Personal Narrative: Uilou's Life

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My older brothers got married and move out from the house, I was the oldest left with two younger brothers. One was 18 years old and the other was at the age of 9. The eighteen age got married a year ago and decided to stay in the same old house. He had a child and he doesn’t have a job, even the wife. Uilou was his name, he would always hang out with his friends and get drunk, leaving the wife and the child at home with my parents. It was hard because I was the only person working in the family. That day I will never forget when I trained Uilou to stop wasting his time and find a job to satisfy his own family’s needs. The stimulus, it’s his friends and the response is got drunk. At first, the training began with a reinforcement; I turned

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