Essay About Grandmother

nurses are commanded to show love to their patients. Having experienced illness constantly in my life with my Grandmother Maria, I was inspired to pursue a nursing career, in which, I am going to dedicate my time giving love to people in their most vulnerable A long time ago, I lived in El Salvador, Central America. In El Salvador, I was surrounded by poverty and illness. My Grandmother Maria at that time was 66 years old and was diagnosed with arthritis, hypertension and elevated…

Summer Storm at Grandma’s When I was a child I had one of the most terrifying experiences of my childhood. It was summer and I enjoyed spending the summer with my grandma. The summer had been a hot summer in Texas which led to evening thunderstorms. Normally the storms stayed to the south and east of the small town she lived in, but this particular night they did not. I was eight years old and was staying with my seventy-four year old grandma. Watching the weather, I saw a tornado warning for…

muscular men such as bodybuilders, policemen, or firefighters. However, strength is more than a physical attribute, its other definition from Webster’s dictionary is “Able to withstand great force or pressure.” Nothing brings this to mind more than my grandmother Barbara Allen. Her life was one of the hardest lives to live. Through all of her life she taught me how to be persistent. To press on through life’s many struggles. Then she taught me how to let go of negative people, ones who do not…

or feminine. Sex is the biological traits that we were first born with such as being a male or female. At a young age, Jane’s grandmother, Alba Villanueva demonstrated the importance of her virginity by crushing a flower in her hands and telling Jane to make it to its original form. Jane realized she could not make the flower go back to its original form. Her grandmother told her once she has sexual intercourse, she will no longer be the same. She instilled the idea that staying abstinent until…

portray any sympathy. Bailey, the grandmother's son, doesn’t show any sympathy toward his family when they were in the woods. He yelled “[h]ush! Everybody shut up…” (O'Connor 306) at his family, which showed he had no sympathy for their feelings. The grandmother, one of the main characters in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, displays herself as a good Christian woman. However, at the end of the story she didn’t depict any characteristics of sympathy, instead she showed that she was an egotistical…

hot summer morning. “Get to work!” shouted Mrs. Scott in a very serious tone. Mrs. Scott is my grandmother, a very caring woman who is all about intellect. Every summer, she would set up chairs, tables, and a portable chalkboard in her backyard for my siblings, my cousins and I to make sure we were taught to the best of our abilities. Summers with my grandmother was a hassle. She is a grandmother of six grandchildren, a Christian who is very dedicated to church, and a sixth-grade teacher of…

lectures during her time about what she was able to discover about the human body. With Margaret Mead’s exploration of human development, she impacted later scientific encounters in the areas of child development. She became known as “everyone’s grandmother” before her death occurred. With her research she progressed the growth of children by defining the differences between girls and boys, that their lives should be less problematic and have a stronger sexual progression period, and that…

Remember Memories. Memories are the good and bad moments we remember about people, places, or events. My granny, Margie Sheridan, was a wonderful woman. She was a loving mother and grandmother who always went to church and helped anyone. My mother gave birth to me at a young age and I remember my granny always being there for her and me. As a young child, I practically grew up at “Granny’s House.” She was such a big deal in my life and my life would not be what it is now without her.…

My great grandmother had two kids, my grandma Jenny and my great uncle Teddy. The family lived on a single income from the farm. Ma was a stay at home mom, and her husband besides the farm work, was a stay at home dad. Even though it was in the 1950’s, Ma and Pa shared equal house work, equal child care, and equal farm work. My grandma on the other hand, married my grandpa and had three kids, two of which were hers and one was her step child. Grandpa and Mamaw had very different gender…

In Gish Jen’s “Who's Irish” short story the author tells the conflict of a Chinese grandmother and her struggle to accept other cultures different from her own. In this short story, the character that stood out the most is the grandmother. Her character was built based on how she was raised back in China. The short story “Who’s Irish” reminds me of my father who’s just like the grandmother, he wants me to be raised in African culture. In his mind I should know how to cook African food in order…