Joy Hargrove is a woman who you could spend weeks interviewing and continue to learn more information about her. Ms. Hargrove is a retired airplane mechanic, trilingual, and indigenous to American Samoan/Hawai’i. I have always been in awe of Ms. Hargrove and her incredible survivor mindset, so I knew I wanted to interview Ms. Hargrove to learn more about this fascinating woman.
We met outside her house, where she has a semi-covered patio, a futon with princess netting, and dozens of plants and fruits growing around her. She has six children in total, with two adult children still living at home. Ms. Hargrove is a passionate storyteller, but she is absent-minded, so we spent a lot of time during the interview discussing multiple events throughout her life. Since Ms. Hargrove has lived such a full life, it was hard for her to think of any one specific moment that shaped her life, but we were able to pinpoint specific moments that affected her deeply on both a social and personal level.
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Hargrove has experienced significant trauma and oppression throughout her life, but she has always done what she felt is needed to support herself and her family members. Developmentally, she aged like her peers, and seemed to follow the language milestones for children up to age three (Paplia and Martorell, p. 148, 2015). As far as Ms. Hargrove’s psychosocial development, it is difficult to understand because she did not disclose who she lived with before her father/uncle, and we do not know what kind of attachment and learning environment she lived in.
The next significant age Ms. Hargrove mentioned was when she was 11 and her father died. During this age range, various cognitive advance occurs in the child (Paplia and Martorell, p. 260). With regards to physical activity, when Ms. Hargrove moved to American Samoa, she was very active, as her family lived as farmers. In all of Samoa, people mostly grow, hunt, and cook their own
We met outside her house, where she has a semi-covered patio, a futon with princess netting, and dozens of plants and fruits growing around her. She has six children in total, with two adult children still living at home. Ms. Hargrove is a passionate storyteller, but she is absent-minded, so we spent a lot of time during the interview discussing multiple events throughout her life. Since Ms. Hargrove has lived such a full life, it was hard for her to think of any one specific moment that shaped her life, but we were able to pinpoint specific moments that affected her deeply on both a social and personal level.
1960s …show more content…
Hargrove has experienced significant trauma and oppression throughout her life, but she has always done what she felt is needed to support herself and her family members. Developmentally, she aged like her peers, and seemed to follow the language milestones for children up to age three (Paplia and Martorell, p. 148, 2015). As far as Ms. Hargrove’s psychosocial development, it is difficult to understand because she did not disclose who she lived with before her father/uncle, and we do not know what kind of attachment and learning environment she lived in.
The next significant age Ms. Hargrove mentioned was when she was 11 and her father died. During this age range, various cognitive advance occurs in the child (Paplia and Martorell, p. 260). With regards to physical activity, when Ms. Hargrove moved to American Samoa, she was very active, as her family lived as farmers. In all of Samoa, people mostly grow, hunt, and cook their own