In Search of My Family’s and My Garden
In her piece “In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens” Alice Walker discusses how black women in America during the period of slavery were miraculously able to get lost in their own forms of art. These women did not have a room of their own or money, as Virginia Wolfe deems necessary for the creation of art. Black women at the time did not even own themselves. Through stories of Walker’s mother, Walker comes to realize that her mother who worked on the fields all-day and tended to the family before and after work actually was an artist. She points out that her mother was “radiant, almost to the point of being invisible” when she was working in her garden (241). Walker believes that this artistry and creative …show more content…
My grandmother is one of the few people on this earth who still goes to her local drug or grocery store to have her pictures developed. She seems to have object permanence issues with pictures and does not trust the multiple external hard drives that we have purchased her to store her photos digitally. She has been taking pictures of me, quite literally since I took my first breath. She converted one of the spare bedrooms in her home to a room solely dedicated to bookshelves that store my two brothers, my father and my album. She has multiple binders filled with double-sided picture insert pages of me from the time I first breathed to when I wore my first pair of underwear. Her latest addition to the album is pictures of me in my off campus apartment at the University of …show more content…
I did however think back to the question I recently answered during my HPEC interview. When responding to the question of why I wanted to go to pharmacy school, I responded that I fell in love with cancer. Coming into college like most people I had no idea what cancer, one of the leading causes of death in the Unites States, actually was. Now after three years of education I have learned about cancer from multiple aspects of science. I learned that about cancer from the perspective of cell biology, molecular biology and currently biochemistry. Recently I had to give a twenty-minute presentation of a certain class of drugs that are being developed against cancer, specifically called epigenetic cancer drugs. I was provided with a primary research article by my professor and began to read the article. The article absorbed me. I could not help but read not only the long article itself, but also a large portion of the articles that were referenced in the paper itself. After multiple hours of reading and discovering the inhibition pathways of inhibiting aberrant epigenetic enzyme function, I realized that I actually had to give a presentation on this material and that I should probably begin making a PowerPoint, and narrowing the scope. It sounds weird to verbalize this, even if only in my head, but the awfully complex disease of cancer is my
In her piece “In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens” Alice Walker discusses how black women in America during the period of slavery were miraculously able to get lost in their own forms of art. These women did not have a room of their own or money, as Virginia Wolfe deems necessary for the creation of art. Black women at the time did not even own themselves. Through stories of Walker’s mother, Walker comes to realize that her mother who worked on the fields all-day and tended to the family before and after work actually was an artist. She points out that her mother was “radiant, almost to the point of being invisible” when she was working in her garden (241). Walker believes that this artistry and creative …show more content…
My grandmother is one of the few people on this earth who still goes to her local drug or grocery store to have her pictures developed. She seems to have object permanence issues with pictures and does not trust the multiple external hard drives that we have purchased her to store her photos digitally. She has been taking pictures of me, quite literally since I took my first breath. She converted one of the spare bedrooms in her home to a room solely dedicated to bookshelves that store my two brothers, my father and my album. She has multiple binders filled with double-sided picture insert pages of me from the time I first breathed to when I wore my first pair of underwear. Her latest addition to the album is pictures of me in my off campus apartment at the University of …show more content…
I did however think back to the question I recently answered during my HPEC interview. When responding to the question of why I wanted to go to pharmacy school, I responded that I fell in love with cancer. Coming into college like most people I had no idea what cancer, one of the leading causes of death in the Unites States, actually was. Now after three years of education I have learned about cancer from multiple aspects of science. I learned that about cancer from the perspective of cell biology, molecular biology and currently biochemistry. Recently I had to give a twenty-minute presentation of a certain class of drugs that are being developed against cancer, specifically called epigenetic cancer drugs. I was provided with a primary research article by my professor and began to read the article. The article absorbed me. I could not help but read not only the long article itself, but also a large portion of the articles that were referenced in the paper itself. After multiple hours of reading and discovering the inhibition pathways of inhibiting aberrant epigenetic enzyme function, I realized that I actually had to give a presentation on this material and that I should probably begin making a PowerPoint, and narrowing the scope. It sounds weird to verbalize this, even if only in my head, but the awfully complex disease of cancer is my