Reading Response #1 “My Grandmother’s Dumpling” In this essay “My Grandmother’s Dumpling,” the writer Amy Ma shows us how the dumplings affect her life. It describes the whole process of making dumplings during the festival. Firstly, it gave us a view of how to make a prefect dumpling. Secondly, the writer showed the reason why people eat it at that point. Thirdly, she illustrated us the process of how the whole family makes dumplings.
I would bring textiles to sew into clothing. I would bring grain and flour, the flour mainly to bake bread. For growth, I would have us all build one big building that could house us all, if need be. Then everyone must pitch in to build each family's house together, one after the other. Those who have skills sewing, cooking, cobbler, tool user, will get a building made to practice their trade or skill.
The Captured by Scott Zesh tells the stories of early Texas, the first settlers and the Indians. It give first hand accounts on the hardships endured by the Native Americans and "Whites" alike. In an attempt to uncover his family history the Author discovers his great uncle was a native American captive. He pursues his uncle's story and captives like him and give a voice to their experience that were almost forgotten. He collects and writes down all the information he could gather on the early Texas captives.
Book Critique In my critique of Stephen V. Ash's A Year in the South: 1865 I will discuss his theme and his use of evidence to support his thesis. I will also identify Ash's purpose in writing this book. Additionally I will discuss his writing style. Ash's ultimate goal in writing this book is to educate the reader on the rapid and drastic changes to living in America immediately after the Civil War, specifically in the Confederate South. He does this by providing the stories of four individuals who lived in different places in the South under very different circumstances the year the Civil War ended.
The mountain and hill country offered varied resources for subsistence, and the Cherokees, through cultivation of corn, beans, squash, pumpkins, and other crops…achieved a highly successful generalized adaptation. Cooking is an important part of life for the Cherokee woman. Not only is it necessary for life (nourishment), but it is part of the social fabric. Even in our traditional story of first man and first woman, Selu is known as "Corn Woman." Selu lived with her husband, Kanati, and two sons.
The settlers started to want Indian land and their previous slaves back as well. With conflicts and confrontations, comes war. Three wars occurred against the United States involving the Seminole Indians in Florida. The Seminole Wars turned out to be “America’s Longest Indian Conflict” as the wars happened over a 40 year time span. “The first was a punitive excursion led by Andrew Jackson.
In the story “Girl” is explains how the daughter is raised in the 70’s and the responsibilities and duties that is expected of her being the girl in the family. In this story, as a woman your responsibilities are to cook dinner for the family, do all the laundry, and pretty much clean all the inside of the house while catering to the man. The kind of culture that you grow up in as a woman plays a huge role as well. In my own household, the women are definitely the busy bodies. We are constantly moving, we clean everything, cook, do the laundry, scrub the bathrooms, we even was the cars and a lot more other things but that’s just how I was brought
The act made any federal official who did not arrest a runaway slave liable to pay a fine. This was the most controversial part of the Compromise of 1850. Another key factor to the start of the Civil War was the publishing of the book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Once Lincoln greeted Harriet Stowe as, “so you’re the little women who started the civil war”. Many people that read “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” became abolitionist and helped fight against slavery.
The females in the family both young and old were in charge of doing housework chores like cooking, cleaning, milking cows, and mending clothes. The males did everything else from skilled trades to making the laws. The fathers and sons in the family would also hunt for meat. In the springtime geese were plucked for making pillows and mattresses and men and women both butchered and smoked farm animals in autumn. During the winter months the women would spin wool for sewing clothes and linens.
Whatever food a peasant was capable of growing was the food he and his family would eat. The majority of food grew included wheat, beans and corn. Furthermore, the most typical food in a peasant's meal was bread. Most clothing was made by the women. It would take women hours of hard work to weave, spin, and dye and sow all of the fabric together.