My Family Adaption

Family is the first group of people a child sees when it exits the womb. A family’s presence is the last feeling that the body experiences as it is placed below the earth’s soil. The family is essential to human development because of its early presence in a person’s life and its continued effect on a human throughout life. Family affects the four domains which are physical, emotional, social, and cognitive, also key concepts within the lifespan theory, ecological systems theory, and psychosocial theory influence family. Explanations on as to how family, in specifically my family, is impacted or impacts my human development will be featured in the essay.

In this paper, I will use the sociological imagination to connect my personal experiences of growing up in a nuclear family to comparison of growing up in a divorced family. I’m from a nuclear family and my best friend is from a divorced family. “Some people still think the average American family consists of a husband who works in paid employment and a wife who looks after the home, living together with their children” according to Giddens, Anthony pg. 447. That’s not the case in many households. There are many differences, from values, financial issues, and how having one parent opposed to, two parents growing up. Growing up in a nuclear family household has given me the opportunity to have both parents supporting me and always being there, having both parents at special events, giving me the guidance from both perspectives man, and women, love, and financial aid. My best friends parents have been divorced for over 19 years, her living style is much different. She has to make certain days available to visit her father, and her mother has financial difficulties.

Families tend to lose that bond they had because of distance. Perry Patetic, in his argument claims that distance is breaking family bonds and losing track of family members. Patetic supports his claim by first listing different ways that the society is equipped with cars and trains. He continues by explaining that families have problems with living so far away. His purpose is to point out that there are issues with distance between families, so that people that are considering moving will know that there's a possibility that they can lose track of their relationship with family members or friends. The author creates a sincere tone for families. Distance should not get in the way of one's bond with family or friends.

Moving to a different place taught me that home doesn’t have to be a place, it can be a person. On a humid day in the Philippines at my great grandma’s house, I had just finished watching my favorite TV show, Tom and Jerry, sitting on the couch with my feet raised up on a stool. My great grandma called me in to eat dinner amid watching my show. She also called my younger brother, Kurt, who was playing with his Beyblade toys on the floor. I told my brother to clean up his beyblades that were scattered throughout the floor before he could go eat dinner. After he finished cleaning, we both walked to the dining room, pulled each of our seats out, and sat on them waiting for our food. It was only my younger brother, my great grandma, and I. During that time I realized something was missing: my mother.

My family mainly originates from the U.K, predominantly Ireland. Both sets of my Grandparents are mainly Irish but they more than likely have English and Scottish ancestry as their parents were from the U.K which consist of Ireland, Scotland, and England. I myself like to think of myself as Irish because, well, let’s be honest, the Irish are pretty cool. This fondness of Ireland helped me determine what images to use to represent my heritage and culture, these images consist of the Irish flag, Shepard’s Pie, an acoustic guitar, an electric guitar, and a rainy forest. I choose these images because I thought they portrayed how I perceive my culture and heritage, beginning with the guitars. My Mother’s side of the family holds a lot of musicians who played stringed instruments such as the fiddle, banjo, or guitar. I myself play guitar and love stringed instruments, especially ones in a traditional orchestra like double bass, cello, and violins, I also really like folk music which primarily originates from Ireland.

I was born into an Ecuadorian family that is catholic. Since my family and I are catholic we eat certain type of foods on different holidays to celebrate or honor. For example on Christmas we prepare a countless variations of food celebrating Jesus’s birth. To be specific we prepare Spanish rice, white rice, pork leg, ceviche, salad, and other types of variation of foods. Another example is on Friday’s during leant we can’t eat meat in honor that Jesus sacrificed himself for us. Overall, my religion has played a role in my relationship with food, but despite all things to my family and I food means love. To us it means love due to making a hot meal for someone is caring and thinking about the other person. Personally for me I have a marvelous

Growing up, I never really understood what a “normal” family was supposed to look like. Before I was even born, my parents had split for good (although the were never married). I stayed primarily with my mother, and it was just the two of us for about four years, although we stayed with others along the way. I interviewed my mother about this time in her life and the struggles she went through, that those in a nuclear family might not experience.

