My Personal Crisis

My story isn't quite special really, although I have lived under some unique circumstances. My mother was a single parent raising my little sister and I until she married my Stepdad in 2007. I was five at the time and had no father figure until then. From that time on he became my dad. Our new family moved twice before living in a small city where we stayed for 6 years. This is where I made close friends, achieved academic excellence, went to church regularly, life was great or so I thought. What seemed to be our perfect life was turned upside down as hard times fell upon us. I was now the oldest of five younger siblings, my mom wasn't healthy, and my dad had to struggle to keep things going.

I was only two years old when my parents got a divorce. I didn't really think much of it, being how young I was, I thought it was normal. Everything was fine between my mother and father, in fact they were great friends. I would visit my dad every other weekend but often he was sick so I couldn't make it. My father and I went camping and fishing very frequently, along with video games it was one of my favorite things to do with him. My mother was a single mom of two (my younger sister and I) until I was around 5 or 6 when she met my step father, for privacy I will call him Rob.

I aspire to be helpful to people in any crisis situation and hope that I will be able to provide the help they need. I have found that I do my best work and service at a situation when somebody is need, when time is calling for it. I suppose, it can be called work under stress is what I am best at. I am perfectly comfortable working with any sort of people, as I have mentioned already, moving alone to a foreign country has taught me many things, and ability to find a way to communicate to different others is one of them. The only example that I can provide of helping people deal with a crisis situation is a family related one, when my father lost his brother, which he was extremely close to. Obviously that is not a situation when my words

The actual separation of my parents was not the exact reason I became depressed, the actual reason being that everything else changed as well as my family situation. I had to adapt to a new lifestyle, both socially and economically.

Another critical moment in my life that changed me forever occurred in August of 2001. At the peak of hurricane season, Louisiana was terribly affected by Hurricane Katrina. Katrina devastated millions of people across the south. For the first time in my life I got to experience what it felt like to be homeless. I had lost everything! And even though it was not much, it still mattered. There were several moments when I prayed and wished that my father could be there. No child, my age should have to go through with what I did. In hopes to find assistance, my mother left me and my siblings with my grandmother for a few months. These months were terrifying. I remember crying several nights

I have overcome lots of obstacles in my life. They weren't the easiest to overcome, but I did it. There is one obstacle I had to go through which made me a strong individual mentally and physically. I lived in New Jersey for my entire life. I grew up there, I had all of my family and friends in Jersey. I was sure my future was going to rely in Jersey. During 7th grade, I got the news that we were going to move to North Carolina. I was thrilled to move to another state. As each day passed, I thought how I would have to start in a new school and make new friends. Every time it struck me knowing that I would have to start a new life. I was nervous not knowing what would happen to my future. I wanted to stay in New Jersey because I was scared of

During 7th grade, I went through an emotional obstacle. My father had to leave for a year for his job, and this had a huge toll on my family. However, I overcame this obstacle with the support of my family and with faith. I kept the idea in my mind that he would be proud

Do you have a future job career that you like or enjoy doing? What do you like to do? Well i enjoy Diesel Mechanics so I’m going to tell you all about it on what i know and what I have learned. Diesel mechanics can be a fun job or a hard job. When on the job people just need to know what they are doing and how to do it the right way, otherwise you won’t have a very happy customer.

I spent most of my days watching television and eaten chips. I saw my mom and dad at night and my brother during the day, not one else. I rarely went out with my parents on weekends and spent most of my time alone. I even spent a New Years Eve alone, well with my dog. This time alone was not one with lots of self reflection. It caused depression and lots of social anxiety.

A time I had to overcome adversity in my life was when I became injured during the middle of cheer tryouts. At the time I was very passionate about competitive cheer, and my goal was to make the junior five team. When I got to tryouts everyone was tumbling, stunting and doing the dance routine. My adrenaline was pumping as I went to warm up my tumbling and throw a roundoff, back handspring, layout. I was determined to accomplish this for tryouts and impress my coach, but I was still very nervous. As I was running into the roundoff back handspring, I knew something was bound to go wrong. The next thing I knew I was in the middle of the air and suddenly landed on my knees, with my ankle twisted under me. My face got bright

“A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.”(Author Commentary 296) Henrik Ibsen’s A doll house reflect a general household of doll like characters with a wife , husband, three children and a nanny. Nora, wife and mother of three decides to leave her family in pursuit of self purpose and self identity after withstanding blackmail which opened her eye to how her husband and men in her society value and view women individuality. This quotation from Henrik Ibsen above reflects his awareness of the male dominance in just about every aspect of the laws and societal views during the nineteenth century. Ibsen addresses the idea of women being ridiculed and judged by men, from only a mans’ point of view by introducing his interpretation with issues of gender biases and male superiority in his works, A Doll House and Hedda Gabler. During the 1800s women gradually began to gain independence and contribute to the workforce and take on more responsibility. The oppression of the 19th century Norwegian society on woman forced them to sacrifice their true identity and desires ultimately pushing them to rebel against societal standards and imposed expectations in attempts to gain self-efficiency and purpose.

My parents separated when I was 16. I dropped out of school in the 11th grade. I stayed home to take care of my five younger brothers and sisters 14 yr-18 mos because my mother and father moved out and left us alone.

Personal Experience with Crisis We have all experience some form of crisis in our life. Whether it is minor or more severe, it is something that many of us can not control. A crisis can involve a series of stressful events or one difficult point in life that effects a person’s overall well-being. I had a hard time coming up with what to write as my crisis for this assignment because when I hear the word crisis, the first thing that comes to mind is that crisis is a very severe event such as a war or natural disaster. As I read more in depth about the concept of crisis, I found that it does not have to be something as serious as a war. It can simply be a point in life where you face a difficult situation that makes you feel under

I grew up in a single parent household, and was a part of one until recently when my mom decided to remarry my now step dad. Growing up in this type of household has affected me in more ways than one would like to believe. It has affected the way my family is seen by others, how we speak to one another, and has had a large impact on my education. It has also given me a bigger stressor than simply living and growing in a single parent household with my mom; it gave me separation anxiety because of how we ended up in this

Not only could I no longer see my perfect family on a daily basis, but what made it even worse was the fact that my mother had to become the sole income provider for our household. Previously my dad handled all of the family affairs. She was now responsible for paying rent on a four bedroom house, car payments, house bills and food. Watching my mother stress about