Considering the Past

Considering The Past

PSY 101: General Psychology

June 15, 2011

Considering the past

Reflecting back on the brainstorming writing assignment

from week one, the two events I chose are one, when my brother

was shot and the other event I chose from the week one assignment

is when I enlisted in the United States Army.

The reason I chose these two events because these events

have affected my life in many ways. With my brother being shot, I

had problems dealing with the fact that he could’ve possibly died.

Even friends I grew up with that were shot by guns did not really

help me deal with ether tragedy. Some of my friends died but my

brother did not. I began to struggle with life and death at a very

young age.

Enlisting in the United States Army was a matter of necessity

and independence. My parents had divorced in the fall of 1992 when

had enlisted. Even though I knew my parents where divorcing, it did

catch me off guard as I always thought my parents would be together

forever. The divorce, I believe, did affect my personal relationships

throughout my life.

Urie Bronfenbrenner proposed a theory of ecological

systems, which focuses on broad, interconnected influences on

human development. It proposes that we can best explain

development in terms of the interaction between individuals and the

environments in which they live (Bronfenbrenner, 2004).

With my brother being shot, this event ties into the first

system, microsystem, by way of the daily environment why lived in.

It was a lot of violence, gun violence especially. It affected my

development into my adulthood where I don’t allow guns in the