...I am Zhilin Andrey. Andrey is my name and Zhilin is my surname. I am seventeen years old. I want to tell you a few words about my family. My family is not large. I have got mother, father and grandmother. There are four of us in the family. First of all some words about my parents. My mother is a teacher of biology. She works in a school. She likes her profession. She is a good-looking woman with brown hair. She is 44 but she looks much younger. My father is programmer. He is forty-six. My father often sings and when we are at home and have some free time I play guitar and we sing together. He is also handy with many things. When he was small he liked to take everything to pieces. My grandmother told me a story that once my father tried to repair their kitchen clock but without success. They had to give it to a repairman. But it happened a long time ago. Now he can fix almost everything. My parents have been married for 18 years. They have much in common, but they have different views on music, books, and films. For example my father likes horror films and my mother likes soap operas. My father is fond of tennis. My mother doesn’t go in for sports. My parents are hard working people. My mother keeps house and takes care of my father and me. She is very good at cooking. My grandmother is a pensioner. She lives with us and helps to run the house. She is fond of knitting. I want to become a student. I’d like to learn foreign languages. I always try to be in a good...
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...Over the course of the semester, I have learned a lot about myself and my family as a whole. Family problems and social change has made me realized that family plays an important role in shaping your actions and forming your perceptions. Family dynamics have obviously changed over the centuries; things that are going on in this day and age are not the same as it was decades ago. As for my family, we come from an Afro-Caribbean background; we are natives of Haiti. My parents migrated from Haiti to Bahamas and from there to America with four children, in hopes of providing a better future for us. They worked odd jobs here and there just to provide shelter, food, and other necessities that we would need. The only burden my parents ever placed on my siblings and I, were to receive an education and strive to be successful. They made many sacrifices to provide us with these opportunities, and for that I will forever be grateful. Nonetheless, I will be discussing the differences between generations of my family. I decided to interview my grandmother Ermilie and my father Luc. Themes in Ermilie’s Life (born 1936) Ermilie is my grandmother on my mother’s side. She is the only one of my grandparents that is still alive. Seeing that we were immigrants for quite some time, I only had access to my immediate family and a few cousins. I met my grandmother for the first time on June 4th, 2014. Over the years I could only talk to her; it was a joyous moment for me to finally put a face with...
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...Family Business Discovery Project * Katie Toomey ENTR 423 February 26, 2016 My father’s side of the family is not very proud of its past from what I can tell. They aren’t proud or they are trying to distance themselves from events that happened in the past that they think are severe enough to erase from history. My family proved to me that past generations directly affect your work ethic, not always in the best of ways. My grandfather worked hard to get away from his father, my grandmother tricked her dad to let her get a job to escape his alcoholism. This shows me that it is up to the individual to interpret their situation and decide on how to act. It is theses interpretations that lead many in my family to make these crazy impulsive decisions. My grandfather, John Toomey, was 13 when he got off a train purposefully at the wrong stop and decide to travel and work until he was old enough to join the Navy. He saw his family only 3 times after that and wanted very little to do with them. My grandfather thought he was the reason for his mother’s death, but she had died from pneumonia six months after he was born. In a typical fashion no one in the family wanted to speak about it so he went on with his life thinking he was what killed his mother until he was 42 years old. His family moved to Washington to work at a lumber mill and he didn’t want to join them and his new step-mother. He worked as a farm hand, grocer boy, gas pumper, and any other job he could come...
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...What is Family? Defining the concept of family is difficult because it can have various meanings to different people. It may mean those who are immediate relatives, as being in love, providing security, socialization, or something completely different. The United States Census Bureau (2010) defines family as a, “Primary social group involving social or generational alliances, permanence, concern for the total person, heightened emotionality, caring for one another, mutual goals, an altruistic orientation to members, and a governance approach that is nurturing.” Freidman, Bowden and Jones (2003) also states family is composed of persons joined together by bonds of marriage, blood, or adoption and residing in the same household (p.9). These are just some of the many definitions of family I have come across in my search. We are never given a chance to choose our family, however that is why knowing and learning the meaning of family is essential. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate and define what family is. I will explain my own familial experiences over the years, and how this definition is constantly changing. I will also share the perspectives of others on how they view family. Finally, I will share my definition of family, including the theoretical foundation I find most helpful to explain it. Various Perspectives on Family In recent weeks, I have had the opportunity to speak with my own family, coworkers, and friends about what family means to them. My children...
