Yvette Garrett Life Span March 22, 2010 Case Study by Yvette Garrett Introduction: The subject of my case is James he’s a black male that was removed from his Mother’s home due to the lack of her not being able to care for him properly, he was basically taking care of both of them ,cooking, and cleaning. James now lives in a group home and works at the local workshop for persons with disability. James is thirty nine and lives with five other males in this home and shares the responsibility of the chores and any other obligation he has in the home. I have been working with this individual for approximately three years. I have had the opportunity to observe the individual on Saturday and Sunday for twelve hours.
My ancestors emigrated from England and my heritage is that of Scottish, English, and aboriginality. My father is the oldest from a family of 2 boys, since my father was the oldest he was like a second father, he was always out his father with the farm and at the age of 12 was sent out to work at a chook farm. My mother being the middle child of seven brothers and sisters, my mother had to take her place in the care of the house work. Both grew in the same type of family and both knew what it took to work hard to get what they wanted in life. When I was growing up I was never given all the things that I wanted, my parents taught me that I had to work had if I wanted anything, that I only got what I needed not what I wanted.
Theme Paragraph for “The Father” In the short story, “The Father”, by Hugh Garner, the father (John Purcell) moves from being selfish and ignorant to realizing he is the one who has created a void between his son (Johnny) and himself. The father, a former war veteran believed his responsibility ended with providing money, without spending time with the family. However, the son does not see it this way and feels his father should be involved more often. The son tries to get the attention
Spiegelman felt he was always over shadowed by his father regardless of his own accomplishment because his father survived the war and he could not compete with that. He says “No matter what I accomplish, it doesn’t seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.”
He read the letter and found out that he was put up for adoption when he was a baby because his mother was sixteen and his father was eighteen. They were in high school so things were not going to work out. To his surprise, they got married later on and are now still together. He also has more siblings and was excited to meet
But would I truly understand what today would bring? Now is a week past my eighteenth birthday, and a Madison’s family tradition requires a boy at this age to go through the path to the life of a man. In a few moments, my father and I would be on our way to purchase the ticket to my manhood. Ever since my childhood, I was completely aware of this duty but I never wrapped my mind around this “life-changing” process at all. Guns always were a recurring element in my life because it runs deep within my immediate family, especially my father.
Kat Poirot 12/14/12 Period D A.C. Houghton's life, with his family by his side, was very productive. However, an accident, and it's after affects, laced the edges with tragedy. The mansion has been out of the family, but some say they never left. Mr. Houghton was vital in the creation of North Adams, however, the public is often unaware of his contributions. Mr. Houghton came from humble beginnings, and always had his family to fall back on.
(p.285) Childhood upbringing and structured life has a huge impact on one lifestyle and behavior as an adult. The situations we grow through as a child develop our character. In Sonny Blue’s the two brothers experienced a lot of struggles throughout their childhood which impacted their life. The two brothers lost their parents at different times the oldest brother was tasked with looking out for the younger sibling while the younger sibling was hurt and felt alone without his parents but in the end the two brothers only had each other. And I had a lot of things on my mind and I pretty well forgot my promise to mama until I got shipped home on a special furlough for her funeral.
My father was true believer of hard work and put himself through medical school. It seemed as though the Horatio Alger myth did not apply to my father. A man who was the youngest of ten children and with parents who had died when he was very young was determined to make it out on top. I have no recollection of these first months of my being but it was my grandparents that primarily took care of me, being that I was my mother's first child. The role of my grandparents would continue to play a huge role in my upbringing even though we were not even in the same country.
I went to a very conservative strict school In Kenya. When I was three my father left to America to pursue a better life for his family. I grew up without a father in my life physically, because he was always miles away but my father kept in touch, calling us every day. For seven long years my father worked hard from cleaning toilets, to mopping floors,