Extended family

everybody. My family was always busy as I was growing up, but we learned core values to help us in our futures. Although going through many hurdles of my youth, I stuck to faith and always had support from my immediate family, teachers, and extended family to push myself to become who I am today. My parents both had businesses of their own; my father owning a trucking business and my mother having a dance studio. They both worked long hours everyday to be able to provide for our family. My…

interview, in response to my question about how the concept of self-disclosure played a role in their lives, that those people that were and are in arranged marriages are given what they call a “biodata” of each others height, education background, family background, and other basic things that only addressed a person’s physical attributes. They said that their friends who made it through the arranged marriage all these years are the ones who took time to disclose things with one another to…

more about wool, but I quickly found out that I was far more interested in a very different topic. The Amish! After talking a bit about to the farm owners, they suggested a drive to visit a much more Amish community and a family to visit with. The following weekend I loaded my family in the car and we headed off to a small town in Maine. Before heading to Maine, I made a list of the things I knew…or thought I knew, about the Amish. And, I purposefully steered clear of doing any research since…

strengthen the nation by having more children. This led to birthrates of over 4 children per family. However, at the same time Mao’s failed economic policies and measures caused a severe food shortage. During this time, 30 million Chinese died of man-made famine. By 1970s, the Chinese Government realized the unsustainable growth due to rising population. Despite the birth rate falling below 3 children per family by this time, the new individuals in power believed that curbing population growth…

will return to work Monday morning as usual. When he returns to work, his lack of sleep and hectic home life will untitentialy impact his job prefromace. This will cause both Steve and his wife stress. Unfortuontially he was not able to take an extended time off to assist in his transition into parenthood. Steve works for the same medium size company in America as his wife. Unlike his wife, he was not given the option of paid time off…

The gastrocnemius and soleus muscles. Also known as your calf. This is the source of a fateful moment one Saturday night in 2014, one of the most confusing and terrifying moments I have ever lived through. The night half of my family laughed at me while I begged to go to the hospital. I was 12 years old. My mother, my older brother, Jalen, and I were watching Saturday Night Live. On the couch, wrapped in a throw blanket, everything was fine. I was cackling like a hyena at the last skit before…

Korea was influenced by the Confucian culture. Korea was a male-dominated society. There was huge gender discrimination and had patriarchal property which is a social system that males hold primary power and role of leadership of whole family. Therefore, the men tend to go to work and many women stay home and take care for their children. Due to Confucian’s idea, we have to respect elder people so that we have to use different words for elder in order to represent the respect. Furthermore, we…

being her first pregnancy she was entirely thorough in replying “I was immensely frightened and nervous.” Digging deeper into events prior she then added, “I remember driving to the hospital on June 26th, the day Jaden’s due date, In Marcels 1991 red extended cab Silverado to the Regina General Hospital. Due to overwhelming nerves and excitement I do not remember a large amount of the trip.” Additionally, Lori’s experiences at the hospital remain a mixture of ups and downs. Primarily she had…

descents (Soule). Besides, being wrongfully racially categorized, I had no extended family living in Belize, hence I saw having extended family as significant because I wanted to get to know my family and be exposed to more of the Ghanaian culture my parents tried their hardest to get us to experience. After a friend from school ended up in the orphanage because of her mother’s death and the inability to locate any of her extended family, hounding my parents about visiting Ghana became a pastime…

I was young. Our family was of course shocked and filled with grief. It was almost as shocking, though, when my great-grandfather decided to marry his childhood friend less than a year after my great-grandmother’s passing. The reactions of my family members varied by person and over time. I will examine how our reactions relate to the experiences that are suggested by research studies and different sociological theories. After my great-grandmother’s passing everyone in the family dealt with the…