My insider/outsider partner was Alicia Garcia. As you can tell by her last name she is Hispanic. I don’t have many Hispanic friends and I am not use to their culture. Starting on the project Alicia told me a little a bit about her heritage. One of the things I asked her was‚ “Do you celebrate the day of the dead?” I know that might seem like a crazy question to ask‚ but I the only thing that I truly knew about her culture is what I seen on TV. Alicia said that they do celebrate it to some extent
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The time when my fifteen year old daughter wrecked my car. On this day I had a doctors appointment so I decided to pick Brittany up from school and take her with me. We arrived at the doctor’s office on time‚ now keep in mind it’s cold in most doctor’s office‚ so I suggested that if she got cold she could go set in the car so I gave her my keys. The nurse called back to see the doctor‚ Brittany remained in the waiting area. Twenty minutes had pasted and the nurse was knocking on the examination room
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My worldview has been shaped and expanded over the course of my life by different influences. Family‚ friends‚ sports‚ education‚ even strangers have made impacts on my life in one way or another. The three main components that helped me develop my worldview would be being a christian‚ being a young adult in college‚ and also being a nurse because they molded my perspective of things. Being a christian and growing up in a haitian baptist church is what first shaped my view of things. Also being in
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"Hey grandma I’m taking the four-wheeler‚ and going down the road and back " hollered Glenn. Emma Drake my cousin yelled back‚ " I want to come with you! " He yelled " let me go down the road first." Then about five minutes later another family member came speeding in the driveway. He told us that Glenn was down the road and the four-wheeler was flipped over completely. So‚ my grandma called 911 and after she was finished we speeded down the road. When we headed down the road we heard
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My interviewee is (my mom) Shondell M. Brown. Wife‚ mother of three‚ a former nurse‚ and a strong hard-working African-American woman. Born/raised: Bronx‚ NY College attended: Hostos Community College Bronx‚ NY Major: Medical Billing/Coding Graduation Year:1995 “The biggest thing I’ve overcame in college was getting organized. Dealing with a baby was a challenge in High school because I was a teen and working jobs and schoolwork with a baby‚ but college was a little smother for me with organization
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If I could change one thing in my mothers life to make it better i would change the fact that she has systemic lupus. Systemic lupus is a blood disease involving the white blood cells. The white blood cells instead of attacking the germs in the body begin to attack the organs. Eventually the lupus kills some of the major organs in the body and they slowly start to shut down. There are several reasons as to why I want my mother to feel better. The one that stands out greatly is because no
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A Utopia is an imagined place where everything is perfect. It can be real or not. My Utopia consists of a race track with lots of loud cars. My Utopia looks like (and is) a racetrack. There is loose dirt flying all over the place. Sometimes‚ if you’re lucky‚ you get a rock thrown at your face by cars zooming by. There is hundreds of people sitting in the bleachers‚ most of the time huddled up with blankets because of the cold. There is empty soda bottles and old candy wrappers laying under the bleachers
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becoming friends with them. My goals for an academic occasion is to pass high school by getting a passing grade. I want to graduate out of high school and maybe go to college but I don’t know. I am going to get grades of C’s-A’s which is also my goal and have no late work‚ so I have to make sure I focus and just finish all of my homework and do well at school. Also‚ my freshman year I want to win at least 1 basketball game
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see them. There was still a lot of wind. It blew down a huge tree in front of where tony was. He was so scared he couldn’t even move a muscle. The group of animals went to help tony. When tony saw everyone help he noticed that he had to change. Change my stop being mean and disrespectful.
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as well as challenges. Beginning with my strengths‚ I believe I have a passion for writing. When I write I make it easy to follow my train of thought from simple word selection to more complex thoughts. I also have my topics organized in a pattern designed for an easy flow from start to finish of what is written. While I strive to keep it simple‚ sometimes I have to get creative to capture and keep my readers attention. For my challenges‚ I believe my limited vocabulary may be a problem along
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