were treated in the same way as adults during the war. Working and illegal studying were difficult for my mother, so she did not have much time for playing. Moreover, she knew that it could be very dangerous to play outdoors because there were many German soldier’s who sometimes shot at Polish children for fun. My mother could not go with her parents to a movie theater or to a library because these places were closed during the war. In fact, she seldom saw her parents together because they worked on different shifts in the German factory. Instead, she took care of her younger brother and cooked dinner for the family. Her time was filled with work, either at home or at the German factory. Although my mother and I lived in the same country, she was a child thirty years before me when there was war in the world. Consequently, my mother learned too much about life as a little girl. As a child. I did not have to work hard, and I also did not have much responsibility. My childhood was peaceful and safe. Both my mother and I agree that all children should live as I did because childhood is usually the only time in life when people can be carefree and can live without problems.
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