...Throughout my childhood, I grew up in a very loving family which owned a business that prospered us fairly. Then as I began to hit the end of my middle school years, my parents began to fight with one another, ending in a cold divorce. My brothers and I were oblivious as to what was happening and to what was going to happen. We were all tossed in the center and forced to be with one parent over the other. I was forced to move around between both households and listen to the endless bickering between the two of my parents. It then began to take a toll on me greatly as their fighting would tear me and my siblings apart. Furthermore, we were left with our mom leading our lives. She had to finish raising three kids on her own that she began to...
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...The moment I remember the most about my past is when my parents got a divorce. It happened such a long time ago but I still can see it as clear as water in my mind. I came home from school one day a perfectly normal day. I open the door and my mom and dad are talking in the living room. They ask my sister and I to sit down and that they have some things they need to talk to us about. We sit down and they begin talking about a whole bunch of stuff that didn’t make much sense and that’s when I heard the word “divorce”. At first I wasn’t really sure what to make of things but slowly I began to piece together what it was. That day was a very hard day and it left me puzzled and confused. After about a week I started to see my school counselor things...
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...One of my earliest memories is from when I was probably 2-3 years old. My parents were going through a divorce. I lived with my mom during the separation and then my dad got full custody of us kids so I lived with him through most of my childhood. I remember waking up in my dad’s house, the house I was born in. I don’t know if the divorce was official and I had moved back in, or if this was during the separation and I was just visiting my dad. I woke up and started crying for my mom. I walked out of my bedroom, through the dining room and into the kitchen doorway. My dad was standing in the kitchen. I couldn’t stop crying but I was terrified that I would be yelled at because I was crying for my mom. To my dad’s credit, I didn’t get yelled at. I remember that he started being silly to get me laughing. However, I can’t forget that flashback and as I grew up, it has bothered me more and more that I was afraid I would get yelled at by my dad for crying because I...
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...“Many divorces are highly emotional and draw children into a vortex of conflict and anger, while they struggle to grasp an uncertain future.” My parents, Nicholas and Shanta starting dating in the eighth grade all the way until my mother was twenty-two years old and my father was twenty-three years old, and I was two years old. When I was two years old I lived with both of my parents in Charleston, IL on Reynolds Drive. I don’t remember much because of my age, but what I do know is my parents fought with each other all of the time and it wasn’t going to work out so they split up in the best interest of all three of us. As soon as my parents split up, my mom moved away to Du.Qouin, IL. She lived there for about eight years, which would’ve made me about ten years old....
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...“Whaa, whaa, whaa.” exclaimed baby Bridget. “Shh, shh, it's all going to be okay.” exclaimed mommy. Everyone was sweaty, and had this furious look on their face, and as I stopped crying, all I saw on their faces were in relief. . Their faces were back to as light as they have ever been. At this time my dad (Roy) was holding me, and I was feeling better, not crying, face is tearless and dry, and dad, he had this big smile on his face. He was so happy to have me. Until two months later rolled around, and my life changed. When I was two months old, my mom and Roy got a divorce. At this time I was only two months old, and my sister was 2. When my parents got a divorce, I remember nothing, except the fact that I saw him every Monday, Wednesday,...
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...As a child of divorce I have lived my childhood differently than most kids do. I have moved seven times in my life, four times when my family lived in Colorado and three times since we moved to Iowa. All the moving caused a lot of stress for parents, which led to them fighting often. When I was in sixth grade I learned that one of my parents was having an affair by seeing messages that were on Facebook left on our family computer. Learning this information and keeping it a secret left me depressed, angry, and confused. My parents had no idea that I knew what was going on, so no one knew what was wrong. I was sent to useless therapy sessions for a couple months, but nothing ever helped. Over time holding on to the secret became easier, but it...
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...I wasn’t always raised in a family oriented environment . Where i first grew up there was children in two parent homes up and down every block. You would never hear about problems inside of households because everything always seemed picture perfect. I was about eleven years old when i was snapped back into reality. This was when my parents had gotten a divorce. I went to go live with my father and this was by choice. I didn’t realize or think life would be any different. Until the next morning when I woke up in a two bedroom apartment and my mother not making breakfest. My dad is a very stern person and he always worked. So me and my sister were expected to be able to take care of one another while my father worked. It was here where i made...
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...As a child, my parents’ divorce had never crossed my mind. Assuming that it was typical for parents to argue and bicker, I wasn’t concerned. But one day, my mother decided to have a serious talk with me about it, and she told me that soon we would be moving out of our house and that I wouldn’t be allowed to see my father as often. Understandably, confusion was my first response as I sputtered out questions about the future of our family. As the divorce was finalized, I was placed with a children's counselor who recognized my confusion and taught me to express my emotions in new ways. Listening to music and drawing became an emotional outlet for me until my parents’ divorce seemed more insignificant to me than ever before. Attending court dates,...
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...Divorce. It’s a simple word really, but it’s also a destructive word. This is a word that was used and it changed my life and my families lives. When I was about 7 years old, my dad cheated on my mom. He had found a woman with five kids and had divorced my mom for her. He left my mom. It was hard on everyone. My mom was severely depressed, so was my brother and sister. I didn’t blame them. We really didn’t know what to do. Our dad, the man who raised us and cared for us, showing us things we needed to know, teaching us important things, had just up and left us left us for some woman and her bratty kids. Nobody really knew what to do. As days went by, that woman took my dad away from us. I saw my dad less and less each day. Sometimes right...
