Family Values What influences you to do what you do? For me, that’s my family. They drive me to better myself and to always learn more. I'm always trying to better myself for them. I would like to set a good example for my younger cousins, be able to provide for my parents, and I want to be able to help provide for future generations; I feel the best way to accomplish this is to further my education. I try to make my actions reflect this, and the farther I go on this long road, that is my education, the more I accomplish this.
I come from a big family, as my mom is the youngest of eight, therefore I have a lot of cousins, and those cousins have children of their own, thus I have a lot of younger cousins that look up to me. My family, as big as it is, is still a close-knit family. We are all considerably involved in each other's lives. It would be an outlier for us if anyone of us goes longer than 2 days without seeing or talking to someone else in the family. I try to help my younger cousins and guide them in the right direction. I even tutor one of my cousins for her math class. I have a younger second cousin, who is like a mini me, that I want to set a good example for. Sometimes when she plays pretend, she pretends to be me. I have even given her one of my old name tags from work, and it's now her favorite thing in her dress up bin. So, I feel that if she's following my footsteps, I want to lead her in a good direction. I want the world for her, and while I'm trying my best to give her that, she still deserves more. Because of how she strong and brave she has been in her life with all of her medical problems, I often feel like she is my role model. Yet, she has decided that I am her role model, thus I have to step it up for her. If you had a young child who parrots what you say and do, wouldn't that change what you say and do? Wouldn't you treat everyone better? Wouldn’t you try harder to be a better person, at least for them?
When I was younger, my dad emphasized the importance of education. He has said that when he was younger, he did not prioritize his education, and so he went into the construction and mining workforces. He has always told my sister and I that he does not want that kind of life for
My family has several values such as religion and education. Education is something my family has valued for many years and this is because of my grandfather Bishop Leach Jr. Bishop Leach was born on September 17, 1924. When he was a young child he joined Mt. Sinai A.M.E. Church in Pittsboro, NC. This church has been very important to my family because we have been attending this church for generations. Bishop Leach attended and graduated from Horton High School, which later became Horton Middle School. He graduated at the shocking age of 15. Bishop served in the United States Army once he finished high school. After serving in the Army, he then attended North Carolina College, now North Carolina Central University (NCCU) where he graduated within three years and obtained his B.S degree in social studies in 1952. While in college, he married Myrtle Alston. The couple were married for forty-nine years and had two sons Bishop Bernard Leach and James Benjamin Leach.
There are invaluable life lessons to be learned before one even reaches the age of eighteen; lessons that range of the difference between right and wrong, which friends are the right friends, and the importance of faith. But what influences the questions and answers asked and given during this critical beginning to an individual’s life? Family values built around the influence of the modern age, ethnic background and religion shape an individual and the values they will pass on to future generations.
Though, many people and circumstances influenced my life, there are three I can easily identify. First, my baseball coach from High School. Early in the season he gave us a piece of paper about fixed and growth mindsets. As I read through it, I found it very interesting. Someone who has a fixed mindset is someone who avoids challenges, easily gives up, and is threatened by the success of other people. A growth mindset is when someone embraces challenges, essential, and uses things as a wake up call to work harder next time. I walked up to Coach Wides after practice and thanked him for handing that paper out because I really was struggling through my senior year of High School. Later in the season after we lost a game, he was talking to us about
Family life Education is to help families become a stronger unit through the proper education. There are so many different thoughts and beliefs pertaining to the family life education program. There have been good and bad beliefs, but the majority have been trying to improve the family and the education system that has been taught.
But he has a job that pays good money. My dad learned a trade and became an excellent auto body mechanic. Because of his experience on the job he made it his mission for me to attend college. The thing is my father never once told me not to go to college. He says that “I should always achieve for greatness no matter the cost”. When I interviewed my father he made his answers forced on the many reasons to go to college. He wants me achieve my goals of becoming a computer engineer. Even though I get annoyed because I think he's doing to much I still understand why he does it. He's an important influence that also help to guide me in the right direction.
