Jazmine Hughes and Alice Marwick are two bloggers who believe that it is easier to make friendships online. While people would argue that no one is their true self online Jazmine argues in The Intenet Can Make Real Life Friendships easier, the opposite “That the web doesn’t preclude people from making in real life friends. […]
Ethnography: The Life of a Single Mother
The Sullivan family is a single-parent family. In this family unit you have Lindsay who is the mother and Lennix who is the only child. Lindsay is a young female at the age of twenty nine that takes on the role of not only mother, but breadwinner and essential caregiver as well. As Lennix’s essential […]
Reading Journal #2
The sun magazine had posted an article by Cheryl Strayed called “The Love of My Life”. In this article, Cheryl talks about losing her 45-year-old mother when she was just 22 years old. Even though her mother was sick and Cheryl knew it was coming her grief over losing her mother sent her into a […]
Sample Ethnography
The sample ethnography I read was written by Susan Orlean called “The American Male at Age Ten”. Ethnography is defined as the study and systematic recording of human cultures that can be made into a descriptive work produced from such research. For her ethnography, Susan observed a ten-year-old male named Colin Duffy and in turn […]
Memoir Final Draft: To Follow Your Dreams
To Follow Your Dreams My mother had always raised me and my siblings to follow our dreams and work hard to make them a reality. My dream had always been to become a nurse. I remember when I was about six or seven years old walking around in my mother’s nursing shoes, her […]
Reading Journal #1
In the Article House of Memory Lisa writes about the belief that a house can hold onto memories. She writes about the home she owned with her husband. The memories of being pregnant and raising their daughter in that home. She also writes about when her husband became ill and then of losing him. She […]
Exploding Moment
Wednesday February 16th, 2005 As we pulled up in front of the apartment that feeling of unease that had been building all day was at its highest. The one thought crossing my mind was to try to make it upstairs before my younger siblings did. I feared the thought of her lying face down somewhere […]
Memoir Assignment : To Follow Your Dreams
To Follow Your Dreams My mother had always raised me and my siblings to follow our dreams and work hard to make them a reality. My dream had always been to become a nurse. I remember when I was about six or seven years old walking around in my mother’s nursing shoes, her stethoscope on […]
Memoir Sample
Reg Stark writes an amazing memoir Pennies from Heaven, about signs from his wife who has passed away. Throughout the memoir he describe the relationship between not only himself and his wife but with their son and friends and family. She was loved and passed with her friends and family surrounding her. He has since […]
Writer’s Autobiography
As a writer I would have to say I am not the greatest however I cannot say that I like nor dislike writing. I remember back in grade school writing daily journal entries about our day and what we would be doing after school, what happened over the weekend, or even just how we were […]