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Socio-Economic Class: 'Planned Pregnancy'
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The writer was the product of teenage parents. According to Planned Pregnancy, there are substantial racial and ethnic disparities among birthrate for adolescents age 15-19. The birthrate for African American teens is more than twice as high as it is for whites and three times higher for Hispanic teens. The writer’s mother was a tenth grader who hid her pregnancy from everyone. The writer’s father was a graduating senior enlisted in the United States Army. The writer’s father did not learn of the pregnancy until after the writer was born, the writer’s father asked the mother if she wanted to marry, the mother said no and left North Carolina. The writer had already been taken to New York after her birth, which took place
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Sexual orientation refers to whom one is sexually attractive to. The writer is a heterosexual female who is attractive to heterosexual males. A person’s sexuality is important in shaping who they are as a person. Their ability to reproduce can affect them emotionally and shape how they feel about themselves and others. The writer ideas of family is everyone has their own sexual orientation she lives according to the bible God made man and woman. However the writer does not criticize how another person’s lives their life. What goes on in another person home is not any of her …show more content…
Many time it is not the writer that puts limits on her legs it is the other people around her. If the writer let physical abilities limit her intellectually she would be in college today. When she took the intelligence test for school required by her sponsor, she was told that they never had a client that could choice whatever she wanted to take in college. Shocked, she started school at Fayetteville Tech the writer decided on associate of arts because she knew she wanted to go to Fayetteville State she just did not know what she wanted to study. Before graduating from Fayetteville Tech the writer took a job seekers placement test, again the writer was took she could do train for whatever job she desired to have. The writer sums all that up to her faith, in all things put God first. The writer’s is serious about her religion beliefs, her faith in God and she tries to live according to the word of God. (How should our faith affect the way we live?, 2017)The writer is not perfect she makes mistakes but at the end of each day she asks God for forgiveness. The writer knows that religion and employment should not be entwined, and she will not change that as a social

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