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Personal situations and events
Important historical events
Key indicators
1992-2001
Born in Arizona
1992: Los Angeles Riots
1992: Started due to the beating of Rodney King by Police
Officers. Police brutality.
My parents were divorced
1992: In presidential election Bill Clinton was elected as United
States president.
In 1992 at the end of cold war issue of economy dominated over
foreign policy.
My mother re married and had another child.
1992: Florida was struck by a very bad hurricane known as
Hurricane Andrew.
1992: Damage of about $23 billion and $37 billion was reported
along with 56 and 68 fatalities.
We moved to northern Arizona, so my mom could have land to
run her business.
2000: George W. Bush was elected as the new president of
United States.
2001: On 11 September World Trade Center was attacked by
terrorists.
2001: Transport Security Administration established in
November 2001. Sky Marshals increased from fewer than 100 to

more than several thousand by 2004.
Key indicators
2001-2005
I was diagnosed with cancerous tumors in my jaw.
2001: United states along with NATO attacked Afghanistan.
2001: Most popular believe that September 11 attacks were
planned by Osama bin Laden.
Family friend passed of brain aneurism.
2003: United states also invaded Iraq.
Mother almost passed away of cancer
2005: southern United States especially my home state Florida
was badly destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
2005: Left Florida for California.
2005: Deadliest Hurricane Katrina struck the United states
causing lot of disruption and energy crisis.
Key indicators
2006-2011
Mother re married again for the third time. And I moved away
to live with family due to unfortunate circumstances
2006: Execution of Saddam Hussein.
2006-2007: Policies of Bush towards Iraq and Katrina were
largely criticized.
Started high school
2007: Worst recession at end of Bush term.

Joined high school rodeo team
2008: Barack Obama was elected as President.
2008: Barack Obama first African-American President passed
reforms on health care and banking during his first years in
office.
2010: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as passed by
Obama.
2010: “Obamacare” was faced by fierce criticism.
Graduated high school
2011: Combat was over in Iraq and American soldiers had left
Iraq.
Key indicators
2012- 2018
Left for the army
2012: European Union’s GDP decreases while China’s
increases. GDP of united states also increases but
unemployment rate increased above 11%.
2013: Unemployment rate in United states falls to below 7.8%.
Got pregnant with my son
2013: Barack Obama was elected as president second time.
2013: Obama passed number of bills to stabilize the economy
and also agreed on oil drilling.

2014: United states, Mexico and Canada become the top three
oil producers.
2014: Unemployment rate drops to 7 %.
My husband was deployed to Africa to fight the Ebola outbreak.
2014: Outbreak of Ebola Virus
Had my daughter
2014: First “Star Wars” satellite was launched by United states.
2014: “Star Wars” satellite was used to take stronghold of al
Qaeda in Afghanistan.
2015: Launch of Student Debt relief.
Got out of the army
2016: Economic recession was officially ended by Barrack
Obama.
2016: Cleaner energy project was launched to use Helium-3
instead of oil.
2016: GDP of United States reached up to $20+ trillion.
2016: Donald Trump was elected as U.S. President.
2016: Clinton received huge support from college graduates
(52%-43%) by 9-point margin. While Trump was supported by
non college goers (52% - 44 %).
Moved to Washington
2017: Trump ordered about the tight monitoring of security
concerns and suspended the entry of people belonging to Iraq,
Iran, Sudan, Yemen, Somalia and Libya.

