Group Observation Assignment March 22, 2012 Kim Ragan Southern Illinois Celiac Support Group Neighborhood Co-op Grocery’s Community Room at Murdale Shopping Center, 1815 West Main Street, Carbondale, IL 62901 March 8, 2012 from 6:30 - 7:30 pm Marjorie Yuill A. The purpose of the group is support people living with Celiac Disease that must be on a gluten-free diet to keep from having flare ups from the disease. They discuss gluten-free products that they have tried and which ones tasted good or bad as well as any new advances in medicine for celiac disease. They discussed coping strategies for what they could and couldn’t eat, and shared their personal experiences of coping with Celiac Disease including how
2/17/14 Pd.4 Writing and speech Cookie Dough Lately at Knoch, the students have been selling cookie dough to raise money for prom. We need to raise about $20,000 to cover all of the expenses. My best friend Riley and I are participating in this fundraiser. Our goal is to sell ten tubs of cookie dough before February 18th to ensure that we have a great prom. Sounds easy enough, but we needed customers and fast.
I also try to help others by guiding them to a good decision but not telling them the right one so that they have the choice in their hands. I currently represent the “Service” Trait of NJHS by participating in Art Club. Art Club is a club that makes things like ornaments and valentines to raise money to donate to local organizations like the Tranquility Animal Sanctuary. We do service projects that also include donating ceramics to “Empty Bowls” charity event to help raise money to feed the homeless. We also got to eat what an average homeless person’s intake of food for a day.
On the surface of Eulalia Perez's memoire "An Old Women Remembers" one would think that she is simply a women who fits the mold of the roles of women during that time. Yet we see time and time again that she has a strong sense of pride, regardless of what task she does, that she will be the best at the task at hand. This sense in pride is demonstrated when she's given the task of teaching two Native Americans to cook and she states " I taught them so well that I had the satisfaction of seeing them turn out to be very good cooks, perhaps the best in all this part of the country" (75). Perez makes it a point to make sure the reader understands that though she was just a cook, she was the best cook, and all those under her became the best too. We see Perez progress through the story constantly earning more responsibilities and higher positions in her social structure due to her always being the best at what she does.
Despite all the hard work they were very happy and working together on their land made them very close to each other. Maria remembers fondly of her mother, of her cooking and the smell of her mother’s tortilla’s and the dresses she made for her from spare pieces of cloth. “They always had flowers on them, pink and yellow”. (190) This was the way her mother showed her love for her. Not able to buy anything Maria’s mother did the best she could be provide for her and her brother Alberto.
These are the people that leave lasting marks on our world and make it a better place for the rest of us to live out our lives in a positive and meaningful manner. One of these people that felt so strongly for a cause is a woman by the name of Lilly Ledbetter and because she was strong enough to take a stand and never back down there is now a bill written in the books bearing her name, “The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.” Lilly Ledbetter lived her life as many Americans do. She was a proud mother of two and a loving wife. She worked tirelessly at a local Goodyear Tire and Rubber factory for 19 years on an overnight shift from 7p.m. to 7a.m.
Mrs. Trane was an active member of her church. She was known and loved by everyone for all of her kind services, like volunteering at the food pantry, starting a collection for the Salvation Army, and donating her time to the local Meals on Wheels organization. International travel was only one of her many hobbies. She greatly enjoyed knitting, and started a knitting club; she attended water aerobic classes every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday; and she thoroughly enjoyed spending time with her seven children, their spouses and her eighteen grandchildren. Family was her biggest joy in life.
Jane Addams accounts, “It was during this winter that I became permanently impressed with the kindness of the poor to each other; the woman who lives upstairs willingly shares her breakfast with the family below because she knows which will make life in America more possible.”(123) The people that worked at Hull House were known as “residence” and were available to aid people at all hours of the night. These workers were normally women because at this time women started being embraced as more than just birth givers. They were beginning to be acknowledged as being good with children and education and capable of holding jobs in these
Character Sketch of Mama In the book Having Our Say, Mama is described as a courageous black woman and a devoted mother. She loves each of her children the way “God loves His children” (Delany, Hearth 70). She never turned anyone away who was in need of a meal. According to her daughters Sadie and Bessie Delany, “She’d stop…and fix them a plate” (Delany, Hearth 66). Mama was a busy woman, but always had time for her children.
But not only was she a good cook, she was very comforting and inspirational. At times I would feel better talking to her about problems and situation then my own mother. But above all we shared the same faith in God. We’re both Christians, and we believe that all things were possible through Christ Jesus. She even took me to a Carolina game.