Autobiography Essay

My grandfather was born in Gilroy, California, in 1939. At the age of eight, my grandfather moved to a ranch near the outskirts of Gilroy, where he lived in a one room shack with his mother, brother, and step-father. For seven years, my grandfather lived in that poor shack, where he had to cover the holes in the walls with newspaper or cardboard just to keep warm during the cold winters. Years later, my grandfather decided to make something out of his life, and enrolled at San Jose City college…

I was born in Toronto into a middle-class home by two loving parents, my mother and father, and an older brother. My father was born in the Philippians, my mother was born in Montreal, and my brother was born in Texas. I am Caucasian and follow no specific cultural or religious background or beliefs. My father was a catholic and attended church regularly. I, however, was baptized in a United Church and only attended the school masses that were mandatory. My mother is an accountant at a firm in…

One of the first memories I had as a child was always being a “Daddy’s girl”. For the longest time, I remember always wanting to hold my Dad’s hand while we would walk. Sometimes, my parents would jokingly ask, “Who do you love more?” or “Who would you want to live with?” and I would automatically choose my dad. As far as I could remember as a child, my everlasting promise was wanting to take care of my dad when I was older, to cook for him, to buy him a house, and buy him all of the cars he…

3 ) Paragraph comparing the emigration experiences in Persepolis and Good Muslim Boy Religion plays a major role for both Marjane and Osamah as they both had a religion they followed. Marjane lived a more avant garde lifestyle in the safezone of Iran and Osamah lived in the Iran-Iraqi border as a poor boy. Osamah as a child spend his time under the direct effects of war and boombings, losing a family member first hand and when he moved to Iran he was treated as a lesser kid as people tended to…

It was a long summer’s evening in Colorado Springs, 1975. The air was warm and still, and Carole King’s “You’ve Got a Friend” and Rod Stewart’s “Maggie Mae” were spinning on the AM station of my friend Paul’s Earl Schrieb freshly-painted turquoise-blue Karmann Ghia. “When you’re down and troubled, and you need a helping hand…” I felt accomplished to have memorized each song and confidently sang the works out loud. Paul closely resembled Jim Croce: dark Italian skin, long chestnut curls,…

As a child around Six years old my life was inclined to Christian activities such as music/ helping others to the best of my ability’s as my parents allowed me to grow mentally at a fast rate because of their handicap(both parents were blind from birth) and I became a guide to them at the age of seven and by the age of 13 I was baptized and joined a church called gospel Baptist that guided structure to my Christianity and I can remember the first book of the Bible I started reading which was…

Curly and I worked well together and were able to handle the moving without any difficulty. The physical labor felt good, and I began to once again appreciate muscles I forgot I had. I tried staying in shape by jogging while in medical school, but my weekend attempts at physical fitness left a lot to be desired. I watched Curly's muscles flex as he loaded the furniture and equipment onto the truck. Looking at my own body, I realized the only part of my anatomy that was flexing was my flab. We…

I'm running to the woods with my pack. I see the blurs of reds, browns, and blacks of each wolf's fur and I follow. I speed up; I am Alpha and I should be leading the pack. My white paws crush the snow with each rapid step. I am in front and now we are in the woods. I slow down and the pack follows. I hear something, and my solid white fur stands on end. I take a whiff, and I smell a family of deer and another doe further in the woods. I crouch, a motion the rest of the wolves copy. Our ears…

Angela Davis: An Autobiography Better known as a prominent figure in the Black Panther Party, Angela Davis is a well known radical leftist and a member of the Communist Party USA. She was a professor at UCLA, which then California Governor Ronald Regan urged the Board of Regents of the University of California to fire her for her Communist affiliations. However, she fought them in court and it was ruled the Regents could not fire Davis solely because of her affiliations with the Communist Party.…

There were several inspirations for me in deciding to write this spiritual autobiography. These include readings from class, as well as my own desire to write through my trauma. Through the course, I have become aware of the desire to put my life into words and address the notion as to who I am and where I came from. By putting on paper all that I can remember in an organized way, and through the use of various sources, I have been able to construct a permanent story, while simultaneously…