...“American” Identity By: Ana Ross p.2 My essay about how the “American” identity is created is about my grandma, Mary Bruun. My grandma believes the American identity is created by where you are born, your family, the way you are brought up, things that are important to you and some of it has to do with your historical perspective. When she was a teenager, the Vietnam War was going on and that shaped her perspective. When her parents were alive, World War 2 was going on and that shaped their perspective of the American identity. My grandma grew up with 8 siblings, 5 brothers and 3 sisters. My grandma is the youngest. My grandma grew up in a very small town, only about 50 people, and lived on a farm. My grandma worked on the farm everyday with her siblings. She...
Words: 481 - Pages: 2
...Cultural Identity Essay All of my cultures are being a student, being African American, being an aries, being a friend to others, being a daughter and a sister. All of my cultures are great but, the culture I’ve decided to write about is being an African American. Being African American is simply about how close our families are. My family is super close. The reason why I say this is because every year we have parties. For example, every July we have a party for all of my family members that have a birthday in July. My aunty buys all of the birthday people a bouquet or a gift card for food or something like that. That’s what the July parties are for. We also have Christmas parties every year at the same house. There is also a Thanksgiving...
Words: 422 - Pages: 2
...critical reading, developing an argument with evidence collected from both primary and secondary research, and also how to site my sources. I believe that with better research techniques I will be able to communicate what I have learned into writing more easily as well as make my essays more knowledgeable. One of my challenges I will face in English 104 will be getting motivated to write the actual essays. I have never really liked writing that much and I think that if I am going to become a successful business major I will have to get better at translating my thoughts onto paper. Another challenge I may face this semester is procrastination. No matter what I am doing I always find a way to procrastinate, especially in college. My goal this semester is to be a better student and stay on top of my schoolwork. The way my schedule is set up right now I know I will have a lot of busy work and I will just have to dedicate myself to my studies. Overall I think that English 104 will be a great class and I am looking forward to this semester. One of the most recent incidents where I had to conduct research was just the other day. As a Christmas present I was supposed to pick a pair of shoes I liked and my Grandma was going to get them for me. When Christmas came around I could not find a pair I liked so I waited hoping something new would come out. Just last week I was sitting in my Maths 132 class and I noticed a brand of shoe I hadn’t even taken into consideration. When I got home from...
Words: 513 - Pages: 3
...finds it repulsive and thinks she will never have sex. Dolores father decides to have an in ground pool put in which prompts a fight between her parents. He hits his wife and let her parakeet go. He tells Dolores that what happens in the house stays in the house, she's not to tell anyone else. She soon learns that her parents are getting a divorced. Her mother has a mental breakdown and goes into the physic ward. Dolores gets sent to live with her strict catholic grandmother in Rhode Island. Dolores and her grandmother are cautiously polite, both remembering Dolores' outburst about hating her grandmother. While Dolores hates school, she makes an unlikely friend in Roberta, the woman who runs a tattoo parlor across the street from Dolores' grandma....
Words: 4819 - Pages: 20
...For many years, African Americans have been stripped of their rights and humanity. However, one thing that cannot be taken away from them is their history - one of unbearable struggles and unique beauties. Unfortunately, as time progresses, some African Americans lose sight of their heritage while others hold onto it with dear life. In the case of Dee and Maggie, from the Alice Walker’s Everyday Use, Dee loses sight of her true heritage trying to conform to the telegraphic past of idealized Africa, while Maggie holds on to her heritage by remaining true to her immediate past. The short story begins with Dee coming home from college. Now, she is more informed about her heritage and beginning to conform to an image to fit the African culture....
Words: 767 - Pages: 4
...http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ass/article/view/9561/8076 Abstract Reading involves an interactive process in which the reader actively produces meaning through a set of mental processes. There is obviously an ongoing interaction between the reader and the text. Critical reading is related to thinking and that is why we cannot read without thinking. Critical reading involves the following skills: predicting, acknowledging, comparing, evaluating and decision-making. Schemata can be seen as the organized background knowledge, which leads the reader to expect and predict aspects in their interpretation of discourse. Keywords: Interactive, Critical, Reading, Thinking, Skills, Interpretation, Discourse Introduction Reading is a sophisticated activity, which includes psychological, linguistic, and sociological aspects. It is an interactive process between a reader and text. The process of reading involves constructing meaning among the parts of the text and between the text and readers' personal experience. The reader takes the text and gives it meaning. Both reader and writer use background knowledge to construct a text. Carrel (1987) talks about reading as an interactive process between the reader and the text. Meaning does not just reside in the text; it is rather constructed out of the interaction between a reader's background knowledge and what is in the text. Schemata and critical thinking perform an elaborative function in comprehension when we use our knowledge...