Shelbie Inboden
Week 5 Signature Assignment
LBSU 304- Professor Brouillette
Brandman University
10/12/18
History’s Impact
Historical information which I gathered, greatly transformed my
opinion towards the relation of one’s personal situation and
historical events of the era in which we are living. In 1992 I
was born in Arizona. I developed strong bonding with my
mother as she was a single mother and she was quite good in
horse riding and conducting riding lessons for children and
adults. We often used to go for family outings riding the horses
on the trails to enjoy the beautiful scenery of Arizona. Growing
up as a child we had a really un stable home and things were
always all over the place as far as men in and out of the home,
different homes and my mother’s health.
I remember when the world trade centers were attacked. This
created a sort of uncertainty and caused a total damage of about
$23 billion and $37 billion. We moved and got some land in
Arizona so my Mother could expand her business in child
entertainment. We had a portable pony ring and petting zoo and
fun small carnival games. Also, at that time we had a curve ball
hit us and I was diagnosed with a small cancerous tumor inside
my mouth. In the era of Bill Clinton, the economy of USA
remained well and there was not any big political issue except
the rumors and hiring of his scandal. In 2000 George W. Bush
was elected as the new president of United States. And a sudden
change in USA policies emerged after the World Trade Center
was attacked by terrorists on 11 September. Tight Transport
Security Administration was established in November 2001.
Through investigation lead to the common belief that the
September 11 attack was planned by Osama bin Laden. So, for

the search of Osama bin Laden and his group, United States
attacked Afghanistan along with NATO. In 2003 United States
also invaded Iraq and I remember just sitting in my school
classroom in fourth grade in fear and shock and not knowing
what was going to happen. Bush was highly criticized and as a
result, Barack Obama was elected as President in 2008. To
lighten the impact of worst recession of Bush era, African-
American President passed reforms on health care and banking.
In 2011, Iraq and America combat were over, and I had just
graduated high school. I wanted to be apart of the fight for our
country, so I joined the army in late 2010 but left for basic in
January 2011.
Obama policies were effective enough and lower the rate of
unemployment below 7.8%. In 2013, Barack Obama was elected
as president second time. Obama passed number of bills to
stabilize the economy, agreed on oil drilling handled Ebola
Virus outbreak, in which my husband helped fight, launched
“Star Wars” satellite program and initiated Student Debt relief
program. I was active duty at this time and had always wanted
to start school but was just not in place yet to do that with a
deployed husband and two very young babies. Obama started a
policy regarding financial aid and student loans. His Student
Aid Bill helped a lot to solve the student debt problems and
facilitated a lot of students in paying school loans faster.
Clinton received huge support from college graduates (52%-
43%) by 9-point margin, while Trump was supported by non-
college goers (52% - 44 %). Regardless of campaign efforts,
Donald Trump became the President of the United States
(Krugman, 2016). Trump policies were received as controversial
one; he ordered about the tight monitoring of security concerns
and suspended the entry of people belonging to Iraq, Iran,
Sudan, Yemen, Somalia and Libya. I was quite curious
regarding the Trump policies related to education and health.
Mostly because I was about to be getting out of the military in
2016 and this would obviously be important for me to know and
be aware of how that may affect me or my family. Fortunately

having Tri Care for health coverage, we were not really
affected.
This is all about my personal recollection and its relation to
history. It provides me deep insight that both are interlinked to
each other. History is related to study of past events and
recollection is also about the remembrance of your life past
events. Both are strongly interlinked to one another. It was a
true joy being able to go back and remember the events that
happened in my life. Some things brought smiles and others
may have brought a tear or two. But also being able to compare
what was going on in my personal life at the time, especially in
my younger years, seeing what was going on in the big picture
of the world as a whole.
References
Jakobsen, G T. (2012, 12 October). Why Did the United States
Invade Iraq in 2003? Retrieved from
http://www.popularsocialscience.com/2012/10/25/why-did-the-
united-states-invade-iraq-in-2003-2/
Krugman, P. (2016, 24 May). Syndicated columnist Lessons
from the Bill Clinton economic boom. Retrieved from
https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/lessons-from-the-bill-

clinton-economic-boom/
Tyson, A and Maniam, S. (2016, 9 November). Behind Trump’s
victory: Divisions by race, gender, education. Retrieved from
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/behind-
trumps-victory-divisions-by-race-gender-education/
2012 to 2016 Personal
Situations/Events
2012 to 2017 Important
Historical Events
2012 to 2017 Key Indicators
-2014 I lived in
Arizona, but I moved
to California
-2015 I received
my AA from a
community college

and transferred.
-2016 I began
working in education
as a teacher assistant
in Special education.
-2016 I
transferred schools to
Brandman to become
a Special Education
teacher.
2012-2017
1. The 2012 Summer
Games open in
London
2. 2012 Obama and
Biden win
3. 2013 Obama’s
Second Term Begins
4. 2013 Change at the

