Olivia Cartwright 2/8/2012 Status: Individual Not Started (Due February 9, 2012 3:00 PM) 1. Impact of Uncle John's death- Uncle John refuses to see a doctor and had been sick for several months. In their culture when a love one dies you’re expected to wail and cry to properly show your grief. His wife Enifa was screaming at first then she started grasping for her breath. Then his mothers face twisted like she had eaten something sour.
The firsthand accounts being used in this paper are selections taken from the book Hard Times, written by Louis ‘Studs’ Terkel. I will focus on his interview of Emma Tiller, Cesar Chavez, and Blackie Gold, three very different individuals with three very different experiences and social statuses during the time of the Great Depression. Their experiences will, hopefully, provide an illuminating perspective to a history that has so often been cut and dried, referring to its people, often only as a whole or groups. Rarely is the focus on certain individuals and how their relations connect to their nation as a whole. Looking at Emma Tiller’s experience, we see how she dealt with the market collapse of 1929, where individuals were fearfully seeking justification for why things are in shambles.
Late in 1932, she suffered a nervous breakdown that was brought on because she was unable to complete a Radio City Music Hall mural project that had fallen behind schedule. She was hospitalized in early 1933 and did not paint again until January 1934. In the spring of 1933 and 1934, she recuperated in Bermuda, and she returned to New Mexico in the summer of 1934. In 1972, her eyesight was compromised by macular degeneration, leading to the loss of central vision and leaving her with only peripheral vision. Juan Hamilton, a young potter, appeared at her ranch house in 1973 looking for work.
She is a very brilliant girl that has straight A’s in all her classes and is always on time. Julia is a beautiful girl that is very quiet and self- conscious in other words shy. She didn’t have a lot of friends and was really hardly social. Leigh Lacey was her only best friend that she has known since 1st grade. Leigh was very sporty and athletic with green eyes and brown golden hair and always managed to maintain an A average in her studies on top of her busy sports schedule.
Mary’s older sister, Jackie, is very confident and has a very high self-esteem. She’s describes as a “bonfire” who looks more mature than her fourteen years (10). With her flirting she makes everyone happy with laughter and keeps the energy going for a long time. As I reflect on my up bring, I was raised in a single parent home with six other siblings. My sister, Shalecia, is much like Mary’s sister
This particular story deals with the life of a troubled woman, Mrs. Mallard. She just received news of the death of her husband, Mr. Mallard, who died in a terrible accident. Mrs. Mallard felt a burden lifted from her shoulders after receiving this information and rejoiced. This was only short lived due to the fact that it wasn’t her husband who died nor was he anywhere near the accident. After this shock, Mrs. Mallard died (DiYanni, 2007).
Melinda was an outcast. She started school with everyone hating her. Her old friends ignored her and even the kids she barely talked to in middle school; now talk about her behind her back. Her best friend Rachel tells her she hates her. She lost all her friends and has no one to talk to and share her feelings to, besides Heather.
That’s where she grew up most of her lives. She has really long beautiful black and brown hair that’s pretty much down pass her back, maybe even further down. Charmaine is a little bit taller than 5”3 almost 5”4, with a light skin color. For the first time you meet her you couldn’t understand her because she is one of the shyest girl you’ll ever met but once you see her around or even talk to her, she starts to warm up to you. Once you began to talk more to her you would wonder what happen to that shy person, now this outstanding, funny girl and even more talkative.
II. This happened to Helen Keller’s family, after her first birthday she contracted a virus that left her deaf and blind. A. For several years, Helen had very little communication with the rest of the world, except for
Person she’s gone.” When he heard that his heart dropped. I was that that little boy and that woman was my mother. I thought my life had hit a dead end, and I said to myself “if she’s dead I don’t want to be here either.” Dealing with my mother’s death was not easy, but there was nothing I could do about it. My life hasn’t always been easy. Losing a parent is something I never want anybody to experience.