Words: 2901 - Pages: 12
...Although that was true, my town borders a very impoverished area, along with my college town that is very much the same. Seeing it every day around, but still having to do nothing about it leads one to be complacent with their self. As time has gone on, I have seen more and more different scenarios of this poverty that pollutes the world. The more I have grown in age has made me realize that I never know the luck I will receive in life. Because of this thought always being in the back of my head, it makes me always count my blessings I receive day in and day out and not take them for granted. For example, Jo Goodwin’s really makes me reevaluate the essentials I receive every day with no effort involved. As she describes in her essay, these bare essentials, such as food and health care, were not at her convenience like they are for myself being a blue collared citizen. Realizing that can be me any day from here on out just because of some type of bad luck hits me hard everyday. Doing everything for my family, as did the narrator in the essay, is something stays with me everyday as well. Family are the ones that are there for you at all times and her dependents, that are her kids, are there for her even though they can not physically do much for their situation. At this point in my life living only with my grandma, we take care of each other in any...
Words: 792 - Pages: 4
...Cause and Effect Essay My Grandmother Effect To be honest with you my Grandmother had an effect on my life starting the day I was born. To explain that I will take you back to that day. It was 9:45am on April 9th, 1985 when the doctor came in and told my parents that the small hole in the Bicuspid valve in my heart had not closed before birth. They also explained that they were going to rush me to surgery to try to fix the hole. So here is when Grandma saved the day. My dad went to the waiting room to get my Grandmother for my mom, but to his surprise when he walked in to see a nurse and doctor kneeling on the floor over my grandmother. My Grandmother had a heart attack at the moment they took me in surgery. They took my grandmother back to see what they could do. I was still in surgery at the time. Finally the moment it happened was when they came in to tell my mom that the hole in my valve was completely repaired and to give her the news that her mother had passed away due to a heart attack. It was a devastating day, but that day was the day my grandmother gave her heart for mine. Now moving on my Grandmother still to this day she still has an effect on me. At the age of 6 I wanted to become a Cardiologist. I started reading books the pertained to every aspect of the heart. I got to the point where it became a passion. I could recite every part of the heart, and even the blood flow through the heart. Now I am in college to be a Certified Medical Assistant, and a Cardiographic...
Words: 366 - Pages: 2
...school? Were you homeschooled? Did you go to a charter school? A magnet school? Maybe a private school? Or did you perhaps attend an online school? If you spent your school days with the luxury of being online schooled, then you were a very lucky student. In this day and age of technology, many colleges now offer a wide variety of online classes in addition to the large number of online schools. This relatively recent, widespread development opens countless windows of opportunity for dual enrollment, college and university students. Among many other features, choosing to take your classes online gives you an incredible amount of flexibility. If you have a job or kids, being able to do your assignments whenever you can, or whenever you, want can be invaluable. Unlike traditional classes, online you don’t have to worry about getting to school on time and missing your math teacher’s Wednesday pop-quizzes, or failing your literature class because you couldn’t finish that research paper by the due date. Online classes give you the flexibility to work at your own pace and on your own time. The boss says that you can’t afford to miss your 6am to 5pm shift today, even though your essay on global warming (Which you haven’t even started) is due at 1pm the...
Words: 842 - Pages: 4
...and negative effects computers have had on your personal, professional, and academic life. Create a one-page list of your ideas. Thesis: Based on your brainstorming, write a one-sentence working thesis statement that focuses on the impact of computers related to a single area of your life (personal, professional, or academic). The thesis should be one you could develop into an essay of about one page (250-300 words), directed to readers of your local newspaper. Don't draft the essay in your journal, however. You need only your list from brainstorming and your working thesis statement. REQUIRED JOURNAL ENTRY 3: DRAFTING This entry builds on the brainstorming and thesis you developed for Journal Entry 2. Evidence: Identify three different types of evidence you could use to develop your working thesis from Entry 2. Use specific information from your brainstorming list, as well as any other ideas that come to you. (Length open) REQUIRED JOURNAL ENTRY 4: REVISING This journal entry requires you to review the rough draft of the essay below. Analyze the draft according to each of the areas listed, identifying what needs revision. For each area, explain why and how you would change the draft. (4 para-...
Words: 1897 - Pages: 8
...CHAP TER Rhetorical Modes 1. NARRATION L E A R N I N G O B J E C T I V E S 10 1. Identify the purpose and structure of narrative writing. 2. Recognize how to write a narrative essay. Rhetorical modes simply mean the ways in which we can effectively communicate through language. This chapter covers nine common rhetorical modes. As you read about these nine modes, keep in mind that the rhetorical mode a writer chooses depends on his or her purpose for writing. Sometimes writers incorporate a variety of modes in one essay. In covering the nine rhetorical modes, this chapter also emphasizes these as a set of tools that will allow you greater flexibility and effectiveness in communicating with your audience and expressing your ideas. rhetorical modes The ways in which we effectively communicate through language. 1.1 The Purpose of Narrative Writing Narration means the art of storytelling, and the purpose of narrative writing is to tell stories. Any time you tell a story to a friend or family member about an event or incident in your day, you engage in a form of narration. In addition, a narrative can be factual or fictional. A factual story is one that is based on, and tries to be faithful to, actual events as they unfolded in real life. A fictional story is a made-up, or imagined, story; the writer of a fictional story can create characters and events as he or she sees fit. However, the big distinction between factual and fictional narratives is based on a writer’s purpose...
