Name your favorite books, authors, films, and/or artists. (50 word limit) My favorite book is Niccolò Machiavelli 's The Prince. Originally, this was a reading assignment, but I read the book out of personal interest. The author introduced me to rhetorical devices such as logos. Also, the author kick started my interest in society and politics. Words entered: 44 What newspapers, magazines, and/or websites do you enjoy? (50 word limit) A magazine I enjoy is Discover Magazine. This is what keeps…
My next topic of discussion was my interviewee’s marital status. When I asked her, her answer to me was that she was sepeated from her husband. Mary then went on to explain to me that her and her husband separated the week after their daughter Anna got married. I asked her why now, 50 years later, haven’t gotten a divorce? Her answer to me what that there was no need to, because they still remain on good terms and talk, they just realized they weren’t for each other. They both remain alone, he…
my religious heritage, religious traditions that we celebrate, how I practice and understand religion today, and how I understand my life. Both of my parents are Lutheran just like their parents before them. On my mom’s side, her grandparents, so my great-grandparents, still go to this old country church in the middle of nowhere. Right next to the church there sits a cemetery. Having the cemetery right next to the church would make it easy to see loved ones that have passed away after going to…
While looking through the family tree, Marlee and I found out the names of our great grandparents, as well as our great great grandparents. Our great grandparents on my grandfather side we already knew a little bit about. Their names were Leo and Anna Schneider. Leo and Anna had 11 children, 6 boys, and 5 girls. All 11 children went on to get married and have children. Because…
My Culture as an African American African American culture is so diverse, it is combined with so many different things like original African culture fused with slavery, oppression, poverty, the struggle, success, and things alike. African Americans have richly impacted the American culture. Although Africans were stolen from their homeland and brought to America as slaves, despite the cruel and unjust treatment blacks still brought a lot of influence in the ways of; entertainment, food,…
to know more about my journey in searching my family heritage read on. To begin with genealogists search for information about their family heritage. I began searching after I did a family tree and talked to my parents about their grandparents and great grandparents. Then Mrs. Michaelson brought…
Staring below, to the deepest ends of the sea, she notes how “[i]t evokes a terrifying, humbling, primal fear” (Knisley 99). This fear of the unknown parallels with the fear of death as she realizes the limited time she has with her grandparents, disabling her from repressing the idea of death. As Nelson explains “self-esteem becomes an anxiety buffer in that it helps people deny their mortality” (Nelson 214). However, for Lucy her self-esteem drops during the trip to the crushing stress of…
grandma has died and I don’t know why they had to die they were just normal people. The last time I had seen both my grandparents alive they were just fine but when my grandpa died my parents said that he went to heaven and then the same when my grandma had died. Ashley the granddaughter: I really wish people could live forever however that just simply can’t happen. All of my grandparents have passed away. Sometimes I don’t understand why they had to die either. However, my grandma and grandpa…
gratitude that was ingrained in me had started: our heritage. My great-grandparents were immigrants who had to abandon their home country of Austria during the Holocaust. In America, they had to start over, and learned to value family, community, and love of others more than the material items they had left behind. My grandparents, too, valued hard work, family, and giving back above all else. Today, thanks to my grandparents and parents’ strong values, I have discovered that giving back has…
which is an important and valuable trait to have. If we don’t have a sense of who we are and where we came from, then we can’t function as individuals and feel very lost. Almost all of my grandparents are living and have been involved with my life and development as a young woman. However, my great-grandparents were never a part of my life and unfortunately passed away before my birth. On my Mother’s side my Great- Grandmother…