Such A Long Journey By Beulah Mcgee

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Such A Long Journey is the story of turbulent life, emotional intelligence is a set of competencies that allows you to apply thinking and feeling to make optimal decisions. I find myself in a tough position, having to face the music and come to some realizations that I Beulah McGee will have to face my fears and stop running from the one thing I hated was learning about my family. I had come to grips with my mother passing when I was 4yrs old and my father passing when I was 3yrs old. This was my story an orphan period and I left it there. I had no reason to go on a journey to try to find the people who had been in my life and now they all are nowhere to be found. This here assignment was the hardest thing in my life to do when it should have …show more content…
Culture and the social world are separate fields, yet they rely on each other in order to be understood and observed. Culture is characterized by the norms, values, beliefs, practices and symbols that individuals express and enact within society. If this is so, then culture is deeply intertwined with the social world, and by extension, the study of sociology, as people 's interactions work to develop, perpetuate and alter the aforementioned collective aspects of culture. I have been in different culture’s doing my childhood in foster care I was with a family that was practices holiness God in Christ, and after that I was with a family that was Jehovah witness. I was not asked if I wanted to be in this family, we could not celebrate Christmas, or any holidays for that matter. I was confused as a child no one had explain this religion to me. I just knew I was told I couldn’t stand for the pledge of legions. After accepting the fact that I would be a Jehovah’s Witness and happiness of having a family Larry decided that he wanted to have an affair with Doris friend now we have a broken home. Larry went back to Philadelphia leaving the family. The home that was I was enjoying to love is now no more, so Doris decided that she wanted to move back to Philadelphia and get her husband back so now my young brother and I have to be relocated to another home. I was broken at this point and now walls are begin put up with no trust or people at this point in my life only 12yrs of age. This is the time I would really start to be super mad with life and people I wanted to end my life. My brother Champ who had been with me all my life now deceived me and left me behind because he wanted to stay with his best friend. I was so

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