Free Essays on For My Mother Lorna Goodison

  1. My Papa’s Waltz by Theodire Roethke

    My Papa’s Waltz by Theodire Roethke is about a young boy’s experience he faced with his father. His father had been drinking. This caused his actions against his son to be violent and rough; however the father is oblivious and sees it as innocent child play. The Boy Who Walked Backwards by Lorna Croziers...

  2. Love not my work

    A Sample Response for “The Child Who Walks Backwards” by Lorna Crozia (in-class work): Identify and explain the purpose and effect of two literary devices (examples of figurative language) used in this poem. In Lorna Crozia’s poem, “The Child Who Walks Backwards”, she uses figurative...

  3. "The Child Who Walks Backward"- Commentary

    “The Child Who Walks Backwards”, by Lorna Crozier, demonstrates the reluctance often found in our society to see things as they really are. The poem is written from the point of view of a neighbor, commenting on the interesting relationship between a mother and son. While the poems overall tone is very...

  4. Chicken

    computer “The child who walks backwards”, by Lorna Crozier shows a problem often found in our society. The poem follows up an idea of abuse to a young boy by an adult. Abusage takes place within finishing the poem at, “while she lies sleeping” at this point the boy is walking around backwards getting...

  5. Abolish Animal Testing

    and unethical to attempt discoveries by experimenting on animals, and the practice should be terminated. Many scientists, comprising the majority of my critics, will argue that breakthroughs in the medicine would not be possible without animal testing, and wonder if the progress of cancer and AIDS research...

  6. My Mother - Essay 3

    My Mother My mother is the most important person in my life. The problem is I cannot really express how I feel about her in just words. My mother is not my whole life, but she is a really big part of it. My whole world does not only revolve around her, but she is the most influential person who inspires...

  7. My Mother the Alcoholic

    Alcoholism and how it Affected Me I was 4 years old when I realized my mother was an alcoholic. I can remember walking home from school with my older brother just hoping she was not passed out already. I never knew how it affected me until now. Alcoholism is a family disease and most people...

  8. my mother

    My Mother, the Person I Admire the Most I admire a lot of people but the person I admire the most is my mother. She cares about everyone job, but not only works also their health. She works hard every day and she likes to learn something new. She loves to go down Church at the provinces and teach Bible...

  9. The Positive Significant Impact of My Mother

    would love to say that my mother had a positive significant impact on my life on reasons that could stretch to A1689-zD1 but I do not. Yes, my mother had a significant impact on my life but not the positive kind. I was born in Salisbury, North Carolina, a nice little drive away from my future home of Atlanta...

  10. The Person Who Has Made a Difference in My Life: My Mother

    Difference in My Life: My Mother My mother is the most influential person in my life. She has taught me various things in life and her endless support has made a difference in my life. One thing I have learned from her is how to have a successful business. Growing up and seeing my mom owning and...

  11. You should have seen the mess

    The short story “You should have seen the mess”, by Muriel Spark is about Lorna, who is 17 years old, and went out from school when she was 15 years old. She failed the 11+ exam and went to the secondary school, which she prefers because it is a new and cleaner place. Her parents want only the best for...

  12. Are You My Mother? Response Two

    ENG 493 Are You My Mother? Response Two So far in Are You My Mother? Bechdel seems to be highlighting her mother’s emotional distance from her. The mother seems more introspective than what the stereotypical mother considered. It seems that she may resent having children, treating Bechdel with...

  13. My Essay

    Sacrifice For The Beloved Mother Tears of joy welled up in my eyes as my mother hugged me at that time. She saw me crying, and said, “It’s the biggest gift that you could ever give me”. My mother held my hand as I was on the hospital bed while she was on an old wheel chair. I was the only one that could...

  14. Children and Mothers

    ear, the word “Mother” is magic in any language. The relationship between a child and its mother extends from the womb into a child’s adulthood, and it can most certainly have an affect on the future relationships of the child. The immediate attachment that a child feels towards its mother is a well-recognized...

  15. My Story

    even a favorite teacher might have been that one to make a difference in your life. Thinking of the one person who has the most influence on me in my life may not be the most unique response, but the name comes quickly: Mom. She hasn't had an influence on me mainly because she raised me to be who I...

