Essays on Grandma

Dear Grandma,

I hope you must be enjoying the sun and baking yummy cookies. I really miss you Granny and want to give a big hug to you. Grandma last week our pet dog Zorro passed away; all of us are very sad. I miss him and all his pranks and he used to scare all the kids and I used to feel like superman. I feel better when I go to school, but mom keeps holding on to his leash and his red jacket; she keeps looking at the pathway and hopes he will come back. As you know that ...

Do you believe in reincarnation? Personally I never did before. I cannot say that I belong to that category of people who refer themselves to any particular religion or devote their lives to appreciating gods or saints. I preferred to characterize myself as a rational person. I believed in rationality and usually can find a sober reason and explanation to anything in the world – everything that seems to be supernatural has a rational explanation. I never really thought and cared about my soul, but a tiny event that recently happened in my life made me change my views and ...

Why I Want to Pursue a Career in Medicine, Why I Will Be an Asset to the College, and Further Information Including My Previous Accomplishments

I come from a family of doctors, so perhaps considering a career in medicine is a logical step for me. Having been raised in that family environment, I naturally became interested in medical matters. Looking back, I think that from an early age I dreamed of becoming a physician, although I have to admit that my interest intensified when my beloved Grandma was diagnosed with cancer and then underwent several surgical procedures as a consequence during the last 12 months. Thankfully she is now apparently free of the cancer. We all tend to take our everyday amenities and facilities for granted; it is only ...

The movie Parenthood (1989) was directed by Ron Howard and features an all-star ensemble cast. The movie depicts four adult siblings and their respective families as well as their parents and grandmother. The movie features all eight of Erikson’s Stages of Development in the various characters and their children exquisitely. Some of the characters are successfully navigating their lives where others are facing great difficulty. Grandma (Helen Snow) is the grandmother of Gil and his siblings, his mother’s mother. She is in the Integrity v. Despair stage in Erikson’s theory. This is the final stage ...

Complete Name of the Professor

Death of a Salesman First response:I respectfully disagree with your view that Willy Loman should be considered a protagonist in the play “Death of a Salesman” just because he and his son Biff affect each other’s character. Aristotle made numerous remarks about the definitions of drama, and laid down specific parameters about what an ‘ideal’ protagonist should be in his work “Poetics”. However, underneath the fault of his character lie his greatness, ambitions, and dreams. His inability to fulfill those dreams, as well as his tragic flaw, and most especially his desire to manifest those dreams around him were the ...

Introduction

This paper aims to capture the possible conflicts in the literary styles used by the author in writing her book. The degree of agreeableness of the plot and the style of writing will also be considered. Criticism that the author was subjected to shall also be captured. The paper will start by outlining the context in which the narrative was written and will proceed to give a critical view of the plot, and the style employed by Kate in writing her novel. Kate grew up in an environment surrounded by women, both at school with the nuns and at ...

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Similarities between Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Solomon Northrup, Twelve Years a Slave Introduction Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Birds Sing” and Solomon Northrup, “Twelve Years a Slave” are two memoirs with similar themes that encompassed their societies. These literally works depicts many life stories in which thematic concerns of religion, racism, chauvinism, education, poverty and seclusion carry an American dream. One quickly notices that they both relate in the way they pass out their different themes especially the theme of religion in this case. Religion is the main concern in ...

Neither age nor distance diminishes a family’s bond. This is my realization when I met my grandmother for the first time. It is the eve of Thanksgiving. The morning breeze blows softly towards me in the waiting shed. I wish the bus would arrive now. It is sunny, but the bright rays are not hot enough to remove the goose bumps in my exposed arm. I am excited to meet my grandmother. She is coming over for Thanksgiving. I am apprehensive too. After all, it is my first time to see her. I hope she likes me. ...

Interview A Senior CitizenName:Institutional Affiliation:

Q: How many siblings do you have? A: 7

Q: How long were your parents married?

A: 48 years Q: Did most of the members of your family live in good health into their old age? A: Relatively. My sister died of a heart attack when she was 40 and my father struggled with high blood pressure but for the most part we are healthy. We work out a lot. My mom tried to feed us healthy and teach us how to cook healthy. My dad encouraged us to stay active.

Q: Did you like school? How was school for you?

A: I did not like school. It was boring, I felt it was a waste ...

Baca was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico to a literary broken home. His father was an alcoholic who was always fighting and quarrelling with his mother. Together with his siblings, their parents abandoned them and went to live at their grandparent’s house. It is here that he acknowledges that his process of criminalization starts. The challenges he faces as a child make him what becomes of him eventually, but then, in Grandma Baca’s shack existed a fair share of violence and the drunkenness just like the one he saw back in their own home. The goings on in grandma’ ...

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Born from neither the bottom or top Middle class was his lot He worked until he rose in ranks And now writes papers read in banks He has one face from time to time But another face when walking swapping lines He walks midnight streets from dusk till dawns Looking for clues hidden in faces and lawns Sometimes with friends other times alone Bribery is a sport to which he is prone He will trick your grandma and fool you friends Writing lies that begin but do not endSo ...

In Snapping Beans the poet uses a song that irony is also evident when the grandmother asks her grand-daughter about college life a question that the she replies, “School’s fine”. From the various lines used in the poem, it is evident that the daughter is new in college and does go through the challenges that are gone through by new students. It is therefore ironical when she says that college life was fine with her yet the poem portrays how she goes through various challenges in a bid to acclimatize to the change in environment. The grand mother is singing "what a ...

