Memoir

The memoir Buck: A Memoir is a coming of age book written by the Zimbabwe born man, MK Asante. The setting of the first 12 chapters of the book is a community in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, or otherwise known as "Killadelphia, Pistolvania," where young MK was raised after leaving his birthplace in Zimbabwe. During this point in his life, MK faces many obstacles academically and in his family life, which his decisions can be a direct result of. The downwards spiral of his home situation…

Jeannette Walls earliest childhood memory shared within her book, The Glass Castle: A Memoir, is of her getting taken to the hospital after getting caught on fire while cooking hot dogs for herself as a three year old. According to the doctors she was “lucky to be alive” (Walls 9), and was left with a permanent scar from a skin graft. Living in a trailer in Southern Arizona with two siblings, Lori and Brian, and her Mom and Dad, Jeannette was considered, “mature for [her] age” (Walls 9), making…

Reading Memoir “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go,” wrote Theodor Seuss. The idea of reading is such a delitescent success factor. Many people don’t know the importance of reading and how it can help someone grow spiritually, mentally and physically. Reading has helped help me in coping with these different areas of my life through recent years. Throughout majority of my adult life reading hasn’t been a big part of my…

Professor Moriarty was Sherlock Holmes's arch-enemy from the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle series of Sherlock Holmes. Moriarty appears in The Final Problem from the book "Memoirs of Sherlock" where he fights Sherlock on the top of Reichenbach falls. He is mentioned in the books "His Last Bow" and "The Valley of Fear". Professor Moriarty was a good villian because he was a mathemtic pshycopath, consulting criminal, and obsessed with destroying Sherlock Holmes. Professor Moriarty was a pshycopath who…

Reading Memoir “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” Said Dr. Seuss. Ever since I can remember, reading was a little fun for me. Reading is something required throughout life. For example, people read contracts. Contracts, recipes, and instructions. Career success requires reading. For example, a nurse scrutinize a patients chart daily. Over my life, the reading I have encountered has shaped my academic journey.…

Memoir When we got him, he was already fully grown, maybe two or three, I don't exactly remember. It was my grandpa who got him for us, knowing my sister and I were desperate for a dog. His owners had already named him Noble and we didn't want to change the name. He was a medium sized male German Shepherd. Whom my sister and I adored. I was five, turning six in almost four months. I don't remember much about what he looked like or how he behaved, but he was quite tolerable of my four years old…

In her Graphic Memoir Tomboy, Liz Prince, born a girl but likes to do boyish things talks about what its like to not fit into society’s gender role conspiracy. She talks about the first 18 years of her life while using pictures to describe her feelings from dresses, to hair, to clothing at various ages. She is truthful and forward while strolling down memory lane about the things girls aren’t supposed to do and how expectations of gender roles can play a major part in the way a young girls mind…

The assignment we were given was to write a memoir, or an account or biography written from personal knowledge or special sources. In other words were to demonstrate an event of our lives, and show how this event shaped us in some way. We had the option to express our event through the use of a graphic memoir like Maus, photographic/visual memoir like “How I Met Your Mother,” musical/poetic memoir like “American Pie,” painted memoir, or traditional. With all of these different styles I…

It is an indisputable fact that women have had a huge impact on science in America over the years. Such influential women include Genevieve Grotjan, a codebreaker from World War II, and Katherine Johnson, a calculator for NASA for almost three and a half decades following 1953. Both women found extreme success in their fields, and respectively made huge contributions to cryptology and the math behind space launches. To begin with, Genevieve Grotjan was a fantastic help to the United States’s…

British author Mark Haddon wrote the book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. The story revolves around a young boy called Christopher John Francis Boone who investigates the murder of a neighbor’s dog, which leads him to a journey that will change his life forever. Despite his mental illness, he learns to face the difficulties of his world and to be capable of everything he can do. Because of these unique characteristics, I find this book one of the best books I have ever read.…