My Family Essay

My background is one of my strongest and uttermost unique characteristics. Throughout my entire life, I have had a dual identity. One of a Latvia, and one of an American. Being born in America but being brought up in Latvia. Learning Latvian as a child not English. Furthermore, I was educated in America, starting to learn English at the age of six. Yet, I have a cultural identity of a Latvian. This dual identity I have gets overlooked perpetually, and few people ever notice; Unlike my mother…

identify my family values I had to interview three of my family members as well as to utilize my experience in life. My family is a and African American family and as far as anyone in my family can remember we have always been in America. However I do not believe that is true, after doing several days of probing I wasn’t able to discredit that statement. We are a Christian base family and we try really hard to live by the rules in the bible. Just like the other millions of Christian families we…

My Alexenko Family By:Ryder A. My Alexenko Family By:Ryder A. The Alexenko family is humorous and very smart, well at least the majority of us are. Most of my family plays video games [ my brothers ] and some watch T.V.[ me, my parents ] but occasionally we usually do a lot of things together. In my dad’s house I have five family members, three boys, Ethan, Luka, and me, one dad, and one step - mother, and at my mom’s house I have my mom me and Luka. First, I’m going to talk about me, Ryder.…

While traveling my entire childhood, I experienced a mixture of cultural settings here and there. I went from being born up in North Dakota to moving around in south Texas. I never stayed in one city longer than a year when I was younger, so I got the chance to pick up a few things about my family heritage in every city I stayed in. While in San Antonio I learned from my mom the customs her mom taught her. While in Austin I got the chance to actually live with my grandparents from my mother’s…

encouraged to become a doctor. My childhood was not any exception. Surely, after having suffered tremendously during their unstable lives in Vietnam and making tons of sacrifices on their journey to the United States, my parents wanted my brother and me to become professionals in a country where all opportunities are endless (unlike in Vietnam). My family, however, has always stressed it is the selfless nature of the medical profession that is truly important. My family has taught me that I…

Las Vegas, but just a couple of days after my birth my parents, Yimnel Rodriguez and Stacey Rene'e Brew, split up and I remained with my mother. Yimnel and Stacey were both relatively young, 21 and 22, when I was born. Over time, I grew closer and closer to my father’s family; after my 2nd birthday I moved in with my father. I loved living around my Cuban family. As I grew up, I became bilingual. At school I learned English, and at home I learned Spanish. My father married Belia Araceli Arellano…

I was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and I am the second child out of my siblings. I have an older brother, younger sister, and younger brother. We were all born in Indiana, but six months after my younger brother was born, we moved to Illinois. My father got a better job and we stayed in Illinois and lived there for six years. That is where I spent most of my childhood and finished growing up here in The Woodlands, Texas. I had made many great memories in Illinois. It was a fantastic place to…

into a family of 4. I came home to a two story house where I sill live in even to this day. When I was 5 my parents decided to get a divorce. Up until 2008 there had always been someone else taking care of me and my brother while we were living with my dad in picnic point. My father met my current stepmom in 2006 through work and she happened to be living right down the street from us. I have 5 siblings. My oldest brother Ryan works for my father now. He has a different mother than me and my…

grown up with two cultures in my household. My mother who moved to America from South Korea when she was fourteen and my father who was born in New Jersey and raised in Washington. Our family is one that is always active. Trips as a child were almost always camping. But they were camping with a twist. Instead of roasting marshmallows over the fire we would be roasting pot stickers. My mothers Asian heritage has always been relevant in our lives. It influenced a lot of my childhood including when…

In the early summer of 2015 my mom, sister and I went to a family reunion in Huntsville Alabama. This was the second family reunion that I had been. I was happy to go and see my family that I had never seen or heard about. Who knew that I had family in the state of Alabama? On the way there I kind of wonder what they were like. After driving miles and hours we finally made it to Alabama. My mom rented a hotel room for three days. The hotel had a 15ft indoor swimming pool, there is also an…