I am struggling trying to take care of my family without losing my family. Please judge Pitts help me I do not have any income coming in right now but I’m trying TANF and child support is in process TANF I also have to take classes to help and they also help me find a job. Please judge seems like probation has been a black dark hole in my life my probation officer not really trying to hear me out I can’t give nothing that I don’t have. I’m trying to get it so I can pay my fine but I don’t have the money that they are asking for. So, please judge Pitts I am begging you to help me!!!!
Family life has always been a key factor in regards to my future and its success. As an infant until this very day, I have seen my mother struggle to give me and my siblings a better life than she has had. My mother is an independent woman, raising my siblings and me on her own. Section 8 housing authority, food stamps, and child support has been a part of my life since I was in diapers and it’s time to make it all disappear. I see my mother breaking her back trying to give me an education she
What would you do if you needed to move to a new place? Within the book The Witch of Blackbird Pond, written by Elizabeth George Speare, Kit goes through a lot of moving to a new place and making new friends, but she became tougher and more courageous. Kit must move to a colony in Connecticut after her grandfather dies. She had to leave everything behind, including her friends, house and money. Then she had to survive on the ship for two months.
Dariela Flores Paper 3 P.O.V. “The Bride,” written by Christine Granados, is a story about a Hispanic teenager whose dream wedding was interrupted by teen pregnancy. Since Rochelle was a little girl she was obsessed with having an extravagant “white wedding.” Throughout the story the younger sister Lily tries to snap Rochelle back to reality and get her to appreciate her Mexican culture. Rochelle gets married while she’s four months pregnant and although things didn’t go as she planned she was content with how she ended up. Granados implies that life won’t always go as you planned.
Cofer’s mother wanting to stay in El Building, whilst her father yearned to live somewhere else, because she never got over the yearning for la isla “The Island”. Her mother only cooked with foods she could pronounce the names of which were some of the same brands her own mother had used. Cofer’s mother shopping outside of La Bodega going to Sears, Penney’s and Lerner’s, showed a willingness unlike the other women to shop in American stores but still held onto the small comforts that reminded her of her home land. (53-55) Cofer’s cousin is fully assimilated into American life. She claims it herself, she is and American woman and will do what she pleases.
Her love, Professor Claude Night, refers to her as a “titmouse” (15) as a means to further hold her down. During her re-waking in the Shakespearian dream, she compares herself to Desdemona: “Next to her I’m just a little wimp/ a rodent. Road kill. Furry tragedy / all squashed and steaming on the 401” (45). Iago also refers to Constantine as a “cunning mouse” (39) as he warns Desdemona against her.
He also was in the bind of trying to find work to support him and his daughter. He hated the fact of his daughter not having everything she needed and even what she wanted. But his daughter had a passion, and it was to read. She wanted to learn to read, but something’s her father couldn’t teach. He never considered of putting her in school.
This quote caught my attention because as a child who grew up with an absent father, I felt this essay really got to the heart of the problem that many children faces now a day. I was lucky in knowing my father's decision not to have anything to do with me growing up was because he resented paying support. I wish I could believe parents left for altruistic reasons, but I think those are just excuses. If they really feared screwing up their kids they could take classes, they could learn to be parents, take anger management classes. Simply, they cannot be arsed to bother.
Crozier feels strongly about revealing the faces -- and stories -- behind the statistics on poverty. "Some of them might be your neighbours, some of them relatives. But there's a whole group of people that are being terribly affected by poverty, and will be for the rest of their living days," she said. Crozier also read a passage from her memoir, Small Beneath the Sky, in which she looked back on learning to read. Because she hadn't attended kindergarten (which had to be paid for), she was behind in Grade 1, and didn't know how to read.
She and her mother were forced to escape to California leaving Abuelita behind by helping of their servants: Alfonso, Hortensia and Miguel, her friend. Second, she and her mother have to work as farm labors during Great Depression. She has to learn to live with all the difficult things of a poor working person. For example, she has to learn to do chores, take care of babies that she’s never done and doesn’t know how to do in her previous life. As life in California became more difficult by the strikers for better working conditions and Ramona get sick with Valley Fever, Esperanza becomes responsible for her mother’s bills by taking on a job of her own and saving money to bring her loved Abuelita.