To date, an abundance of research has provided evidence that stressful situations and circumstances in a family are associated with youth behavior problems (Brakefield, Wilson, & Donenberg, 2012; Conger et al., 2002; Elkington, Bauermeister, & Zimmerman, 2011; Hammack, Richards, Luo, Edlynn, & Roy, 2004; Nebbitt, Tirmazi, Lombe, Cryer-Coupet, & French, 2014). This association is not only empirically supported, but theoretically supported through the Family Adjustment and Adaptation Response model, which postulates that family demands (i.e. potential stressors placed upon one or more family members) interact with family capabilities (i.e. perceived physical and psychological resources; coping strategies) (Patterson, 1988, 2002). These two

Animals live in all kinds of different places around the world ranging from desert, rainforest, savannas, and tundra. Some of these areas aren’t best fit for some animals to live in, but they adapt, but what is adaption? Adaption is what helps the animals stay alive in the current surrounding and situation. Animal’s adaption can range from the shape of its mouth or beak, the thickness of its fur, or even the color of the animal itself. For example camels have adapted to survive by their camel hump, they use the hump as sustenance when there isn’t any food around for them. Camels evolved to develop their hump because they live in a desert where there is a lack of food for them to eat. These adaptions didn’t just come from camels though, adaptions may have come from animals that are extinct. Some extinct animals may look somewhat familiar to the animals we see today, that’s because a lot of animal evolved from the same creature, but adapting to different areas. An example would be that a rodents live in one place, and some separated to another. Two of the same rodents now lived in different ecosystems, so they adapted to them differently than the other. One rodent evolved into a tree habitat so it developed flaps so it could glide to other trees, similar to a flying squirrel. The other rodent evolved with similar flaps, but the rodent was smaller so it could hide from its prey easier in the bushes.

There are many influential people in the world but the one that stands out the most to me happens to be in my family. The person I chose to interview that motivates me the most is my aunt Annette Walker. Growing up Annette was my favorite aunt she was like my second mother. At the age of 17 my aunt worked a full time job, and was a full time high school teacher. After my grandfather passed she was forced to get a full time job to help my grandmother pay bills so they wouldn’t lose their house. She was forced to grow up at an early age and she basically lost all of her youth days. Once my grandfather passed away it took a toll on my whole family. My aunt was in the 12th grade when my grandfather died and she had a full time ride scholar ship to culinary arts pastry school in Atlanta Georgia. She lost her scholarship because she was working full time and missed too many days of school. She was devastated and ended up dropping out of high school because everything just hit her all at once. ​​​​​​ My family lived in one of the roughest neighborhoods around, they were aired on Gang Banging in Little Rock. Back then if you wasn’t going to school you were in the streets, selling drugs, or either part of gangs. My aunt had no motivation around her or no one to look up too because the only man she knew best was taken away from her so early in life. At the age of eighteen she moved out on her own to better herself and to get away from that horrible neighborhood.

My family hasn’t had the best luck with dogs. I am 14 years old and I have had 5 dogs in my life. There was Foxy who had a deathly seizure, Jazzy who died of old age and Jitters who passed after 4 months of having her. Things were hard. Now I have two 8 pound pals; a bouncy, bubbly bullet of a dog named Mimsy Moo and a dog-cat hybrid named Kevin Bacon. Kevin is always basking in the sun and taking naps while Mimsy is on the move whenever she can. Mimsy has been in our lives for about a year but we didn’t get her until we went through barrels of trouble. This is the story of how Mimsy Moo became a permanent member of the Kostal family.

In short, I come from a relatively normal family. I am the oldest of the three girls, with four and eight years between each of them and myself. I have aunts, uncles, and cousins too numerous to count, each family scattered across California and the rest of the United States. We are a multicultural, multiracial, and multiethnic family, which had vast implications to how we were raised and the structure of the household and the greater family system. There are many themes and patterns that have been passed down from generation to generation-through different types of trauma and hurt. In this paper I am going to explore explicit themes that have been transferred in my family, the privilege that is apart of our family culture, and my

My family has lived in Beijing for a long time. We experienced huge changes in China in the 20th century, especially within the economy. Because of the centralization of authority, China could gather the money in some specific way very soon during the developing period from 1980s to now. Chinese economy has changed a lot. The change is not just staying on the business level, which it surely have a lot of good effect to every common family.

Before I came to the United States, I lived in South Korea with my parents and my brother in an apartment. In my neighborhood, all of my relatives on my mother’s side lived on the same floor. My oldest aunt’s family lived right next to our family’s unit. My youngest aunt, grandparents, and uncles lived on the same floor as well. Even though South Korean culture is no longer strictly collectivistic, our family still values collectivism more than individualism. Our family network was very close until my mother and her sister became enemies; now, we no longer actively interact.

INTRO: (1) As Walt Disney once said, “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” He also said, “ All the adversity I’ve had in my life all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me.” (2) I Vanessa Hoene personally haven 't had many troubles in my life. (3) But when I did my family was there to help me. (4) Today I will be talking to you about my family, future career and goals, and my favorite things to do.