Monte Cahn: My Family

The mother in “The Other Family”, by Himani Bannerji, has numerous static traits. Perhaps one of her most dominant traits being affection. It is clear various times in the text that she is affectionate when she felt “sorry that she was putting such a heavy burden on such young shoulders” (Bannerji 2). Before, she had also said that she did not want “frighten [her daughter]”(Bannerji 2). She even manifests panic just from thinking of potentially losing her daughter. Her second most evident trait is loneliness. The mother displays loneliness when she sometimes is “unsettled” with the news contained in “letters that [arrived] from home”(Bannerji 1). This could most likely be that the letters may be about certain people or things she misses from

One thing you probably don’t know about me is that I am super into genealogy. The stories and the history are not only fascinating to me but downright strange.

Family is the most important aspect of student success, this is the unit that teaches children how communicate, have good/appropriate social skills, and problem solving skills and this could not be truer than with a special needs child, yet if that child has a sibling this can be to their detriment. Mary McHugh, author of the book Special Siblings writes that “I don’t know if that happy baby turned into that somber child because of my brother’s disability or because my parents’ marriage was almost destroyed by it,” showing how typically developing children are, many times, at a disadvantage in the family unit because their parents are pouring all their love and attention into the special needs child leaving the typical child deprived and alone

After watching The Blind Side and learning about families we can conclude, What is an family? In the Blind Side Michael is seized from his mom at the age of 7. When Michael started high school Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy became his legal guardians and end up adopting Michael in the long run. The Tuohy family takes Michael in like one of their own, The Tuohy family gives Michael a strong family. We need a strong family to help us succeed in life. Strong families give us love and affection, protection, education, teaching values, economic support and guidance. If someone is raised by an weak family they are more likely to do illegal things because they are not taught between what right and or what's wrong.

My family has lived here in Oregon since the before the war between the states, and family tells us stories of the good times before all these japs started taking over. Around the turn of the century or so it started to seem like these people were everywhere. It all started with the building of the railroad. The companies brought in those people to build the railroad, and now that the railroad is completed they will not leave. To make matters even worse there is an effort by their leaders to get them to strike for the same pay as us white people that work for the railroad. There has been extremely little or no effort on their part to become like us Americans. I was walking through town the other day and what did I see, there was a huge Buddha statue in front of a new Buddhist temple. They can't even go to church like regular people.

John (1735-1826) and Abigail (1744-1818) Adams were the second President and First Lady. John Adams served as the first vice president to George Washington, United States minister to the Netherlands, United States envoy to France. He served in congress for three years and served one term as president. Abigail Adams was a fairly active first lady, and was involved in some of the politics.

In this chapter of, Families as they really are, Coontz, a professor of history, asserts the theme of how as time went on the definition of a family has altered. Coontz begins this chapter by showing how every area in the world has a different definition of what is a family. Specifically, in the United States, the definition of a family has altered from the early colonial times to today. She explains the differences of the how every race has a different meaning for families. According to Coontz, originally a family could be considered anybody within the kin. Also, people in the early days did not marry because of love. People got married because of social and financial benefits. Another point that was emphasized by Coontz, was how originally there was not formalities for a marriage. A marriage was just two people that are close to each other. However, as time went on documentation was given out of a valid marriage. Coontz, goes on to state how in the 1950s all of this started to change. Families started to live together, the husband and wife got married because they both love each other. This was the time period where the nuclear family started to be the ideal family of a husband being the breadwinner, and the wife as a stay at home mother, and two children going to school. Coontz, concludes with how the definition and perspective of a family has changed over time, and will keep on changing.

“Race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident real or imaged is crippling, tiring and ultimately counterproductive” – Condoleeza Rice, Extraordinary, Ordinary people: A Memoir of Family

What do individuals think of when they hear the term First Family? Normally people think of the President, his wife, and their children, but it can be much more extensive. In the book First Family by David Baldacci, Pam Dutton, sister of the First Lady, is murdered. Pam’s daughter, Willa, is kidnapped during the attack on the Dutton family. Tuck, father of the Dutton family, is badly injured in the attack. The Secret Service provides little protection to relatives to the President, so the Dutton family is an open target. Two detectives who arrive at the crime scene while the crime is taking place take upon the investigation. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are appointed to investigate the crime under the orders of the First Lady. The title is

Dade moved to Pennsylvania about a year ago when he was 16 from Boise Idaho. He is very independent and spends a lot of time with his family. Dade’s family is sweet, but also very protective of him which could be good in many ways. Dade is Jamaican from his mom’s side, that’s where she was born and raised. Dades family is very religious and they enjoy spending a lot of their time in churches and helping others out. When Dade is not in the church or spending time with his family, he enjoys listening to music, playing video games, or playing basketball.

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.

This is the story of how I met the Cowley family. I want to start with a short summary of my childhood. I grew up in a small farm in the state of Guanajuato in Mexico. My parents got divorced when I was eight years old, my sister was seven and my brother was only four. Parents getting divorced in the rural parts of Mexico in the late 70’s was very unheard of. I always liked school as a kid. I completed up to six grade in a small school in a farm next to ours, grades seven to nine in a small town about an hour away on bicycle and ten to twelve in Irapuato city and about two hours away on bus. I also did a year of college in Celaya, three hours away from our farm. I went back to the farm every weekend. I always dreamed of finishing a career and

For my family, we use these holidays and traditions to help keep the family together. We have these specific holidays because they are what my both my parents grew up with along with the rest of their family from previous generations. Our annual pig roast on the first Saturday of August on the other hand,was started by my father and is used to bring all our family and friends together before the kids in our family and neighborhood have to go back to school and let them have a fun time for both children and adults.

In Some Memories of My Father, the narrator’s father tells him “This is the way our lives turn out, Mikey. Disappointing.”(Some Memories). He says this because life did not turn out the way he wanted it to. Life is actually not inherently disappointing, it is merely what you make of it and how you live your life. Mikey’s father is disappointed with his life because he made wrong choices that he regrets.

I grew up in a household slightly different from the average household. This abnormal household showed me that no matter the family unit someone can have a positive influence in their life that will push them to achieve their goals. We lived in Maryland so the cost of living was high my parents had to work multiple jobs. This means my brother and I really had little to none parental or supervision growing up. I am only four years younger than my brother so I would hang with his crowd of friends rather than mine. In my household, my mother’s niece, Monet lived with us she is about ten years older than my brother. When my brother and I would wake up and I would be the only person in the house. I can remember waking up and smelling the freshly cooked waffles and bacon downstairs. Monet was my mother’s brother, daughter. Monet became so close to my brother Avery and I she was almost as if she was our sister. I can remember growing up and she would always say, “You don't have to take the route I took, its many more exits on the highway.” Even though I was young I was not blind to the fact of Monet role in the community and her neighborhood job I never judged her, she did what she had to do to make ends meet. It was an experience every day, or anytime being with Monet. She was so popular around Maryland it was almost like everywhere we went we received respect love. Now that I look back at the past, I see that Monet has taught me a lot that I know and live by today. I could