As I previously stated, knowledge of my mother's side of the family is very limited, while my father's side dates way back. The farthest I am able to go with the Martin side is to my great great grandma, Dorothy. Of which I knew for most of my life, until my freshman year when she passed. Her husband was named Maynard Myers. He died of old age before I was able to meet him. I do know that he was in the army and had both of his legs amputated before coming back home. I was lucky to be able to not only meet my great great grandma, but to have her be such a huge part of my life. I dedicate a lot of what I do today in honor of her. My mother always told me stories about her from when she was younger and had her own singing radio show with my
grandpa Myers. To this day, my mom still says she remembers the smell of my grandma's famous banana creme pie, “It smelt like home, I just remember always wanting seconds and thirds when she cooked it!” My mother said. On the Troyer side, a fascinating story has to do with the titanic. One of my ancestors was on the titanic. He was what we know as the first mate to the captain. As the boat was sinking he stayed behind and let all the children and women onto the safety boats and he went down with the ship. While my grandpa Troyer was alive, he would tell the story with great detail. I am not sure which parts were true, so I choose to tell the shortened version. Speaking of my grandpa, today, September 27th, would had been his and my grandma's 47th anniversary. My grandma shares many stories about him, but mostly shares about how much she misses her soulmate. “I wish he was here, but I’m happy he is able to keep our son company until I get to see them both again.” Grandma Troyer said. My father also comments on my grandpa Troyer today saying, “Losing him was one of the hardest things he's had to encounter, but he keeps their memories close to him everywhere he goes.”
Sheila Johnson was born on May 11, 1999 she was born to her mother Mandy and father Mike. She had two older siblings, the oldest Sydney and the middle child and only boy Nathan. Sheila was 7 pounds 8 ounces when she was born at the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Sheila was born with brown hair and hazel eyes with one dimple on her left cheek. As a child Sheila enjoyed watching Telly Tubbies while cuddling the blanket, she would never go anywhere without. She was a daddy’s girl as she grew up. Therefore, she had him wrapped around her finger.
In Chopin’s The Awakening two opposing viewpoints tend to surface regarding the main character, Edna’s, suicide. Was it an artistic statement or did Edna’s selfish and childlike character lead to her demise. These two perspectives consistently battle one another, both providing sufficient evidence. However, Chopin intentionally wrote two equally supported interpretations of the character in order to leave the book without closure.
Former Prime Minister of England, Margaret Thatcher, in her 2004 eulogy for Ronald Reagan, exemplifies both his impact and legacy on the world. Throughout her speech, Thatcher memorializes Reagan’s performance in office as well as the decisions he made as a person by illustrating their time together to the reader. By utilizing these examples, the reader can then understand Thatcher’s overall claim that Reagan was one of the most profound leaders in history; however, the impact of Thatcher’s use of diction and sentence arrangement both provoke thought in the reader and allows him or her to comprehend her message on a more sophisticated level.
The poetry of Phillis Wheatley is crafted in such a manner that she is able to create a specific aim for each poem, and achieve that aim by manipulating her position as the speaker. As a slave, she was cautious to cross any lines with her proclamations, but was able to get her point across by humbling her own position. In religious or elegiac matters, however, she seemed to consider herself to be an authority. Two of her poems, the panegyric “To MAECENAS” and the elegy “On the Death of a young Lady of Five Years of Age,” display Wheatley’s general consistency in form, but also her intelligence, versatility, and ability to adapt her position in order to achieve her goals.
The American Dream is a strong and powerful set of values that includes the chance to have an abundance of freedom, wealth, and success. In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, the American Dream is something everybody wants. Sometimes it takes a long journey to achieve these goals and the path taken may not be an easy one.
When sorting through the Poems of Dorothy Parker you will seldom find a poem tha¬t you could describe as uplifting or cheerful. She speaks with a voice that doesn’t romanticize reality and some may even call her as pessimistic. Though she doesn’t have a buoyant writing style, I can empathize with her views on the challenges of life and love. We have all had experiences where a first bad impression can change how we view an opportunity to do the same thing again. Parker mostly writes in a satirical or sarcastic tone, which can be very entertaining to read and analyze.
