...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...
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...The grandmother in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” appears to act as she is superior to everyone in knowledge and everyday life. She believes her way is the right way and the only way things should be done. The grandmother comes across as a truly selfish, manipulative, degrading individual, with a slightly dry humor and caring side. Throughout the story these qualities are demonstrated. Character qualities are apparent from the beginning of the story written by Flannery O’Connor. Selfishness is one of the first apparent qualities from the story describing the grandmother’s character. The grandmother is living with her only son Bailey and his family. The reasons are unclear, and the story does not indicate the reasoning behind...
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...This past weekend I volunteered for my Grandma. I was really hesitant in doing this because whenever she wants help with something it's usually something that she can’t do herself like move her sofa or rearrange all her big furniture which is extremely hard on me but I do it because that's the kind of things you do when you love someone. I can kind of understand why Jem and Scout didn’t want to help out Mrs. Dubose but at the end of volunteering I think I ended up getting to know my Grandma a bit more just like Jem and Scout got to know Mrs. Dubose. It was Saturday night and my Grandma got off at 8 so when she got off she picked me up from my friends house and took me to her job. She works at Kansas Christian Home and on Sunday it was Mothers...
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...PER REPORTER: Debra said she received a call today from her granddaughter’s maternal grandmother (Debbie) that concerned her. According to Debbie, Tiani left home Friday after telling her mother (Terria) that she was going to stay with her godmother for the weekend. Debbie told Debra that the child’s mother never confirmed that her godmother was actually coming to get her. Debbie also told Debra that Tiani had one of her mother’s friends to drop her off where she was meeting her godmother. However, Debra said apparently Tiani had someone else to pick her. Debra also mentioned that Debbie told her that Tiani did not return home until Monday. She said Debbie said when the child pulled up a boy in a dark car with tented windows dropped the child...
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...In Flannery O’Connor’s short story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” two main characters are developed, the grandmother and the Misfit. The two are contrasting characters based on their image of salvation, but they are similar with how they both are ultimately changed by God’s grace. To begin, the grandmother is one very interesting grandmother. She really isn’t the stereotypical grandmother one might depict. For the majority of the story, the grandmother has a hard time encountering God. It is obvious the grandmother believes she is high class and superior. For example, the grandmother pleads for her life to the Misfit with the words, “‘I know you’re a good man. You don’t look a bit like you have common blood. I know you must come from nice people,’” (O’Connor 127). This exclamation from the grandmother shows her hierarchal belief that she is on top of the social class structure. Furthermore, by suggesting the Misfit must come from good people, it implies she thinks she is a good person as well. Because of this mindset and her high self-esteem, the grandmother thinks she will be saved by God. This attitude blocks her from encountering God, because she doesn’t think she needs to do...
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...My grandmothers house has a special place in my heart. I lived with my grandmother for many years when I was little. Her house always seemed to have something about it that set it apart from any other house. As you walk into the front door of her house you notice a long, slim stairway that led up into the main hallway of the house. The strong smell of cigarette smoke is pretty evident when you reach this hallway. Yes, my grandmother did smoke. My grandmother's house was always full of laughter and tons of smiles. Our family used to call it mom's house. There was always someone over her house visiting. My grandmother's doors were always open no matter what. When my grandmother had company she would mute the television and start the coffee. My grandmother always sat in the kitchen of her house. This is where she would drink her hot black coffee with no sugar and smoke her Winston light 100's. She would sometimes sit in her kitchen for hours and watch the birds and squirrels. She would crumble up some toast and feed it to them by tossing it on her sidewalk. In the summer time my grandmother would sit out on the front porch for hours and talk to any and everyone about everything imaginable. The front porch was a place for everyone to sit and relax in the warm sun. She was always very active in many thing like Veterans Auxiliary, making quilts, cooking, sewing, etc., but always had time for the...
