Life Experiences
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In my own life, my childhood was filled with a number of different risk and protective factors. Some of the biggest risk factors were the fact that we were poor and did not have a lot of money, therefore I was surrounded by an environment in which I was exposed to neighborhoods where many children did not become resilient and often turned to crime or drug use to cope with their environment of poverty. However, despite such risk factors, I was lucky enough to have a variety of protective factors that I felt are responsible for my own resiliency. One of the biggest was the love and support of my mother and father, whose hard worked enabled me to expand my opportunities by going to college. We also had a good family friend who used to purchase me an annual membership to the Y.W.C.A. My experiences at the Y.W.C.A. taught me a number of skills that helped me become resilient, such as a community support network, sex education, and greater self-confidence from my participation in many of the group activities offered there. Another protective factors was my religious background, which provided me with a strong sense of faith that has helped me weather many crises in my life when I was lacking other protective factors in my environment. Such protective factors enabled me to overcome many barriers to becoming resilient as I developed into a happy and productive adult.In both Antwone Fisher and Girlfight
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ble to overcome risk factors like Antwone was exposed to, “Military service also provided them with opportunities for personal growth in a structured setting and a chance to take on responsibilities that enhanced their self-esteem,” (456).
In Girlfight, we see that Diana also suffers from a variety of risk factors in her environment, many of them related to culture and gender. Culturally, she is exposed to a machismo environment which is typical of the Latino culture. As a girl, she is expected to do things like join the cheerleading squad due to rigidly defined roles of sex and gender. These risk factors lead her to become aggressive and violent. She gets in fistfights at school and feels like the whole world is against her. As she says at one point, “Now that I’ve got school covered, I only have the world outside these walls to fuck up,” (Kusama 2000). Despite such risk factors, Diana learns discipline and self-esteem through her desire for boxing. She has the protective factor of the loving support of her trainer, Hector. She also has protective love from Adrian, even though they are competitive. Diana also has the unconditional love of her brother, who is willing to sacrifice his own neck with his father for her sake
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Approximate Word count = 1360
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page)
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