Hardworking families

order to help his family. Unexpectedly overnight, he had turned into a bug. Although he had gone through a physical metamorphosis, his mind and thoughts had remained the same, keeping his hardworking mentality intact. Since his transformation, Gregor’s parents wanted nothing to do with him and his sister had was having a hard time adjusting to his new form. Gregor’s sister eventually stopped acknowledging him. Throughout Gregor’s life he had been the main support for his family, but his…

Joy was always working from sun up to sun down to provide for her son, but the sad part was that she wasn’t there for him when he got back from school to hear about how it was going for him at school. Lastly, Wes I’s mother Joy, who was a very hardworking women, she worked multiple jobs to make ends meet. She knew exactly how to raise her own kids, and what paths they had to head in, in order to be successful. Joy knew that having a good education on one’s shoulder, is mandatory in this life, to…

As I conducted my interview I asked important life questions such as, what was the most important thing you learned growing up in two countries? Also, I asked questions ranging from happy situations to difficult ones. The name of my grandma is Isabel Ruiz she’s 62, and was born in Mexico, and raised there until she moved to the United States at the age of 19. One of the constant things I realized as the interview went on is that she holds an understanding of what it’s like to grow up in two…

have had many people in my life that have helped guide me into becoming who I am today. My mother is the primary person in my life that guided me and taught me my core values. She has always been an inspiration to me because of how loving and hardworking she is. When I was young, my parents got a divorce and going back and forth between my mom and dad's house was very hard on my sister and…

compare to how his dad would behave when he was under the influence. (Sanders 184). In this section, he explains that how the world reenacts drunks does not compare to how a household is with the disease of alcoholism. His father’s alcoholism is a family…

remember Dr. Elliott. I had broken my arm and was desperately in need of an x-ray. At the time, my father was writing his dissertation and had recently lost his job as a chaplain, and my mother was unemployed. When my father worked as a chaplain, my family received health insurance. My mother ensured that we took full advantage of this benefit, so she always took me and my brother to Cook Children’s Hospital for routine checkups. I loved going to the hospital, unlike most other children,…

Nuremberg, where he moved with his family when he was very young. He attended high school from 1942 to 1945, but in 1945 he was inducted into the Volkssturm militia. He finished his Abitur in 1949 and kept going with his studies in literature, languages and philosophy in Erlangen, Freiburg, Hamburg and earned his doctorate at the Sorbonne, Paris with a thesis about Clemens Brentano’s poetry. He was a founder member of…

Graves’ Disease, my father, and growing up in an “Army family.” The day I had been diagnosed with Graves’ Disease tends to not be a real good conversation starter. Going through elementary and middle school, I felt a bit strange when it came to energy levels, strength, and just relating to kids around me in general. My hair was thinning, my weight was suspiciously low, and my body was always trembling.…

Dear Diary, I never would have thought I would write those words. My family isn't poor in the common sense, we could afford almost everything we absolutely needed, but we wanted to save up as much as possible instead of getting small little pleasures every once in awhile. The only reason my family and I have these journals is to write about the Oregon Trail and all of our adventures, which means we need to bring some pencils. It’s a little tacky, I’ve heard everyone is bringing at least one, and…

compared to the nurturing mother presented in “Mother to Son” or the strong, father figure presented in “Those Winter Sundays”, the father figure in Roethke’s piece comes off as an aggressive alcoholic with little to no care about the happiness of his family. The pome appears to be a metaphor of one particular beating in which the speaker’s father gave is described as a waltz. With closer examination it seems as if the speaker does not look back at this experience as something bad, but as if it…