Grandparents Essay

with one hand and the one to teach Sydney how to shoot a bb gun off of the back porch. Even now that the his grandchildren are older he still has weekly phone calls with Haley and has dinner with Lisa and Sydney at least once a week. Rudy also tries to keep the rest of the family connected in any way he can. When Linda was alive and all of the grandkids still lived at home they would have biweekly family game nights. Kent, Jenni, Jordan and Danny, Lisa, Sydney, and Haley would all meet up at Rudy

argument. To start, I had to move from California to New Jersey. Moving to New Jersey was never a plan for my family and I, but because of my grandpa being laid off from his job, we had no other option. My sister and I rode a plane while my grandparents drove to New Jersey. Once we arrived at the airport, getting our bags together and plane tickets had already become an issue. My sister’s bag was overweight and needed to be at least eight pounds lighter, which was no surprize giving the fact that

Every Christmas, me and the rest of my family always go to my great grandparents’ house and they make us a delicious breakfast. Then we all open presents from my grandparents, and the rest of the family open gifts. Every year it’s a tradition for my grandparents to give the grandkids nerf guns. My grandparents use to do it to my dad and uncle when they were little and are now passing it on to me and my brother. Genealogy is the history of life or family. Why is Genealogy important? Genealogy is important

now if it wasn’t for them”, Ivan stated during the interview. I interviewed Ivan Miranda; a native of Acapulco, Mexico, about elderly roles in his family. Ivans grandparents are the first and the oldest generation of his family in America, therefore, a majority of the answers are of direction of his family’s values towards his grandparents and the ethics that are taught by them. In addition, I came to understand more about his family’s thoughts on the importance of elderlies, along with the loss of

not really an issue. For my grandparents, it was not even possible to attend school in any form. When my family chose to come to the US, they gave my brother and me the most amazing gift, the opportunity to gain a real education. I was given the chance to not have to struggle with attaining the best education possible. The struggles my family faced helped me realize that education is a true privilege. My family’s lack of education helps me

was little, I used to be attached to my grandparents. My grandparents used to live next to my family in Puerto Rico. When I was a little girl, my sister and I we loved to spend the whole day with my grandparents at their house. The reasons we loved to spend the rest of the day in my grandparents’ house was their food and the coffee. My grandmother used to make good food, and every time I ate I would lick my fingers. Another reason that I love my grandparents were the way they taught us how to be good

circled around his parents three times and won the competition. In his view, his parents, Shiva and Parvati, were his world. This act of innocence established an early view of family relationships. My values have derived from both my parents and grandparents. I combined older values with new and created my own individual set of values. Through their teachings I have molded into a more amicable individual. I respect different values in society whether it has to do with opinions or

upholding faith in difficult times. Once both of his grandparents settled in Buffalo, they placed themselves in a mainly Italian community. Like many immigrants during this time, they found that this connection helped continue the values integral to their Italian culture. This community also gave them a support system in a time when many Americans, who saw themselves as natives for their earlier arrival, treated new immigrants as outcasts. His grandparents lived on a subsistence basis, but saw the opportunities

misconception that ours is the supreme generation because of this. In contrast, people see the low-tech generation that came long before ourss as disconnected and as less important than the current generation. This could not be farther from the truth. Our grandparents’ generation may have endured different schooling and housing, and may have different mindsets than ours, but this in no way makes them irrelevant or inadequate. These people possess a wealth of knowledge and wisdom that we of the younger generation

com, but the American Dream is more than a definition, but a way of life for many. Millions of immigrants come to our country in search of this “American Dream” including my grandparents but more and more are disappointed. So does the American Dream exist? Has it ever existed or has it all been an illusion? When my grandparents came in the 70’s they came in search of the American dream. My grandfather had been working for a few years in the states, so one day my grandmother and my father, who was