..."In all of us there is a hunger, marrow deep, to know our heritage - to know who we are and where we came from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness.” –Alex Haley. Many of us don’t appreciate what a life gives to us. At times, I am a culprit myself. But over the years I have learned to appreciate everything I have today. I am blessed to be in the situation I am in. As I was working on the family history assignment, I have discovered many things that I would never have known if I didn’t raise any of the questions I did to my parents. Some of the new things I learned about my parents and their family histories were shocking. Learning about how my father and mother grew up, makes me cherish everything I own and possessed as I could very easily been growing up in a poorer family. The people I chose to interview were my mother and my father. Previously going into this project I knew very little about my parents. The things that I knew were just the small things they told me from time to time. But finally asking them about their lives was fascinating because the generation difference is so great. The first person I interviewed was my mom, Amy. My mom was born in the Philippines in the city of Manila. She lived in a suburban area. When she was growing up she wasn’t impacted by any wars, however she lived through many changes of Ferdinand Marcos...
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...Ive learned a lot researching the history of The Hairston Family. The Hairston clan is one of the largest family in America, the Hairston clan. With several thousand black and white members, the Hairstons share a complex and compelling history: divided in the time of slavery, they have come to embrace their past as one family. The Hairston family originally was of cacasion decent. In America there were nine plantations. With the exception of one, they were located fairly close together: there were "Marrowbone" (1749) "Beaver Creek" (1776), "Berry Hill" (1782), "Hordsville" (1836), and "Red Plains" (1860), located in Henry County, Virginia; "Oak Hill" (1823), located in Pittsylvania County, Virginia; "Sauratown Hills" (1786), located in Stokes...
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...My family history is rather colorful on both sides of my family. Both my Mother and Father’s side of the family have a rich history that has been fairly documented through physical and oral tradition. In this paper, I hope to fit in what I can about both sides of my family. Starting with my Father’s side of the family, the Bloomberg’s come from Stockholm, Sweden. My Great-Great-Great Grandfather John Bloomberg immigrated to the United States in the late 1890’s and had their name changed to Blomberg; oddly enough most other Bloomberg's who immigrated to the United States kept their last name the same. He also immigrated with his brother, although not much is known about him. After his brother moved to America, he made his way down to Brazil...
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...the year, my family has always put an emphasis on working hard no matter the obstacles you face. After interviewing my family members, I discovered that the majority of them are unskilled, manual labors. This paper has given me the opportunity to look deeper into my families’ career and educational goals. According to my great-grandma Ruby, my ancestors left Ghana in 1876 and to work on plantations in Mississippi. After moving from Crystal Springs, Mississippi my grandparents moved to Chicago, Illinois to find better job opportunities. My grandpa ended up securing a career as a machine mechanic at Oscar Meyer. While my grandma attending night school to be a nurse, she worked as a dental technician. After completing school, she worked as a nurse at several hospital and doctor offices. Based on her caring personality and great work ethic, she never had any problems during her 26 years as a nurse. After 22 years of service, my grandpa was laid off because they decided to move the facility to California due to cheaper facility costs and labor. The south side location was closed down since it was right in downtown Chicago. As a child, my dad and his six siblings lived a comfortable lifestyle that would be considered middle class. They survived by staying within their means and were able to afford a home and two cars. They were not able to afford luxuries such as traveling the country and paying for their children’s college. Traveling always consisted of visiting a family member in Mississippi...
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...Princess Azeesa Mariam Linda Abantas HIST 10.1 – EDB In the place of Kilikili, Wao, Lanao del Sur, an Ilocano man named Guadaflor from Tarlac, Luzon and a Visayan lady named Estela from Balingasag, Mis. Or. met and get married. A happy couple yet has problems in their relationship. They started there to build a family. They have a large business in farming. They have machines, ten-wheeler and six-wheeler trucks. According to the people surrounds them, they were the first family who were wealthy in the place. Their first child, my mom, named Ma. Luz Linda was born. After a month, Martial Law started. That was the time that they started evacuate in Bukidnon again and again. War here, war there, killing here and killing there. Yes, it was very chaos in that place. A war between Christians and Muslims or rebels and soldiers. And that was the reason they went and evacuate in Cagayan de Oro City. That’s why they have a house and lot in CDO until now. But, if the war was ended, they went back again in Kilikili and lived there. Afterwards, Estela bore a child every 2 years. Next to Ma.Luz was Guadaflor Jr. Next Janeth, Juliet, and the bunso named Analiza. They have 5 children. They lived and studied there without problems when it comes to money. Guadaflor Sr was a busy father in business same with his wife. They were busy looking for money. But the time their business got bankrupt, they transferred in Cagayan de Oro. In that moment, they experienced poverty. But sometimes...
