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According to McAdams (2009), in their late teens and early 20s, young people living in modern societies face the challenge of finding a place for themselves in the complex adult world and developing an understanding of themselves that provides their life with meaning, unity, and purpose. ("Chapter 9, The Problem of Identity, Adolescence and Young Adulthood"). However, some who will experience many conflicts such as, identity crisis, role confusions, and insecurity of how they will fit into society. I think she is at this stage because she is still in the process of developing her sense of self at the age of 29. She had begun to accomplish many of her goals, but tend to never finish them such as, school, and different career opportunities. At her age she still feel a need to blend in with her social group of younger adults, instead of focusing on herself and her children. I honestly believe that she is trapped in her teenage years, since her mother had done everything for her and the children. Which I feel that it really effected the way she thinks and live her life, which may have caused her to get lost in the mix of becoming an independent adult. The central question that was posed during stage 5, adolescence and young adulthood, is “How do I fit into the adult world”? (McAdams, 2009, p. 351). I believe she has unconsciously sought to answer this question, because she rather be with her friends out in

For my essay I decided to interview my mother. I know most of her story starting from my brothers birth. But i had never know much about her childhood. My mom was surprised when I started asking questions and I happy to learn more about my mother. I will focus this essay manly about when she was a child until teenager. While doing the interview I learned many thing and am now grateful for having the opportunity of writing this essay. I started by asking her when she was born and everything else sparked from their.

One female by the name of Jane Doe was the focus of this interview. Jane is a forty-seven-year old White lesbian who identifies as American. Jane was recruited through a local Alcoholics Anonymous meeting that the interviewer frequents, and was chosen for convenience. The participant was asked to volunteer because the interviewer wanted to work with a person who was culturally diverse and was known to have attachment issues with her parents. Jane was told the purpose of the interview and why she was chosen. She stated that she was “thrilled to help” (J. Doe, personal communication, April 1, 2017). The participant was not compensated in any form for her participation. For a length of two hours, Jane was interviewed and recorded at the

Jennie grew up in George, Iowa. Her childhood wasn’t a very pleasant one. I am sure it was good compared to some, but it could’ve been better. She grew up with her parents and her two younger brothers. Her whole life, and still to this day, her parents were heavy drinkers. When I asked how this affected her childhood she struggled to find the words to match the emotions running across her face, and finally said, “It was tough, and I had to keep an eye on my brothers a lot.” Her parents did not encourage her much with important opportunities, such as education. This is one of the reasons her education stopped after she graduated high school. When in high school, she wanted to be a social worker, which again proves her love to care for others. When asked why this wish did not come true, she replied, “Teenage pregnancy changed it all.” Having a baby at the age of sixteen was tough, but so is Jennie. She managed to graduate high school, while caring for her child. After graduating, she moved around a little, and had another child, me. After having me, she moved to Kansas City, but eventually moved back to George with her family. She had two more kids, and when asked if she had planned on having 4 kids, she said, “I never had a certain number.” She is very successful today as a mother and as an employee at her job in Sheldon, Iowa. I find it inspiring that she was able to overcome so much in her young ages, and still be so happy and successful in her

During the interview I felt empathy for Cathy and had a general understanding how challenging it must have felt to care for someone but could not be with them due to prejudice. Cindy's experience reminded me of the time I was dating an Italian man, that I care deeply for and one day he was invited by his cousin to attend a party, Giovanni asked me to accompany him but when his cousin saw me approaching his car, he called out and said that nigger is not getting in my car, as a result the relationship dispersal. Also, Cathy is one of my dearest friends, whom I have always felt the need to protect or defend her for one reason to the next especially since she is a transgender female and I have personally encounter how insidious some people can

C.B. is a 82 year old white female that lives alone in San Antonio, Tx. She was born and raised in San Antonio, Tx and she is the youngest of two sisters. C.B. was raised only by her mother, because her father died when she was only 18 months old. She loved going to school and was very involved in high school. C.B. was in the pep squad, school newspaper, and was the assistant editor her senior year of high school. After graduating from high school C.B. went to school to be a certified public accountant and then worked as one for twenty years, and happy at this job. As time moved on she wanted a little more out of her job and decided to go back to school to be a RN. She worked as an RN at Methodist Children’s Hospital for an additional

Walking into a Starbucks in the affluent town of Hinsdale, IL, it was not hard to find Ms. Sadiki and her son Azzam, given that they were the only non-white people in the store at the time. The Sadiki family, first generation immigrants from Pakistan, makes up part of the miniscule 3.3% of Hinsdale residents who are not White or Asian/Pacific Islander (Hinsdale Market Profile: 4). Ms. Sadiki had convinced her husband to move to their family into one of the few apartment complexes within the zoning lines for Hinsdale Central high school, so that her son Azzam would have the best chance of going to a good college. In the meeting, she openly expressed to my mother and I how hard stressed out she and her husband had been recently given the financial

This interview showed coming of age. This meaning, when a person takes responsibility for his or her’s life and do what needs to be done. What I learned

Infants under two years of age represent events in a different qualitative way than older infants. During this period, infants code events in a different way from the codes based on action due to the verbal capacity that flourishes. Their emerging oral skills are associated with memory for individual experiences. They cannot describe unique events that occurred at age two verbally six months after seeing them because the memories are encoded in a way that cannot be explained verbally later (Hayne & Simcock, 2009).

Mya grew up in a small, racist environment all her life. She was born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama. Mya mother gave birth to her at the Tuskegee Institute Hospital. The Tuskegee Institute was the first hospital blacks, african americans could go to. Growing up Mya also stayed in and out of the hospital. Mya mother, Lisa, has never been able to just go to work after her daughter was born because Mya heart has given her difficulties. Doctors constantly told them that she wasn’t going to make it and if she was she wasn’t going to make it to see 21. Receiving the news lisa informed her ex husband which was her husband at the time , she informed him about the difficulties throughout life that their daughter would and could possibly go through

For interview number three, I decided to focus on middle life, which includes the years from thirty to around fifty years old. Middle life represents an incredibly important transition into older age, as middle life covers a great range of differences that come within those twenty years of life. At thirty years of age, individuals are usually only entering parental life and learning to act as a provider for their families, and at fifty, have provided for their families for about twenty years. These twenty middle years of life therefore represent the most challenging and demanding phase of life for most individuals.

I decided to do my topic on "dating and finding a partner", my interview was more concentrated on social and personality development in early adulthood and towards the end of the interview, to middle adulthood. The person I interviewed was a 64 year old women, who’s only married one guy her whole entire life. There were so many different types of views, theories and/ or concepts within this interview that relates to our text, "Discovering the Lifespan". Some of the stuff that was in this book applied to her, such as the theories of Erik Erikson, Bernard Murstein, and etc.

At 7:00 PM on Monday, June 8, 2015, I had the pleasure of sitting on the outdoor patio of a small local Mexican restaurant called Pancho & Lefty’s and interviewing Monette Richards. I met Monette at a lecture held at the local library a year before, she was the speaker, and the topic was, How to be a Nobody, and Still Get Shit Done. I knew then, she was someone I wanted to get to know. Monette (Mo) is in her early 40’s and has short curly bright pink hair, and is self-taught in information technology (IT), with no formal post-secondary education. Mo, through a series of “bad, male dominated places of employment” (personal communication, June 8, 2015), has worked her way to her current position as an IT Specialist at a small collections company that she has worked at for the last ten

Cued Recall –The child was then asked about a specific detail about the event that given by the parent/guardian

child hood memories will stick with them either in their mind which they always remember a certain event