Is the Family a Dying Institution?

Family is defined as a group united by marriage, blood, and/or adoption

in order to satisfy intimacy needs and/or to bear and socialize children.

For most people the family is the primary group in which to learn how to socialize

and family is an important part of any persons life.

Beginning at birth your family surrounds you with love and attention.

Your family are the first people to teach you wrong from right, they teach you how to walk and talk, and most importantly they develop you into the person you are today.

The family unit is the most important factor in a persons up bringing.

You learn your values and morals from your family.

Thus family is a crucial factor in both individual well-being as well

as a persons social life.

My grandfather was a very inflectional person in my life.

Because both of my parents were young when I was born they both had to work full time jobs,

furthermore I was raised mainly by my grandfather.

My grandfather has always been a very close person in my life and has

taught me much about the world and myself.

He was the one to raise me and has defiantly helped to shape the person I am today.

I did not have a nuclear family (consisting of a husband, wife, and children)

my parenst were not married and

rearly around to spend time with me as a child.

Many family today dont take the time to eat dinner together or ask about eachothers

days. Family's are slowly dreifting apart.

They dont trust in eachother and dont

value family time as a priority.

I believe family is essential to very persons life, yet a nuclear family is

not nessary to every person.

as long as you have a person to look up to and

to be a role model in your life.

Can't Stop Watching

Friends is a show about friendship to show that friendship is important in every persons life. My own experiences with friendship with my 24 years of life is similar to the outlook of the characters on the show. What I take away from my own experiences with friendship is to not take relationships for granted. I believe that close friendships help to keep people healthy. As a result I conclude that people show put more time and effort into the friendships they have. Here is the Friends website if you would like more information in this show: http://www2.warnerbros.com/friendstv/container.html Friends is one of the most popular television series of all time, it started on NBC in 1994 and did not stop making new episodes until 2004. One of the reasons I enjoy this show so much is because everyone can relate to a character or a situation that happens in the show. A list of the characters are as follows: Ross, Rachael, Joey, Phoebe, Monica and finally my favorite, Chandler. Through the last few years I have become more and more found of the show and have found myself purchasing all 10 seasons and watching episodes just to help me relax at the end of a hard day. This show is good for a good laugh at the end of the day or a good way to take up some free time on the weekend.

Photographers Inspired

With the quick snapshot of a photograph a person can see a far away city's, a magical sunrise, even an untouchable piece of nature. Just one photo can tell a story of a million years. Photographs are an amazing way for people to become familiar with things and ideas that would otherwise be unknown. By these means Ansel Adams is my favorite photographer.

Ansel Adams was a famous photographer from the early to mid 1900's. Many of his photographs were of nature scenery.

For example Yosemite and other national parks.

He was inspired by all parts of nature.

One of the many reasons I enjoy his

photography so much is because he

captures places and things that I normally would not be

able to see on my own. Many if not all of Adams photography were in black and white,

but it is not impossible to find a few in color. I believe that he did this so that people viewing his work would concentrate more on nature then at the colors in the photo.

Ansel Adams took amazing photos of snow covered mountains,

beautiful tall tress emerging from the earth,

as well as large puffy clouds soaring across the sky.

His photography takes me to another place.

His photos are so beautiful it is hard to believe they

are actual pictures and not designed

on a computer.

Through his photos Adams shows the beauty

of the world.