Vatican
5. 2013 England’s Royal
Baby Arrives
6. 2014 Ebola Virus
Outbreak.
7. 2014 Sochi Winter
Olympics
8. 2014 World Cup
9. 2014 Malaysia Air
Plane Missing with
Over 200 Passengers
Onboard.
10. 2015 Student Debt
relief
11. 2015 Terrorist attack
in France
12. 2015 Cuba and US
restore ties
2015 Volkswagen emissions
cheating
13. 2016 Britain Votes to
Leave the European

Union
14. 2016 Olympics
15. 2016Donald Trump
Wins the U.S.
Presidency
they themselves or
someone in their
family will be exposed
to the Ebola virus,
including 17% who
say they
are very worried
people around the
world (roughly 46% of
the global population)

watched at least a
minute of the 2010
World Cup in South
Africa on TV
backed Clinton by a 9-
point margin (52%-
43%), while those
without a college
degree backed Trump
52%-44%.
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Week Five Signature Assignment
for LBSU 304 – Dr. John Freed instructor
Brandman University
September 27th 2017
History's Impact
Events throughout history have impacted our daily lives in
different ways. For example,
the September 11 terrorist attacks, where four passenger
airliners were hijacked and crashed on
the World Trade Center and other locations in the United States.
As a result, we now have TSA
pat-downs, quantity-based liquid bans, and passengers are
required to remove their shoes for X-
ray scanning. When I fly I get frustrated because of the long
lines and how we have to take off
our shoes and get searched. Events will continue to occur every

day and those events will
continue to change our lives and the way we live.
The historical information I researched changed my perspective
on some events of my
life. Certain events that occurred changed and affected my
everyday life without me even
noticing until now. The 2012 election between President Obama
and Mitt Romney election result
was an event that would affect my life for a long time. In 2012,
I returned back to school, and I
depended on Financial Aid and school loans to pay for my
studies. When President Obama won
the election, I was excited and happy because he supported
financial aid and school loans for
students that could not afford to attend school. In 2015
president Obama created the Student Aid
Bill of Rights to help take action on the student debt problem,
and provide borrowers with more
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airliner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_hijacking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center_(1973–2001)
rights and protections. According to the Student Debt Relief
website the current average

borrowers student loan debt at $28,400, and the average default
rate at nearly 14%. This election
helped me with school because more financial programs were
available for me to use. The
Student Debt Relief impacted my life because it helped me pay
my school loans faster. In
addition, working in special education, hygiene is a big priority.
In special education students
take longer learning hygiene skills. Special needs students need
to be reminded not to sneeze all
over, have their hands in their mouth, touch different areas of
their bodies, and sometimes have
trouble going to the restroom. When I first started working with
special need students the Ebola
virus began spreading and was big news. Nobody had any
knowledge of what the Ebola Virus
was, and how it was spreading and killing people. We would
receive all of the information from
the news. The news anchors reported that the virus was easy to
spread and people were dying
because they were getting affected. The news was that the virus
was spreading in the United
States and this caused panic around the country. I remember
schools and teachers were scared.

