If Arthur Pottinger could have had his way, his favorite sister Daisy would have achieved her goal to become a registered nurse. She would have enrolled at the Kingston School of Nursing and have graduated with honors four years later. That was also Daisy's foremost goal in life. In fact, it was the family's greatest desire for Daisy the sixth child in a household of seven children. That was until Veda Pottinger left home for employment in Kingston the big city
Alexander Pottinger resided in Salem, a well-known coastal village in St Ann, rural Jamaica. He managed a fifty-acre property and each day he rode a fleet footed shiny black stallion Rosco, around the farm to supervise the workers. He and his wife Lavinia had seven children Arthur,
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He would regret leaving Daisy but farming was not for him. His passion was business, manufacturing and trading. He would provide for Daisy and ensure that she had the funds to achieve her goal. She was empathetic and nurturing, qualities that all nurses required. Their relationship patterned that of father and daughter, and she constantly trailed behind him, bouncing, skipping, and laughing, always happy. He had taught her to swim, fish and ride a horse and a bike. On Sundays Arthur took her to Sunday school at Salem Baptist Church, where he was a Deacon and where his dad 'Busha Potts' preached on alternate Sundays when the resident Pastor Davis visited other churches. Daisy might have been lost among the others, if Arthur had not taken a special interest in her. She responded in gratitude ostensibly to say thank you for your special interest in me. Thank you for reading stories to me and teaching me to read prior to my enrollment at Hoolbery primary school. I felt special because unlike the other beginners, I could …show more content…
One Sunday in February a notice on the church's bulletin board invited applications from able-bodied persons who wished to migrate to Espania for employment in the leather manufacturing industry. Arthur seized the opportunity to leave and he and Claude applied to migrate to Espania. Daisy loved the idea of a foreign country because of her vivid imagination, that conjured up pictures of beautiful places, people and things. Four months later on June 25, Arthur and Claude, Mr. Pottinger's two oldest sons bade goodbye to the family and took flight to Espania, and Caleb a farmhand replaced Arthur in the dairy. In Daisy's fertile imagination, the unknown Espania was a wonderful place full of possibilities. She cried a little and Arthur comforted her with the solemn promise that he would write to her often and shower her beautiful frilly dresses and shiny patent leather shoes from
The Carrillo Adobe is in a dire situation. It has not only fallen into disrepair from the many years of weather and use by so many individuals, but by visitors and citizens have been less that kind and considerate of its age and the prominence that it deserves. After Carrillo’s death her house was given to three of her daughters, Marta, Juana, and Felicidad. Then her belongings were distributed between all of her children. In the first decade after her death her different children each occupied the house at different times. One of her daughters, Juana and her husband ran the home as a tavern. They then converted the adobe into the first post office in the town of Santa Rosa. After her daughters no longer had a need for the adobe it was turned into a trading post where numerous individuals...
As a little girl, she first found her life’s calling when she took care of her brother David after an accident. He had been helping to build a barn when he flipped and fell to the ground. Doctors had come to help, but he did not get any better. Eleven year-old Clara became David's nurse, administering his medicine and even applying and removing leeches when the doctors suggested it might help. Clara stayed home from school for two years to take care of her brothe...
The misfortunes Jane was given early in life didn’t alter her passionate thinking. As a child she ...
When they first arrived to the United States their only hopes were that they would have a better life and that there were better special education programs for Maribel to attend at Evers. Alma imagined that the buildings would look a lot nicer than they really were. The family was surprised that they could take things from the street that someone threw out of their house, but were in working condition. When they arrived they didn’t think that you would actually have to learn English to be able to communicate, but after going to stores and interacting with people they learned that they need to learn English if they want to live in America. They hoped that you could be able to afford anything in America by working, but based off of the money Arturo was making they learned that you can’t buy everyth...
Flannery O’Connor’s “Good Country People,” describes the lives of a mother, Mrs. Hopewell and her daughter, Joy and the irony of their relationship. This passage from the short story expounds on their character development through details of their lives. The selected paragraph uses a matter-of-fact tone to give more information about Mrs. Hopewell and Joy. Flannery O’Connor has given an objective recount of the story, which makes the third person narrator a reliable source. Mrs. Hopewell’s feelings are given on her daughter to examine their relationship. It is reader who takes these facts to create an understanding of these women and their lives. This part of the story illustrates the aspects of their lives that they had little control over. Therefore, it indirectly shows how each woman acclimated to their circumstance. Although genetically related and living with one another, Mrs. Hopewell and Joy were exceedingly different people.
