How To Write A Family Profile Essay

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My family is riddled with engineers and one particular one that I wanted to interview isn 't even in my family. While at least not yet, his name is Curtis Brown and we first met each other at my family reunion about a year or two ago. He is my cousin 's fiance and hasn 't had the easiest of lives growing up where he helped his father and became a teen parent at the age of fifteen. He is a prime example of someone who plays the cards he is dealt and whenever faced with adversity he will overcome and come out on top, while creating the best life that he can provide his family. In everyone 's life they have struggled and how they overcome those struggles tells you a lot about that person 's character. Curtis faced a huge struggle and a gift at the same time when he was a young man at the age of fifteen.This struggle and gift came when he had his daughter with his then high school girlfriend. This as you could imagine enabled Curtis to think one dimensional like before where you only have to worry about yourself, but instead he had to start to worry about him and his …show more content…
His family has a big influence to his success where he learned about what it means to work from his father who worked as a mason in his hometown in Pennsylvania. The hard physical work combined with the struggles of being a business owner provided Curtis with a new understanding of what it means to work and provide for a family. He discovered that the way he would provide for his family would be achieved through schoolwork and a job that he desired. His desire for success was fueled from his family. Not only has daughter but his mother and father as

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