Au pair

You do not need US citizenship to qualify for Social Security Disability Insurance (“SSDI”) nor do you need to be a permanent US resident. However, you must have legal status to work in The United States. In addition, you need to have a social security number assigned to you to work legally in the United States and earn the necessary work credits to qualify for benefits. Also, residents who are not US citizens and are from Cuba, North Korea, and Vietnam are unlikely to receive SSDI benefits.…

In this paper I decided to interview my maternal Grandmother, Eva Hausner. Eva was born in 1933 in Budapest, Hungary. She was an only child that used to live in downtown Pest, right by the Danube in a two-story apartment. Eva told me that her father owned the jewelry store that had been part of his family for the past 3 generations. Eva remembers that there used to be 4 employees under her father, they managed the store when he was not around, we can infer by using Marx’s beliefs that Eva’s…

infant’s wrist will be attached to a ribbon. As the infant makes a hand movement, the mobile will be moving, and infant therefore learns contingently that his or her action causes the mobile to move. At the moment of the hand movemenr, the sound of a pair of words or phrases will be produced in either English and Chinese or English and Spanish. Moreover, the mother of the infant can pre-record up to two hundred most frequently-used babies’ nouns and phrases, such as “ball,” “all done,” “book,”…

in Antigua, she received a British education and performed at the top of her class. She was the first of four children. Her relationship with her mother tumbled downhill once she began to birth her three sons. At age 16 she left Antigua, became an au pair, and went on to pursue her writing career while in college. Her family rejected her writing. It was then that she changed her name to Jamaica Kincaid. Her short poem Girl (1984) touches on what young women experience living in an…

Duchenne Muscle Dystrophy Introduction: “Muscular Dystrophy is a group of muscle diseases that weaken the musculoskeletal system. Muscle Dystrophies are characterized by muscle weakness, defects in muscle proteins and the death of muscle cells and tissue. Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is one of many types found and it passed down through the X chromosome. DMD is one of the most common muscle diseases found in early childhood. 1 in 3500 boys are born with DMD however very rarely affects girls…

“Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry.”( pg 56) This quote came from Jamaica Kincaid short story “Girl”. If a parent of this present day, told their children to do that, the child would probably just stand there and question them why. Well the girl in this story could not even get one word out to question the mother let alone only two sentences throughout the whole story. In the eyes of most…

as I have been able to. Snapchat, Instagram, iMessage, and many other social media apps help me keep up with the lives of those I care about who are not right here on campus with me. I have also been lucky enough to keep in contact with my former au pair despite the fact that she lives in an entirely different country. I have not seen her in two years, but thanks to iMessage and other social media, I keep in practically daily contact with…

Growing up in a very large country, with a very small population, and only two neighbours, as a child, I was always wondering and deeply interested in knowing how the children from the other countries are growing up. I always wanted to know how do they spend their free time, how their puberty goes, which experiences do they have, how do they communicate with their parents, what do they eat, drink, think, read, dream, feel, how do they see the world, are their experiences similar to my own or not…

I am very proud to say that I am an American in what I believe is every genetic way you can be an American. My Grandpa Emory’s mother was a Native American, and his father was half-Native American. His wife, my MawMaw Rosemary, was a first generation American whose parents immigrated from Germany. She was one of five children, and she went on to have five children, the youngest being my father. My cultural identity stems not only from my family’s socioeconomic background, but also from the blood…

In the prose poem carefully crafted by Jamaica Kincaid, throughout “Girl” the use of Kincaid’s childhood, history of Antigua, word choice, tone, and symbolism reveals the underlying life lessons for a traditional community from a wise mother to her young rebellious daughter. The daughter of Annie Richardson and Roderick Potter, Elaine Potter Richardson, later changed her name to Jamaica Kincaid, was born on May 25, 1949 in the town of St. John’s (Jamaica Kincaid Facts). The capital of a small…