Running Head: FARM GIRL 1 Assignment 1.2: Summary and Personal Response (Farm Girl-Revision Option) Renee Maynard FARM GIRL 2 In this essay entitled “Farm Girl” written ever so diligently by Jessica Hemauer. Who brings her memoir to life by clearly and specifically detailing how her life growing up on a farm has affected her, and molded her into the woman she is today. One of my favorite quotes in this essay is stated early in her story when she says, “It seems our daily lives operate in shifts, not like a real family” (Hemauer, pg.84). That statement for me stood out as a strong and bold sentence. It's certainly not a sentence she could communicate to her parents.
My mother was an over-achiever and saw education as a way of showing that she was better than most. She liked going to school to learn so she could be ahead of people and once she knew the material, she could go back and help her peers. My mom serviced her community just like one of the core values of the University of La Verne. My grandmother was the person that encouraged my mom because she was the one that organized it all. My grandmother was the person that would make her lunch and washed her uniform.
It’s as if the Ranch Girl has stepped outside her body and is narrating the story herself, but with a hint of unfamiliarity. It’s about a young white girl, not rich, but not poor either, but because she was raised on a ranch, she considers herself just a little lower class than most middleclass white kids she goes to school with and not once has a girl from school, come out to her house. Her dad is the foreman on Ted Haskell’s Running H ranch. Both her dad and Haskell’s wives have run off, to leave the two men raising teen daughters on their own. While the hired hands live and eat in the bunkhouse, their foreman has his own house and usually falls asleep sipping a can of beer while eating crackers and cheese.
I believe many students in the audience could relate to that and by creating that link she won the audience trust and heart. Arrangement/Organization In my own opinion the speech felt more like a freestyle than something that was prepared. The speech was organized in a very chronological order that is from her freshman to her senior year and ended with her present life situation. She talked about how she was so excited to be in college and asked how many of us in the
There is even a brief nod to equity theory in this. Some of her peers are also parents but have chosen to hire nannies and continue to work full time. This gives them the advantage at work and creates feelings of inequity in Anna. Drive to Bond: Anna needs to develop the special bond of mother and daughter. Anna also wants to nurture the relationships she worked hard to create with her employer, co-workers and church group.
Talking about some skills, she need to learns how to differentiate between knowing her coworkers' feelings and control them so the work environment is not affected with the external situation. She has been acting very friendly because obviously, they are her friends but she needs to come up with some way to control them in their work. 2. Why did Grace have problems making changes and maintaining discipline when she first was promoted to a position that required leadership? The principal problem that Grace is facing is something very common nowadays.
Geddes’ essay was effective overall and managed to get the point across. There is a transition throughout the essay, from the start of her childhood to growing up into adulthood. The reader is able to understand the respect that she has for her family and community in the beginning and then the harsh reality of the intolerance for diversity as she goes to school. In the end she does realize that she is good enough to go to post secondary despite what people may have said earlier. Believing in yourself and remembering where you come from builds character and you should not let anyone tell you otherwise.
Reference the historical facts about spinning listed above to help the students, especially the girls, appreciate the role that spinning played in women’s lives in years gone by. Ask the students to consider the work opportunities available to women then and now. How is working with one’s hands different than working with ones head? What rewards derive from each? This can lead into a discussion of what the students wish to be when they grow up so as to explore the more general topic of sloth versus hard work and
Professor: Roger Fontana English Composition-115 4/19/15 As I was reading Jessica Hemauer “Farm Girl” I felt a great connection to her story. I chose her because I am a country girl as well, who went through similar things as she did. Early as a child my Grandmother had a farm which I worked like Ms. Hemauer, being young and wanting to enjoy childhood should be the normal life. But it’s not up to the child, especially when you haft to earn your keep or help your Family survive no matter what your age is. Some may think that’s abuse or wrong to make a child work as hard as she did, but when that child grows up.
Awhile back I spoke to a fellow student in a gym class. She seemed frustrated because she was forced to miss out on her art class due to her need to retake a math class, but she was still allowed to go to gym. She mentioned how unfair it was that it was gym that took priority over other classes like band and art, and it got me thinking. Why should gym be a required course? There are more important class than one that requires students run around for an hour, and the fact that all students are put into one class, rather than being separated by physical level of fitness and skill in sports, only makes it all the more unfair.