Sesame Street
Diamond Major
7th AP English
Ms.Weidenbenner
Application Essay
Big Lessons from Big Bird
Sesame Street has taught me everything I know. In fact, it practically helped raised me .As a single parent with six children, my mother would work tiredly every day to try to keep food in our bellies, clothes on our backs, and a roof over our heads. As you can imagine, living with a bunch of kids can be stressful and hectic, but Sesame Street proved to be a life-saver and a reliable babysitter when all chaos was stopped, all chatter was hushed, and all order was restored the moment that wonderful tune hit our tiny ears, "Sunny days, Sweepin' the clouds away, On my way to where the air is ...
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something in the process! At first, it seemed as though it was the same old lessons that I learned in school: colors, shapes, letters, and numbers. But I realized that whoever made Sesame Street knew that there were much harder things in life than preschool math; things like love, life, divorce, and death, things that directly affected my own family. Throughout the trials and tribulations of my childhood, Sesame Street always knew exactly what to say to let me know that everything would be just fine.
Though it feels like I've seen about a thousand Sesame Street episodes and reruns, only one remains the most profound and vivid in my mind; the day Mr. Hooper dies. In the episode, Big Bird makes portraits of all his friends and passes them out. With only Mr. Hooper's portrait in his hand, he realizes that he isn't there. Casually, he says, "Oh, I'll just wait until he comes back", unaware that Mr. Hooper has died and will never be coming back. As everyone tries to explain this ...
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