I was sixteen when I got pregnant. I moved in with my boyfriend and later got married. I didn’t worked through my pregnancy but after the nine months, my husband couldn’t pay the bill any longer so I had to go back to work. I applied in different restaurants and I finally herd back from a Native American Restaurant. I wasn’t happy with my life, but that is the life I chose.
Script Each character has a monologue!! Jessica, played by Maryssa: “Everything was all good in the beginning but somewhere along the line, things went wrong. Chad and I were good together; we had four beautiful children and we rarely argued. But the last five years of our marriage was bad. Chad lost his good paying job and became stressed when he had to find another way to support our family.
Because of the malnourishment and poverty they lived in, Richard was not able to have a happy, bright, normal life as that of a child born during the 21st century. Not only did Richard not have a normal life, his life revolved around getting a job to help maintain his family at a very young age. When Richard was less than five years old, his father left him and his brother in his sick mother’s care. Although Richard’s mother looked after them, she needed her husband’s help financially. “You ought to be ashamed…Giving your son a nickel when he is hungry.
Welfare Reform: The Facts Since the Social Security Act of 1935, many people have become the worthless in our country. Even though the Act had good intentions to provide single mothers with children income for daily living expenses, the program has become widely misused or in many cases abused. The Federal Government ran the program for nearly sixty years before realizing there were many loopholes that needed fixed or adjusted. The recipients of this aid had no motivation to find work because there were no set limits or guidelines for how long you could receive these government benefits. Welfare, as we know it, has been abused and continues to be abused today.
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.
It would be difficult to deal with not being able to have that sense of accomplishment after having it for so long. This scenario is easy for me to relate too, as I have seen this first-hand within my own family. My dad in the past two or three years had his business go bankrupt. As well as, getting laid off from his next job at Lowes (indefinitely), and then was without work at all for about six months. In my eyes he has
Well as mentioned before I was a single mother so traveling as a flight attendant often my son did not see me much. This was something I could not continue doing for the rest of my life so, I decided to make a career change and this is where I applied at Argosy. My son has always been my automatic push to better myself. I knew that at the beginning of changing careers it was going to be a hard one due to financial hardships. I would work fewer hours at a new job which means less money.
ESSAY Birjees Khezri drmunirak@yahoo.com Experiencing as an immigrant in the United States has not been an easy lifestyle because my Green card was lost, delaying the process for seven years. These were worst years of my life, but had the most positive influence on my life. There are positives to every negative, it is how one manage those negativities that makes you “who you are” without any support. I was fortunate enough to raise my three children by guiding them for their bright future. My husband’s income as a salesman was not enough for a family of five.
Delaying this surgery for many years when I was living in Iraq, due to technical and financial problems, has had a very negative impact on my health because the problem in my knee was a reason of severe pain so I lived many years on pain killer medicine. This issue also had extremely reduced my ability of work. After I settled in the U.S, this matter was among my priorities from the very beginning. So when both my wife and I found jobs, we started seriously thinking about the surgery and it took me another four years to arrange my situation to be able to buy an affordable medical insurance through my wife’s job. Hopefully the operation will be completed successfully before the end of this
Descending from difficult households, both my parents moved from Mexico to the United States in hopes to build better lives for my brother and I. Living alone in a foreign country has never been easy, however. My parents have built our lives from scratch with no outside family support. When I was young, my dad was always switching from menial job to menial job in hopes of find something better. My mom always helped out as best she could, at times selling coke and candy to neighbors, but her primary concern was always taking care of her children.