The novel opens with the death of the grandfather of John Grandy Cole, a sixteen year old boy who grew up on said grandfather’s ranch in Texas. After the funeral, John discovers that his mother plans on selling the ranch to allow her to move to the booming city. Because the ranch and the ‘roughing it’ lifestyle is all John knows, he chooses to leave Texas with his friend Lacey Rawlins, and go to Mexico in search for adventure and hopefully a better life than his mother planned on giving him in Texas.
Her parents meet at a social gathering in town and where married shortly thereafter. Marie’s name was chosen by her grandmother and mother, “because they loved to read the list was quite long with much debate over each name.” If she was a boy her name would have been Francis, so she is very happy to have born a girl. Marie’s great uncle was a physician and delivered her in the local hospital. Her mother, was a housewife, as was the norm in those days and her father ran his own business. Her mother was very close with her parents, two brothers, and two sisters. When her grandmother was diagnosed with asthma the family had to move. In those days a warm and dry climate was recommended, Arizona was the chosen state. Because her grandma could never quite leave home, KY, the family made many trips between the states. These trips back and forth dominated Marie’s childhood with her uncles and aunts being her childhood playmates.
children in the farming family. Doris was a good student when she went to school,
Annie Oakley was one of six children. Both her mother and her father were quakers and they did not have very much money. Her father passed away when she was just six years old. At the age of eight or nine, Annie went to live with the superintendent’s family in the Darke County Infirmary. The infirmary housed elderly, orphaned, and the mentally ill. Annie received
At the age of 18, Miss Barton became a schoolteacher. She taught at numerous different schools around Massachusetts. Clara noticed in one particular town that many of the students did not attend school that greatly distressed her. She wanted all children to have the same educational opportunity that she had when she was growing up. Eventually, Barton started her own school. It was free. However, she did not stay there for a long period of time. Clara only taught for a matter of ten years, teaching had exhausted Barton and she longed for a change in her life. She left the teaching field to move onto another field. Barton moved to Washington DC and she became a clerk in the US Patent Office.
However, as I continued to read the story I began to wonder if maybe Connie’s life was not in any way parallel to my own. I have a younger sister where she has an older sister, but that is where the similarities end. Her mother is always telling her that she should be more like June, her older sister. It seemed to me that June living with her parents at her age was unusual, but the fact that she seemed to enjoy this and was always doing things to h...
She is a child with high self-worth which has been developed by receiving affection, love and interaction from both mum and step-dad. As Rodgers (1959) theory explains self- worth is the result of unconditional positive reward. Daisy’s parents have always treated her the same, they have not withdrawn their love or affection during her behavioural changes. She is not a child who seeks approval, or who will follow the desired behavioural wishes of her parents- she makes her own decisions (McLeod, 2014).
As the youngest of five children she was often overlooked. The pride of the family often overrode the opportunity to receive health care, handouts and a decent chance to become something. My mother spent her childhood in a tiny house with her family and many relatives. She was never given the opportunities to excel in learning and life like my generation has. My grandfather was a carpenter and on that living fed many hungry mouths. But despite this already unfortunate lifestyle my mother maintained good grades and was on a path to overcoming her misfortune.
Even though Anne was temperamental, she was a good match for Helen Keller. She had a high tolerance to being upset about such things through her life and could deal with Helen’s outbreaks. Annie had gone through many outbreaks of her own in life. After her father abandoned them, Anne and her younger brother were sent to a house in Tewksbury, Massachusetts because Annie was too blind to accomplish much, and Jimmie had a hurt leg. The house and town was very poor, run down, and overcrowded. It really was not a house though, more of an asylum to keep kids who weren’t wanted. While there, Jimmie died due to being born with a tubercular hip. She would have had other 4 other siblings, but 2 died in infancy. Anne spent four years at Tewksbury mourning her brother and the two failed operations she ...
At the age of 36, mom decided to return back to college to obtain her nursing degree. This wasn’t a hard decision for her to make. The April before she enrolled in school my great grandmother passed away. This major dilemma played a major role in mom’s returning back to school. She had taken care of my great grandmother for months before she passed away, and decided that she wanted to make an impact on the lives of geriatrics.