My Distant Heritage

His mother’s physical and cultural identity impacted her personal decisions as she grew older. There is no accurate way to know what or why this was her personal choice. However, due to her living predicaments and the cultural influences around her, there is no denying that outside influence had some effect on her choices.

Born to poor cultivating folks in 1933, Joycelyn Elders experienced childhood in a rustic, isolated, neediness stricken pocket of Arkansas. She was the eldest of eight youngsters, and she and her kin needed to join work in the cotton fields from age 5 with their ordinant dictation at an isolated school thirteen miles from home. They conventionally missed school amid harvest time, September to December.

The father’s way of dealing with his inner issues is reflected by the way he distracts himself with hobbies of the women he loves. This illustrates how a sudden tragedy can influence someone’s lifestyle. In fact, before his first wife passed away he showed a lot of interest in art and when she died he was lost and devastated ,” (…) after mom died, my sister and I used to worry about his living alone. And he was lonely.We knew that after putting in his usual twelve-hours workday, he would return to the empty house (...) then read medical journals until it was time to go to sleep.”(16). This implies that

Kentucky’s open grasslands had attracted the type of settler who loved horses because of its great beauty. Also, Kentucky imposed richness of soil minerals, abundance of water, and suitable climate, terrain, and vegetation that attracted these people. People that lived in Kentucky possessed a great love and pride for sporting horses. Their love and passion of horses would shape the Thoroughbred world of today.

He had helped to establish a local junior college aimed at providing vocational education for at-risk minorities, and as a hands-on administrator he found himself on some occasions in a physical altercation with a disaffected student. In middle age, he and my mother once were parking their car on a visit to San Francisco when they were suddenly surrounded by several African-American teens. When confronted with their demands, he offered to give the thieves all his cash if they would leave him and my mother alone. Thankfully they took his cash and left.

He work hard to become the sole bread winner for his family, even though the father was there, he still was the main person that everyone in his family depended on.

Based on my own ancestry, I believe that I have 90% to have diabetes Type II because my mom, my grandmother, all my aunts from my mother side, and even my cousin, that is only 16 years old, have diabetes Type II. I have too much possibilities that I can have diabetes Type II when I get older because in my own ancestry, just from my maternal side, almost everybody has diabetes Type II.

From what I understand my father’s side is a mix of Native American and African American. His mother is from Isle de Jean Charles in Terrebonne Parrish, Louisiana. She is related to the Houma Indians that took residents on the isle. If my mother and I have done the genealogy right down the line on of our ancestors is Jean Lafitte the pirate. My paternal grandfather is of African-American decent. From what we understand he worked on a plantation in his younger years and when he got older worked as a trawler in Dulac, Louisiana because of the seafood industry. My mother told me at her father’s ancestry could be traced back to Spain. From Spain his family made stops in Cuba and the Dominican Republic before settling in Louisiana. My maternal

Your character, values, aspirations, and the things you enjoy are all influenced by your heritage and what that heritage means to you. Your heritage may shape a lot of your life, from your appearance to your abilities. In my case, my parents come from Loja, a humble city in Ecuador 3,654 miles away from where we now live, Los Angeles. Although I have lived all my life in the States, the culture my parents come from will always play an important role in my character.

At the beginning of the Century many women didn’t receive a higher education many stopped attending school at a very young age. Many thought educating women was a waste of time, but on a farm in 1787 a wonderful

Growing up as a member of a Chinese household in a mostly Asian dominant society is vastly different from an average suburban American lifestyle, I became aware of this when I moved from my Asian dominant society of Daly City to a Caucasian and Latino majority of Napa.To start off, both of my parents immigrated from Hong Kong in need of a new life for their siblings and parents and to escape the violence from their homeland- Cultural Revolution and Communist Revolution of 1949. From this incident , both me and my older brother were the first in our average family to be born in the U.S .

As with most Southern families in the 1800's, their land was a source of food

My Bubbe is sitting on the couch playing on her ipad, my mom is texting her work friend as she pets my cats and I am cheering my dad on as he tries to clear his video game level, this is a typical scene at the Cottingham-frye house. My family is a very laid back chill group of people who value each others thoughts and opinions and I am glad to have them home every time I walk in my house. We all love each other and we listen to EVERYTHING about each other's day no matter how silly it may have been. I love my family and would not trade them for the world, no matter how weird they can get.

invited back to help turn the city around spiritually. He never held a political office in

I am proud of my heritage, my melanin and my culture. I will not hide my skin because someone else is biased and ignorant. Many people before me have made history and have paved the way for future generations of African-Americans to do something great. They've became doctors, lawyers, engineers-- and yet no one has recognized the great things the people of my culture have done. People are not proud of their heritage, they never want to praise those who came before them. People like Madam Efunroye Tinubu, Claudette Colvin and Henry McNeal Turner paved the way for African-Americans to have a cultural identity. I am proud to be an African-American and proud to be apart of a tight knit, community-like culture.