Summer of My German Soldier is a book written by Bette Greene. It is a creative writing novel which explains the activities of daily life during the Second World War. The story is an example of a creative writing by Greene which gives the person reading it an idea on social issues in an American culture. Greene introduces young people to problems in the society and ways on how to handle them and become good people in the society. The setting of the story is in Jenkinsville, Arkansas during World War II. It was around in the early 1940s. The author ...

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My grandmother is probably the most loving person in my life. She had a heart full of love for all the world and even those that had hurt her, would always find shelter, should they need her help. I could not understand how she could be THAT forgiving, but perhaps that was her gift. Maybe she had done her self-criticism and found out the true meaning of life, when the rest of us were struggling to find who we really are. She would go to the church every Sunday and pray for those in need. A distinguishing trait in my ...

In Breath, Eyes, Memory, the lives of several women in light of the tremendous social and cultural pressures set upon them are explored; Sophie, a young woman of Haitian descent, moves to America and back, dealing with what it means to be a Haitian woman and all the cultural baggage that comes with it. Women are given little agency in Haitian culture, and Sophie’s life suffers as a result. However, she is not the only one: the patriarchal and stifling traditions of Haitian culture have dramatic effects on the outlooks of many of the women throughout the novel, particularly as it ...

Flannery O’Conner’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find”

The search for the truth is pursuit that has occupied people for as long as humankind has existed; some look for it in science or medicine, some try to find it in art or literature, and others seek it in philosophy or religion. The satisfaction a doctor feels when diagnosing and successfully treating a patient, the pride of an artist creating an excellent portrait, and the joy of the faithful when they feel God has answered a prayer are similar feelings. These people feel that the truth has led to a positive outcome for themselves and others. However, the truth is not always ...

My Beloved World is the recently published book by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Coming from an impoverished Puerto Rican family living in the Bronx, and facing seemingly insurmountable odds like juvenile diabetes and a violent neighborhood, Justice Sotomayor rose to become the third female justice and the first Latino woman to ever occupy such a position in the United States Supreme Court. Early on in the book Sotmayor makes it clear that her book is a memoir and not an objective biography. She points out that memory is selective in its remembrances of past events which might be perceived differently by ...

These two masterpieces “the Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin and “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’ Conner are a real picture of the time period when it was written. A Good Man is Hard to Find, is an example of gothic literature which portrays the background of slavery and Civil War, whereas, the historical background of The Story of an Hour is based on women’s behavior and the female desire for independence which was more preferred than love and marriage. It was a time when a typical American woman of the nineteenth century would be a ...

Admission Essay

My grandmother had grown to be my second mother. She cared for me to a fault and taught me a lot of things inclusive of how to comb my hair and dress up. When I was 7 years old, my grandmother fell ill, and I had to inevitably take care of her. The illness turned my once independent and ever grinning grandma into a dependent and sorrowful human being who on top of not being able to move even a single finger, openly wished for death. I was equally affected by her illness especially because we had become so used to one another. ...

Great Black Women of the World

Part I: (Please Add where in your textbook to find the appropriate topic: Slavery, racism, women’s issues) I have written about two African women sold into slavery Abina and Ama and about Mary Church Terrell. Terrell is a great African-American woman who not many people know about. I did not know about her until I started browsing the web links that were suggested for this assignment. Ama and Terrell show the same strength and spirit as Abina. They are all women with a strong sense of what is right and what is wrong in the world. Two were born in Ghana ...

Christopher Lawson Epicurean Food Merchant Products are supposed to target up-market spenders. This is because the products offered are high quality and handmade. These organic goods are made for those who would not mind spending a couple more dollars on a good, healthy, organic and tasty product. The image that the product labels like to capture is that of high class goods.

The logo was done in a colorful manner, using the fonts Rockwell and Times New Roman. There are soft shadows used behind the tomato to bring in a sense of ease. This is used by creating a smoke or cloud effect. This ...

It’s Effect on a Third Generation Bilingual Arabic Family

Abstract

A lot of studies have been conducted on the nature of lives of people who speak more than one language and are foreigners in Australia. The experience of bilinguals living within Australia has been an area of interest among scholars. This paper attempts to analyze and describe the extent of influence that a family that is bilingual and foreign faces in Australia. The factors that determine the language usage in different domains is studied and preliminary data collected (Baker, 2011).

Introduction

A lot of research has gone into the study of the effect of bilingualism on different aspects of society ...

It’s Effect on a Third Generation Bilingual Arabic Family

Abstract

A lot of studies have been conducted on the nature of lives of people who speak more than one language and are foreigners in Australia. The experience of bilinguals living within Australia has been an area of interest among scholars. This paper attempts to analyze and describe the extent of influence that a family that is bilingual and foreign faces in Australia. The factors that determine the language usage in different domains is studied and preliminary data collected (Baker, 2011).

Introduction

A lot of research has gone into the study of ...

“Everyday Use” By Alice Walker

Introduction

On the book review of “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, different authors have expressed their views on the themes and symbolism expressed in the novel. I will discuss on the viewpoints of the different authors and compare to see whether there are any similarities and differences. The novel is written by an African American. It is set at a time in American history when the black community was trying to understand its identity.

Analysis of the Book Reviews

David White in 2001 published an article titled, “Everyday Use: Defining African-American Heritage” in the Purdue North Central Literary Journal where he discussed the theme of ...

Alice Walker’s short story ‘Everyday Use’ is about Dee seeing her heritage and the legacy of her ancestors as something that has already passed and gone, so that there is a danger of her true heritage being abandoned and lost. However, Mama’s understanding demonstrates that she and Maggie are are still linked through the way they live in rural poverty in the South to their ancestors (by the everyday use of items like the quilts).

Dee’s name change is symptomatic of the person she has become. As Christian (14) writes:

Dee/Wangero in ‘Everyday Use’ is embarrassed by ...