Essay on Importance of Grandparents

My cultural heritage is based on my great grandparents’ history. My paternal grandfather was from Ireland, and my grandmother from Italy. My maternal grandmother was from Spain, and grandfather from Germany. It is such a coincidence that they were all from very different cultural backgrounds, but love saw past all their differences and put them together. Part of the customs and traditions which we practiced during the holiday included dancing the tango during holidays; shown to us by some aunts…

school, and dealing with the pressure of ACT’s, and college applications. It was the fourth week of November when my brother and I had school off because of thanksgiving break. The plan for those few days off were to head up to Geneva to visit my grandparents since we hadn’t seen them in a while because school…

“Huelga! Huelga! Huelga!” grandma screamed alongside Cesar Chavez and hundreds of other protesters outside the Delano, California vineyards. The rays of the burning sun, searing their skin were the least of their concerns. Protesters were there to proclaim justice for all the farm workers that had been denied the right for proper working conditions in the fields. Bertha Silva came from a Mexican decedent, her parents moved to Delano, California when she was the age of 11. Soon after arriving,…

The mom stopped scolding the toddler for chewing on the walls when she noticed that the toddler had discovered a book typed into the wallpaper. Who had put it there? And what story did it tell? The mother was stunned when she looked at the wallpaper. As she started to peel back the wallpaper, pages and pages were revealed. After all the pages were retrieved and the walls were bare she started to take a closer look at the pages. She found out that the pages were out of order so she…

an eight year old. I was raised by my grandparents because my parents didn 't have a steady life for they were young when I was born. So my mum worked and was in college and for my dad he continued to work a job that required traveling. I had already began to know my grandparents as my parents by the time my birth parents were well off. So they continued to let me know them as sister and uncle. My first everything were what I had shared with my grandparents and everything seemed perfect.…

My heritage is one of mixed roots as many American families now are. The family gene pool is pulled from a variety of different ethnicities including Choctaw Indian, Irish and German. When America was formed the Irish were viewed as lower class and poor and this limited the work they were permitted to perform. My great, great, grandfather, who was Irish and German, married a Choctaw Indian lady when he was only 22 years old and has been in the country for only a short amount of time. The…

of some pretty nasty ‘witch hunting’. Seems silly to look back now and realise that the chances of non magical people actually catching a Sorcerer and then actually managing to make them stand trial were so slim. ### Insert pic ### My Great Grandparents had an especially nasty experience in 1730 when Malora was cornered by Mortals throwing stones at her. She had made a name for herself as the town healer. At first the town had been grateful for her help but eventually her home remedies…

can be until until September 18th, 2010. My great grandfather had a stroke in his shower and luckily survived. The only catch to his survival was that the right side of his body was paralyzed. Most people would not think too much about a great grandparent passing away because it is a little bit expected to die at the age of ninety four, but none the less it crushed me. As a young thirteen year old I had never truly experienced a death of a loved one. My life had always been pretty easy until…

Jennie Mae Allen is my grandmother, my mother’s mother. When I go to see my grandparents in North Carolina my grandmother she has a; great spirit, big on her Christian faith and despite her health challenges has amazing grit. My grandparents raised three children my mom being the eldest, my Uncle James and the youngest my Uncle Tony. The oldest, my mom, has three children me being the oldest, my middle sister who is fifteen Mya and my youngest sisters Michaela who is six. My Uncle James has…

CHAPTER ONE Rickety Knees “Two decrepit trolls sipping ice tea on the seashore in their underwear stood and peered at me through the palm fronds,” Gramps told me. I gasped—shocked. Though I shouldn’t have been. I knew growing up, that Grandpa Greene was the most fascinating man breathing. He had crossed oceans with pirates and deserts on dragons, spoke at least four different languages including elfish, tinkered with magic a bit and practiced sword fighting with a gnome. “So what you do?”…