My grandmother, whom I call Bubbie, was born on June 2nd, 1937 in the neighborhood of Harlem in New York City. She was the first generation native born in the United States in her family, her parents being from Hungary and Slovakia. Bubbie had a 6 year old sister and a 10 year old brother as siblings, born the youngest of 3 children. With the Great Depression underlying life in the U.S. and the world during the 1930’s, there were some negative effects this period had on Bubbie’s life. When she was only 1 year old, her sister, 7 years old at the time, died from diphtheria. Bubbie asserted to me that if penicillin had existed at that time, it would’ve saved her sister’s life. Perhaps the events during this period caused neglect in certain areas
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This must have been a very interesting and unique way to experience these school years, especially considering the period effects of this time. These were the years of World War II, so being surrounded by such a wide range of ages, and people with differing wartime experiences within their families, likely had various influences on each individual and interactions between students at this school. In addition, these experiences of mutual influence may have lasted beyond this war and affected the way Bubbie and other students thought about and reacted to coming wars, as well as other social or political movements in the …show more content…
She came to this conclusion when she was performing Bach with her best friend for a women’s club. She lost her place among the complicated, fast changing notes and rhythms so she stopped and waited to join in again at the beginning of the next section of the piece. Her best subject and grades were in science, so her father suggested pharmacy as a profession after he suggested she should be a type-writer and not go to college. At this time in history, women did not mostly go to college and they resumed stereotypical gender roles as house wives and mothers who married rich men for support. However, my Bubbie wanted to go to college because she felt that times were changing, and she wanted to learn and have her own greater purpose in life than the typical woman in the U.S. Bubbie’s brother helped convince their father to let her go to college to explore her future life course
This must have been a very interesting and unique way to experience these school years, especially considering the period effects of this time. These were the years of World War II, so being surrounded by such a wide range of ages, and people with differing wartime experiences within their families, likely had various influences on each individual and interactions between students at this school. In addition, these experiences of mutual influence may have lasted beyond this war and affected the way Bubbie and other students thought about and reacted to coming wars, as well as other social or political movements in the …show more content…
She came to this conclusion when she was performing Bach with her best friend for a women’s club. She lost her place among the complicated, fast changing notes and rhythms so she stopped and waited to join in again at the beginning of the next section of the piece. Her best subject and grades were in science, so her father suggested pharmacy as a profession after he suggested she should be a type-writer and not go to college. At this time in history, women did not mostly go to college and they resumed stereotypical gender roles as house wives and mothers who married rich men for support. However, my Bubbie wanted to go to college because she felt that times were changing, and she wanted to learn and have her own greater purpose in life than the typical woman in the U.S. Bubbie’s brother helped convince their father to let her go to college to explore her future life course