Home For the holidays
When it comes to giving thanks for what you appreciate there is no better time than thanksgiving, what better way to celebrate than with family, food, and friends. Every year millions of people all across the country come together for a very special reason. This day is when you are to give thanks for all that you have been blessed with, and food is a big part of this day. Without mention this dinner usually includes succulent Turkey, cranberry sauce, spiced stuffing, and very creamy mashed potatoes with gravy. There is nothing like the rising chatter of your family members, or the sweet aroma that billows from behind the kitchen door each time it is opened to let you know you’re home for the holidays.
When you come from a family of Jamaicans you’re going to know how to party, holidays are the times when you look forward to rejoicing and catching up with kinfolk. My older cousins from New Jersey seem to always have energy enough to fill a ball room. Each and every conversation seems to be as exciting and bright as the one prior; it’s surprising they have time to have dinner with the family. My mother and most of the females often rejoice with each other while cooking or preparing the dinner, old hymns gleefully fill the air, reminding them of the isle they have left behind. When my sister and her husband bring my nieces & nephew to visit it’s always a sight for sore eyes, there presence often remind me of when they were born, so innocent, delicate, and precious, like a real white Christmas.
Over the years the location of where we have our thanksgiving has changed drastically. As our family becomes larger and more united we have to find more space to accommodate the guests around this holiday. I can remember a couple of more important times when thanksgiving was extra special. In 1999 me and my most immediate family traveled all the way back to Jamaica to visit my mother’s mother and too spend the holiday with more than 3 generations of family. This was one of the most important times in my life because it gave me a chance to experience and interact with family I don’t see everyday. On a more recent note this year we spent dinner with my mom, and just my cousin.
Post-Colonial Themes in David Malouf's Remembering Babylon It is interesting to note that, although in the context of this MA course we are studying Malouf's novel in terms of a post-colonial response, the author himself has expressed the opinion that it is not, strictly speaking, a post-colonial text. Most would agree with Malouf in that it is certainly not an example of resistance or response from a member of a colonised community in the same vein as, for example, Chinua Achebe or some Native
Remembering Vietnam "Facing It," by Yusef Komunyakaa talks about a war which most, if not all Americans are familiar with. The ever so controversial Vietnam Conflict, also known as the Vietnam War. This poem was very well written, and I respect all that was said in the context of the poem. "Facing It," discusses his visit to the Vietnam Memorial in Washington D.C., and his emotions that he experienced while he was at the memorial. I can not imagine what the feelings would be like to see one
behind them, repeatedly feeling unsafe and frequently reliving past war scenes. Soldiers fight through chaos and violence, hoping to leave it all on the battlefield when they walk away from the war, but “for [them], forgetting was never an option. Remembering is a noble and necessary act” (Wiesel 2). Sacrificing everything and leaving family behind, soldiers experience traumatic and frightening times when fighting for their country. They walk away from the battlefields hoping to leave everything there
Remembering the Disremembered Everybody knew what she was called, but nobody anywhere knew her name. Disremembered and unaccounted for, she cannot be lost because no one is looking for her, and even if they were, how can they call her if they don't know her name? Although she has claim, she is not claimed. In the place where long grass opens, the girl who waited to be loved and cry shame erupts into her separate parts, to make it easy for the chewing laughter to swallow her all away. It was
As I walked through the door of the funeral home, the floral arrangements blurred into a sea of vivid colors. Wiping away my tears, I headed over to the collage of photographs of my grandfather. His smile seemed to transcend the image on the pictures, and for a moment, I could almost hear his laughter and see his eyes dancing as they tended to do when he told one of his famous jokes. My eyes scanned the old photographs, searching for myself amidst the images. They came to rest on a photo of Grandpa
she's "tired of remembering" and that she doesn't understand why Grandpa Will has fits of anger. Some people feel that Hannah is not showing much change and is still rejecting her Jewish heritage; although other people think that Hannah is starting to change and show appreciation for her Jewish heritage. Some people feel that hannah is complaining and disrespecting her faith when she is tired remembering, while most believe she is not. Hannah explains she is tired of remembering all the Jewish holidays
In 1917 a young female right out of high school started working at a radium factory in Orange, New Jersey. The job was mixing water, glue and radium powder for the task of painting watch dials, aircraft switches, and instrument dials. The paint is newly inventive and cool so without hesitation she paints her nails and lips with her friends all the while not knowing that this paint that is making them radiant, is slowly killing them. This was the life of Grace Fryer. Today there are trepidations
Woodstock History What is Woodstock? It is one of the most famous festivals in history due to the four young men John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artic Kohn, and Mike Lang. It was three days of peace and music. It took lots of planning most things didn’t even go right, for instance the location. They had planed to hold the event in Wallkill, New York but the town did not want to hold the festival there because all the violence due to Vietnam weeks before. They all freaked out trying to hurry and find
Remembering an Event As a child, my family and I planned annual trips to the state of Jalisco in Mexico to visit our family members. Each year we took a different method of getting to our destination. Some years we would enjoy a two day road trip, while other times we would enjoy the view from a three hour flight. In 2006, we decided we would drive because we wanted to load up our truck with gifts for the family. This particular year I was more excited than usual because we were going to be
because the challenges in the past are what make you the person you are today. The main character, Hannah, changes her values over the course of the novel after undergoing an evil event. In the Devil’s Arithmetic, the author develops the theme of remembering the past may be challenging, but it is an important part of our history that one should never forget. In order to see how Hannah’s development effects the theme, it is necessary to understand what caused her mind to change. Hannah Stern is a twelve
Echoes of Resistance: Remembering the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre Through Testimonies of Violence and Defiance The events of the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre remain etched in the collective memory of Mexico as a sombre testament to the brutality of state-sponsored violence against student protestors. Elena Poniatowska's Massacre in Mexico and Leobardo López Arretche's El Grito both stand as powerful works seeking to illuminate the depths of this tragic chapter in Mexican history. Through distinct narrative
1 Joseph Chaikin was an actor, director, and theorist of the early 1960’s. Rogoff, G. 'Remembering Joseph Chaikin (1935-2003)'. Theater 34.3 (2004): 101-133. Web. 25 Nov. 2015. He was born on September 16, 1935 in Brooklyn New York. He was born from a not so wealthy Jewish family. Rogoff, G. 'Remembering Joseph Chaikin (1935-2003)'. Theater 34.3 (2004): 101-133. Web. 25 Nov. 2015. At an early age, he started experiencing theater without really knowing it. He was ten years of age when he was sent
on their past, especially via their defeat and agony, they can gain insight by understanding how problems developed and how others approached them. These reflections enlighten individuals on who they are today and where they are going tomorrow. Remembering the past empowers people to live through present and to safeguard future. Works Cited McBride, James. The Color of Water – A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother. New York: Riverhead Books, 1996. Print.
My family like every other has the tradition of getting together to celebrate news years, but this time it was very different from previous years. He looked tired, he was not hungry, and had lost his glasses, he was wearing other pair of glasses that we don’t even know where he got them from. He was a very strong and very lively man, having spent more than 20 years without the love of his life (my grandmother who died before I was born) I unexpectedly lost the man who was like a father to me, I
Grizzly I had been sitting on my chair by the white table, with all my homework on it. When my sister ,Cassidy, came into the room, “ what are you doing?” she asked. “ My memoir for class,” I answered. “Oh I remember when I had to do that, I did it on Grizzly and all the memories we had,” she said. “Really well I am doing it on the death of Grizzly” I said. A second later it occurred to me and I said “wait Cassidy, do you think that I could see your memoir, so I could see if I missed anything