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...Family Genetic History Form Your Name: Katherine Magno Date: January 24, 2016 Your Instructor’s Name: Professor Elizabeth Allen Purpose: This assignment is to help you gain insight regarding the influence of genetics on an individual’s health and risk for disease. You are to obtain a family genetic history on a willing, nonrelated, adult participant. Disclaimer: When taking a family genetic history on an actual client, it is essential that the information is accurate. Please inform the person you are interviewing that they do NOT need to disclose information that they wish to keep confidential. If the adult participant decides not to share information, please write, “Does not want to disclose.” Directions: Refer to the Family Genetic History guidelines and grading rubric found in Doc Sharing to complete the information below. This assignment is worth 100 points. Type your answers on this form. Click “Save as” and save the file with the assignment name and your last name, e.g., “NR305_Family_Genetic_History_Form_Smith”. When you are finished, submit the form to the Family Genetic History Dropbox by the deadline indicated in your guidelines. Post questions in the Q & A Forum or contact your instructor if you have questions about this assignment. 1: Family Genetic History (35 points): Develop a family genetic history that includes, at a minimum, three generations of your chosen adult’s family, including grandparents, parents, and the adult’s generation. If the adult...
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...Mike Wilke’s Family Health History Mike Wilke was born on November 11th, 1964 to parents Wolfgang Wilke and Wilhelmine Bernhardine Wilke in Boynton Beach, Florida. Mike’s parents, Wolfgang and Wilma, were both born and raised in Germany. Mike is the first Wilke born in the United States. Mike has experienced good health over his lifetime. His surgeries include circumcision, appendectomy, and arthroscopic meniscus repair. Additionally, Mike’s dental health has been good as well. He did have a cyst in the gum removed by an endodontist that manifest from an injury to the incisors and subsequent root damage. Mike’s Paternal Side Wolfgang’s father’s name was Johanna Friedrich Wilke. Johanna fought in both World War I and World War II. He was drafted by the Germany army during the 1st World War, and then forced into service for listening to BBC in his basement on a radio that he had the prowess to do from his experience working as a merchant marine. On the Russian front in his 50s, Johanna was severely injured by grenade, losing a leg and damaging his torso. Despite the injuries, and bad habits such as excessive drinking and smoking, Johanna lived to be 87 years old. Wolfgang’s mother’s name was Ella Marie Christine...
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...Running head: HISTORY OF FAMILY-CENTERED CARE 1 History of Family-Centered Care Chrystal Williams EC305/EEC3005 October 13, 2013 Joni Kuhn Running head: HISTORY OF FAMILY-CENTERED CARE 2 Several people may ask the question, “What makes the difference in a family centered preschool?” This paper will help outline the importance of a family centered program versus a preschool that focuses only on the child. The learning of the children in family centered preschools are enhanced due to the focus points not only being on the child, but the family too. Educators can best help children achieve effectively by meeting the nine essential elements(Morrison, 2009). One of those nine elements is to develop a partnership with parents, families, and friends of each child. The focus of this paper is Abraham Maslow’s whole child concept and helping families resolve issues. This program style helps each child to learn and develop in a more consistent environment and maintaining the goals each family has expressed for their child. As children prepare to enter preschool there are several areas required for educators to effectively address for the child and family to feel comfortable in this new type of environment. A family centered preschool’s goal is to focus on child and family not just the child. The first step in this process is to focus on any attachment issues...
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...Kayla Pfaff, Family History: Neighborhoods and Education The one thing that comes to mind for many who wish to find their home in America is the American dream. Goals of making a larger salary and achieving a higher social status than one’s parents both come to mind. However, moving from one class to another, or class mobility, remains a very uncommon and unlikely aspect of the American dream. Peoples’ circumstances encountered in adolescence, such as neighborhoods and schools, have a significant impact on their future opportunities. This statement in exhibited by the generations of my family. My grandparents Joe and Norma came from families that had some educational background. However, they were able to find areas of the towns they were...