  16. My Parents

    in some aspects. The same goes for my parents. They seem to be living happily as if they really have the same taste in everything, but on the inside, there are actually a lot of differences between them. Let’s talk about the differences between my father and my mother in terms of looks, personality and...

  17. Narrative Essay - My Parents Divorce

    Narrative Essay My Parents Divorce My mother is a single mom raising two kids: my sister and I. Usually, people think of a deadbeat mom and low-life, rebellious kids. However, in my mother’s case, I see an independent woman who is confident in her kids and in her job. My mother is not the kind of...

  18. sacrifices of a mother

    My mom only had one eye. I hated her… She was such an embarrassment. She cooked for students and teachers to support the family. There was this one day during elementary school where my mom came to say hello to me. I was so embarrassed. How could she do this to me? I ignored her, threw her a hateful...

  19. My Personal Information

    My name is Brianna Nobile. I was born in Freehold, New Jersey on August 16, 1993. At only six weeks old, I was diagnosed with gastrointestinal problems. A couple of months went by and my condition grew worse and worse each day. Doctors informed my parents that they did not think I would live much longer...

  20. My Parents

    I think that my parents are very different from each other. They never agree on a point. They always have different opinions, even on very simple issues. They argue all the time and I think this is their secret formula for staying married for such a long time. Arguing is a way of talking to each other...

  21. Last Dinner with Mother in Law

    Narrative After 10 years of marriage, my wife wanted me to take another woman out on a date. She convinced me by saying, “I love you, but I know that this other woman loves you just as much as I do and would appreciate spending time with you.” The other woman that my dear sweet wife Lindsey wanted me to...

  22. My Appreciation of the Joy Luck Club

    My Appreciation of the Joy Luck Club The first time I saw the title of the film, the Joy Luck Club, I thought that it would be a film filed with joy, luck and happiness. However, out of my expectation, in the film, I saw many unpleasant things—conflicts, hardship, disappointment, sorrow, hurt, torture...

  23. Narrative Essay on My Life

    Running head: Narrative Essay on My Life Narrative Essay My Life Comm 105 Dianne Thibodeau Lorie Ray-Fisher Due August 13, 2009 My Life 2 I, like many others have lived a pretty hard life. Well for starters, mother use to hit me and my younger sister, almost on a daily basis...

  24. My Autobiography - My Life

    anesthetist (father) and a prison deputy warden (mother). My mother was 100% Lithuanian; my father is Lithuanian and Siberian. My father served in both the Navy and the Air Force. I have five sisters, one brother, one stepsister, two half brothers, and two half sisters. My family moved a lot when I was young. I...

  25. Blog on Book What My Mother Doesn't Know

    I got to go?!?!Nowhere! My family never goes on vacations. So I was stuck home for a week without my two best friends. I wasn’t going to just sit home and feel sorry for myself though. I decided to be ‘clever’ as my mother said and plan my own “vacation”for a day in Boston. My first stop was having breakfast...

  26. My Personal

    question my mother asks me is, what do I want to be when I grow up, and for the last three years I have told her I want to become a pilot. Since then I have set my goals around achievingOn August 23, 1995 I was born in Olney MD at Montgomery General Hospital to Badia Love my mother and Andre Stewart my father...

  27. my fist day at school

    My first day at school My mother accompanied me to school on the first day. Other parents accompanied their children as well. We all waited in front of the school office. Soon a teacher came and led us to some classrooms. There we were put into four separate classes. This was when some children...

  28. My Strength, My Rock

    2006. As I awoke, I lay still with my eyes closed. I could feel the fan blowing across my skin and my husband rubbing my back. Feeling very calm and relaxed, I opened my eyes just a bit and I looked toward the window. It was still dark out. The quite whisper of my husband John’s voice said, “Baby it’s...

  29. My Xperience

    More than eight years have passed since my first step into medical school. It has changed my perspective about the medical science. I want to pursue my career in the field of Family Medicine in order to work for the poor and underserved community of my Nation. I have gotten more and more intrigued by...

  30. How to Be a Great Mother

    How to Be a Great Mother! When I think of what it means to be a great mother, so many things come to mind. I learned by example and the influences that surrounded me. I was fortunate enough to have a great Mother who raised us to be good people long before we became mothers. I learned so much about...

