My Past

MY PAST
Vera Jean Cooper’s Life and Future
By Vera Jean Cooper
PSY202
Professor Marc Weinger
April 11, 2011

MY PAST
Vera Jean Cooper’s Life and Future
    My life is full of different experiences, and challenges.   I was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska.   My family is a Catholic middle class family.   I remember always having my needs met and a roof over my head, no matter what.   I remember going to the circus when we were in Minnesota.   I remember going on vacation every other year.   I remember going to our Kenai cabin every weekend for many years.   I remember going to summer camp.  
    My primary education was pretty stable.   Secondary education was a challenge because my parents thought it would be a good idea to change my place of education.   I was kicked out of my parents house when I was eighteen years of age, before my high school education was completed.   I continued until my high school education was completed.   I then, three months later went to vocational school and graduated six months later in computerized accounting with a 3.66 GPA
    My brother and my adopted father were the most important people in my life.   My adopted father loved me very much, and taught me that higher education is a good means to find a decent living.   My brother helped me deal with my adopted mother who proved to be very challenging to deal with.

MY PAST
My Past, in an Ever Changing Life
I knew that this life was going to be hard.   I remember being in my mother’s womb, thinking with both elation, and despair: “I am going to be another human again!”   That is the first memory I had.   Now, I am thirty-eight years old and going to Ashford University for my bachelor’s degree.   For my paper, I will give an account of all the different things that I went through to arrive at a time where I further my education.  
I was born with two young native parents in Anchorage, Alaska.   Both were alcoholics.   They had a daughter eighteen months before me, Cheryl, my... [continues]

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