For this project I focused on the roles of families in different ethnicities, specifically mother and fathers and their roles as parents. This differs drastically for different ethnicities and using the books that we read in class, I focused on Hispanic families and African American families. I highlighted some of the most important and blatant issues that parents in these situations face. The biggest challenge was how to tie together the different ethnicity’s struggles with parenthood and outside factors to show the issues that minority families often deal with. They often deal with some of the same issues but the different ones they experience can sometimes often be drastically different and hard to compare. Along with that, it was difficult to figure out how to explain the issues experienced by these families when I have no way of truly understanding how they experience it or feel it. The biggest payoff that I’ve gotten from writing this paper is understanding the struggles that all parents have to deal with, does not matter what ethnicity they are, but most commonly for those of minorities. There is such strong judgement and pressure to be a perfect parent and in reality, it is almost impossible for those goals to be met. We all judge on the outside view that we have on a situation but really there are so many aspects that go into how a parent raises their child and what they are able to do to provide for them. That is why so many families are extended, because it takes a village to raise a child. Reading over the course goals, I achieved developing ideas through informal writing, revision and formal essays because that is the entire process that lead to this paper being in existent. We started the paper with just basic ideas and evidence which was then further put together and judged and adjusted by classmates, before being put together in a full essay. I did not touch base much on law in this paper, but I was able to practice context specific interpretation of literature and cultural texts. I did not analyze visual texts, but I did take advantage and used written texts to help with this paper. Throughout the entire class, we were able to have class discussions based on ideas and theories, especially based on this topic that we used to write our paper. We used this discussion to better put our papers together and to pick the best evidence to support the paper that we each attempted to write.