My background seems, at least from my perspective, seems to be something of an amalgamation of family history meets adolescent resistance equates to conformity. The world that I knew as a child only exists in my memories. While I draw my life experiences from them I made the active choice to change the path that I walked. I do take from that life the positive knowledge in order to better provide and care for the family that I have now. Highlighting a few points of my childhood that have molded me into the man that I am today are the fact that I come from a Lower Middle-Class family. This plays a major factor on the manner that I process information. I grew up with a Father who was distant at best, working long hour’s day in and day out in a cannery factory, a mother who suffered from multiple health issues to the tune of diabetes, depression, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and an older sister that in my youth I idolized. These factors are the foundation for the future that was to come. My parents had a very unhealthy relationship and had separated at one point and my mother continually threated to leave my father over the years. (TCO 3 & 5) From the age of 5 to 11 I was raised by my grandparents. They were a couple who worked hard through Depression Era and maintained that mentality throughout their lives. They were loving, yet hard in the manner that they raised me. In this way they taught me respect, moral ethics, the value of hard work and achievement, the value of education, and ritual and tradition. (TCOXXX) I had a love of the arts and for animals. My Grandparents supported the love of animals as it mirrored their affinity for them as well; however, they would regularly tell me to practice my art as a hobby because as they p... ... middle of paper ... ...w your life plays out. I am a stronger person, albeit protective and distant which are definite masculine features within the household as a result of my life experiences. (TCO 5, 6 , 7, & 8) In short, I am establishing the breaking of a dysfunctional cycle for the men in my family. I been among the homeless, the Working poor, and the Middle-Class, as such I am not accepting a class distinction. No, I am challenging it. I am a loving and supportive father and son. I have overcome my own handicaps in order to achieve moderate success and continue to advance. I have traveled the spectrum of social mobility going up and down the ranks. In conclusion I am a better-rounded, critically thinking individual that doesn’t the best that he can to support his family ties and instill healthy traditions by highlighting my own life as an example for those that follow. (TCO 3 & 5)
The author Wes Moore dad was a hard worker and he had dreams & goals set for the future. The other Wes’s parents didn’t have as much drive and ambition. The other Wes’s dad walked out on him and his mother was left to work jobs just to provide for the family. Author Wes’s parents ambitions rubbed off onto him and his mother’s love for education drove her to push Wes academically. The two mothers had different expectations and ambitions for their sons. The other Wes states “‘We will do what others expect of us, Wes said. If they expect us to graduate we will graduate. If they expect us to get a job, we will get a job. If they expect us to go to jail, we will go to jail.” (Moore 126). The expectation the families had on both Wes’s shaped who they were and that influenced the decisions they made, that caused their lives to end up so
The way my friends and colleagues, and generally speaking, members of society are raised can impact them psychologically. Whether it is being put on a pedestal or being the victim of ignorance, experiences shape the attitude of humans. In “How to Land Your Kid in Therapy,” Lori Gottlieb talks about her patients with great childhoods instead of talking about the patients who had bad childhoods. As she listens to her patients, she realizes that the parents did too much for their children, and consequently set them up for failure. Due to overprotection and not much discipline, these children have concerns, unhappiness, and feelings of being lost. When she thinks of all the experiences her patients have had with their parents, she relates it to her experience of
The author clearly shows how his childhood effected his adulthood, making in a living example of what he is writing about allowing the audience to more easily trust what he is writing about. Instead of using factually evidence from other dysfunctional family incidences, the author decides to make it more personal, by using his own life and comparing family ideas of the past to the present.
In “The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop, the narrator attempts to understand the relationship between humans and nature and finds herself concluding that they are intertwined due to humans’ underlying need to take away from nature, whether through the act of poetic imagination or through the exploitation and contamination of nature. Bishop’s view of nature changes from one where it is an unknown, mysterious, and fearful presence that is antagonistic, to one that characterizes nature as being resilient when faced against harm and often victimized by people. Mary Oliver’s poem also titled “The Fish” offers a response to Bishop’s idea that people are harming nature, by providing another reason as to why people are harming nature, which is due to how people are unable to view nature as something that exists and goes beyond the purpose of serving human needs and offers a different interpretation of the relationship between man and nature. Oliver believes that nature serves as subsidence for humans, both physically and spiritually. Unlike Bishop who finds peace through understanding her role in nature’s plight and acceptance at the merging between the natural and human worlds, Oliver finds that through the literal act of consuming nature can she obtain a form of empowerment that allows her to become one with nature.
