Hi, my name is Kyle. This is a memoir of my life from the age of 18 to 20. I’ll be talking about my family, work and education.

My full Name is Kyle D. Ramos. My mother’s name is Lisa Ramos, 42 and my father’s name is Altorro Robinson, 46. My mother, the youngest out of 7 siblings, was born and raised in Fall River and stayed here her entire life. Her mother is 100% Polish, and her father is Cape Verdean and Portuguese. My father, who is the oldest of his 7 brothers and sister, was born in Philadelphia. The most I know about his nationality is that he’s, well, plain and simple, black. I also have one sibling. She’s older than me by a few months and her name is Tawanda, 21. She’s going back to school for Early Education.

I turned 18 in September of 2009. I was fresh out of high school, Diman Regional, and started my first semester here at BCC. At the time, my major was Engineering Transfer, hoping to transfer away to a four year college, and Major in Civil Engineering. The only reason why I picked that field was because when I was in high school, my advisor asked me what I wanted to do after high school. All of my friends were taking up engineering, so I thought that would be my safe choice. After 3 semesters, I realized it wasn’t for me. I think because my head just wasn’t in school at the time, because I failed almost everything at the end of my 3rd semester. I honestly blame my parents for that though. See, they were in a middle of a break up decided they wanted to involve me and my older sister, Tawanda. Everyday I would go to school, only for it to be interrupted by my mother calling me crying, in every class I had! It was just too much for me. I took a semester off, and resumed my college education this semester with my Major being Health Science, hoping to get accepted into the nursing field. I hope I do a lot better this semester because I don’t want to be in school forever!

When I was 18, my parents ended up breaking up. I congratulate my mother for being the women she is today. Even though both my sister and I were already young adults, she didn’t skip out of our lives my father did, it’s been almost three years and I have yet to see or hear from him since he left.

I think I’m a very committed kind of guy. I’ve had the same job since I was 16. Out of the 5 years I’ve been there, I’ve only called out twice. I work as a dietary aide in Fall River at Kimwell Nursing and Rehabilitation Center on New Boston Road. The work is very easy, since all I have to do is pour drinks, plate food, and make desserts, but from an outsider, or a “newbie”, the works seems very complicated. I’ve met some interesting people in my time being there, and I’ve come to love them all, and I think I can say the same for them towards me. I always joke that I need a new job, but as for right now with me being in school, it works just fine. I don’t make a crap ton of money, but I make a descent amount to help my mother pay bills, and also pay my bills without being broke all the time.

I think I’ve grown to be a very independent young man, even though with my father leaving us, made me grow up a little faster than needed. I still don’t have that “I’m just a college student” attitude and I don’t think I ever will. I wouldn’t change anything that has ever happened to me in the past because it made me the person I am today. I like myself, and that’s all that matters.

This advertisement is targeting those individuals who are at risk for a stroke. It claims to have found a treatment to stop strokes. It delivers the message by having “New Treatment For Those At Risk Of Stroke”, in much bigger font then the rest of the ad. It also breaks off into sections explaining how a stroke happens and how the new treatment can stop or even prevent one form happening.

I think its more targeted for the older clientele, between the ages of 40 and up, just because the ad doesn’t  really pop out at you, so a younger person would just look past it, while someone older, who takes there time looking at things, will notice it. Its also in black and white, no color, which makes the ad seem a little more serious. I think you would find this ad in a “Living Healthy” magazine, for obvious reasons of course.

They don’t really pull the reader in with the way they set everything up. It is useful information, but it doesn’t explain why we should get one, its more tells us what it is. In my own opinion, I do not believe this ad was helpful in pulling the reader in to look at it.

-My hometown was a very loud, and yet quiet,  city to grow up.

-Laci’s style was very bold, and loud with all her bright colors.

-Mr. Brown doesn’t like to take the time to make sure his student understand what is going on in class, hes more worried about finishing on time.

-The room looked like I had stepped into an insane asylum, with all the pale colored walls, barred windows, and one light in the middle of the ceiling.

I think id like to write about Health and Medicine. This topic interests me because I’m trying to get into the medical field, so learning about it would be helpful. Some topics i think i would look at, is what type of demand does the medical field have for ethnic men, or just men in general. What are the benefits to working in this field, what types of medicines are scientists working on now, and how far along have we come since we started practicing medicine, and how many different types of practices are out there.

If i don’t get this choice, then I would like to either do Food or Family/ Relationships. They seem like interesting topics to do research on.

Hi, my name is Kyle Ramos. I’m 20 years old. I’m Polish, Cape Verdian, Portuguese and Black, some people call that a mut. I live in Fall River, but im trying to save up so i can move, or at least visit Australia before i die. I don’t know what it is, but that country has fascinated me ever since i was a little boy. I live with my mother and my only sister, Tawanda, who is older then me by a couple of months. I’m single and i like long walks on the beach, just kidding, this is starting to sound like a dating profile, lol. This is my 5th semester here at BCC. My first 2 years here, i was trying to become an engineer. Turns out, that’s not what i want to do. I work in a nursing home doing dietary, it pays the bills i guess you could say. I do love the people I work with, but its just not the place i want to spend the rest of my life working at. I talk to a lot of the CNA’s and Nurses there, and Ive decided to switch my major to General Studies-Health Science, hoping I get into the nursing program here. Enough about my life, lets get to how i write. I don’t really like to write. Usually if i do, its mainly for school purpose only. I sometimes hate using a computer because I’m not that great with a keyboard, even though I’m good with computers. When I do write, I like using pens, any kind, i feel as though it just makes writing easier as it glides over the paper. There aren’t really any teachers who influenced me into becoming a better writer and i don’t think I’m out of the stage yet where I think reading is “cool” to do on spare time. I think my strength in writing is coming up with the ideas of what to write and my weakness is how to put it all down on paper. I don’t like to write it out then type it out, if i only have to do it once, i will. This semester, since i never took an online class before, i hope to learn some advantages of online classes, oh and how to process everything and put it into writing without it sounding a mess, and sorry for this being late, my computer didn’t want to work with the blogs.