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...juvenile delinquency as it relates to parental influence, family history and family poverty. Additionally this document will address different approaches on preventing juveniles from these issues, especially as it applies to the relationship between minors and their parents and or legal guardian. According to Doggett (2001), something is going on in today’s society as it appears if more and more children are committing delinquent crimes. Based upon my readings, juveniles are committing repetitive crimes because of their family structure. When the juvenile is released from jail and they return home, if their family structure is the same when they left then the same...
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...the most commonly diagnosed malignancies in North American, Caucasian women (Adkinson, 2012). Roughly more than 220,000 women are diagnosed every year (Adkinson, 2012) (National Library of Medicine (US), 2015). This disease is known to cluster within families if the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes are involved. The mutation of these genes is more common in women than in men; however, the mutated genes have the ability to be inherited from the mother or the father equally. It is important to note that even though people, mainly women, inherit the mutated genes for breast and ovarian cancer; they do not inherit the disease itself. Rather, those that inherit the genes significantly increase their likelihood of breast or ovarian cancer developing later in life (National Library of Medicine (US), 2015). Specifically, a woman’s risk for developing breast or ovarian cancer increases significantly if a first-degree relative has the disease. With a first-degree relative you share about 50 percent of their genes and this kind of relative includes parents, offspring, and siblings. Knowing this fact there is reason to believe that the genes responsible for the development of breast and ovarian cancer, BRCA1 and BRCA2, are strongly heritable in families and possess a high penetrance, or expression rate (Adkinson, 2012). The term used to describe this heritable genetic component is known as familial clustering. Though this disease is attributed to genetics there are other factors that influence the expression...
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...The study of past human activities is paramount in understanding human nature as well as structure and cultures of various communities in the world. To many historians and individuals, history is one of the important assets that a country or a community can ever possess because it differentiates it from other communities or countries. Often, history provides an account of past events of a community or a country and can be very useful in predicting the future. According to historians, history should never be pursued for the sake of just collecting information and data to add more knowledge about the past, but rather it should be part of human being to be carried with them each and every single day. Despite the fact that most people believe that...
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...Everyone is existing for a purpose. For some, the discovery of his purpose is a lifelong process. The history of my family, like most Vietnamese families, is attached to the history of our Fatherland. The history of Vietnam is a history of struggle against foreign invasions, to preserve our independence. The legend of Lac Long Quan and Au Co is a primitive explanation of the origin of the Vietnamese peoples. Although legend imbued with mystical myth, nevertheless expresses its philosophy about our origins. According to our legend, the Vietnamese descended from father Lac Long Quan, the god and king of the dragon, and mother Au Co, a fairy angel. Lac and Au Co married and gave birth to a sack that contained 100 eggs, from which hatched 100...
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...What we face, experience, encounter create our stories and shape our identity. History is being created around us, with events that are happening in our everyday lives, personally and internationally. Within these events, they make us witnesses to history and messengers. To spread the word of whats wrong and what's right. Elie Wiesel was his own messenger, his experiences hardship and what he witnessed created his identity, in which resulted in him writing Night. Therefore, he was able to share and pass along his story, in this way we are able to learn and pass along his message to humanity. Often people create injustice and harm due to human selfishness, for example, there is no logical reason for why Hitler did, what he did. Hitler had...
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...compelling points from the interaction with your fellow students? * How did participating in this discussion help in your understanding of the Discussion Board task? * What approaches could have yielded additional valuable information in the students' networking? * What is still unclear after the discussion with your classmates that needs to be clarified? During week ones discussion board assignment, we discussed the different types of health insurance billing and reimbursement methods. This discussion board assignment required taking the time to research the history of health insurance and how it has evolved over the years to the system that we know it as today. By utilizing the discussion board portion of this class, I was able to learn many things from my classmates’ postings. I learned the many different methods of healthcare reimbursement that is still currently used today. I learned the history of health insurance, and why it was developed for the patients in the first place. I also learned many different views and opinions of my classmates that allowed me to reconsider and further educate myself on the views of the future of the healthcare industry. The most compelling points that I absorbed from reading my classmates postings was reading every ones ideas and opinions regarding the future of the healthcare insurance industry. It was interesting to me to learn the different aspects of the universal health care plan that is in motion right now that I never would...
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