Reflection of My Family History
What can I say about my family? Honestly, hardly know jack shit about my family's history. As of now, I know that both my Biological parents were born in Puerto Rico. In addition, please be mindful that the man who is supposedly is my biological father; I did not have a chance to meet his ass until I was 24 years old. Furthermore, I never would have met this fucking man had it not been for me calling my Titi Carmen (Aunty Carmen) in Puerto Rico. Before I go too deep into my family's history, I think it would be best for you guys to get a little bit of my background, my first family, the streets of New York City.
For starters, I was born and raised in the most violent poverty-stricken section of New York City, The South Bronx. I managed to survive two epidemics, (the crack, and the aids epidemic). I was born in the early seventies. The Bronx to me looked like a fucking warzone, a vast wasteland, where it was not uncommon to see the rats roam free amongst the debris of the streets of New York City; along with the huge water bugs (Cucarachas Grandes), it is what we Ricans in the hood use to call them. These big ass roaches were disgusting; these motherfuckers had wings on them too. So them suckers could fly and shit. I cringe as I writing this shit thinking about them nasty ass disgusting roaches. The shit I had to deal with growing up in this bitch! I still remember, I swear to you guys going to the bathroom was some scary ass shit, like a
Please List any concerns you have about your child’s behavior. __________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ How does your child get along with peers? __________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ How does your child get along with siblings? ________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ List any current stressful events in the family or in the child’s life. _______________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ DEVELOPMENT: Please fill in any information you have on the
The way in which the ‘family’ unit is perceived has changed immensely since the last quarter of the twentieth century. Over time, many factors have contributed to these changes including, and not limited to, the industrial revolution, the feminist movement, the period of modernity and technological advancements. As a result, these factors have influenced significant changes to the ‘family’, these include; the increasing rates of female occupation, mean age at marriage, divorce, unmarried couples, single parents, mean age at birth of first child, and a decline in marriage rates. Moreover, this essay will examine how the family has changed over time through discussing the factors that have contributed to these changes. It is for these reasons and observations made by sociologists that it could be inferred that the way the family unit is perceived has changed greatly over time.
History is defined as the study of the science of humanity in the past. It's a broad subject that spans over countless people groups throughout the years that the world has been around. Even before the times we have written word history was still being made, and it is still extremely important. We tend to forget that in our average day to day lives we are still making history. That all over the globe everyone is taking part in what might be in a history book someday.
My family history has influenced who I am today due to the fact that I have descended from a long line of artistic people. On my mother’s side, there have been many who have worked with painting, music, drawing, dancing, and even film production. From day one in school I have loved the arts and have found that it is my passion. Both my parents have been highly supportive of wanted to continue my love of dance during and after college and also with pursuing it as a career. Not only that, but I have lived in Pittsboro, North Carolina all my life and stayed within the school systems in the county moving from elementary, to middle, to now high school. I have been very fortunate to have gone to schools that are highly oriented with the arts. Starting in elementary school with playing the recorder, I moved up to play the flute in sixth
My family is Mexican –American I am third generation born in the United States. My maternal grandparents were born in Texas in the early 1900s, and my mom was born in Arizona. By the late 1950s the Davila Mendoza family relocated to Fresno, California because they wanted to work in the agriculture business. I do not have much knowledge about my father I never met him. All I know is that he was from Guadalajara, Mexico. I am the eldest child followed by a younger sister. I was born in the early 1970s in Fresno, California. My grandmother spoiled me because I was her first grand-daughter my mom was her only daughter followed by five older brothers.
The smell of old books in the stuffy back room of the library was overwhelming, but also quite comforting. It reminded me of a much simpler time. This caused me to briefly stop and reminisce about my childhood. But enough of that, I am here on a mission, I am researching old newspaper articles to get information for a genealogy project. I never thought that there would be a time that I would willingly research and write this much once I was out of school, yet here I sit, sorting through decades of information and taking pages of notes.
The idea behind Hunt Club Subs n’ Grill is not a new one, it’s an idea that started with traditions that have been passed down from one generation to another throughout the years. Family, conservation and heritage.
When I enrolled in Columbia southern college to further my education, the enrollment counselor told me I needed 6 credits of history. The first thought that popped into my mind was; “I do not need to learn anything else about history at this point in my life/career, I have learned all I needed to know about history in grade school and high school”. After multiple failed attempts at trying to convince my counselor why I should not have to take history, I realizing that there was no way around taking this course. As I began to read over the syllabus and the unit assignments, I began to have an open mind and second thoughts about the course. I was intrigued by unit 1 scholarly activity; answer the following question in your own words: “Why
I chose number three (Family story) for my family history project because I wanted to talk about the great events that happened within our family history.
For my genius hour project, I decided that I am going to researching my family history and my family past, where my family is from. It sounds really cool to learn about my family history and where they came from? I really want to know where my family is from because I want to know where I am also from and what I have parts of the world are in me. I know that most of my family is from Europe, that is all I really knew before I started this project. But I did not know what parts of Europe my family came from. I really wish that I could know where all of my family is from and what their last names mean. My thesis for the genius hour project is to find out where my family came from, how old they were when they came to America. And did my family
In a few brief moments, I will be leaving the my family in order to fight for the kingdom of Heaven and the glory of Christ. My father would expect me to fight for the Holy Kingdom. He had fought gloriously as well, and at this moment, he is smiling at me from the heavenly skies.The king himself had given the a nobility title for his heroic deeds in battles. Unlike others, he did not simply buy the title, which is why he is my inspiration [Nobility of the Sword]. I say farewell to my wife, Alice, and four children. I give advice to Alice and tell her what she should do in order to support herself and the children. I told her that I expect her to continue raising the kids, teaching them about the passion
Those who are new on the genealogy journey can find it to be a roller coaster ride with pits of doubtful or erroneous data. Each piece of genealogy information you get you need to verify and validate, if not, you could be travelling down the wrong path. This trip can be depressing and devastating, especially if you copy another's genealogical tree taking their information at face value.
The Family History Library, located in Salt Lake City, Utah, was founded in 1894 to gather genealogical records for use by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints with their family history. It is the largest genealogy library in the world. The collection includes over 2.4 million rolls of microfilm, 356,000 books and serials, and over 4,500 periodicals. In addition to the main library, the Family History Library has Family History Centers. The centers provide genealogical assistance, classes, online genealogy database, and often small microfilm and book collections. As of September 2014, there were 4,700 Family History Centers across the world.
Family history is very important to an individual. By knowing where you come from, you can have a better perspective of your life. Having a clear understanding of your family background allows you to better appreciate the things that you would normally take for granted. The house, the car, and the average clothing may look better when one sees the sacrifices their family has made. They will see that their family has worked very hard just so their family can experience the better things in life. A persons roots and origin is one of the most important things to explore. It alone can bring you closer to self-discovery.
What I am today is the reflection of my family's history. History of endeavors, pains, failures and growth. One evening, I was talking to my grandma and she started telling about our family. At first, it seemed quite boring, but ended up in tears and made me learn the most important lesson of my life. It was quite a deep thing to realize for a kid but fortunately and eventually I understood.