My Family Essay

the purpose of life (Merriam Webster). This point in my life I have taken a few values that I hold in high regards. These values include family, friendship, moral, love, education, optimist, happiness, and purpose. I will be describing in this essay my philosophy and why I hold these values of high regards in my life. Family Family is one of my top values and something I hold dear in my life. From the moment I was brought into this world family has been a mix of experiences and emotions for me.…

In relation to my family I would rank my fusion between emotional and intellectual function between 75 and 100. I try to separate my emotions from my thinking when it comes to stressful situations. I tend to be autonomous and goal directed. I think it is important to not based decisions entirely off of emotions. I have clear goals and beliefs that somewhat drive the decision that I make in life. For instance, I try to be focused and determined in what I would like to accomplish. I would…

My interaction with M on my last visit home. There was nothing unusual about coming home except this time I wanted to talk to my family about how I was feeling. I felt ready to open myself up to being vulnerable (Being vulnerable) This being a challenge because I am one who needs to express my feelings and the others in my family either don’t or tell me I am too sensitive. In the last ten years I have lived away from my family. For 9 of those years I lived in small town about an hour away…

Both of my grandparents are from Mexico and were one of the first in their family to come to the U.S. The economic mobility of my family trends upward while my family rises in socioeconomic status from generation-to-generation. My grandparents are quite secretive about their lifestyle, so it’s unclear exactly how they were able to occupy the social status that they do today. One thing that is apparent in my family is that one’s achieved status is valued greatly. Migrating from Mexico, my…

My family is deeply rooted in the Christian faith, we went to church on Sundays and Wednesdays. My father grew up in a family that only went to church on Easter and Christmas and were Christian only in name. When he was about five or six his mother became a Jehovah’s Witness while his father did not. Because of her religion, she was never involved in birthdays or holidays throughout his childhood and it turned him away from religion as a whole until his senior year of high school when he went to…

hours filling page after page. A few years go by and she is now seven years old and starting the first grade. She is given the chance to write a book and titles it “My Family.” She is so proud of it,…

My mother, Margaret Rose Lyman Spivey, has been a nurse for 25 years and now is currently works as a nurse practitioner at The Medical College of Virginia. She works in a part of medicine that many may be afraid of; she is a physiatrist. This is a demanding career with almost no days off because sick patients never take a day off. She loves what she does even though it is very tough. She loves helping people and that has always been a main goal in her life. This goal has not come without…

Do humans raise themselves? Are they able to survive without nourishment and protection from family? The answer to both questions is no, they can’t survive without family. There is much evidence to support this claim such as in the drama A Doll’s House written by Henrik Ibsen also known as “the father of realism” and a three time Nobel Prize in Literature nominee. As well as in the novel The Alchemist written by Paulo Coelho, the winner of many international literary awards including the…

fine” elaborated Willa Cather, while discussing her childhood to fellow writer Lewis Carroll. This statement is descriptive of a large element in Cather’s writing, especially in her novel My Antonia, where the protagonists living situation is eerily similar to the authors childhood environment. At age 9, her family moved to Nebraska where her father attempted to farm the land. Willa Cather knowingly or unknowingly inserts her experiences into the novels structure as well as its protagonists in…

Earlier in my life, I struggled with four things: family, friends, school, and myself, until I moved here to Texas for a second chance in my life. Throughout my life, I am always moving. Always adapting to new challenges. I do not do drugs nor smoke because I had learned it in a hard way in my early years. I always do the best I can to help others, and just try to do good. I am quiet and socially awkward and do not have many friends. That is why I am good with animals and children because they…