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...Flannery O’Connor is considered one of the best short story authors of the 20th century. She was born in Savannah, Georgia and grew up in a catholic family. She wrote mostly about religious themes and southern life. "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor is a short story that portrays the vacation of a grandmother, her only son Bailey and his wife, and their two bratty children, June Star and John Wesley. The Grandmother, who didn’t want to take a vacation to Florida because she had read about a crazed assassin by the name of the Misfit who has escaped from the Federal Penitentiary, and who was on the run and heading for Florida. She even sort of predicts her own death “In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady”. In this essay I analyze the relationship between the grandmother and...
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...My Dear Grandmother | | My grandmother is a very special person to me. She is now 71-year-old, but she is hale and hearty. She has almost no eyebrows but she has big eyes with double eye. She stands some 1.6 meters high, not very tall, but is always spirited. She is always wearing smiles even when she is actually sad. She has taught me a lot of valuable things in life. When she was young, she lived a wretched life, like a poor princess in fairy tales: her mother died when she was only 3-year-old; soon, she got a stepmother, who treated her badly. But she was very brave. She never cried and finished all the work given to her. She became very laborious and now she is still hardworking to enable all her children to live better. It also contributes to her health. She is always in good condition. She drives our families to struggle. She is very generous and self-giving. She always gives the better to others and leaves the worse behind. One day, she was in a factory and it was lunchtime. She bought some cookies. When she knew a stranger was very hungry, she shared the food with him. She often spares our favorite food to us pretending she doesn’t like it. She has a vivid personality. To those who treat her kindly, she will return her thanks. To those who want to ruin her, she will try her best to prove herself. But when they are in trouble, she chooses to return good for evil. I love my grandmother, from the bottom of my...
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...of Menopause and the Grandmother Hypothesis Throughout the natural world trade-offs between reproductive success and longevity have been noted by scientists for many years. Most wild animals remain fertile until death, as do human males, and although human males do become less fertile with age, they in general experience no complete shutdown of fertility. Men as old as the age of 94 have been noted to father children (Diamond, 1996). The situation for human women is strikingly different. They undergo menopause, the permanent cessation of menstruation, by the time they are in their mid fifties (Lahdenpera et al., 2004). In fact, natural conception after the age of 50 is extremely rare. Menopause has become quite the evolutionary puzzle for modern scientists because natural selection favors increased reproduction, therefore increasing one’s own fitness. The essence of natural selection is that it promotes genes for traits that increase an animal’s number of descendents bearing those genes. Thus, the great question is: How could natural selection result in every female member of a species carrying genes that destroy her ability to leave more descendents? Many theories on the evolution of menopause have arisen in the past 50 years in an attempt to answer this question but they all also have key assumptions and limitations. Proponents of the Grandmother Hypothesis believe that their theory holds the greatest promise to answer this question. The Grandmother Hypothesis is meant to...
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...parents and sister. As exhausted as I was after a gruesome time at practice it was time for me to go to bed. Within three minutes I had my pajamas on and was tucked in bed. After what seemed like 15 minutes, I finally dozed off into a deep sleep. About every two week we traveled from North Carolina to South Carolina to visit and take care of my grandmother. My grandma is about 70 years old now and is practically unable to care for herself like she used to, so all six of her children took turns to help take care of her. At this point of time my sister and I were not in school so it was very convenient when it was my mom’s turn to take care of her mom. Finally, after a long three hour drive in a car we arrived at my grandma’s house. My mom, sister, and I hopped out of the car, grabbed our suitcases, and walked inside to see my grandmother on her recliner watching our favorite show, WWE. This was something my grandma and I had always bonded over. So after I sat my suitcase in the room, I went to the living room where she was sitting to watch television with her. Eventually, day started to turn into night so my sister and I helped my grandmother to bed because she was heavyset and sometimes refused to walk. My mom keeps telling her to walk because if she did not it was...
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...Rafaela and Esperanza‘s great-grandmother share a couple of similarities. The main one is that they both spent all of their time staring out of a window, never able to actually go outside. A quote from the book is as follows: "Rafaela leans out the window and leans on her elbow and dreams her hair is like Rapunzel‘s. On the corner there is music from the bar, and Rafaela wishes she could go there and dance before she gets old." Rafaela feels like her life is passing her by. She wants to be able to go out and enjoy herself, but she can‘t because of her husband. Esperanza‘s great-grandmother was in a similar situation. She got married, even though she didn‘t want to, and her husband forced her to stay inside. She would always look sadly out of...