In ceramics, I mess around with my friends but still get my work done at the same time and have fun doing it. 9-11 has definitely taught my parents that no matter how safe you think you are that anything can happen at anytime so you have to always be cautious. My parents moved to UA 23 years ago from Grandview. They wanted to move here because they knew they wanted to have a family, UA had great school systems, and it is very safe. My parents have molded me into the person I am today. They have taught me the right and wrong things to do in life, how to be kind to everybody, and how it is important to be loyal to friends and family. They have told me to always keep strong relationships with your family because in the end they're all you'll have.
When we first broke into our groups, I was a bit confused as to why we were doing this exercise. I thought that it was probably had to do with sharing ideas of being in a privileged socioeconomic status so we could merge groups afterward and share what we brainstormed, which turned out to be correct. I wasn’t surprised to be included in the middle-upper class group because for where I stood during the “privilege line” activity. One difference that was noted in our group was how it felt to be in the middle-upper class group. I said that I felt a bit of pride because the reason for why I was in this class was because of how my mother worked to overcome oppression. Other people said they felt guilty because they didn’t have to work for anything they had today, and almost everything they had was inherited. I now understand why they felt that way because of the reading for this week.
The values that I learned from my parents as an infant, child, adolescent, and, most recently, as an adult, are continually enforced and taught to me today. It is because of this strong family support that I have stayed the same as I was before entering college. My family has always preached strong family values that will be with me for the rest of my life, and will be passed on to my children and grandchildren. Some of the family values that I have learned from my family are to always respect my elders and to have good manners no matter what.
They taught me values like working hard, being faithful to your family, the importance of a good name and being honorable, the importance of community and supporting community groups, remembering your ancestors and your cultural heritage, respecting your elders and your parents, and many other important values and virtues that help me to be a man of substance and strength. And yes, I can say it, I am a man of substance and strength, perhaps even a dime among a lot of nickels.
I was born into a family of oldest children and a middle brother. I grew up feeling that everyone was controlling me and telling me what to do. Decision making proved to difficult, but I was content with living the life my parents and older sister told me to live. However, my parents and the experiences I've had are the reason I have high expectations for myself today.
While there are many things standing in my way, my experiences have prepared me. My mother’s kidney disease shows me the importance of being financially prepared for the unexpected. My dad’s hard work and sacrifice has shown me how to be a hard-working woman and to put others before myself. And most importantly, I have learned that no matter a person’s race, gender, or class, you never truly know a person’s
To make the best of who we are. Our parents were raised by our grandparents with similar beliefs and expectations, as were we. My grandfather has influenced my life in numerous ways. I have many memories of him, he has made me laugh through all the fun times that we had together, but he also made me cry. When I was a freshman my grandfather became deathly sick. As the months flew by and I stood by his side, he became increasingly ill. In the early spring of that year my grandfather passed away right before my eyes. That was an unforgettable moment in my life. My grandfather taught me to accept, to accept both life and death. He showed me that life moves on, people you love will leave you and that through it all it only makes us stronger in the end. It's loved ones in our lives, like my grandfather, who are the breath within us that give us courage to follow our hearts.
I grew up in a middle class, Catholic, and Filipino household where obedience, good behavior and superior grades were the key to getting what you wanted. I grew up with my grandparents and my mom in a suburban area in Paradise Hills. Since my dad was never present in my life, I modeled most of my behavior from my grandpa. My life may
According to Deborah A. Prentice and Erica Carranza (2002), women are portrayed as warm and caring whereas men are portrayed as tough and strong. These are a few of the differences between men and women. Men have a different energy then women. Men and women represent two forms of energy; they are the male and female elements of a soul. Men are physically stronger; by nature, they are usually more aggressive and externally oriented. In contrast, a woman is usually the ideal of inner dignity; some people would consider this as weakness, whereas in truth it is stronger than most aggressive physical force. Dignity does not shout being strong but it is a strong, steady voice, which speaks from within.
This paper is supposed to be a reflection of my past and a glimpse into my future. I have a really hard time talking about my past because I don’t recall much of my child hood. I have managed to block out a lot of the memories the bad along with the good. I am not sure why but when I started blocking memories it also took the good along with the bad. So I will tell you what I can remember and what I have been told about my childhood. I will also tell you what my future holds for me and how I plan to reach that goal.
It started out with parents that were always interested in education, mine and their own, whenever I learned something new; they were always interested in it also. I was taught from the beginning much about the things around me, outdoors and in. I remember when I was in high school my mother would actually want to work with me on calculus, b...