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...On June 1st 1999 I was born to two lovely parents in Maryland and couple years later I had a brother. My parents were both born and raised in Pakistan which meant that they had grown up with a completely different culture than the culture in America. My family has played a major role in who I am today. They have passed on many of the same values that they shared on to me. To me religion, family, culture and education are the most important aspects of life and have greatly influenced my upbringing. My dad who’s a businessman has taught me to become hardworking and to always happy and my mom who’s a housewife has taught me how important family is. Having a younger brother has constantly encouraged me to become my best so he could have a good...
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...Analysis interpretation of ’Me and my Family’ “Me and my Family” is a short story from 1997. The narrator is a third-person limited narrator and is subjective because it conveys the thoughts, feelings, opinions of the father, Stew. So when the narrator is subjective, we only see the story from one side and therefore we cannot verify if the narrating is true. Beside Stew, we have Masha who is the wife of Stew and mother of Kitty. Kitty plays an important and great role in this short story. Apart from the family, we hear a bit from Norm (an acquaintance of the father) and other irrelevant people. Kitty has been living in South Carolina and is described as quiet, untactful and aggressive (p. 2, l. 25) by the narrator. When Kitty became a teenager, it has just gone downhill. She came out as lesbian when she was 16 (p. 2, l. 37) and that did not exactly help her relationship with her father. With downhill, the narrator describes; “He did not remember precisely when it had happened, but Kitty, his beautiful, happy little girl, turned into a glum, weird teenager that other kids picked on. She got skinny and ugly. ” (p. 2, l. 40). The quote illustrates one of the themes of the story that is the poor relationship between father and daughter and their quarrels, as can be seen on page 3, line 86: “He grabbed her and shook her, but he could not shake the conviction off her face.” However, this is from the father’s perspective. As mentioned before, we never get to hear Kitty’s side of...
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...Tracing family history and lineages can be a hassle, a hard one at that. Some families have absolutely no trace of their tree, and some keep every record at every disposal. My family was never the one to appreciate the fragility and the necessity of keeping track of your ancestors, for it is their mistakes you can learn from, it is their traditions that we carry on or alter, and it is their name that we descend to our younger ones. Fortunately, I went into full research last year using both AncestryDNA’s database and excerpts from my close family members and was able to conclude a strong understanding of my family’s heritage. My mother’s side of the family emigrated from Sicily in the early 90s and settled in Lebanon, where they adopted the...
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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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...MY DYSFUNCATION FAMILY I came from a family that was not your typical family. A day doesn’t go by that we are not fighting with each other. My mother came from a very large family. She is the youngest child. My father is the oldest son. Both of my parents come from farming families, my mother from the south, my father from the midwest, they met in California. I was born in Nebraska. My brother was born in California & the youngest was born in Nebraska. My brother who was born in California is my father’s favorite child. I and my younger brother are not. My brothers have all done better than I have. I have all ways have a tough time doing anything. Both of my brothers have always had better grades in school. Things always seem easier for them. I have been diagnosed with depression I have thought about hurting myself. My parents have always told me that I’m worthless. Some days I wish I was dead. I see a counselor and a psychiatrist for my depression, but without insurance to pay for the treatment, I can’t get the help I need to make thoughts of hurting myself go away. I was taking pills for depression and sleeping pills to help my sleep. When I was in school we were given our report cards. I hated to give my parents my report card because I don’t have passing grades. If I had a D or an F on the report card. I was hit with a belt and told that I was worthless. I have trust issues with people. Sometimes I can talk to someone and...
