My Love: Essential Collection

Ántonia’s spirit made an impact on Jim, causing him to return to visit her as an adult. “I told Ántonia I would come back, but life intervened, and it was twenty years before I kept my promise” (My Ántonia 175). Life is personified to intervene, and given as a reason for why Jim was unable to return and visit Ántonia. Ántonia was so important to Jim because of her success, that he made a point of returning to visit her. “Not only the progenitor of a large, vigorous family, she is also the source…

Whitney Houston, Shonda Rhimes, and many more to indicate that these women are powerful and essentially represent black-girl excellence. This piece is simple yet powerful in its entirety. Others may view this piece as a bunch of words that hold no essential meaning but depending on the reader, each word and phrase represent much more than that. Parker's piece holds meaning and can be interpreted much deeper than what is visibly shown and that’s what makes Parker a brilliant writer. The tone of…

Life is personified in My Ántonia, as Ántonia’s spirit makes an impact on Jim, causing him to return to visit her as an adult. “I told Ántonia I would come back, but life intervened, and it was twenty years before I kept my promise” (My Ántonia 175). Life is personified to intervene, and Jim is unable to return and visit Ántonia. Ántonia is so important to Jim because of her success, that he makes a point of returning to visit her. “Not only the progenitor of a large, vigorous family, she is…

Jacqueline Amanda Woodson was born on February 12th, 1963, in Columbus, Ohio. When she was about two months old, her parents separated, which caused Woodson to spend her early life in South Carolina, raised by her mother and grandmother. When she was seven years old, Jacqueline Woodson moved to Brooklyn, New York where she has resided ever since. She attended Adelphi University, where she received her BA in Literature, and has yet to drop her pen and paper. Jacqueline Woodson is an author who…

The melodic lines are marked by ups and downs, which is part of the well balanced structure of the hymn. In addition, the melody of the tune has a sense of purpose from the start, which facilitates congregational singing. All these elements are essential characteristics that are part of the “singability” and “memorability” of the ITALIAN HYMN. As a practical application, it is known that “A hymn is not really a good hymn until it has been well written, well chosen, and well sung.” Certainly,…

concentration, his mother stopped the piano lessons. As an adult, Freud went to see his mother, Amalia, every Sunday, always bringing flowers, delighting in her praise, and making much of her devotion. Freud said she called him “mein goldener Sigi” (my golden Sigi). It was a wishful fantasy. If you created an image of your mother that didn't correspond to reality; if you idealized her, then you didn't really want to know who she was. So if you really didn't want to know who she was, then there…

a large number of photos are uploading to different social media by different users from all over the world, and “in this way, photography becomes a more alive, immediate, and often transitory practice/form, as the digital camera has become an essential tool in the navigation and documentation of daily life (Allan, 2013, p.166).” There is a tendency to share individuals’ life experience through different mass media to communicate with audiences from all over the world. Moreover mass media also…

Dexter grows up in a middle class family with his father who owns the second best grocery store in Black Bear. One day, Dexter meets Judy Jones, who is fairly rich. He immediately falls in love with her. Dexter impulsively quits his job to pursue a life with Judy Jones. Dexter finds himself desiring a relationship with Judy. Years pass, and Dexter finds himself working as a businessman. Meeting Judy year 's later, Dexter realizes he has…

I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied with more anxiety than anger, my father beat me as if someone might steal me away, because that is exactly what was happening all around us” (15). Violences rises from fear; his and many other parents logic was that they could either beat their children of the police could. Black people love their children with a kind of obsession. They understand how dangerous it is. They see their children as their only possession…

New Eyes In a 2012 letter to my siblings, I informed them that I’d be hiking the 540 mile Camino de Santiago in the north of Spain because I needed to spend time talking to God. I’d lost my nineteen year old son and frankly, I needed some answers. If saints and mystics had heard His voice, then I most certainly deserved to. As I trudged up and down the French Pyrenees and through the eucalyptus forests on the Spanish mesa, I looked up and shouted at the top of my lungs, desperately needing to…