Different Upbringings Encounter The Same Conflict
Elizabeth Anasco is a five foot, 68 year old Filipino woman with an intense accent but sweet and calm voice. She is also my aunt. Janise Johnson is a five foot, 62 year old black and native american woman with an incredible amount of energy and a voice that can be heard two blocks away. She is my boyfriends neighbor. Their stories and life-hood are reflections of how they came to be the person they are today. Elizabeth Anasco was born and raised in a city called Bataan in the Philippines. She came from a well off family that never experienced the struggle of not having enough food or little money. However, they did have to go outside everyday to get water from a well for them to drink …show more content…
She has lived with them ever since. When her son had children of his own, she made a point to take care of them and be there for them like she should have been for her son. She says that the remainder of her life is focussed on molding her grandchildren into wonderful human beings and to make sure she lives the rest of her life pure so that she makes it into heaven. She often spends her days writing books while her grandchildren are at school. Janise Johnson was born and raised in Inglewood, Los Angeles. By the time she was sixteen years old, she had already lived in twenty-one houses with her three siblings, mother, and stepfather. Her family was so poor that they would have rent parties. They would throw a party in their house and have people pay to get in. She was always thinking of knew and creative things to do to help pay for the rent. She says that everyone saw her as a go getter. Janise was taught that anything she put her mind to would be concurred. She said ever since she could talk she knew she wanted to be a singer and nothing or nobody was going to get in her …show more content…
Although she never graduated from college, she does feel that she has a bachelors degree in life. The reason she drop out of college was because she got signed onto a record label with her band. Her album went platinum and was number one on the charts for quite sometime. She took what was supposed to be two years off from school to do a world tour but never went back to school. She fell in love with the spot light and the music. Janise went on performing small gigs here and there throughout the years and even until
Elizabeth Anasco is a five foot, 68 year old Filipino woman with an intense accent but sweet and calm voice. She is also my aunt. Janise Johnson is a five foot, 62 year old black and native american woman with an incredible amount of energy and a voice that can be heard two blocks away. She is my boyfriends neighbor. Their stories and life-hood are reflections of how they came to be the person they are today. Elizabeth Anasco was born and raised in a city called Bataan in the Philippines. She came from a well off family that never experienced the struggle of not having enough food or little money. However, they did have to go outside everyday to get water from a well for them to drink …show more content…
She has lived with them ever since. When her son had children of his own, she made a point to take care of them and be there for them like she should have been for her son. She says that the remainder of her life is focussed on molding her grandchildren into wonderful human beings and to make sure she lives the rest of her life pure so that she makes it into heaven. She often spends her days writing books while her grandchildren are at school. Janise Johnson was born and raised in Inglewood, Los Angeles. By the time she was sixteen years old, she had already lived in twenty-one houses with her three siblings, mother, and stepfather. Her family was so poor that they would have rent parties. They would throw a party in their house and have people pay to get in. She was always thinking of knew and creative things to do to help pay for the rent. She says that everyone saw her as a go getter. Janise was taught that anything she put her mind to would be concurred. She said ever since she could talk she knew she wanted to be a singer and nothing or nobody was going to get in her …show more content…
Although she never graduated from college, she does feel that she has a bachelors degree in life. The reason she drop out of college was because she got signed onto a record label with her band. Her album went platinum and was number one on the charts for quite sometime. She took what was supposed to be two years off from school to do a world tour but never went back to school. She fell in love with the spot light and the music. Janise went on performing small gigs here and there throughout the years and even until