Lady Tahat , a chantress and singer to the gods in the temple of Amun at Karnak. On the lid of her coffin, Lady Tahat’s effigy is surrounded by multiple protective gods. They are all colored in the customary colors of red, yellow, and green. Isis is found on the coffin lid’s center. She is the moon and the throne, fertility and healing. As a winged goddess she may represent the wind. Isis represents the “Mother of Life”, because she gave birth to Horus, the god of the sun. Together Isis and Horus created and sustained life. As she is a goddess, she takes whatever form she likes, but usually is seen as a Falcon or with falcon wings. On the mummy board of the Lady Tahat’s coffin, Isis is shown with wings of the Black Kyte Falcon spread
Are you aware that out of the more or less 600 people involved in the selma march 17 were injured and 2 were killed when state trooper violently attacked the protesters with billy clubs, tear gas, dogs, and firehouses or that a lot of black people were denied the right to vote? well Dorothy Cotton was one of many people in the SCLC to try to help change that and are still trying to change that.
Dorothy Day was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 8, 1897. Her mother, Grace Satterlee Day was a New Yorker and her father, John Day, was from Tennessee. Dorothy had three brothers and a sister. At the age of six, John Day, her dad, had been relocated for his job and the family moved to Oakland. However, in 1906 he lost his job to the San Francisco earthquake. Unfortunately, the earthquake had destroyed the newspaper industry. At this young age, Dorothy was able to recognize how in this time of need people like her mother and her neighbors were helping out the poor and homeless during the tragedy. Those matters of kindness had really affected her and she could not forget them. On the other hand, due to the earthquake, the family moved to Chicago where they ended up living for the next twelve years of their lives.
Where do I start? How do I begin a farewell when I still can't believe you're gone? How do I say goodbye to a part of my soul?
The Long Loneliness is the autobiography of Dorothy Day and ultimately the story of a woman whose loneliness drove her to the conversion of Catholicism. Dorothy Day was born and raised in a family who were strangers to religion. Her first exposure to God came when she was still young, as she attended church with some of her neighbors. It was here she found that she liked the feeling of worship in the collective body of the congregation. However, she also became disillusioned by those people who only attended church on Sundays, assuming their profession of the faith to others did not extend to outside the church itself. These church visits merely set the foundation for Day’s journey with God.
Phyllis Dorothy James was born August 3, 1920 Oxford, England. James ended up moving to Wales and the moved to Cambridge, England. She was attending Cambridge high school for girls. Her family was not very wealthy and her dad did not believe in education beyond high school for girls. So James went to work for an tax office for three years. Then went and married Ernest Connor Bantry White in 1941. James and Ernest had two children, Claire and Jane. James was in her forties when her first novel, cover her face was published in 1962. She used her personal live and her professional live to write her amazing stories. “These aided her in both her description of police detective work and her portrayal of characters” (Encyclopedia). James used her work for the bases of her novel. She gave her readers background on police and medical procedures. In A Mind to Murder (1962), Shroud for a Nightingale (1971), and Death of an Expert Witness (1977). She is focused on examine a relationship between people will still telling a mystery. In 1999 she received the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award for long term achievement. She is published all over the world as: Sweden, Finland, Portugal, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Argentina, USA, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, Holland and Norway. This is a quote that P.D. James wrote in children of men, "History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future, is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species." (P.D. James) This book has a great theme, setting and great motifs.
My mother was a complex, multi-faceted person. Many of you here today knew my mother personally, and many of you knew my mother indirectly through one of her family members. You may have known her as a coworker, a friend, or a support person. Of course, all of my mother’s family here today each knew a part of her, a “facet” of her--as a mother, a sister, an aunt, a grandmother, a cousin.
Good afternoon, let me just start by saying that the kindness, support, friendship, and love extended to me and my family during this difficult time has really touched my heart- we are sincerely appreciative!
Family : My Grandmother Mildred truly defined the word family as I have come to learn and live it. Holidays and family gatherings were the celebrations they were because they were surrounded by Grandma’s love. I watched family such as my late uncle Reginald become the amazing family man he was because of traditions instilled by his mother. I have also seen her daughter - my aunt Milinda – raise three beautiful children by the love and traditions passed down from Grandma. I, of course, owe most of who I am from Grandma’s love passed down through my own mother Rayetta and her husband George, whom Grandma so highly regarded.