Substance Abuse In My Family

My recent spring vacation had consisted of taking care of Helena as a mother’s helper and I had spent several weekends changing diapers, mixing formula, and watching over her brothers and sisters. After she died, I became overwhelmed with all these ideas of how she would never again giggle at my silly faces, never learn to ride a bike, let alone walk, and never take part in any childlike adventures. This unforeseeable tragedy changed my life forever.

Nanny never got married because she was worried that Leafy would be trampled upon like she was. But, she still lost her child after living to see her be trampled upon the same way she was. She raised another child, her granddaughter, Janie. And, now, Janie is entering the same remorseless territory, where she 's liable to be trampled upon, at any time,

Juliet parents supported Juliet so much that when it came to making a decision on her own, she literally crashed and burned because she had never made that big of a choice on her own. “They have taken who I am as well as my what I was and i’m desperate for them both again.” (Myers 25) In contrast to Juliet, Junice has absolutely no support in her life since her mother Leslie Ambers was placed in Bedford Hills Prison for selling illegal drugs. Compared to Juliet, Junice has no aid on the choices she makes for her and her little sister, basically leaving her making adult decisions at young

After the death of her grandmother, her mother went into a deep depression, so Annabel tried to avoid hurting her mother’s feeling as much as she could. Annabel told many white lies. Whenever anyone asked her how she was, she would respond “I’m fine”, even if she wasn’t. Annabel never spoke up about what actually happened between her and Will, which made everyone assume an idea that was not true. When Emily was raped by Will, she immediately reported him to the authorities.

For the most part in her life, her mother isolated and imprisoned her from everyone. She was unable “to leave the apartment for anything other than school”, which left her with what she claims as “nothing that could help me fit in with the other kids.” She was so devoid of social interactions and freedom that when she was thirteen years old and met Charlene, she attempted to emulate her because she was “jealous of her life.” She tried to do everything in her power to mature. She was even willing to exchange her morals and values to have what she believed to allow her to have power and control. She followed Charlene into the car of older boys whom she didn't even know. She let Rodney (one of the older boys) have his way with her without any hesitations.

Mexican culture is full of maleness. I have faced the maleness since I was a child in an indirect way. My mother was never allowed to work during the 13 years of marriage. My father said that women have to stay home taking care of the children and house chores. It was not a problem with my mother and my siblings because women in my mother’s close social group were housewives, but after my parents got

After that, my sister and I used to bang on pots and pans to push out the bad spirits of the year before. I have never been allowed to balance a pillow on my head without being reprimanded because it means that someone in our family will contract an illness or death. We aren’t allowed to cut up our long noodles because it’s equivalent to cutting our lifespan. And, my favorite part about my families polarities, even though we are Catholic, we collect good luck charms and statues from all walks of life. In my bedroom at home I have a Black Jesus, a laughing Buddha, and several charms from tribes around the world.

In the story her son has his wedding and does not invite his own mother to his wedding but she went anyway, not caring what her son thought of her, then winter came and she became terribly ill and on deaths door, but she finished the last wash she would do and returned it to the family barely able to make it and said “I could not rest easy in my bed because of the wash… The wash would not let me die.” (Singer) then she collected her pay and left and never came back again, she died that night on her way home, God said it was time to go and she was gone, and the family realized that this women was from God and the lesson she taught about hard work, perseverance, discipline, and loyalty show all these characteristics over and over again, until her

Ariel’s dad has made sure she never meets any of her family. Her father is constantly avoiding the topic of family. He’s made sure that they move around enough that no one can find them. Her father claims that her mom ran away when she was two year old to be with her girlfriend. Ariel’s dad calls the mom a “whore”,

“The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let them fool themselves, because they didn't bother to find out who I really or what i really was.” Quoted by famous singer,dancer, actress, and model Marilyn Monroe. Born as Norma Jeane Mortenson, she had a very rough childhood. Her mother almost smothered her to death at two, at age six she was nearly raped going in and out of foster homes, because her mother was hospitalized with paranoid schizophrenic. By the age of sixteen she had already dropped out and was married her first husband James Dougherty .

She left and moved her with her fam. He couldn 't deal with the voices in his head, the racist people, his repressed memories, the gangbangers, and, most of all, my mom packing me and brother up and moving to Webb City, Missouri. So he listened to the voices and shot himself in front of my half-sister’s mom. As a four-year-old this didn 't affect me. I remember his funeral, though.

Her father had once been a fortune teller, and people had dismissed his crazy theories. Yet, they were always right. Sakura lived alone in her step-mother’s old mansion. Her step-mother had always hated Sakura, because Sakura could make anyone smile. When Sakura had turned 16, she had told her step-mother that one day, “a eerie accident would end her life.” Soon enough, Sakura’s step-mother

Lauren, her daughter stated Leslie takes kolonopins, adderall and some other pill. Leslie’s grandmother Lisa in Huntsville, AL takes care of them financially, because Leslie will not work and can not keep a job, although she’s a licensed dental hygienist. Last semester, Leslie took Lauren out of school for a full semester, stating she was going to home school her, but that didn’t happen; Lauren ended up baby sitting her younger sister. Now Leslie is threatening to pull her son Collin out of

When her sister died Clara went into a state of depression, she wouldn’t talk to anyone and she stayed in her house for years, so she put off creating the American Red Cross. Then May 1, 1881 she created the biggest achievement of her life, Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross. A few problems Clara faced are when she got fired from her clerk job at the patent office, and when they hired someone else to run the school she built, but she got over it. Everyone loved what Clara Barton did for the hurt and hungry soldiers, and everyone in the Civil War. Even when she didn’t talk to people for many years.