Ovitz family

Technology and today’s modern family. Technology maintains a significant role in how we do things every day. The large volume of uses for technology these days is overwhelming, but using technology has become required to function in today’s modern society. Technology provides a vital function in today’s family culture, from entertainment to schoolwork and work related activities. What are the effects on today’s family dynamic? Can technology actually bring families closer together or can it…

Many of us have lost something that held a reason in our life and a loss that did not. I have loss a person that was a purpose and should still be in my life today, but things will come and go and that has made me who I am today. The loss I experienced was my aunt not by death, but by actions and choices. The poems that best connected and related with my loss were “Naming” by Nancy Mairs and “Raised Voices” by Jack Brannon from What Have You Lost? The poems both hold similar qualities to my…

I decided to interview my aunt from my mom’s side of the family. My decision to interview her was based on my interest in her life. I grew up with my aunt considering we lived in close proximity, so she was a pretty important figure in my childhood. Regardless though, I know nothing about her life. I do not know how different or similar her life is to mine. I do not have any knowledge of what environmental factors shaped her to be who she is today and how big the discrepancy is between our…

us. Thoughts of confusion and wanting to cry all crossed my mind when I found out. I did not understand why it was happening to her. Everything just seemed like a big blur. I thought something like this would never happen to her or anyone in our family for that fact. I remember hating myself because I was so selfish…

exasperate similar emotions or stories. Authors such as Edwidge Danticat and Jamaica Kincaid are both from the Caribbean and has evoked similar experiences being a woman in their writing. Edwidge Danticat was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Like many families of the Caribbean, her mother and father moved to the U.S. and left her to stay with her aunt and uncle. Edwidge had many obstacles of being a woman such as growing up without having her mother in her life.…

tension within the black community as some searched for any outlet to gain control over their lives. In his play, Fences, American playwright August Wilson describes one man’s desperate fight for power in his life. However, by forcing power over his family, the man loses them. Only negative consequences arise as he searches for power.…

Religion is a big aspect in my life and being Catholic has made me who I am today. My relationship with God is strong and it can always improve. I left my youth group, YFL, back at Las Vegas, but I know that my service did not stop there. I was given opportunities to serve and I am thankful to be reaffirmed of how much God is real and how He is using people as an instrument of His love. By having an opportunity to serve, I am discerning to become a Mission Volunteer in the CFC-FFL Community. In…

The “typical American family” has been a social construct for several centuries in the United States, consisting of a father, mother, and children of the same ancestry. A family can be defined as, “a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not.” In We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, a book by Karen Joy Fowler, the structure of the Cooke family demonstrates that the concept of the “typical American family” is outdated…

Throughout this lifetime, I have seen many close friends and family members struggle to find who they are in this world and where they want to be in the future. When I see people who cannot evolve, they dissipate into a life of drugs and alcohol instead of fighting for what they really want. It makes me take a step back and really think about what I need and deserve in my life. The things my family has given up and/or fought for my brothers, sister, and I to live a life of happiness and full of…

My honorary grandpa, Jimmie Bodie (68), is the man I decided to interview in late adulthood. On November 29, 1947, he was born at University Hospital in Augusta, GA, where he has lived ever since. He was named “Jimmie” because his parents had a good friend named Jimmie. They specifically spelled it with an “ie” because that was how their friend spelled it. He had two younger brothers who he messed with and often got into trouble with. His life was very adventurous, and he has not stopped…