  31. My Journey from Nigerian to the United State of American

    My journey from Nigerian to the United State Of America, it was an earlier mooning of January 2002 when my parent heard of the news that our paper has been approval to come to the U.S.A. My parent hope of I and my sisters going to the U.S.A. finally happened. We all begin to cry it was a cry of joy and...

  32. My Beginning

    My Last Stand The wet floor was slick beneath my body it was stained red with my blood as I sat there gasping at the hope of staying alive long enough to watch my mother slay the one that did this to me. She wanted. We knew he would come because he was the great Beowulf, and no great Anglo-Saxon...

  33. My Heroine Today

    Saiusa Kongsakorn My Heroine Today is the first time that I share about the woman who raises me, her honor, a piece without her beside me. I wrote about her and I want to tell her that she still in me, where ever she stays I want to tell her that I love her but deeply feeling, it more than the word...

  34. Telling My Story

    making life almost unbearable for the mother and child. This was the unpleasant situation my mother and I had to face. The first time I saw my father was when I was eight years old. Prior to that I seen no pictures or was told nothing about him from my mother and family. So I thought for those eight...

  35. Losing My Mom

    We fought often and furiously about going out, curfew, even my hair. I hate her for complaining that my clothes are too tight or too “hobo-like”, which was the ripped jeans I wear. We couldn't seem to agree on anything. The only time that my mom and I could maintain without arguing was when we go shopping...

  36. My Personal Culture

    2005 My Personal Culture Wow! When I got this assignment, I must say, I didn’t know how I was going to sum up this big puzzle of what I call “my life”, or where I was going to find the pieces to put it together. I had many questions. I really didn’t know anything about my culture, my heritage...

  37. My Life Growing Up

    My Life Growing Up Angela Culley Well I spent some time talking to my parents about me and how I was growing up. My mother told me that I was pretty good at listening and I always wanted to help out anytime that I could. She said that when I started school that I did pretty good until I got into...

  38. My life not my way

     My Life Not My Way I. What was your family like? A. Close B. The youngest of two C. Parents’ divorced father not around. II. What things do you remember about your childhood? A. The fun had in the country. B. The hard times we had to go through. C. Spending time...

  39. My Choice

    2008 On of my own beliefs has always been something like, “Dreams keep our hopes alive” or something like that. This is a literate translation from my native tongue, Spanish. I left my country about eight years ago, in doing that I left many things behind. I packed up my dreams, persistence...

  40. My Goals Prioritized

    One of my goals for the future is to obtain a sense of being personally fulfilled, regardless of what I choose to do professionally. I want to be satisfied with my decisions, to be able to accept and forgive, and most of all to be able to live up to the expectations I have for myself. I realize I cannot...

  41. My Journey Into Teaching

    My Journey Into Teaching A wry smile came across my face when given the title of this directed writing. Call it fate, call it serendipity, call it déjà vu, but if the truth be told, I’ve been avoiding what I’m going to call my ‘date with destiny’ for most of my adult life. Sometimes my avoidance has...

  42. My heart will go on

    My Heart Will Go On When I heard "My heart will go on" playing on the radio this morning. While people are usually thinking about the romantic movie "Titanic", but for me, I always thinking and listening to the echo of melody of piano. Playing piano is one of my favorite hobbies to do during my free...

  43. Mothers & Sons

    Sons & Mothers Mother’s relationships, input and importance to their sons and daughters has been always a close and endearing one. For African-Americans this relationship was tested wearingly throughout American history. In the past many obstacles were faced by African-American men...

  44. Mother Teresa Speech

    Speaking Purpose: To pay tribute to Mother Teresa Introduction: Everybody knows Mother Teresa, right? She’s a nun who worked with poor people in India, and won the Nobel Prize. I love community service, and so she was a natural “gimme”. Except what I discovered is that she was way too complex...

  45. Life in My Household

    remember the laughter and crazy moment me and my family shared in the living room of our house. It was an average sized living room furnaced with a couch, a love seat and a lazy boy. The coffee tables of the living room were decorated with all me and my siblings accomplishments. There were sports trophies...

