Interview With The Person's Political Beliefs

Although being hispanic, I also consider myself American.” Even though she is an immigrant to the United States herself, she believes that the US should not have open borders and immigration should be limited. She believes that people take advantage of the freedom and do not come to America for the right reasons.

The Republican Party think that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections should apply to unborn children and the unborn child should have the fundamental right to life. However, the Democratic Party strongly disagree with this idea to a fundamental right to life. “Democrats stand behind the right of every woman to choose. [They] believe it is a constitutional liberty” (Democratic Party Platform). They fully support a woman’s right to make decision regarding her own pregnancy and health. Abortion is a personal decision between a woman and her doctors, therefore it is not a place for the government to get in the way. While the Democratic Party is pro-choice, they believe that abortion should be safe, legal, and rare. These two widely different stances on the issue stem primarily from religious and moral influence. Abortion is not an issue that can be played in the middle. There is one side or the other, and people make their choices based on their morals and religious preferences.

In the early 1940’s Marie was born into a small tight knit family living in a small rural Kentucky town. Marie is now in her seventies and has led a very interesting life traveling the country, raising four children, and shaping her chosen profession. Our interview sessions were conducted over a period of time, as Marie is very active and has little “free time” to spare.

Picking someone for this paper was much more difficult than the first one, at immediate thought the only people I knew over the age of 65 were my family members. I started to look into some of my friends’ parents but they were not quite there. Then it hit me, the perfect person to interview would be my friend that passed away in Dickinson, her grandmother. She is one of the most loving, caring, supportive grandparents I have ever met. I have always seen her from that stand point so interviewing her would only help me to understand how she became the way she is today.

But, we still interact almost every day with the help of technology. However, I am very close to my mom since I live with her and her brother. Another similarity that we found in common is that we believe our assimilation is more additive because we continue eating Mexican food and celebrating traditions such as Quinceañeras. However, we have adopted traditions from this country such as Thanksgiving and Christmas. Lastly, we have both faced prejudices due to our ethnicity backgrounds. On the other hand, one of the differences that we have is that her family has been in the United States for three generations and I came here with my mom thirteen years ago. I have closer bonds with our culture such as the language and celebrations like Dia de Los Muertos and Dia de Los Reyes Magos. Melinda celebrates 4th of July with her family and I don’t celebrate it because I feel uncomfortable since I am not a US citizen. On the other hand, Melinda’s first language is English

Whenever I saw the flyer and read the options for the essay topics, I knew I needed to share my mother’s story. Like Mildred Loving, my mother is strong, brave, and resourceful. She defied the social norms of her generation and married someone she loved. Although the marriage could not survive the hardships the young couple faced, she gave us a grandson, a son, and a brother whom we all

She also fights for the reproductive rights in woman as well as family planning for those who are in need. Diana is prochoice and serves as the Co-Chair Pro-Choice Caucus. She believes this is a time where women’s health care is always being questioned and she wants to ensure the betterment of Planned Parenthood funding, here there is better access to birth control for woman at lower prices. Recently she wrote on facebook “We must remind the President that birth control is health care, plain and simple, and his decision could rip this essential aspect of care from tens of millions of women”. Diana believes it is a right to have these easy to access for more people. If President Trump plans to continue with the abonnement of these programs many woman will lose to opportunity to have proper care . LGBT issues also play a huge role of her time in the house. She serves as the Vice Chair of the LGBT Equality Caucus as well as her 20 other caucus she is a part of and supports. She has cosponsored 11 out of the 19 bills pieces of legislation that has made up this Caucus.

For the 2010 Texas state political party platforms, do you support the Republican or Democratic platform on the issue of abortion? I support the republican platform on the issue of abortion. I consider myself conservative in nature and in most cases, abortion included. I lean towards their positions on these issues. Once a child is conceived, regardless of the circumstance, it is a life. As a society, Americans generally take life and human rights very seriously. Other countries that have mass murders and human rights violations are looked down upon but our citizens that identify with the Democratic Party and consider themselves liberal look past abortion as if it isn’t a life. The argument that it typically given is that it isn’t about the

She talked about her belief in both President Bush and Obama and their political parties, but she felt they turned away from related issues of human trafficking, health care, poverty, and adoption and as she said “underlying issues related to abortion.” There were other issues to look at beyond making it illegal.

This family has gone through many obstacles, Sandra's husband got injured at his job ten years ago and since then he has been living with his disability checks and Sanda works as a babysitter. Both parents do not have stable jobs where it is promising they will get a good amount of money every two weeks. They struggle to give their two youngest children a few extras. Sandra and her husband try to give as much as they can, but two things Sandra does give them is trust and good communication. "Subsequent studies have affirmed the importance of parents, partially of their warmth communication acceptance and involvement in their children's lives" (ch 12, pg 279) Sandra will not judge her children, even if she does not agree with what they are doing. She is also a authoritative parenting, "the approach is to put boundaries on acceptable behaviors within a warm

My interviewee's name is Paula Anderson-Worts. She was born in Jamaica back in the 1960’s. However, Paula along with her parents relocated to Florida when she was two years old for an improved life, and in search of the American dream. When Paula started school, she was inspired to become a teacher, doctor, and a fashion designer. Although, all throughout her life people told her she can’t become all those things, she has to select one. Even though this may be true, she still insisted on her dreams. In addition, “she thought it would be unique to follow in her mother’s footsteps”.

     Upon entering my first semester at Southern Nazarene University I could not have told you my political ideology. I knew what my opinions, observations, expectations, and ideals were, but did not know the proper ideology that would define them. Through several courses that I have taken, I have become more informed as to the role that I would like to see the government take throughout society as a whole and in the economy. Upon reading the section of ideology in American Government and Politics Today: the Essentials I learned that the correct term for my ideology is right-wing Conservatism. I would like to see the government take action if necessary in the economy, yet let

One last assumption I had was that she would describe her family as perfect, and sort of “All American”. The truth was far from that. Her family was not a perfect family. Amanda

Stacy is my tenant. She rents one of the rooms in my house. She first came in to see the room with her father in the summer of 2014. She told me she was transferring from a College in Bakersfield and she was going to attend CSUN in the fall. She is 22 years old, female, and heterosexual. Her attire was proper for the setting, she was wearing clean jeans, a nice t-shirt, and tennis shoes. She had a very happy affect and made direct eye contact with me during our interview. Stacy told me she is very close to her family composed by her father who is a musician, her stay-home mother, her 15 years old brother and two younger sisters ( 5 and 2 years old). Both parents were born in Mexico, but Stacy and her siblings are American citizens. Her family is Catholic but do not practice it or attend church. Stacy’s warm and calm demeanor immediately put me at ease. She articulates her thoughts and ideas very clearly using both verbal and non-verbal communication to express herself.

I am originally from Peru located in South America, and I have been raised for 13 years there. Then, I moved to the United States; where I found that the political mind set of each country are slightly different. Yet, they have something in common which is the importance of the rights of its citizens. My personal political beliefs are based on how I raised by my parents. Both my parents thought me how to respect other people’s opinion and beliefs; know that we all are equal; and be knowledgeable about the current events. Over the years I have been learning and informing myself about my surroundings and what is going in the political world, until now I surely know where my political mind set goes towards to.