Ccaps Together Summary

Her family was old-fashioned and well-mannered. When her family’s English was mocked, they kept their mouths shut and laughed along. When her family was ostracized from the rest of the neighborhood, they pretended not to notice, not to care. Her family taught her how to exercise caution, how to be afraid, how to categorize events as either blessings or lessons.

Jeannette and her siblings adapt to self- sufficiency from a young age, from being emotionally and physically neglected by their parents. The children don’t expect anything so they learn to work with what they have and what opportunities come their way. Jeannette saw the suffering of the family and took this leadership for the family guiding her sibling in the correct path.

Despite his enormous hardships in this time, the family adjusts and comes to feel that their old life was absurd and tacky, childish even. As if despite being told since they were children in a socialist country that one day they could grow up to learn from a prestigious institution, only to find out in several months that they had simply wasted their time and a good deal of their mother's money holding onto a dream that was never more than the exaggerated demand from a parent to her child in her desperate attempt to live vicariously through his success and share in his

6). The statistics are alarming, yet most students still are not listening. In addition, A higher percentage of binge drinkers than non-binge drinkers reported having experienced alcohol-related problems since the beginning of the school year. Frequent binge drinkers were 22 times more likely than non-binge drinkers to have:

As the oldest of three siblings, I have had to do many things for myself that my younger brother and sister had done for them. For example, I had to fend for myself in attempting to obtain a driver’s license even paying someone to teach me to drive and take me to the exam, while my siblings had help from my mother in all aspects of the process. Also, the loss of my father has resulted in conflicts with the remaining parent, my mother. These conflicts were the result of economic struggle and disagreements about how to spend the monetary benefits left from my father’s passing. The position in my family as first‐born combined with the conflicts in my family, have led to life‐changing decisions such where to live, and what careers to pursue.

IDIOSYNCRASIES: She has the tendency to close off at first to an uncomfortable situations, but after the happening moves through her head and she gives it a good thought, she then speaks up.

I remember that I always had hypotheses about my siblings and why they were treated differently, why we treated each other differently, and why they always messed with me. These were just ways I attempted to understand why life was the way it was, I never really understood anything I was saying. Now that I have read this chapter, I can look back on my relationship with my brothers and most of the things I can remember are either fun memories, or memories where they were being “mean” to me. I think it was just hard for me to be the only girl, because I often felt left out. It’s those positive and negative moments that shaped me into who I am today. At the same time, I have friends who are only children, but they tuned out very similar to me. Sibling relationships aren’t just about the interactions between siblings, but how we interact with all those around us, specifically peers. We learn how to invest in a relationship and enjoy each other, or else we ruin the friendship. Taking lessons learned here we are able to apply them to or sibling relationships. This might provide a possible explanation for why some relationships improve and others don’t. As we get older, we are able to use our experiences and new social skills to help build those relationships with our siblings, even more so when we are separated, such as one going to college. We realize that a relationship will suffer because we are no longer required to be around it. We now need to invest in it before it’s

The most important aspect of college is your academics. Getting straight A’s or relative to that will get you far in life. Adding academic studies with binge drinking can give you an unpleasant surprise. After a wild night of drinking and partying leaves you with a hangover the next day. Of all college students 32–44% reporting binge drinking. “Not surprisingly, 60–75% of college students experience at least one hangover a year, 27% report one to two hangovers and 34% report 12–51 hangovers.” (Howland, 655) With this data we know that that roughly one-third of college students have multiple hangovers which indicates that they are probably the binge drinkers. With all this information we can conclude that binge drinking does have an affect on college students academic levels, but then again it depends on the student itself. It also depends how many drinks the student has consumed, how much alcohol the body can obtain until drunk, and how well the student functions after the hangover. “We do not conclude, however, that excessive drinking is not a risk factor for academic problems. It is possible that a higher alcohol dose would have affected next-day academic test scores.” (Howland,

Is there a possibility that a pattern of drinking may have been instilled in either or both of the students? What are the most likely physiological reasons either or both of them will drink again?

family struggles, and the risks her grandmother and mother underwent in order to provide for the

At this practice, for the first time, both brothers experience an ordinary life. Both brothers benefiting the privileges I took for granted: healthcare, food, housing, and schooling. In a conversation I had with my grandparents, both brothers are entering high school and are enjoying their position at my grandfather's practice.

Our parents imprint on us their own morals. For instance, the father tries to teach the boy how to keep bright line morals like selflessness alive in a time of gray. The boy’s and the father’s bond is extremely strong due to them being alone. Like a teacher, the father shows the boy to give rather than take. In detail, when the pair comes upon supposedly helpless other humans, the boy urges the father to give up some of their food. Moreover, the absent of a parental figure is just as molding. The boy’s mother is distant and obsessed with death and its looming presence. This idea is held in the boy as well. The boy has not really grasped the concept of living like most people never will. He talks about death as inevitable. Her death also showed the boy the grim reality of giving up. From the boy’s parentage, I learned that family and friends are what is needed to make us the best people we can

She presented with a sense of conflict as she reflected on her relationship with girlfriend. She expressed a need to discover herself that is independent from other people. At the same time, she discussed her wish to have a sense of connection with others. She presented with a worry that she would come to the conclusion that she needs to break up with her girlfriend in order to discover who she is and be independent. In addition, she reported a physical fatigue, which she attributed to the amount of school work.

As a Family one goes thru good and difficult experiences, but usually family support helps to find a solution or to understand the situation. In “Brother, I’m Dying” by Edwidge Danticat, Danticat introduces her family and the experiences that she and her close relatives go thru in life. Due to the circumstances Danticat and her bother Bob stay in Haiti almost their entire childhood while their parents live in The United States. Although Edwidge’s parents left her and her brother in Haiti with their Uncle Joseph, her father’s brother, and Tante Denise, his wife, for many year, Edwidge still retains loyalty to her parents.

She had some of the same feelings towards her connection with her mother as well. Rather than feeling mere confusion about her and her mother’s relationship,