My Grandmothers Jewelry Box
An object I found to be most significant and interesting is my grandmother’s jewelry box. This jewelry box has been an important object in my life since I was a little girl. Whenever I glance over, incredible memories dance in my head of my grandmother and me. I chose to write about this jewelry box because it’s so important to me. Ever since I was a little girl I wanted nothing more than to be like my grandmother.
My grandmother’s jewelry box rests on my nightstand in my bedroom.
It’s a polished dark wooden box which contains three different compartments.
One
is for necklaces and bracelets, the second earrings, and the third rings. When you open the top there’s a little girl dancing in circles while lovely music would play. This jewelry box was bought in the
1930’s when my grandmother was only ten. Even now in the present the jewelry box looks like new and still so beautiful. My grandmother started this collection with all her mother’s jewelry from when she was a little girl. Year by year the jewelry box would fill up with such stunning things, and I would only wish they could be mine.
My grandmother always dressed so beautifully and what made her stand out most was the jewelry she complimented her outfit with. When I stayed at my grandmother’s house, dress up was something I loved to do, and I did it almost every day. I would try on almost all of her jewelry she owned and dance around the house. As I grew up and my grandmother started getting older, that jewelry box meant more to me then just playing dress up. I knew how much the jewelry box meant to my grandmother and every time I glanced at it, it reminds me of how beautiful my grandmother was.
At age 80, my grandmother passed away, leaving me the jewelry box.
This meant more to me then anything. She knew how much I loved her jewelry and I’m thrilled to know when I get older I’ll be able to show them off, in memory of her. Every time I look at the jewelry box it brings back fond memories of my grandmother and the precious times we had together.
Both, Sabloff's Box of Treasures and the National Museum of the American Indian provide information on Native American cultures that were deprived of their right to express and enjoy their cultural traditions through dance. Box of Treasures voice is described by Narrator Vo ,and Gloria Synch, a member of the Kwakiutl culture who actively tries to save her culture. Synch describes the loss of her cultures traditions by "white men" as a moment of sadness in the history of her people. Synch's culture is saved through preservation of their lost artifacts, organization of artifacts, and practice of a dance/gift-giving ceremony named Potlach. I believe neither ethnocentrism nor stereotyping was present in the portrayal of "Box of Treasures".
I was very reluctant about dancing because I was unfamiliar with Latin dance, but they insist that I participate. The music and dance was not just Latin and Mariachi music. Hip-Hop, R&B and Pop was mainly played. Hours went by and the DJ announced that everyone should return to their seats, the father and daughter dance was about to begin. The pillows of shoes from earlier and a doll was now in the father hands.
cotton gloves and putting them up with her purse on the shelf in front of the back window.
My mind started to wonder though each room of the house, the kitchen where mom used to spend every waking hour in. The music room where dad maintained the instrument so carefully like one day people would come and play them, but that day never came, the house was always painfully empty. The house never quite lived to be the house my parents wanted, dust bunnies always danced across the floor, shelves were always slightly crooked even when you fixed them. My parents were from high class families that always had some party to host. Their children were disappointments, for we
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The question of how should we reduce the egregious overcrowding in the U.S. state and federal prison systems is very complex. It would most certainly be multifaceted. Some of my ideas on how to reduce the prison population would include but would not be limited to the following.
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