Personal Narrative: Martha Washington Balls

Tamales have the power of merging family. Christmas eve in Mexico means interacting and bonding with the whole family. When the holiday season begins and everybody gathers at Grandmother’s house you can trace the smell of tamales getting cook in the kitchen mixed with the smell of cinnamon. The Christmas tree is bursting with presents and on the side the nativity scene which is always present in a Catholic Mexican family. The table is brimming in flavors, with a variety of dessert and snacks and delicious hot drinks. As appetizing as the table looks the whole family is barely touching the food because the tamales are almost ready and everybody wants to eat as many tamales as possible. When the tamales are ready it means that Christmas Eve celebration is staring. Everyone from the oldest in the house to the youngest gets a plate and eats as many tamales as possible while sharing stories and laughs. The tamales are the main guest of the celebration. The tamales are a traditional Mexican food that can be traced to the Aztecs. The word tamale comes from the Aztec word tamalii which means wrapped food. The Aztec women would cook the tamales for the soldiers because they were easy to carry and eat. Today making tamales is a bonding event for all the women in the family,

Alice Ball came into the world on July 24, 1892, in Seattle, Washington. Her grandfather was a famous photographer and her father was a lawyer. She had two older brothers named Robert and William, and a little sister named Addie. She lived in Hawaii for two years and left Hawaii in time for her grandfather’s death in 1905. She then went to Seattle High School and graduated in 1910. She got a pharmaceutical degree from the College of Washington and co-authored a paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. She returned to Hawaii and went to the College of Hawaii in 1915 and came out with a masters degree in science, specifically the field of chemistry.

Their menu consisted of a hearty roux based seafood gumbo made with the protein ingredients of shrimp, oysters, crabs, smoked sausages, andouille, and turkey necks. In addition to the robust gumbo, the table must be laden with ham, bread dressing, and cranberry sauce. Mama required finest ham for her Thanksgiving dinner; she chose Schott’s ham from the Chisesi Brothers in New Orleans. She would boil the ham and then bake it with a nice glaze, and dress it with pineapples and cherries. Mama’s bread dressing is still the absolute best, when the family gets together, it is definitely declared as a must have. She would brown ground meats (pork and beef) and gizzards, then take a loaf of French bread and soften it up with some water and add it to the mixture. This bread dressing would be fried in the skillet until the texture and color matched Mama’s liking. The whole house became a

When George Washington, leader of the Continental Army, arrived at valley Forge, he sent word to his wife Martha washington who was already ready to head to the winter camp to spend time with her husband. She was all packed and ready to go at a moment's notice (Day). Martha Washington was a person admired by everyone from her first love die to her becoming the First Lady. Through all the things Martha went through, she showed ingenuity while run the house and leadership to her country and to women around the new United States of America. Martha grew up as a very wealthy person, but she is more than money and a pretty face.

The winter formal was approaching fast like dark clouds before the rain hits. Frustrated, I slammed the phone down on the phone receiver. Looks like my make-shift girlfriend couldn't go to the dance because her dad said I just wanted to score. To make sure we had no off-campus interactions, he was going to make her go to family night at Shakey's Pizza that day.

An item specific to my family would be the Buckeye candy. Our family has been making these at Christmas for at least 3 generations. It is special to our family because it has become a tradition among the women who cook them each year.

On Wednesday, February 7th 2018 it was my first time volunteering with Martha's Table. I signed up to volunteer at the clothing store, known as Martha's Outlet, but the volunteer coördinator directed me to the kitchen because they needed more staff. I was quite excited to work in the kitchen because I love cooking and organizing. When I got to the kitchen, I put on an apron, gloves, and hair net to make sure a sanitary place. My first task was to organize the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches that organizations such as law firms, schools, and churches. I organized hundreds of sandwiches that were given out for free at dinner as well as in the lobby of Martha's Table. Another task I did while at dinner and the dishes was to go outside and

It's made from scratch and very creative. They put a lot of detail into the design of the treats, but in such a way that it looks beautiful and still tastes amazing. They have a huge focus on chocolate, and they are well known for their chocolate products. If you are going to propose to someone and you want to give them a ring, they have edible chocolate boxes where you can put the ring and some chocolate. There is lots of creative treats there as well, such as chocolate hedgehogs. They have wedding and birthday service too, you need a beautiful and special cake, they are on top of

It was a sunny afternoon in the town of jamesville. Nobody, including myself, was inside. Everyone was out mowing their yards or planting flowers. There weren't many days like today in this town. Many of the people here have plenty of secrets that they would never tell. See, its sunday and nearly the entire town is pretending to be the perfect little church family they want everyone to think they are. But is this how they actually are?

Due to medications, age and medical conditions, many seniors are only able to eat a small amount of food. This means that the food that your senior loved one does eat needs to be rich in nutrition. Unfortunately, many typical Christmas dishes lack nutrition and are high in sugar, fat and sodium. Make the holidays special and elegant this Christmas with these nutritious and delicious meal options.

A few more. Just a few more and then you are done. Let’s go. Five. That last one was not the best. A little bit more hip rotation and that should fix it. Four. Okay, so that was not right. Pull more to the glove side, but keep the front shoulder closed. Three. That’s better. Maybe try a breaking ball? No; need to repeat the mechanics and not get fancy. Two. Alright, that was about the same. Focus. This will pay off in the end. Keep working. One. Woah! Do not want to be there. Get it down. Pull down more. Okay, maybe two more-- hit the spot—get it right. Better. One more. End it right. Finish strong; keep working. Not going to be able to finish on that. Another. Keep working. Excellent. Let’s get some water and call it a day.

I am from a yellow ball blazing through the air and the breaking of bats.

Gwendolyn Brooks was a black poet from Kansas who wrote in the early twentieth century. She was the first black woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize. Her writings deal mostly with the black experience growing up in inner Chicago. This is the case with one of her more famous works, Maud Martha. Maud Martha is a story that illustrates the many issues that a young black girl faces while growing up in a ‘white, male driven’ society. One aspect of Martha that is strongly emphasized on the book is her low self-image and lack of self-esteem. Martha feels that she is inferior for several reasons, but it is mainly the social pressures that she faces and her own blackness that contribute to these feelings of inferiority. It is

Katherine Mansfield’s short story ‘Her First Ball’ introduces us to Leila, a country girl on her way to her first ball with her cousins, the Sheridan sisters. A range of language features convey Leila’s attitude of naive and excitement as the ball begins, and her transition to a young woman who is more socially experienced and mature by the end of the story. The story conveys the message that loss of innocence is an inevitable and vital part of the transition from adolescence to adulthood.

Thinking in this product makes me want to have some of it. The first impression people might have when they see this dessert is that it might be an expensive and luxurious product because of its embellished packaging. It can be identified by the cute design of the box due to the fact that on the left of the box there is a sumptuous ribbon that its background color is a combination between dark cinnamon and lightly caramel, furthermore, the ribbon has the brand´s name sketched all around it. The theme color of the whole box is pearly white what makes the letters of the brand, written on the top of the box, stand out in a bright gold. Moreover, bellow the ribbon there is a little description in French about the glamorous product and next to it a small window made of transparent plastic where the small pieces of the product are shown to the public. The most interesting thing comes after its purchase. I start feeling the anxiety when it is time to open this fancy box because as