We were asked to sanitize the classroom and report everything
because we were scared of
getting sick. The Ebola outbreak spread rapidly and became the
deadliest occurrence of the
disease since its discovery in 1976. A total number of reported
cases is about 28,637 that were
affected by the Ebola virus according to The World Health
Organization.
Furthermore, the 2016 presidential election is probably the most
important event that will
affect my life. In 2016 Donald Trump became the President of
the United States. Presidents
trump policies are very controversial. Trump winning will affect
me and my education. In 2015,
I decided to transfer school to receive my Bachelor degree.
Donald Trump winning can affect
my financial aid assistance because he plans of cutting funding.
According to Alec Tyson and
Shiva Maniam authors of “Behind Trump’s victory: Divisions
by race, gender, education”
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/11/13/average-
student-loan-debt-hits-30-000
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/11/13/average-
student-loan-debt-hits-30-000
http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/default-rates-continue-
rise-federal-student-loans

College graduates backed Clinton by a 9-point margin (52%-
43%), while those without a college
degree backed Trump 52%-44%. This statistic shows how
college graduates were looking for a
more stable vision from a president that supported current
students and financial help for
students.
The relationship between personal recollection, history, and
quantitative data is the act of
re-collecting. Recollection represents recalling to mind;
remembrance. History is the branch of
knowledge dealing with past events, and quantitative data
means information that can be
measured and written down with numbers. In order to get
quantitative data, we need a historic
event. We need an event to gather the data, and in order to
gather information we need to recall
the past event. Personal recollection, history, and quantitative
data are all inter-related because
you can’t reliably get the information from one without the
other two.

Works Cited
(November 3, 2002). House Voting Intentions Knotted, National
Trend Not Apparent. Retrieved
from http://www.people-press.org/2002/11/03/house-voting-
intentions-knotted-national-trend-
not-apparent/
http://www.people-press.org/2002/11/03/house-voting-
intentions-knotted-national-trend-not-apparent/
http://www.people-press.org/2002/11/03/house-voting-
intentions-knotted-national-trend-not-apparent/
Payne Ed. (01/14/2016). Ebola: Mapping the outbreak.
Retrieved from
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28755033
Tyson Alec, Miniam Shiva. (NO VEM BER 9, 2 016). Behind
Trump’s victory: Divisions by
race, gender, education. Retrieved from
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-
tank/2016/11/09/behind-trumps-victory-divisions-by-race-
gender-education/
Payne Ed. (01/14/2016). Ebola: Mapping the outbreak.
Retrieved from

Course LBSU 304: Liberal Arts Core Foundation
You and History
Signature Assignment Rubric
Core Competency: CC 4 – Quantitative Reasoning: Analyze
quantitative evidence to
support conclusions or make recommendations.
Core Competency
(CC) or Course
Learning
Outcome (CLO)

CRITERIA EXEMPLARY PROFICIENT DEVELOPING
EMERGING NOT COMPLETE
CLO Reflection on
personal
impressions
(15) Writing and
timeline reflect a
critical, analytical
understanding of
historical events
as currently
presented in the
historical
literature; the
writer compares
and makes
compelling
arguments that
connect personal
history and the
broader
historical
context.
(12) Writing and
timeline
generally reflects
a critical,

analytical
understanding of
historical events
as currently
presented in the
historical
literature; the
writer compares
but may not fully
analyze or make
noteworthy
connections
between
personal history
and the broader
(10) Writing and
timeline
occasionally

reflects a critical,
analytical
understanding of
historical events
as currently
presented in the
historical
literature; the
writer attempts
to compare and
make some
connection
between
personal history
and the broader
(9) Writing and
timeline
attempts a

critical, analytical
understanding of
historical events
and makes a
weak attempt to
explore relevant
and available
sources; the
writer makes
weak
connections
between
her/himself and
a broader
historical
context.
0 Writing and
timeline do not
reflect a critical,

analytical
understanding of
historical events
and does not
make an
adequate
attempt to
explore relevant
and available
sources; the
writer does not
compare or make
any meaningful
connections
between
her/himself and
a broader
historical
context.
historical
context.
historical
context.
CC4 *Explanation
of
Quantitative

Evidence
(20) Provides
accurate
explanations of
information
presented in
mathematical
forms. Makes
appropriate
inferences based
on that
information. For
example,
accurately
explains the
trend
data shown in

the PewResearch
data.
(15)Provides
accurate
explanations of
information
presented in
mathematical
forms. For
instance,
accurately
explains the
trend data
shown in a
graph.
(13) Provides
somewhat
accurate
explanations of
information
presented in
mathematical
forms,
but occasionally
makes minor
errors; for
example
explanation of
data is not
supported some
of the data.