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...Hello, the name’s Sol I’m a Cat and me and my friend his name is Dan are going to Texas to meet his Grandma Rose. We’re in his car ( I’ve never liked cars they give out a lot of smoke a bird I knew almost died and he tasted really bad ) it’s a blue striped car with red wheels. 1 HOUR LATER We’re there finally, I could’ve sworn I was in there for a Year. At least I see the oldies house I mean the grandma’s house. On that thought while we were driving I saw a Factory dumping stuff in Fin lake I wonder Why. Dan parked the car on her driveway I waited for him to carry me out he’s really nice he always does this. Ahhh her home is so nice and have I told you about her belly rubs there to die for. Her cooking not so much scratch that it’s horrible I tried to let her know one time with a not so exaggerated horrified expression and the look she sent could scare the devil. Anyway, I’m gonna go to sleep good night. The Next Day The FIRST THING I see when I wake up is a face that will fill you with horror and make you puke your spine blagh Nah I'm just joking I woke up a few hours ago. Now me, Dan, and Oldie I mean Rose are going to Fin Lake it’s 30 minutes from where we are we're probably going to have met my old nemesis el diablo the blue striped being with red horns who’s also a car NOOOOOOOOO. 1 HOUR LATER I barely escaped the thing known as C A R even the name scares me Nah I'm joking ( I never Joke with cars) is it I or the lake has less food I mean fish but it’s my afternoon...
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...worst way possible due to the death from her loved ones. She lost her parents and most importantly her grandmother. Mikages grandmother meant everything to her and happens to pass away. After the outcome of her grandmothers death, she has changed Mikage entirely depressed for a very long time. Throughout the introduction of the book, Mikage felt lonely and frightened. She, as an individual figured out a way to relax and to think about the memories that she had with her grandmother. Sleeping in the kitchen would help her concentrate many aspects of life since Mikage and her grandmother would always spend time with each other. The author defines the feelings and the emotions that Mikage was witnessing....
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...The death of my grandmother really changed my life. The feeling of being alone really breaks my heart knowing that my grandmother left from this world. I lost my grandmother and this experience shattered my perspective of life. Losing a loved one is like having your wisdom tooth pulled without any anesthesia. My grandmother passed when I was twelve years old, emotions such as shock, anger, and guilt came into me. However when I try to think about her death in my mind, yet unable to completely think about the sadness. These feelings can be frightening and overwhelming, however I learned to cope with the fact that death is going to happened either way. Each individual has someone in their lives who makes a positive impact in them, even after they are gone. Following the death of my beloved grandmother’s, my perspective on life has greatly changed. My grandmother’s dream was to see me graduate from college . Unfortunately for her, she only made it half way. To this day, I'm still here trying to complete my college education. Being raised in a strict, family oriented background helped me succeed throughout t my life. She raised me same way she was brought up, and for that I am appreciative. There’s always one experience in life that either makes you or breaks you, and having my son has definitely made me who I am. Before I had my son Jayvee, my life was was completely different but now everything has changed for the better. I’ve...
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...continue to disproportionately challenge Native youth and communities, including addiction, early parenthood, and high unemployment. Within the sacred confines of the traditionally constructed log building that serves as the college’s cultural learning center, dozens of visitors gathered together for an awe-inspiring, uplifting, and at times hypnotic, four-hour invocation that preceded the workshops that would begin later that afternoon, to continue on until the end of the following day. The theme for the gathering was “Planting Seeds for Seven Generations” and featured Grandmothers Flordemayo and Rita Pitka Blumenstein, both from The International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers, along with two Lummi matriarchs who were there to be honored for their contributions to community, and to share their wisdom, stories, and hopes for the future of their tribe. The International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers began as a response to both human and global destruction, and was officially convened in 2004 after much prayer and discernment brought the 13 women...
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