The Humanities And Me (Reading Response Essay)

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ELP 1C: The Humanities and Me (Reading Response Essay)
Christopher W. Knox
Coleman University
Author Note cknox-660253232@student.coleman.edu christopher-w-knox@outlook.com
Abstract
An essay based on the required readings from week one of Humanities 110 on how the study humanities play roles and influences this writer’s life. Where does the writer come from and what are their background and culture? Do the writer have expectations and hopes for their studies into humanities and other cultures which differ from their own?
Keywords: humanities, cultural background, personal history
ELP 1C: The Humanities and Me (Reading Response Essay)

Background
My family and my cultural identities are White, American and Southern. I state this because even though many of my ancestors and relatives came for Europe as recently as far back as before the Revolutionary War and as recent as the 1980’s, we don’t identify as anything other than American. My paternal grandmother who is from France, on reaching the states has mostly refused to speak anything other than English and even was quite disappointed when she learned …show more content…
I remember being told storied by my maternal grandmother of how the family had been in the south since before the nation was its own nation and about how men of the family have fought, and some have died in every war from the revolution to the gulf war, which I’m proud to say this tradition lives on, but she was always quite adamant that during the civil war, our family fought for the south. Now I’m not saying she was a racist or supported slavery, far from it, but she was so proud of being southern that the thought of the family fighting for the north, or someone moving north of the Dixie Line was appalling to her. We have since learned that the those who fought during the civil war had fought for the north, but we won't correct grandma for fear it would give her a heart
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