Extended family

Pi’s ship crashes and all his family is killed. "And what of my extended family – birds, beasts, and reptiles? They too have drowned. Every single thing I value in life has is destroyed. And I am allowed no explanation? I am to suffer hell without any account from heaven? In that case, what is the purpose of reason, Richard Parker?" (Martel, 98) Pi begins to wonder if suffering truly has a purpose. He questions why his family has been killed and why his life was destroyed. “I…

When I was young, my extended family was just a doorstep or rickshaw, three-wheeled bicycle, away. Now, it is unfortunately an expensive 23-hour flight, bus and boat ride away. There are significant financial barriers so the conversation of an upcoming family trip to Bangladesh is often light humor. After my family and I immigrated to the United States, I returned once in the summer of 2005. There were connecting flights from London, Dubai, and finally to Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital. I lived in…

different from everyone around you, even your own family? I have. It is my extended family. My father's family is African American. Then there is my mother’s side. Her family is Caucasian. So it should not be surprising that I have always felt like the “outsider” on my mother’s side. However, ironically, my sister is completely accepted by my mother’s family! I would understand it if we didn’t have the same mother and father, but we do. But, my mother’s family always seem to treat me different;…

himself working many different type of jobs, to include: laying ties for the railroad, field work in eastern Washington, working on ships as a cook, and laboring in a drycleaner. In time, they would run a hotel in Seattle, where they would reside as a family. 2) How did the author 's education reflect her being torn between two cultures? Being born in the United States and being forced to assimilate into two different world, the young child (the author) became confused and resentful, having…

definition of family is different for every individual. For some people, family is strictly between blood relatives; meanwhile, other people define family by the bonds they create among people they meet in life. To further explore the concept of family values, I had the pleasure of interviewing one of my colleagues, Miss Stephanie Paleo, about what she considers “family”. Stephanie is of Haitian descent and was born in New Jersey in 1996. Both of her parents immigrated from Haiti with their…

exaggeration to tell, gone are the days of the families where husbands were only to work and feed the family, and wives were limited to handling household chores and to raising the children. In the past, there were mainly two types of traditional families existing; the nuclear family, where the husband, the wives, and the unmarried children live together, and the extended family, which consists of other biologically related members added to the ones from nuclear family .However, cultural…

through old photo albums with my family the Sunday before the fall semester of my freshman year. My parents and I were flipping through the photos, laughing at pictures of me bumping into walls, when I realized I didn’t see my Korean grandfather in any of the pictures. I learned that much of my extended family didn’t approve of my parent’s marriage, and I wasn’t recognized as a legitimate child for about four years. I get it, I never really fit in with either side of my family. I grew up eating…

that tie orientation do affect communication in India because people care more about virtue and humility than time itself. Family structure and importance also affect communication in India. In a typical Indian family, the extended family: grandparents, aunts, uncles, ect… dominates and may live in the same household together with many other relatives. The way that family groups operates in the USA is very different in India, thus it changes significantly how communication is in the household…

I asked my father why my grandfather never send any of them to school, my father will tell me that back then, Gambia did not have western education system like it is today. He said Gambia was still under colonial rule and the only western school system in the country was centered in the capital city and not in the villages. Secondly, back in those days western education was not seen as a requirement to hold a chieftaincy position or to be a district leader of once territory. There was no…

Divorce is the number one reason in the United States. In the African American community most single parents have never been married, but there is a deeper problem that must be evaluated. Historical factors such as generations of slavery, where families were separated, oppressed and being treated like animals is a factor that has set the pattern for maladaptive behaviors that have develop from these learned experiences and passed down from one generation to the next. In today’s society African…