Words: 14947 - Pages: 60
...Essay #1 Cause and Effect Sarah C. Powers Stautzenberger GEN 090 English Skills and Development Ms. Constance Plungus October 31, 2011 The loss of my mother was devastating and tragic. In 1998, my mother suffered from a brain aneurism that burst. I was 17 yrs old, and lost my best friend. Mom was strong willed and humorous. She finished college on the deans list, and raised four children by her self. She was the matriarch of my family, She was a great woman who cared for humanity. Sadly she also suffered the disease of addiction. Unfortunately that series of events left my poor mother in a nursing home not able to care for her self. Physically she is here, mentally she is not. The loss of my mom brought broken hearts, lost souls and God willing the dawn of a new day. My experience with addiction is that is can be life threatening. In my family alone, I have lost two aunt’s and a mother due to addiction. Before it took their lives, it changed their whole perspective on life. For example, my mother was always loving and compassionate. As an addict she was mean and hateful. The disease of addiction can and will take everything from you and your family. I lost the person who taught me how to be strong and proud no matter what the situation. My mother was an honorable woman and I suffered a dear loss. Addiction is fatal. There are many effects to the person who is an addict. Relationships with family and friends will...
Words: 1059 - Pages: 5
...Compare and Contrast the Literary Work “The Welcome Table” VS “ Country Lovers” “The Racial Conflicts And Discrimination In The Welcome Table And Country Lovers” Katie McWilliams Instructor: Heather Peerboom 10/30/2014 Introduction I chosen to compare and contrast the literary works, “country Lovers” by Nadine Gordimer and “The Welcome Table” by Alice Walker, the theme being race / ethnicity. Theme: “The Racial Conflict and Discrimination In The Welcome Table And Country Lovers.” I want to explore the difference lives’ of these two woman was face with, and the way the narrator made me feel while I was reading the story of two black woman. Two strong black women that face all types of problems life had to offer them. These two stories shows feeling, pain, hate, and disappointments in Country Lovers and The Welcome Table. Both of these women had to struggled with their emotions and all they had to go through. Both stories are told in third person omniscient point of view, you can tell by the way the narrator describe the characters and how they’re feeling in both story. “The Welcome Table,” the old woman had her faith to guide her. To carrier her through the hard times. All she wanted was just to attend church. There is a rascal tension centered on both of these stories, in “Country Lovers” the black woman in this story was a pretty black woman fell in love with someone she grow up with a white man, she had a baby for him...
Words: 1987 - Pages: 8
...really close or not, I could still call him on the spot. Not only was he there for the bad days, but for the good ones, always, I can’t say we’ve always been on the same track, but my brother’s always got my back. I could be in any sort of jam some as thick as tar, still he would never be that far. We used to fight all the time when we were young, then, well then I pierced my tongue. That’s when he went away, he’s never even come back for like a day. It’s okay now I don’t mind, because my brother I can always find. I love him more then a lot things, and it’s not only because we’re siblings. Where ever he is I still see his face, he’s my one and only brother, I love you Ace. Bibliography: Personal Essay My name is Annie Chapman and I am sixteen years old. I started my life in 1983, in Los Angeles, actually in a suburb called Culver City. From the hospital I moved into a house on Lucerne Ave with my father Alan Berftman, my mother Mary Lee Chapman, and my older brother by four years, Ace. I spent just short of ten years in that same house. While I lived in Culver City I attended a Spanish emersion elementary school called El Rinclon. There I learned to speak Spanish as a second language. A month before my tenth birthday my parents decided to move to the small town of Little Stone. They took ownership of an old hotel called the Winnemucckah. So into the Winnemucckah we moved. I began third grade at the local school called Oten...
Words: 1082 - Pages: 5
...Untraditional Families Naomi Gerstel and Natalia Sarksian have shed new light on the subject of minority families and their differences to the traditional nuclear families in their essay, “The Color of Family Ties.” According to their work, those of White descent make up most of all nuclear families which can be described as a father, mother and children all living in one household. Gerstel and Sarkasian point out that it is not always the case that, “Black and Latino/a, especially Puerto Rican families are more disorganized than White families, and that their families ties are weaker,” as they are often thought of by those in politics or the media (62). In fact Gerstel and Sarkasian write, “Blacks and Latinos/as, are as likely as Whites-and in some ways more likely-to be supportive family members” (63). This is evident in Roger Jack’s “An Indian Story” and Melvin Dixon’s poem, “Aunt Ida Pieces a Quilt.” Both these writings exhibit great examples of minority, untraditional families with very strong ties and supportive relationships and yet it is arguable that one family is lacking in kinship. “An Indian Story” by Roger Jack is a story a young boy who many refer to as Jack and his nonnuclear family. When Jack is just a young boy his mother dies then his father remarries and starts a new family, which makes the boy uncomfortable with his living situation so he decides to go live with his late mother’s sister, Aunt Greta. It is apparent that even before he decided to move with...
Words: 1546 - Pages: 7