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...I am not perfect and neither are my parents.The hardest part of my life thus far were the events leading to my parent’s divorce. As time progressed, it was evident that their relationship would not last. As a consequence from the divorce, I struggled with my parent’s custody of my siblings and me. I’ve had nights where there was no power or food. I’ve lost friends that were close to me. Upon moving to Kentucky just in the middle of my eighth-grade year, the new scenery and people exacerbated my feelings of loneliness. From being raised in Florida, I felt as if a part of me was being left behind. I would always have to leave behind my identity and opinions whenever problems would arise between my parent’s. When it was time to go, I didn’t say a word because I was scared to. I was pulled and tugged from a place of familiarity, a place I called home. I had to start over. No matter how far I went, my parents issues and my lack of identity followed me like a shadow. These problems resonated in my mind when I started a new school, and consequently, I struggled academically. I didn’t know...
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...I have been divorced for five years. One of the most damaging myths is that divorced families are broken. I prefer to see my divorce as a new beginning for a better life for me and my two daughters. Every day, I do my very best to be a role model for my daughters. I teach them to be strong, independent, confident, and ambitious women. We have done well since my divorce, but I am lacking a proper education. I want to show my daughters the importance of a good education, hence I am applying to Texas State University. I was born and raised in Germany. After I graduated high school, I went to a vocational school and earned a certificate in office management. I worked as an office administrative assistant in the telecommunications industry, then as a translator at the local government office. Shortly after, I fell in love with a U.S....
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...An experience that has changed my life is my parents divorce. They separated when I was really young and divorced a couple years after their separation. I was really devastated when my parents started arguing and not getting along as well, it reached it’s peak when I was in third grade. As I grew older though, I could see clearly that it had been for the better. In a sad, but relieving way, I’m actually glad that they are not together anymore, like fire and ice. My initial perceptions of the situation were that I could not imagine a life without my parents living under one roof. My parents separating was one of the most difficult times I experienced when I was younger. I remember I did not understand the situation, other than my my ‘mommy...
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...felt sympathy for Gatsby, and I wanted to know the reason the author gave the book such a horrendous ending; thus, I researched the author. It turned out that F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the book based on his life and experiences, which made me respect him more, maybe out of pity. I started to read more of his writings, and I learned numerous life lessons through them. In The Great Gatsby, “The Rich Boy,” and “The Bridal Party,” F. Scott Fitzgerald makes similarities in point of view, allusion, setting, plot, and theme. Fitzgerald’s unique writing style is composed of distinctive narrators. His narrators tend to narrate in both first person and third person narrative. The narrator uses third person narrative when the events are occurring in front of him and thus gives his own interpretation of the events. First person narrative is used when the narrator is involved in the story itself, often times confiding in the protagonist. In The Great Gatsby the narrator is known as Nick Carraway, who is Gatsby’s neighbor and Daisy Buchanan’s cousin. Carraway states “I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores,” which depicts how Carraway is a reliable first person narrator but also a peripheral narrator who just observes and tells the story (Fitzgerald Gatsby 1). Through peripheral narration, Carraway is almost invisible and thus acts more like a third person narrator who describes the events...
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...Significant Lifespan Factors Impacting Personal Coping Skills Catherine Manning Liberty University Abstract Human beings develop throughout their lifespan, as they make good choices to meet their physical, spiritual and emotional needs. While development is not sequential, it is progressive as the story of life molds and shapes the beliefs and choices of the future. When humans are compared and evaluated, what is it that influences one person to make good choices and another to make bad choices? The ability to adapt and handle times of crisis is a good indicator of a healthy, well-balanced life. It is an indicator that affects almost everyone. It takes skills that mature and develop over time. Are there life experiences that contribute to the positive handling of the stressors of a crisis? Personal experience and pertinent research points to three themes offering positive influence upon crisis adapting skills. First, a religious and spiritual foundation provides the context through which the crisis can be understood, analyzed and managed. Second, a positive, stable family situation allows for the development of the positive self-esteem necessary through which the impact of the crisis upon the individual can be managed. Finally, the satisfaction found in a career or a job can determine perspective and motivation in dealing with problems outside the workplace. Significant Lifespan Factors Impacting Personal Coping Skills Lifespan developmental psychology...
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...When humans are compared and evaluated, what is it that influences one person to make good choices and another to make bad choices? The ability to adapt and handle times of crisis is a good indicator of a healthy, well-balanced life. It is an indicator that affects almost everyone. It takes skills that mature and develop over time. Are there life experiences that contribute to the positive handling of the stressors of a crisis? Personal experience and pertinent research points to three themes offering positive influence upon crisis adapting skills. First, a religious and spiritual foundation provides the context through which the crisis can be understood, analyzed and managed. Second, a positive, stable family situation allows for the development of the positive self-esteem necessary through which the impact of the crisis upon the individual can be managed. Finally, the satisfaction found in a career or a job can determine perspective and motivation in dealing with problems outside the workplace. Significant Lifespan Factors Impacting Personal Coping Skills Lifespan developmental psychology (LP) is involved in the study of the individual’s development from conception or birth into old age. One of the assumptions of LP is that significant life events shape and transform the personality, thinking process and behavior of the individual. Lifespan research has expanded over the years, providing observations and analysis of the factors that are shared by many, the acute differences...
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