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...My memory is about my grandparents came to Xindian, where they settled down and I live here, from Fujian,China, and they had a hard time during migrate. And I'm Jaya Liao, I am the smallest member in our family. I was born in a family, but not such a rich clan in history. My family includes my mother, father, my grandfather and grandmother. This memory is from my grandfather, he is a brave person and he had strived for the whole clan of Liao in his life. So I want to share several memories of him with you by writing down the stories in this class project. The memories from grandfather should be pass down to my future family, because it is significant to our clan from past to now. Memory is my great -grandfather's and he told my grandpa, he is dead now. 200 years ago, my clan from Fujian migrate to Taiwan. It was a long journey, there were storm and nature disasters, which killed a lot of people. The Liao's ancestors...
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...I come from a family that likes to do everything together. For example our trapition holidays or just family hang out. In my culture we have some treiditionds we like and enjoy doing it. My culture is mexican and im happy to be mexican and we dont celebrate many holidays but the ones we do celebrate we enjoy them. The holiday we enjoy and celebrate the most is chrismas. Elements of culture that define me and why. Food I eat in my culture is most of the mexican food. We also like to eat something like my grandmas spicy pozale in september for the mexican indepentes day. Another element of culture that define me and why sport is soccer also sometimes we like watching soccer games together. We like watching games of mexico team and when mexico team comes to play to las vegas or LA we go to see them games.And we like watching real madrid but most of the time only the guys watch it....
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...In 1967 my grandmother and her husband moved to New York from Colombia. They traveled on a plane and sought new opportunities in the United States. Once they became settled, they moved to New Jersey three years later. At that time my grandmother was pregnant, and in 1970 my mother was born in Hackensack, New Jersey. Two years later my uncle was born, and he was kept in the hospital because he was sick. This caused my family to struggle, and my mother and her uncle went back to Colombia to be with their family. Once my uncle was alright, they all went back to Colombia. My mother grew up in a big family and was always spending time with them whether it was going out for a picnic, or going to the food market on the weekends. While my mother...
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...Being Strong For My Family Parenting never played well in my childhood as it seems my parents were never for it. Though it made me a stronger person than my parents ever was. It was always just me and my two younger brothers on our own most of the time. My parents didn’t get married until I was three years old, since my dad was tired of the government taking money out of his paychecks for child support he just decided to marry my mom that way he’s not obligated to do so. Then came along my brother Eric, and that’s when the abusing started with me and my mother. One time the cops did came and took my dad but for some reason my mother let him come back home. Then a year went by and comes along my second brother Mickey who’s born on Christmas day, a lucky boy he was. And the abuse continued, and became normal where my mom and dad would argue at least once a week. I would usually have to pretend I don’t hear anything or my dad would come at me next too. He was a alcoholic and gambler, drinking a case of beer every other night and going to the casino on his days off. There was a time he was gone for three nights and me and my mom went to find him at the casino, which turns out he had gambled the rent money away and was trying to win it back, of course that didn’t happen. My dad never liked me just because I was a girl I would get those side shaved bowl haircuts, with boots and a jean jacket outfit to school, which kids always made fun of me about. He would never drive me to...
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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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...My brother Gregory has always struggled with my father not having an active role in his life. He has also felt responsible for not being able to help my mother provide for our family. Because of my mom’s financial struggle, Greg has never been to college. He has always worked minimum wage jobs. He currently is an on and off relationship with Kristalyn and struggling to provide for her and his daughter MaKayla. He currently lives in my grandparents’ home. Aleesha is the most financially independent of all my siblings and I. She did not go to college after high school, but she was always working and saving up money. She moved into her own apartment in 2013.Her and Gregory currently do not have a relationship. Aleesha does not feel that Gregory was a protective big brother and did not fulfill the role of man of the house. She also does not like his baby’s mother and is not close to his child. As a result, there is conflict between the two of...
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