Memoir

Her face was so familiar, everything about it. From her sparkling eyes to the way she raised her eyebrow when she talked. Alistair couldn’t wrap his mind around it. She was the Princess, of course everyone knew her. But, there was something in the way she moved that brought back memories. Memories he didn’t even know he had. He couldn’t help but stare as the new Princess took her place beside the King, the crowd erupting into cheers and clapped loudly on either side of him. The country had just…

Imagine a woman who keeps a secret that she was often abused by her father as a child and it continued to make an impact throughout her life. In her book “Places in the Bones: A Memoir”, Carol Dine writes a detailed journal revealing parts of her life under influence of her bizarre relationship with her father and her journey suffering through cancer. Dine never understood why her father physically abused her, but she did understand that cancer was passed down from both sides of her families’…

newfound knowledge and confronting experiences during the discovery process can often stimulate evocative revelations about ourselves and the world, which can ultimately lead to a transformation in our identity. These ideas are explored in Che Guevara’s memoir The Motorcycle Diaries (1953) which recounts his accumulative exposure and reassessment of South America’s corrupted system as he gradually becomes aware of how downtrodden and exploited it is. Similarly, Tony Kaye’s film American History…

Could you survive living in constant poverty? This was the reality for author Jeannette Walls. In her book, The Glass Castle: A Memoir, Walls describes growing up in a dysfunctional family with an alcoholic father and a childish mother. After Walls published her book, Alex Witchel of The New York Times Magazine interviewed her. Within the article, “How Jeannette Walls Spins Good Stories Out of Bad Memories,” Witchel recounts her visit to the farm where Walls lives with her husband and mother.…

When immigrating to a foreign country, many sacrifices are made, including having to leave relatives, friends, acquaintances -but most of all- your country behind. The Latehomecomer –a memoir by Kao Kalia Yang- discusses how her family and Yang were forced to leave their home country due to persecution, causing them to immigrate to the United States in hopes of escaping their cruel fate. This sudden turn of events affected her grandmother the most because it was partly caused her to become…

Summary of Lavoisier’s Memoir on Combustion in General Antoine Laurent Lavoisier was an 18th century French chemist who worked as a member of the the French Academy of Sciences. In the excerpts of Lavoisier’s Memoir on Combustion in General, he introduces to the other members of the Academy his idea of oxygen and its role in how combustion and calcination occurs. He also explains why the original theory of phlogiston, proposed by Georg Ernst Stahl, is not adequate to explain the two phenomenas.…

Upon completing Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir, a book detailing Solzhenitsyn’s account of the terrors of the Soviet Gulag, I picked up my copy of Krauthammer’s article At Last Zion and read through its seven pages. I am uncertain which text is more terrifying. Grandiose fatalistic vaticinations abound in Krauthammer’s piece. American Jewry, we are told, will decline and ultimately disappear. Later on we read that Israel, the renascent Jewish homeland, is “the last hope.” Though we are afforded…

My Memoir I 'm supposed to talk about my feelings. That’s not going to happen, but I can tell you about my favorite moments in life like that one time I got my first dog that wasn’t real, and when my best friend and I went a whole day telling people we were sisters, oh and I can 't forget the time I went to the Pentagon for the first time! All of these are their own adventures. These are some of the moments that define who I am, the places I’ve been, and the people I’ve seen. Now let me tell…

The Memoir of Andrew John McRae Vukelich’s life This is a memoir about me Jack Vukelich. I’ll be talking about a couple life experiences and how they changed my life all together or at least my outlook on life as well as the things in it. The main experience I'll talk about is the most recent when I went to a church camp in northern Minnesota. The first experience I'm writing about is one of my most recent. So over the past summer I was able to go to tentmakers. Tent makers is a…

In the book “Nothing to Declare; Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone” by Mary Morris mention “travel shaped by a traveler’s gender” as a man vs as a female alone. On Page 10 explained it was not easy for the woman to travel alone. “If you are attacked while walking down this road, you have no place to go. For the first time, I walked that quarter mile at night alone. Every shadow, every sound, made me turn. I behaved like a hunted thing. It is not easy to move through the world alone,…