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    In my culture, gender roles are very personal. Gender roles contribute to how females and males should think, speak, dress, and interact with others. There are different ways gender roles have developed over time and how people choose to interpret gender roles and what the male and female have to do. I was born and raised in San Diego California. My mom is from Acapulco, Guerrero and my dad is from Morelos, Cuernavaca. They both were raised by strict mexican parents who raised them to be responsible

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    The Ideal Parent: Definition/Exemplification Essay When children are young, it is typical to dislike and disagree with your parents. Children and teenagers often fail to recognize the good characteristics that their parents have and only focus on the negative attributes. As people mature and grow older, they start to recognize the impact that their parents had on their life. For each person, there are different fundamental characteristics that an ideal parent must have. Although no parent is perfect

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    to think what influence a person’s identity. What makes us the individual that we are? I would say that it is our home, where we live with our parents and siblings. Why do we have trust in certain things? Why do we believe the way we do? I would say it is based on the way we were taught and raised a set of opinions that have been instilled in a person since they were young. I would say that their three great influences in my life that makes me who I am today my parents, my religion and my culture

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    Typically as a child you look to your parents for guidance on what a relationship should be perceived as, so then when you are old enough you use what you learned from your parents to find a good relationship. I was raised in a two parent household from a heterosexual married couple. I learned a great deal of what an ideal relationship should look like from my parents who have been married for 30 years. Not only have my parents taught me about relationships but my grandparents have too and the main

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    Hinduism, understanding my place on the socio-economic scale, and understating the impact of my family made me fully understand the impact this had on my religion and behaviors. I grew up in Michigan, but my parents and grandparents were born in India. When they came over to the United States they brought over Indian customs and the religion of Hinduism. About a year ago my family moved into a new house, but before we could move my parents had to do a puja. I asked my mom why are we doing this

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    My Journey Of Life

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    by Ann Landers, “It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings”, people are not just born successful, they are taught the skills and given the tools to build their future, just as my parents, friends, and family have done to help me build a secure foundation for the future of my career and who I am as a person. I would not be who I am without those around me who have supported me through the good and the bad

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    What are heroes? Heroes aren’t super humans who have godlike powers or people who have the ability to save us from dying. Heroes don’t wear masks, capes, or any of those cool, fancy clothing. To me, heroes are something else, they are a lot different than the heroes you see on television. They are people who are always there for you through thick and thin, people who are brave and want you to succeed. Heroes never fail to help you and make you feel better if you're going through a rough time. Heroes

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    Socialization is the lifelong process in which people learn the attitudes, values, and behaviors appropriate for members of a particular culture. We often go into a place and we can tend to judge people. By the language or color or what they wear. It happens all the time. This is just a natural habit for most human beings. I have even walked into walmart before thinking to myself “ I do not belong here. I do not speak the language that all these other people are speaking. I am only in Warwick right

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    from person to person and To me cultural identity basically means what kind of person you are and the way you see others. it plays a big role in life and there are lots of aspects such as religion, language, racial identity, values and gender. Those aspects define your cultural identity. One of the cultural aspects that I will talk about has impacted my life the most which is my religion and that religion is christianity. When I was one month old my parents took me to church for the first time so

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    In evaluating the process of me becoming the sexual person I am today, I believe it’s best to start closer to the beginning of my life and view how I have changed from then. I was born into a Mexican-American family who practiced Catholicism and was bought up with a combination of old school and new school ideas about sexuality. Religion taught me that it was a sin to have sexual relationships with others before marriage and that women were not supposed to be actively sexual and if they were, it

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