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Artifact #1: Personal Cultural Project

Amanda Laymon

College of Southern Nevada

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I
was born in a time when browns; and on Thanksgiving life is related to what I believe.
technology was having a big we have donuts. Every month All of the religious background I
break through. New we do a combined birthday had as a kid has only expanded
technologies were increasingly party with extended in my life. I now read the
becoming available. My family for those who scriptures every morning before
family didn’t jump on the have birthdays that I go about my day, and say my
technology train well until month. For immediate prayers every morning and
I was in my teenage family, we go to dinner at evening. I am a firm believer
years. I got my first Macayo’s, our favorite that my day goes better when I
phone when I Mexican restaurant every do these things. When there are
was month for the birthdays; and big decisions I have to make in
fourteen celebrate with cake after at my my life I pray about them. I
and it was a mom and dad’s house. Black believe that there is a God who
little flip Friday is our biggest family has a perfect plan for me and I
phone. event. We line up at each value the insight I receive in
A depiction of what my first phone
Once I looked like. I got it when technology
store late at night with a knowing how to live my life. I
got that was just starting to advance. list of what do make decisions
my life everyone is for myself, but
started to change and advance. I going to grab. they are
was opened to a whole new Once we get influenced by
world of knowledge. I now have what’s on our list, what I feel is right
an iPhone; however, my family we meet up at the and not.
is still not at it with the lasted check-out line and I have lived in
versions. We have what works make sure we got the United States
and that is good enough for us. it all. The night This ties in my religion while at the my entire life and
I come from a family with a consists of a lot of same time showing the importance have lived in
of loving everyone.
mom and dad, two boys, two laughs, adrenaline Nevada for the
girls, a brother in law, a sister in rushes, and bonding with one majority of it. It is more of an
law, three nephews, and a niece. another. It was a night I waited urban area, and I have been
We are a family that only speaks anxiously to attend as a kid. blessed with all of the
English. We know a few of the Now it is the day I anxiously necessities. I spent a year and a
basic Spanish words but we wait for each year. half in the Midwest getting to
don’t have the proper accent to On top of celebrations and experience the more rural side of
use them. We events, my family is things. It changed my
always express pretty religious. My perspective a lot on how blessed
“I love you” to mom raised my I truly am, seeing how little
one another, and siblings and I to some of the people out there
we do kind acts attend church every had. Being in a religious home
to demonstrate Sunday, unless we does not mean that I am free
that love. We were on vacation. We from judgment. Nobody is
have always were taught that perfect, and judgment is
been a tight knit Sunday is our day of something my family always
family. We rest and a day to struggled with. It was a huge
celebrate every spend time with influence on me in my
holiday family. We blessed childhood, but after taking a
together, with After I came home from the every meal before year a half away from them I
breakfast at my Midwest my sister, her son and we ate, and always was able to gain my own ideas
dad’s side of the daughter, my mom, my brother, his made sure to tell the and judgments of others. I say
family and wife, his two boys, and I went to cook thank you. To judgments in the form of ideas
get free slurpees from 7-11.
dinner with my this day those and opinions of others. I have
mom’s. Our religious values are learned to love everyone. I have
dinner is the traditional turkey, engraved in my head. I do my met some people who looked
ham, mashed potatoes, and corn; best to live them because I know terrifying on the outside but as
and for dessert we have cake that they are important or my soon as I talked to them they
and ice cream. Our breakfast is mom wouldn’t have taught them
eggs, bacon, sausage, and hash to us. Every choice I make in
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were the kindest person. I have but somehow, I In my spare time I continue
met people of different race and manage to to dance just for fun.
sexual orientation. I have met all procrastinate for a Sometimes I even
of the people my family spent little while before I choreograph my own
time judging and I came to do it. I have to trap dances to some of my
realize that they are each myself in my room favorite songs. Drawing
special. Just because they appear until I get it done. and reading are a couple
different doesn’t mean that’s a When I was in more of my interests and
bad thing. They each have elementary school hobbies. When I draw, I
feelings and love within them to they offered a need something to look at
share. golden apple for because I don’t have a
In my early years of life, I students who got The day I received my good imagination. I don’t
didn’t experience anything straight A’s from golden apple at my fifth- like to color in what I
traumatic, but once I turned ten kindergarten to grade award ceremony. draw, and I am not very
that all changed. My nineteen- fifth grade. My good at drawing people.
year-old cousin died late at night sister got that when she was in When it comes to reading, I
in a car accident. I remember elementary school and I knew enjoy romantic mysteries. I
waking up to my sister crying, that was something I wanted could open a book and stay up
my mom on the phone, and then too. I worked hard to pass all of late at night to finish it. I think
they both left. I was so shaken my assignments and to exceed in one of my other talents is
up knowing that she was gone everything I did. At the end of curiosity. I have questions about
and I couldn’t go back to sleep fifth grade I received a golden everything, and it is how I bond
for the rest of the apple, and to this with everyone in my family. I
night. After that I day I still have it. am curious about what they are
went through a It is one of my interested in and they love to
stage where I greatest talk to me about it. It becomes a
couldn’t sleep in accomplishments. plus for both parties, they get to
my room because I When I got to talk about what they like and I
was afraid that middle school, get to learn something new.
something else things were a My long-term goals in life
would happen in little more are to be the kind of person that
the middle of the intense. In sixth respects and loves everyone. I
night. Right after grade I got my was to serve others in a way that
my cousin died, first B and I was will benefit and change their
my great-grandma The night of my high school devastated. I lives. I want to have a family in
died, and then my graduation. I graduated with an quickly realized the future, with a husband who
uncle, and my advanced honors diploma and my that A’s and B’s loves me and has the same
grandma. It felt family was all there to support me. were okay, and values as me. I want to raise
like everyone in that’s where I children to serve and love
my family was slowly stayed for my entire school others. My goals for right now
disappearing. It made for a lot of career. Hopefully I can maintain are to maintain good grades in
rough years and a lot of tears. that through my college career school, and to work hard in my
Getting older I know that death as well. classes so I can gain an
is a part of life, but it doesn’t A lot of the things education that will
make it much easier. I am still I do now were started change my future. I
experiencing a lot of family at a young age, and want to work each day
members that are going to pass along with school on a new talent until I
away but I know they are going dancing is one of develop it. With these
to be out of pain when they do. those things. I was goals I hope to change
Along with family and put into tap and jazz my life and others’. I
religion, school is something classes when I was My goal to have a future hope to spread just a
that I have always valued. I am two and a half, and I family with a husband little bit more joy
the type of person to stress over stayed in them until I and children. every day.
an assignment until it gets done, graduated high school.