  46. My Heritage

    I grew up in a religious Hispanic family. Our heritage has many traditions, which my family still follows today. As a little girl my mother would tell me about her special day when she turned fifteen, she would called it a Quinceanera. Typically, in a little girl’s life, turning fifteen is one step closer...

  47. My Community

    I simply sum up in my own thoughts and words that a community is a place where someone belongs. So where do I belong? Looking back in the year of 1960, I was born in Manila, Philippines. As a baby and as a growing pre-schooler, I belong to a nuclear family with a mother and a father. As I started...

  48. How Reading Shaped My Life

    How Reading Shaped My Life By Ani Ekmekchyan I didn’t like to read much when I was younger. My mother would teach me simple words like “cat,” and “dog,” but I never liked to read. I wanted everything to be easy for me, yet learning to read wasn’t as easy as I thought. I liked to have books read...

  49. My Grandfather, My Hero

    out of something negative. For example, my grandfather has Parkinson’s disease, and knowing that Parkinson’s is a disease that will slowly take away his vibrant love for life, he never once let any of his grandchildren see his decline. When I would arrive at my grandparent’s house I would peek in the...

  50. A day in my school

    walk down the aisle, people who were my middle – school lab partners… glare at me. I close my eyes. This is what I’ve been dreading, I am sitting alone.”(pg.3) “Rachel Bruin, my ex – friend. She stares at something above my left ear. Words climb up my throat… If there is anyone in the entire galaxy...

  51. Scholarship Essay - My Family Background

    Title: My Family Background Product. Prompt: How has your family background affected the way you see the world? I am the product of my family’s influence and background. The way I view the world has been molded and shaped by my siblings, parents, grandparents, and extended family members. My future...

  52. Significant Moments in My Mother’s Life

    Self Deprecation Significant Moments In My Mother’s Life In the short story Significant Moments in My Mother’s Life by Margaret Atwood the daughter is always looking down on herself. The daughter in the short story Significant Moments in My Mother’s Life by Margaret Atwood is always depressed because...

  53. Demon of My Past

    Demon from My Past Imagine finding a little girl curled up in the fetal position in between two video games that you would find in a dark, musty bowling alley, sobbing. You go to put your arms around her to console her, she mumbles in a quiet voice, “Why me?” You do not understand what has taken...

  54. my little happiness

    My Little Happiness If you ask me what did you do in the winter holiday, I want to say that almost everything I did was related to the great festival——the Spring Festival. It is not only an ordinary traditional festival but also the greatest and most important festival in China. We celebrate it with...

  55. Non Verbal Communication - My Own Emotions

    way where I am this personal. Being zero to one half feet from people that I usually communicate in normal terms was uncomfortable. I tend to like my own space, keeping everyone at arm’s length. Becoming this way was very uncomfortable for me. I felt as if I was invading their space throughout the...

  56. My Profile

    December 20, 2001 I could give this eulogy in five words: my father was a sweetheart. He had a huge heart and a remarkable sense of humor. What more could any of us ask than to be loved and amused. My father did both with ease, he loved us and made us laugh. But, of course, there was so much more...

  57. Does Hamlet's Attitude Towards His Mother in General Solely Contribute to the Tragedy of the Play, or Is It Just on of Many Contributing Factors?

    attitude towards his mother is merely a contributing factor of the tragedy of the play “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare. This is can be proven by examining the setting of the play with it’s underlying tragedy, other possible ‘readings’ of the relationship between Hamlet and his mother, other more greatly...

  58. The Most Important Person in My Life

    I woke up at the morning after such a difficult night, strange for me fear and anxiety in my heart woke me up in that cold and overcast autumn day. I wanted to close my yeys and fall asleep, just forget about the incomprehesible feelings that enveloed me at that moment, but the pain...

  59. My Future

    Working Title 1 Working for My Future Norma Jean Smith PSY 202 Virginia Krauss November 10, 2008 Working Title 2 Outline 1. Where am I from? a. Dumas Arkansas b. Portland Oregon c. Close Family 11. What are your favorite memories? a...

  60. My Favorite Memory

    My Favorite Memory Some things in life can be planned, but nothing is ever certain. I found that out a long time ago, but what really made me truly believe it was when it happened to me. I was fourteen years old when I found out I was pregnant. I didn’t really believe it at first; I never thought it...