(12) Attempts to
explain
information
presented in
mathematical
forms, but draws
incorrect
conclusions
about what the
information
means;
For example,
misinterprets the
nature of
that trend,
perhaps by
confusing
positive and
negative
trends.
0 Does not
explain
information
presented in
mathematical
forms
CC4 Analysis of
Quantitative
Evidence
(20) Uses
quantitative

information in
connection with
the argument or
purpose of the
work, presents it
(15) Uses
quantitative
information in
connection with
the argument or
purpose of the
work, though
(13) Uses
quantitative
information, but
does not
effectively
connect it to the
(12) Attempts to
provide an
argument for
which
quantitative
(0) Does not
present an
argument for
which
quantitative
in an effective

format, and
explicates it with
consistently high
quality.
data may be
presented in a
less than
completely
effective format
or some parts of
the explication
may be uneven.
argument or
purpose
of the work.
evidence is
pertinent, but
does not provide
adequate
support related
to the data.
evidence is
pertinent; does
not provide
adequate
support related
to the data.
CC4 Conclusions (20) Explicitly
describes

assumptions and
provides
compelling
rationale for why
each assumption
is appropriate.
Shows
awareness that
confidence in
final conclusions
is limited by the
accuracy of the
assumptions.
(15) Describes
assumptions and
provides
adequate
rationale for why
assumptions are
appropriate.
(13) Describes
assumptions and
provides partial
rationale for why
assumptions are
appropriate.
(12) Attempts to
describe

assumptions but
writing does not
adequately
provide rationale
for assumptions.
0 Does not
attempt to
describe
assumptions.
*Portions of this rubric adapted from Quantitative Literacy
Value Rubric with permission from Assessing Outcomes and
Improving
Achievement: Tips and tools for Using Rubrics, edited by Terrel
L. Rhodes. Copyright 2010 by the Association of American
Colleges and
Universities.
https://www.aacu.org/publications-
research/publications/assessing-outcomes-and-improving-
achievement-tips-and-tools-using
https://www.aacu.org/publications-
research/publications/assessing-outcomes-and-improving-
achievement-tips-and-tools-using
WEEK 5 ASSIGNMENT - YOU AND HISTORY

Instructions:
This assignment combines your personal impressions during a
particular time period in your life
vis-à-vis broader historical events. For the most complete
understanding of any historical period
you need data, including quantitative sources of information.
History and historiography require
studying many sources of data. As the Association of American
Colleges and Universities points
out students should have the ability to make judgments and
draw appropriate conclusions based
on the quantitative analysis of data. Students should also have
the ability to make and evaluate
important assumptions in data analysis, and they should be able
to express quantitative evidence
in support of their arguments. In this case, you will enhance
your historical awareness of a short
period of time by availing yourself of readily available
quantitative data to form a more detailed
and possibly nuanced picture of a specific time period that is
also personally important to you.
There are 4 steps to completing this assignment, noted below.
The first three steps are crucial for
preparation, and the fourth step details the reflection you will

submit.
Step 1:
Keeping your readings and video clips in mind, create a
timeline that includes four situations, related to
jobs, your profession, education, or any other important events
in your life that you are comfortable
sharing with your reader. List each situation or event and
roughly note the year or range, such as 2006
to 2009. Then match your personal history with important
historical events occurring during that same
time period. Identify whether or not there is a relationship
between the historical events and your
personal situations and/or life events. Your timeline is
necessary for this assignment, and you will
submit it along with your reflection. Below Step 3, you will see
an example for setting up your timeline.
Step 2:
After creating the personal timeline, list and describe some of
the corresponding historical events that
occurred during the same time period. In other words, research
the time period that coincides with each
of the four personal events, and mention some of the important
historical occurrences, in particular
those you had not considered, were not aware of, or had simply
forgotten. Your list will help you
prepare to write your reflection.

