Family Background Being a Latina in 2017 has given me a unique perspective and a different outlook on my culture. I was born and raised in Mexico City and immigrated to the United States when I was five years old. I consider my family to be rich in tradition and culture although we have assimilated into the American Culture. Over the past generations‚ my family has lived in the same small town of Monte Grande‚ in our home state of Guerrero on the southern region of Mexico. With a population less
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know an extraordinary person in your family that you find interesting? Gilda Plouffe‚ my grandmother is the most interesting relative I know. Having a great personality that everyone loves makes someone interesting. My grandma is the best by far. She has so many great qualities about her. Gilda has time for everyone in the family‚ including over twenty grandchildren and her boyfriend‚ still works as a full time waitress and is such a great person inside and out. My grandmothers amazing personality
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What is your name? My full name in english is Andy Chang‚ and my chinese name is 张滔(Zhang Tao). I do not think there is a meaning behind my english name. My parents told me that the reason they gave me the name “Andy” is because they wanted a name to be easily remembered and called. How do you define yourself & WHY? I consider myself as a Chinese racially‚ culturally‚ and ethnically. First‚ I am racially Chinese because my genetic is pure Chinese. My physical appearances are black hair‚ black eye
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09-10-09 When you hear the word radioactivity‚ you think directly about dangerous gasses. But radioactivity can also be a way of healing people. The most known are X-rays and radiotherapies. Too much radioactivity is‚ in contrast with radioactive medicines‚ dangerous for your body. You can get seriously sick‚ cancer for example‚ or even die. A tragic example of this is Tsjernobyl‚ where a nuclear reactor exploded. In this essay I will try to answer the question: How can radioactivity help people
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Different types of concepts are used in family theories. Some point to the structure of a family‚ its composition or the way it is organized. Some concepts describe patterns of social interaction‚ the quality of relationships‚ or processes that occur in families. Some theoretical concepts show how other concepts are related to each other. For example‚ if a family has five members and one descriptive concept refers to how flexible each member is‚ the family itself may be flexible if it meets a certain
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substances (Focus Adolescent Services 6). Teenagers need the knowledge to make the right decision about drugs when introduced to substances. In order to address problems early parents should educate themselves about the warning signs of drug abuse. If a parent knows what to look for they will see changes in their child physically‚ emotionally‚ in school performance‚ in their relationships with their family‚ and in their social life. In terms of physical changes the teen would be tired‚ with red or glazed
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for families through the recent years. Each family approaches this situation differently. For my family‚ this event happened in 2006‚ when I was just six years old. Looking back‚ I do not recall anything that stood out as a red flag in my parents marriage up until the day that my dad left. My sister‚ who was eight at the time‚ and I sat on the stairs as we suddenly watched our father bring a suitcase downstairs and begin to walk out the front door. As a child I felt lost and disconnected. My mom
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Military families sometimes‚ depending a lot on the specific job of the military member‚ experience a great deal of stress when the military member is preparing for a deployment. Especially in the case of protracted deployments‚ such as a one-year unaccompanied deployment to the Demilitarized Zone on the Korean Peninsula‚ or a nine-month deployment at sea aboard an amphibious ship‚ or deployment to a combat zone in Afghanistan or Iraq‚ the stress on families can be enormous. Spouses that are accustomed
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house for a disadvantaged family in Juarez and working in the encompassing heat of the Mexican sun‚ I was exhausted. Relief came when I walked into a cool house with the rest of my youth group‚ about to enjoy an authentic Mexican meal with the family who would move into the new home. However‚ that relief was quickly offset by the uneasiness of entering the home of total strangers. Not only were we strangers‚ but we came from different cultures and spoke different languages. My stomach insisted that this
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And in “Fever Pitch” written by Nick Hornby‚ we get another look at what hooliganism means to some people. But why do people become hooligans? When asked why hooliganism many people talk about the family they never had and the brotherhood. But when does this brotherhood turn into newspaper articles about disasters? In the text “Among the Thugs” we get a look into what motivates the hooligans to cause such violence. England was in a very fragile state in the 1970s‚ there were big differences between
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