Because of the opposing cultures and ideas that collide in the mind of Richard Rodriguez, his arguments tend to break boundaries of traditional philosophical writing. As a Catholic, a homosexual, a Mexican immigrant, and an intellectual, the meaning of family values can differ significantly from one aspect of his life to the next. By gathering input from each of those sectors, Rodriguez composes an array of personal anecdotes and hypothetical examples in “Family Values,” to profess his theory that Americans’ supposed beliefs do not always align with reality. With the use of generalization and paradoxical exemplification, Rodriguez is able to portray
The first person or people who should be caring the burden for elderly care lies within their own family. Within the American culture many family members prefer to put their older members in elder homes. My family is originally from Mexico so I am aware of the family values embedded within Mexican culture. I have never seen a Mexican family have their elderly family members live or be taking care of by somebody else that is not a relative. We live in an American society that does not value the care and need for the elderly and prefer to leave up to state and national departments. Since they were the ones who created the generation in which we live in we should be grateful and provide them with the best care possible within our own homes. Many elders who live in homes receive poor or abusive care from faculty. This is not an environment that we should be letting them live in especially if they are your parents. If they lived there lives to watch you grow and take care of you we should be returning them the favor and taking care of them until their final days. The only exception that I have for not taking care of them would be if they have a serious disability or if they are mentally ill. There are illness where the son or daughter of the family member is not able to care for that person because of circumstances that out of their reach. In this situation it would be ok to admit them to home where they are professionally prepared to care for them and have the resources needed
A lot has improved since 1965 there is no arguing with that. But while some things improved others fell apart. I feel like family values today are not as good as they were fifty years ago. Even though we have better technology and are able to cure a lot of diseases today that doesn’t really matter because a lot of children are still getting raised parentless. Fifty years ago a family was the most important thing ever. Today it seems like money and keeping up with the coolest trend is more important. Television and music today definitely influence the way our children are growing up. There is no doubt in my mind that the world fifty years ago was a much better world than what we are currently living in.
Personal values, beliefs, and principles are important for individuals to know about themselves. However, when asked the question, “what are your personal values, beliefs, and principles?” The first response is often a laundry list of characteristics with the assumption that those three words are synonymous. From my experience when posed this question the laundry list became long and in retrospect, I began to wonder what the differences were between each of these terms. As a teacher, employee, mother, and Christian knowing these differences and how to answer the question is an important component of determining how I make decisions when faced with ethical dilemmas. Hence, began the investigation of how the terms relate, their meaning and what my answer is to this question. Since my laundry list was quite long for this essay, I will share and explain the top two elements for each category, how they relate to one another and how the knowledge influences tough decisions.
Ezequiel Pagan Patrick Williams English 111 16 October 2014 Family Value and Truth Family in society is a social structure. Family plays a key role in human life because it can give people a sense of home, or a loving and supportive group. In most cases when people think of families they think of having a mom, dad, brother, sister. However, nothing in life is perfect. Today, we have separated , same sex, extended, and blended families. Society tries to explain these more contemporary families but has a harsh way of doing so. In the essay, Stone Soup, by Barbara Kingsolver, she discusses how society views families and in the essay, Family Values, by Richard Rodriguez, he talks about American family values. Both
What motivates me to go to college,to put hard work in,day after day, and to achieve my goals in higher education is my parents and myself. Since I started elementary school my parents have always motivated me to go to college. I was always a good student, but, when I had entered seventh grade, it all changed. I really did not care about school, i have been just whatever about school period. Then it hit me again in my junior year of high school. Freshman and sophomore I was not really interested in school and didn 't think I was going to college. My parents had a talk with me and that talk changed me. They were just asking me what am I going to do with my life if I didn 't go on with school and all this other stuff that made me think really hard. I didn 't want to make my parents think that their son was a failure, they raised a failure. I changed my ways and started doing better in school and now I am currently attending Cal State University of Los Angeles. Now they are more proud than ever, me being the first one in my family to attend a university. My parents will always be my biggest motivators.
What is a family? What parts make up a family? These two questions are questions that millions of adults and children ask themselves regularly. When people think about a family in their head they think of a nuclear family. Where you have a Mom, Dad, and a few kids running around a home in the middle of a suburban wasteland. That is the nuclear family that I feel most modern families strive to be like. But factors can change within a family and still be a family. I do not believe that a family is strictly based off what people see from the front porch looking in. A family is about the everlasting bond that is formed between a group of people whether they are related by blood or by other means. A family is a group of people who stick together during hard times and good times, they laugh together and they cry together. They eat meals together, party together, are weaved together in life. They are like a strip of palm leaves, and when you weave a bunch of them together it makes a basket, that is a family. The people that someone can call at two in the morning on a Wednesday just because they can’t sleep. The ones who would sacrifice anything to help them. The bond can never be broken because the word “family” holds them together like glue to wallpaper.
When raising a child one is taught values by their families that they feel are important for their child to have. I believe that family values consist of certain actions and qualities that are important to a family to uphold. Values that are important in my family are honesty, trust and to have respect for others. Each of these values is equally important in my family. They played a big role into making me the person I am now.
Throughout my entire life, it seemed as though everything was centered around my family’s collective core morals and an unwritten ethic code instilled in me as I grew up. My family’s principles remain a major part of my life, especially as I begin the transition to independence in the adult world. Considering my family has always been one of the most important things to me, I have always placed value on what I have learned from them and where we come from. My big, small-town family gave me a sense of what it means to help others, how we can accomplish this goal, and for what reasons. Being raised in a close-knit, Christian family with strong values will assist me in understanding how to be successful in terms of compassion and
family values is in my family. I have been taught to attend church every Sunday. When in the future I have my family I will instill this value into my family values. This has made me a better person. Many people