Human Behaviors: Life Trajectories
Amelia Lepe
April 23, 2014

Human Behaviors: Life Trajectories
Introduction
I remember being about five years old and my father taking all the kids from our neighborhood to the park with his buddy from work. My father was pushing me on the swing next to his friend and one of the other kids from the neighborhood and realizing they were the only guys that spent time with their kids. I always remember that my father was a big part of my life and it was not just with me but all the kids from the area. He always made me feel protected and ever so loved. My father is a very strict and serious looking Mexican man and yet always caring in a way that I did not realize until I was older.
As I got older I learned a lot from my parents that definitely made me the way I am today. I remember spending many of nights having family dinners and study time for my little brother, my father, and me. Both of my parents worked over time every week at different factories. That is why my father and mother made sure to push how important an education was going to be for our futures. My family is the most important thing to me in my life but it took years for me to remember that again.
The Younger Years
To help form my mind around how I wanted to be when I grew up I always looked towards my family. My father never made it past third grade growing up in Mexico and working on the ranch with his family. My mother is the youngest after eight boys who were raised in Puerto Rico in a small poverty-stricken neighborhood where she went to school and took care of the house with her mother. Then both of my parents met in Wisconsin after their mothers died. They had decided to travel to the states to try and have a different life out of poverty and that was where their lives began.
That story always reminds me how far my parents have come, here in the United