Autobiography

Mae Holland arrives for her first day at “the most influential company in the world”: The Circle. Mae owes her newfound position at The Circle to her old-time friend, Annie, whose belonging to the “Gang of 40” makes her one of the most influential members of the company. Established by the “Three Wise Men” , The Circle becomes the #1 company on the forefront of technological advancement. The Circle’s goal is to work towards a new era of communication and safety, what it claims is a more…

Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the narrator in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, written by James Weldon Johnson, represent the lower class or minority group in the society. Gatsby was born poor, while the narrator has the background of a black man. Both Gatsby and the narrator have the desire to be distinguished that can lead them back to the society of the United States, but the narrator has more of a desire to help his own people as long as he has…

Bill Hickey is my Great Uncle on my mom’s mother’s side. My grandmother and her siblings grew up in castledermot, county Kildare Ireland. The Irish Parliament met in Castledermot on 18 June 1264 for the first time. The oldest window in western europe that is still intact can be found in Castledermot from the ruins of a Franciscan Monastery. The current population is 885 people. Bill grew up in kildare and many of his songs are about Kildare. He typically reminisces on the old days of Kildare in…

My Life started on January 31, 1993 in good old Fiji, Suva. A small country in located in the Pacific, with its rich Fijian culture and heritage. I was the first Grandson from my mother’s side and the third from my Father’s side. My life in Fiji lasted about six years. All of those years, I was raised by my Grandparents. Both my Parents were upper class businessmen so Family time was limited but I was never ignored by my mother or father. My sister was born exactly three year and Nine month…

meet and greet important people of the world” (AJ 27-28). This incident prefigures many other complications and troubles that she has in dealing with gender and sexual inequalities of the African-Caribbean females under British colonial rule. The Autobiography of My Mother also signals that Xuela too, in early twentieth century Dominica, will have multiple struggles with her deep resentment and rebellion against gender and sexual inequality under British patriarchal colonial rule. The reason for…

Literacy History Essay I became the literate person i am today by mostly writing, I write all the time and I do a little reading. What made me love writing was the fact I found an escape, not on an emotional level but writting is something to help ease in my opinion. I influenced writing myself, even though it’s something done in school a lot, I continued it outside of school as a choice of my own, once I started I never stopped. I have a different viewpoint on reading as I do writting,…

Meta Y. Harris, “Chapter 3: Black Women Writing Autobiography: Autobiography in Multicultural Education”, Narrative & Experience in Multicultural Education, SAGE Publications, 2005. https://www.corwin.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/4977_Phillion_I_Proof_2_Chapter_3.pdf This work is a chapter is featured in the larger publication “Narrative & Experience in Multicultural Education” which discusses topics and raises questions about the ways in which diversity and democracy is taught, can be…

The early 1900’s were a confusing time for society. Slavery had been abolished, the depression was on the rise, and religious and political beliefs were being questioned. Martin Luther King Jr writes in his Autobiography that he was born in the later years of this segregation and from an early age questioned why and how culture could develop and exist in this fashion. His religious upbringing taught him about love and how men are created equal, yet confused him further about the existence of…

Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave Written by Himself (1845) and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, Written by Himself (1881) were both written after Frederick Douglass escaped slavery, the two autobiographies have a number of differences between them. Though the autobiographies are written about the same person, Frederick Douglass, some people and events in Douglass’ life have been deleted or added, creating, what appears to be, two different accounts of enslaved life. Seven…

Anne Basting investigates the narrative construction in three autobiographies written by individuals with Alzheimer’s disease. Two of the narratives follow a linear structure, which has one “self” as the narrative. The third narrative is structured liked a journal. Basting is interested in particular looking at one’s self through the written narrative. The first narrative, Living in the Labryinth, follows Diana McGowin in her life before and after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Her…