Step 3:
Go to a research website such as PewResearchCenter website
(http://www.pewresearch.org/data/ and
http://www.people-press.org/datasets/2008/) or a research site
of your choosing to seek quantitative
data that tracks how people rated three key indicators, for
example, Personal Finances, Economic
Conditions, or even Social Networking Use and track the data
that corresponds with your timeline. Once
you have completed Steps 1-3, you will be able to complete the
timeline. Please use a table such as the
one below.
Personal/Historical Timeline
https://brandman.blackboard.com/webapps/assignment/uploadAs
signment?content_id=_7450530_1&course_id=_176699_1&assi
gn_group_id=&mode=cpview
http://www.pewresearch.org/data/
http://www.people-press.org/datasets/2008/
2006 to 2009 Personal
Situations/Events
(Job Promotion, Marriage, Birth
of a Child, Winning the Lotto,
any important or life-changing
event)
2006 to 2009 Important
Historical Events
(Elections, War, Coronations,
Assassinations, Domestic

Terrorism, Political Upheavals,
etc.)
2006 to 2009 Key Indicators*
(e.g. Personal Finances,
Economic Conditions in your
town, and/or the use of social
networks)
Your dates will differ according
the events in your life.
* For this assignment, a key indicator is defined as specific
information that points to, measures or
otherwise provides a summary overview of specific financial,
economic, social and/or political
conditions. For example, an increase in home buying is used as
an indication of growing economic
strength and confidence; a decrease in voter turnout is used as
an indication of political dissatisfaction.
Step 4 (Reflection based on timeline information):
In a minimum of 750 words, write an essay that reflects on
changes your perspective on some of
the personal situations/events in your life, and, if so, how?
and interpret the data, offers

evidence to support or differ with your personal recollections,
assumptions, impressions, and
personal situation for the time period you selected in the
timeline. Are the key indicators you
selected very different today from the time period you
researched? How so?
personal recollection, history, and
quantitative data? Are personal recollections, history, and
quantitative data the same thing and
are they the same thing as facts? Are there limits to what the
data captures?
Be sure to provide references for the historical sources you
researched and for the research site or
sites you consult. Please review the rubric for detailed
expectations of your final submission.
Save your timeline and reflection as one document.
Save your writing assignment as a doc or rtf with your name and
the assignment name in the Signature
Assignment file, using Last Name_Assignment. So, if your
name were Alicia Jackson, and this is the You
& History writing assignment, you would title it Jackson_You &
History. Upload your paper by clicking
the Signature Assignment link for Week 5.
Anon #1

Brandman University
LBSU 304 Week Five Writing Assignment
September 27th 2017
History and Me
Timeline
1988-2001 Personal
situations/events
Important Historical Events
Key indicators
1988-2001: Born and raised
in Cape Town, South Africa
after apartheid.
2001: Moved to the United
States
1988: Religious leaders

started a program to end
violence and apartheid in
South Africa. (A., 2016)
2000: George Bush elected
president. (C. & T., n.d.)
1990: The World Wide Web
was created by Tim Berners-
Lee, a computer scientist. (C.
& T., n.d.)
2001: Terrorist Attack. Two
airplanes crashed into the
World Trade Center (C. & T.,
n.d.)
1994: South Africa
unemployment rate 31.5% (A.
Check, 2017)

2000: Forbes rate South
Africa #1 highest
unemployment rate in the
world (M. Patton, 2015)
2001: Transport Security
Administration established in
November 2001. Sky
Marshals increased from
fewer than 100 to more than
several thousand by 2004.
(IATA, 2016)
2005-2010 Personal
situations/events
Important Historical Events Key Indicators
2005: Parent’s Divorce

