My Grandfather Essay

My grandmother's biological father, my great grandfather, was born in the United States. His parents, Elida and Kristian Jorstad, were immigrants from Norway to America. This was not uncommon, being that from 1825 to 1925, more than 750,000 Norwegians settled into homes in Canada and the United States (lonelyplanet.com). They established a home in Iowa. Because of that, the transition was a major one. They were a poor family, so finding a job was urgent. His mother became a housekeeper for a…

anything to have my family live with my grandparents from my dad’s side. I love my grandparents very much, and I always wanted to be there. Naturally, I thought this would be a good idea. As I have grown up, I realised that I would not want to live with my grandparents from either side of my family because I like my alone time. Everyone knows that when your grandma is in town, you do not get alone time. When I was a young kid, my family and I would go visit my grandparents in my home town a…

My father told me stories of his father's father, my great grandfather and growing up in the great depression in the nineteen thirties. He spoke of the many obstacles they encountered on a daily basis, like finding work to bring in income for the basic necessities for survival, such as food and clothing. During that era, many of the people in the Central Texas area were immigrants from Europe that came here to settle, farm and raise their families, this was the case with my ancestors. My great…

My father was born in Mexico in 1969. When he was younger his family did not have much money. His older brothers had to work to help support the family because their father had gone to America to find work, and did not send money back to his family. They did not have many of the things like we do now. An example of this was my father and his sibling had to make their own sandals. These were made with rubber from old tires and string. Jose, my uncle, was the first sibling to cross over into…

For this old age assignment I decided that I would interview my grandmother Jackie Poligni. She is 81 years old and is still in really good shape. She enjoys cooking and baking food, and knitting. I really enjoyed interviewing her about her life and how she felt about getting older. I thought my grandmother was very quiet and shy as a child, but little did I know she was actually very into acting, and was even a dare devil. She is very happy about how her life, unlike some older people,…

recount the wonderful memories of the undying moments my grandfather and I shared together. I never fully understood the meaning of those six words “good things never last for very long” until 8 years ago when I had to cope with the sorrowful death of my last surviving grandfather, Egbert Thorpe, whose life got taken away by a defiant lung cancer. Somehow, I believed that his life could have been spared, but I…

Michael Steven Allison Brew, my grandfather, was born August 9, 1948 in Tucson, Arizona. His mother was Anne Brew and his father was unknown. He was adopted by his stepfather Robert Brew. Robert Brew was a military man, the branch he was in is unknown. Michael moved around a lot because of his stepfather’s affiliation with the military. At the age of 18, he was kick out of his house because of his addiction to drugs. After being thrown out, he enlisted into the United States Coast Guard. He…

My parents brought terrible and shocking news one day late in December to the family and me. I believed I was ready for anything, but I couldn't imagine what it could have been when it involved a family member on the verge of death in the hospital. I was speechless when I heard my cancer surviving Grandfather once again in the hospital. I was in complete silence when I heard this. It felt so unbearable that my mind just went completely blank. I didn’t know how to respond to this in any way. I…

that the royal titular protagonist of her work, Oroonoko, is a tragic figure meant to evoke sympathy. However, a contradiction seems to emerge with the portrayal of Oroonoko’s grandfather and the current reigning monarch. Oroonoko is, as expected, portrayed in a manner that invokes pity for his plight, but his grandfather is cast as an incompetent antagonist during the first part of the work. Behn 's contradicting representations of royalty can for the most part be explained as a matter of race,…

the story by telling us, the reader, about her grandfather, whom she never had the pleasure of knowing. She tells us of his paintings of…