Summer Memories My first stop when I go to the grocery store is the produce section. Besides the normal lettuce, peppers, celery; weekly purchases, I usually look for fruit that is in season. So being mid summer with the heat/humidly being the norm, I journeyed towards the watermelon display crate. There I found an elderly lady bent over the crate side attempting to reach a melon. I hurried over to help her to get one, but saw that she was knotting on each watermelon she could reach. The lady proceeded to stop after each knot and listen as getting some inter response from each melon regarding its ripeness. I join in with my own tapping and tried to act like I knew exactly the right sound pitch I was looking for. The lady noticing my attempt, told me it’s better if you use a spoon, which she forgot to bring, but when you tap each one it’s easier to hear each melon’s pitch sound. Just then I envision her doing this as a crowd gathers around the melon crate to watch her “spoon melons”. She informs me they should sound like a bongo drum to be a good one. Holding one of the heavy melons close to my ear, I listen as hoping to hear some drumming echoing response, like when you shout in a canyon and the reply echoing its ghostly retort. We …show more content…
were starting to get stares from other shoppers as a few wandering over with curiosity to see what we were doing. Watermelons actually have a prized heritage, coming from Africa, eaten by ancient Egyptian pharaohs.
I read somewhere there were actually remnants of the melons discovered in tombs, as people believed watermelons were a source of water needed for their prolonged spiritual journey. But it’s the southern U.S. that seems to put a claim on them as southerners say their watermelons are the best. Mark Twain put it this way: “The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world’s luxuries, king by grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took, we know it because she
repented.” When we were kids, my brother and I would eat watermelon in the backyard and have a seed-spitting contest. I can’t remember precisely but the trick for the best shot was to put the seed on the tip of your tongue, rolling your tongue for a more of a tube release. Then rear back with a full lung thrust. Like everything else there are national watermelon seed spitting contests; the record is somewhere over 75 feet. Sadly I read somewhere that most watermelons today are seedless, maybe losing another great tradition. Society today appears to need all sorts of grading levels; such as if watermelons are sold commercially, they must meet a certain sweetness level. Defining and putting everything in a structural sense making life seem categorized. A keeping of order maybe but removing much of the individual’s creative imagination of self-discovery. My elderly store lady friend and I just want our old summertime, two-handed mouth-eating favorite. I wonder if she’s a seed-spitting girl as the next time at the local watermelon crate we will definitely have more to talk about!
This book was published in 1981 with an immense elaboration of media hype. This is a story of a young Mexican American who felt disgusted of being pointed out as a minority and was unhappy with affirmative action programs although he had gained advantages from them. He acknowledged the gap that was created between him and his parents as the penalty immigrants ought to pay to develop and grow into American culture. And he confessed that he got bewildered to see other Hispanic teachers and students determined to preserve their ethnicity and traditions by asking for such issues to be dealt with as departments of Chicano studies and minority literature classes. A lot of critics criticized him as a defector of his heritage, but there are a few who believed him to be a sober vote in opposition to the political intemperance of the 1960s and 1970s.
The next stanza, however, proves that he does in fact know the difference between the two words. The speaker shows his understanding of “precision” in choosing the diction to describe how to choose and eat a persimmon. The words “soft,” “sweet,” “sniff,” “suck,” and “swallow” all alert one’s senses. The alliteration further proves the speaker’s “precision.” The speaker then leaves the reader with a feeling of fulfillment after having explained how to “peel the skin tenderly, not to tear the meat” of the persimmon.
Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory The universal "growing pains" that all children experience in one form or another are easily recognized in Richard Rodriguez’s autobiographical excerpt from Hunger of Memory. Rodriguez’s childhood was particularly unique given the fact that while he was born and raised in the United States, he was strongly influenced in the ethnic environment of a Spanish family. Although the reader is introduced to only a short excerpt from the autobiography, he learns a great deal about Rodriguez’s family and his relationship to it, his conflict of speaking English versus Spanish, and the paradox that became evident as he used English as his primary language. Furthermore, the reader learns that Rodriguez’s experiences have contributed to his beliefs that a bilingual education is harmful.
"But it was all a dream; no Eve soothed my sorrows nor shared my thoughts; I was alone. I remembered Adam
In the speech “keep memory alive” Elie Wiesel talks about keeping the memory alive. He goes on to say in the speech “Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.” He is trying to persuade the audition by saying if you don't remember you are as guilty as anyone who participated in making the holocaust happen.
