"The Twelve" Reseach Response

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Chocolate Cake

Ingredients:

·         ½   C. Cocoa

·         ½ C. Hot Water

·         2 C. Sugar

·         2 Eggs

·         1 C. Buttermilk

·         1 T. Baking powder

·         2 C. Flour

·         ½ T. Salt

·         1 t. Vanilla

Preparation:

First, dissolve the cocoa in hot water and let cool.  Add the three ingredients: Cream butter, Sugar, and Eggs.

                “Domino!”

– Screamed my uncle who slapped the domino on the table.  He snapped me out of my daze, as I was mesmerized with the combinations of the ingredients going into the preparation of the cake.  Every Thanksgiving we ended with my mom’s famous chocolate cake.  Other activities where going around all over the house, a clutter of competitive but friendly debates going in one of my ears and out the other about who was the best to ever do it in the NBA and NFL.

                My mom walked out of her room going back to the stove to dissolve the soda in the buttermilk, adding flour and milk alternately.  After doing so beating the mixed ingredients well after each added on ingredient.  She sweated bullets over the hot stove, but kept a smile on her face, my mom was just that type of woman I guess.  It wasn’t a reason not to smile this Thanksgiving though, with all the laughter and smiling faces.  Seeing all those new and old faces made everyone feel a certain way I was sure of it.  My uncle had just comeback from the army, which was my highlight of the day because he brought my baby cousin whom I had never seen before.

                The sound of the spoon hitting the bowl to the chocolate, vanilla, and salt snapped me back to the attention of the preparation of the chocolate cake.  After Mama had mixed all the ingredients together, it was time for me to step in.  This would be my first time ever helping cook with anything.  The task I had to do was simple but, I had never been so nervous in my life

                “Pour into greased 8 by 8 cake pan and bake”

 –Mama read the instructions to me aloud to where it caught my uncle’s girlfriend’s attention to make her come over and calm my nerves a little.  She was a short light skinned woman from Atlanta; my uncle always got the best looking females he could find.

“It’s okay; just don’t pour the grease to thick, but make sure you grease the whole pan.”

-She said with her strong Atlanta accent.  I set the oven for 350 degrees as the instructions stated, we were supposed to wait thirty minutes but who knew in thirty minutes this Thanksgiving would go through hell and back.  Mama finally stopped smiling when Sumer, which was her name, came over and included herself in the conversation.  I had never seen such a look in my mom’s eyes I was appalled.

“Why are you here home-wrecker?”

-Said Mama with a rude tone of voice she had only talked in when only really infuriated.  Sumer didn’t respond immediately, a wave of silence came over the crowd in the house this was how intense and strong the tension was in the room.

“Mrs. Guy I just came over to help I didn’t mean any disrespect”

-Sumer added on hesitantly.  The reason Mama called her that was because Sumer was the reason her best friend and my uncle had got a divorce.  Lisa was her name, my mom really wanted them to have children but they split up for and Sumer and my uncle had a baby out of wedlock.

“Well you’ve helped enough…BYE!”

-Mama snapped back at Sumer.  My uncle cut into the conversation once he heard all the commotion from the backyard patio and saw everyone staring at Sumer and Mama.

“Sis don’t you love your nephew?”

-My uncle said.

“Yes, very much but I don’t like this *****.”

-Mama said pointing at Sumer, my ears suddenly went deaf as she said this.  I had never heard Mama curse in my life.   They moved the conversation into Mama’s bed room and everyone slowly went back to what they were doing before Mama erupted.  Everyone except me though, I marched over to my mom’s room and put my ear to the shut door to listen to the conversation carry on.

“If you love your nephew as much as you say you do why do you keep denying the person who brought them into the world.”

-This was Sumer light gentle voice speaking, at that moment I could tell Sumer’s statement had touched Mama’s soul and way of thinking.

“You’re right I just couldn’t accept the fact Lisa left, she was my only best friend and when Mel was born we lost all contact.”

-Mama said with a crack in her voice.  I backed up as I knew this conversation was coming to an end.  They came out the room smiling and with a sense of joy over them.  I stood by the stove with oven mitts on ready to take the cake out and ice it with icing and fudge frosting.  Mama cut the cake into ten pieces and everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving.  Ever since then Mama and Sumer haven’t had any animosity towards each other

I believe that women have made a great deal of change throughout the years.  Women are steadily climbing the ladder in the work field and are taking over every few years.  Females also are about to take over the world if they already aren’t secretly, behind closed doors.   This article shows women have made a great change for the better in the work area but, also the education field.  “Wife who is the sole breadwinner in a record twenty – three percent of families, in 1976, the number was six percent”.  Even though men have been looked upon on a higher level than women throughout the years women have been on steady rise to get on that same level.  “USA TODAY analysis of census bureau data reveals a revolution in the traditional roles of men and women that extends from college campus to the workplace…”  This piece in the passage proves my thesis to be exactly correct.  A woman being soldier and men staying at home is becoming a natural thing in today’s society, from the minds of those in those in the 1950’s this would be shocking.  My paragraph can be proven word for word almost in paragraph three, so I think the thesis statement I have come out with is very accurate.  “Just as telling, wives out earn their husbands twenty-eight percent of the time”.  This is more to show you that women are actually climbing the ladder of today’s work area or career statuses.  “40 year old Kim Sprint… got pregnant during her freshmen year at Harvard… her hard working mother a military veteran… insisted she not drop out of college”.  Let’s break this down piece by piece, first Kim is forty now so when she was younger women were still not looked upon as being able to do a lot of things like be a freshmen at Harvard with a baby.  This leads to her mom who is hard working military vet. This was nearly impossible to come by back in those days. Why am I stating all these facts?  Because women have always been on the level of men since forever they just were not able to showcase their talents because the ways of males who need to be in control of thing like households and army missions. How were women ever on the level of men back in the day you might ask? Kim and her mother are prime examples, educational field; Kim went to one of the top Ivy League schools in the nation.  Work area; her mom was a veteran in the military which a lot of men can’t become because they’re not cut out; also Kim is a sales manager at one of the top shipping companies in the world.  Even though this a passage about male reversal I think it shouldn’t be question who’s on what level in society, because most of the teachers I see are women most friends I have only have a mom, and without a woman no one human on the earth would exist. So I don’t think the title should be “An American Role Reversal: Women the new Breadwinners” but “An Worldwide Phenomenon: Women and the things they’ve being doing”