Randy Mills Ms. Kasey Melvin PSY 241 NW1 13 July 2011 Erikson’s Eight Stages On July 12, 2011, I interviewed my grandmother, Martha McCarroll in regards to her life and her story. I asked her questions from as far back as she could remember until the present time. In addition to her extraordinary life story, we discussed Erik Erikson’s eight stages of psychosocial development. After explaining them to her, I asked her a series of questions that would relate Erikson’s stages to her life. At the conclusion of the interview, I asked my grandmother to give a summation of her life’s experiences, and I also asked her to share any regrets she may have during the course of her life.
Billie Holiday’s Upbringing Elbretta Hollis Colorado Technical University Abstract This paper will discuss the how Billie Holiday was raised and how her upbringing affected her through her years as an adolescence into adulthood. It will also give a synopsis of her personality. I will be using Erikson’s and Kohlberg’s theories to attempt to portray Billie’s younger years. Then I will discuss what her motivations that pushed her to succeed. Billie Holiday Childhood to Adulthood Billie Holiday was conceived by a thirteen year old single child.
Kyle Close English 100 Professor Potratz 4, December, 2013 Poverty and Starvation In the united states there are about 4.6 million people on food stamps that are unemployed and go threw a day to day fight and struggle to stay alive and provide food for their family. Ever since the 1980s America has slowly see the decline of the middle class. Americas economy is getting better but is still not good. Parents go through a daily fight and struggle to keep food in their family's stomachs, keep them healthy, and trying to find a job to provide for their family. Food stamps used to be able to help people but it seems today they are causing more of a problem.
Jessica felt as if her family did not function normally. She thought it was abnormal that they did not have a meal together as a family. I personally think that the family worked together very well to accomplish survival and a concrete financial future on the farm (Roen, Glau, & Maid, 2011). Jessica felt envious of the other children at school because they were able to do before and after school activities. Jessica was restricted as she had chores to do upon awakening and arriving home after school.
As many of us thinks about hunger issues in America, we often overlook the families that work and are still struggling to put food on the table. 36% of the households served by Feeding America have one or more adults working, but they still can’t make ends meet (Feeding America). My mom is a single parent of two. My mom and I both have jobs but are still struggling to put food on the table, due to bills and loans. She went as far as applying for Food Stamps, but was quickly denied due to her large income.
Health Insurance Reform Tracy Edwards is a single mother of two boys even though Tracy has a great career she still cannot afford to for health insurance. Tracy pays $190.00 every two weeks which means she pays $380.00 a month. Latoya Dixon is another single mother of four boys due to her health insurance going up $200.00 month she had to let her health insurance go now her and her four boys don’t have health insurance. There are over “46 million people lacking health insurance, but also for those who have insurance the economic downturn is a chilling reminder that under current system, virtually anyone facing a run of bad luck could be quickly wiped out by medical bill collectors”. State Healy, Bernadine M.D.
After setting out these laws, families still tried to avoid the law by bringing their children in with them to work. Although the companies were not paying the children themselves, they paid the families extra for the child’s labor. Poor families were willing to do anything to make an extra dollar to survive on. Unlike the children of today, during the early 1900’s the young kids had to grow up extremely fast. They were not able to play and be worry free like the children of today are.
She has worked 2 jobs at the same time just to make a little extra money to support us because now a day everything is expensive and especially rent, and she does it to put a roof over my brother and my head. I changed a lot after this year and a half. I’ve learned to appreciate the little things in life and to not complain about such worthless things. My view on the world and how it works has changed dramatically to. Everything doesn’t go how you want it.
Unfortunately, since the programs in the United States seem to be focused on alleviating some of the effects of relative poverty they have done a "lousy" job of teaching people how to stay out of poverty--finish school, don't have children unless you are married, get a job and good intentions are not enough. It's unclear how much good all these extensive programs have done since they are seldom reviewed by Congress; but they have spent an enormous amount of money--almost $717 billion in Federal funds plus $210 billion in state funds for $927 billion total in 2010--and increasing fast. [5] Unlike in Europe, Christian democratic
Most undocumented parents have limited time with their children because they are working long hours and shifts in order to provide for their families. Most undocumented immigrant parents feel tremendously isolated and do not have the confidence to ask for help from the government; like food stamps or Medicaid. As a result, they do not receive the same help as other U.S citizens. “Section 245(I) last came into effect over a decade ago and basically says that if a person has a labor certification or visa petition filed in their behalf on or before April 30, 2001 and they were physically present in the United States on December 21, 2000 then they would be grandfathered under this law and so long as