Imagine living in such a time period, where thousands of children are confused and families are scared. That is what life was like during World War II. In the story, “Keeping Memory Alive”, the author, Elie Wiesel, discussed why remembering the concentration camps is important. “The Uprooting of a Japanese-American Family” by Yoshiko Uchida describes daily life in the internment camps. Both stories are connected by sharing their feelings about the unfair treatment received during World War II in the 1940s.
In the poem we get the picture that Adam is lamenting for the mistake they have done and specially blames and insults Eve's female nature and wonders why do god ever created her. She begs his forgiveness, and pleads with him not to leave her. She reminds him that the snake tricked her, but she fully accepts the blame for sinning against both God and him. She argues that unity and love c...
The mammalian brain contains several different memory systems, which can be divided into declarative and non-declarative memory systems. Declarative memory can be further divided into episodic and semantic memory, and non-declarative memory can be divided into priming, associative learning, and procedural memory.
The first part of Eve’s speech contains the most blatant blasphemy. In it, she turns the forbidden tree into an idol, or a false god. She promises that “henceforth [her] early care, / Not without song each morning, and due praise / Shall tend [the tree]” (ln 799-801). The long sounds of the spondees in “not without song each morning, and due praise” add to the deliberateness of Eve’s blasphemy. The tree replaces God in her eyes, and begins to receive the praise that she had formerly reserved only for God. Besides being blasphemous, this is also ironic. In her foolishness, Eve ends up praising the very thing that will ultimately prove to be her undoing.
As I have been reading memoirs about memory for this class, each essay made me recall or even examine my past memory closely. However, the more minutely I tried to recall what happened in the past, the more confused I got because I could not see the clear image and believe I get lost in my own memory, which I thought, I have preserved perfectly in my brain. The loss of the details in each memory has made me a little bit sentimental, feeling like losing something important in my life. But, upon reading those essays, I came to realize that remembering correct the past is not as important as growing up within memory. However, the feelings that were acquired from the past experience tend to linger distinctly. The essay that is related to my experience
He said the garden was untamed flowers, happiness, rightness, and the people were beautiful and kind. This also leads to the promise of the garden of Eden. The garden of Eden from the Bible is a beautiful garden home to every tree, flowers, animals, and freshwater. “I put my little hands fearlessly on their soft fur and caressed their round ears and the sensitive corners under their ears and played with
Is this an apology or blame? In the beginning, God tells Adam not to eat the forbidden fruit. Adam disobeys God by doing so, but most people put the blame on Eve. In the poem, “Eve’s Apology,” Eve expresses her feelings toward the entire situation and shows how she is not to blame. She blames Adam for the pain we endure today. Eve eats from the forbidden tree out of curiosity. She wants to share it with Adam, so he can feel like she feels. Eve gives the fruit to Adam out of love, but she does not force him to eat it. Adam has control of his mind, so he disobeys God on his own. “Do not the thing that goes against thy heart” (Lanyer 424). Aemilia Lanyer, the author of the poem, “Eve’s Apology,” lived in the mid 1500’s and 1600’s. Living in this time period, had much influence on her writing. She published her landmark book, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, the same year that the King James Bible and three of Shakespeare’s plays were published (Wilhelm 424). Lanyer brings out the life of this poem with the poetic devices, irony, and unusual language.
the word or the digit. With all this there is a bad point to the short
Collective memory is the cultural memory (? ) or the remembered history of a community: “Anyone who during today fixes his eyes on tomorrow must preserve yesterday from oblivion by grasping it through memory” (Assmann 2011: 17). Collective memory is the way groups form memories out of a shared past to create a common identity. The memory of a group is a construction, or reconstruction, of the past. Through the approach of collective memory we can distinguish a cultural sphere that combines tradition, awareness of history, myth in action, and self-definition. This cultural sphere is constantly subject to a vast range of historically conditioned changes (Assmann 2011: 10). Collective memory is the structures that underlie all myths and histories without any distinction between them. The past that is fixed and internalized is myth, whether it is fact or fiction (Assmann 2011: 59). Collective memory can be expressed through a variety of different medias, e.g. festivals, rituals, liturgy, symbols, flags, memorial places, museums, cultural artifacts, as well as oral and written narratives, like myths, prophecies, law material, biographies and perceived historical accounts (Van Seters 2012: 54). The memories are specifically designed to recall events in the history of the collective.
In my lifetime many memories are contiuing to be made with family,friends,and teammates. Memories that are going to stay with me for a life time. When looking back to my memories there are many memories that I wish that I don’t remember. Also their are many that I wish that I can go back in time and relive the moment. Form the handful of memories that I have made in high school so far there is one that I can’t get out of my head. All from taking a PE game too seriously.