2007: High School
Graduation
2005: Hurricane Katrina (C.
& T., n.d.)
2006: Execution of Saddam
Hussein (C. & T., n.d.)
2007: Global Recession (B.
Johnson, n.d.)
2005: Due to storms, 600,000
jobs eliminated, shipping
traffic disrupted, refining shut
down and energy
infrastructure, resulting in
high gasoline prices ($3 per
gallon) nationwide. (D.C.
Beckwith, 2005)

2008: Barack Obama won the
2008 election. (C. & T., n.d.)
2005: Banner year for U.S
Economy after natural
disasters. Created over 2
million new jobs, causing
unemployment rate to fall
from 5.4% to 4.9%. (D.C.
Beckwith, 2005)
2005: When The Facebook
expanded to Facebook
(Graves, n.d.)
2005: YouTube invented
(Graves, n.d)
2006: Twitter invented

(Graves, n.d.)
2007: iPhone invented (R.
Ritchie, 2017)
2007-2009: 8.8 million jobs
lost due to recession (U.S.
Department of Treasury,
2012)
2010-2017: Worldwide social
media users increased from
.97 billion users in 2010 to
2.62 billion in 2017 (Statista,
n.d.)
The historical information I researched, changed my
perspective on one personal
situation in particular. The year I was born, 1988, was right
after apartheid had ended in South

Africa. For example, according to A. (2016), on May 31st,
1988, over 200 South-African
religious leaders including those of Christian, Muslim, Jewish,
and Hindu Faith, concluded after
a 48-hour meeting, to start a non-violent program to end
apartheid. I was essentially born into the
residue of what apartheid had left behind. I had a fairly
satisfying childhood all throughout the
90’s, due to the outstanding care received from my parents.
However, I also spent my 90’s in
fear, and experienced a lot of hate as a white female, because of
the division, segregation, and
hatred within the country at that time. The hatred lead to an
increase in crime. The revolver my
mother slept with under her pillow at night, was the same
revolver I learned how to use at the age
of 6 “in case of emergencies.” After some research on
unemployment in South Africa during the
1990’s and 2000’s, I found that the unemployment rate was
31.5% in 1994 according to A.
Check (2017), and Forbes rated South Africa the #1 highest
unemployed country in 2000 (M.
Patton, 2015). I believe that most of the crime during that

period was not only due to the results
of Apartheid, but also the unemployment and extreme poverty
that the country faced. When
unemployment strikes for such a long period of time, people
would do the unthinkable out of
desperation to provide for their families’ needs.
The quantitative data of the TSA at the airport supported my
personal situation during the
time my family and I moved to the United States from South
Africa in December 2001, only
three months after the terrorist attack. According to C. & T.
(n.d.) Al-Qaeda, Islamic terrorist
group, coordinated that two planes crash into the north and
south tower of the world trade center,
and the third plane into the pentagon. This attack left 2,996
people dead, and over 6,000 injured.
The entire move was exciting as a 12-year-old, but also very
stressful at the airport because of
the increase in security. For example, Transport Security
Administration was only established in
November 2001 due to the terrorist attack that had taken place,
and sky marshals increased from
fewer than 100 to more than several thousand by 2004 (IATA,
2016). At that time, I specifically

remember how serious and intimidating the airport felt. On the
other hand, my parent’s divorce
had no connection to the natural disasters faced in 2005, nor did
the quantitative data have any
correlation. According to D.C. Beckwith (2005), in 2005,
600,000 jobs were eliminated, the
shipping traffic disrupted, refining shut down, and gasoline
prices raised to $3 per gallon
nationwide due to Hurricane Katrina. My family was not
directly affected because we were
based in California in 2005, and nowhere near the Bahamas,
Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Georgia, or Alabama at the time of the hurricane. The data even
suggests that 2005 was a banner
year for the U.S economy after the natural disasters. Over 2
million new jobs were created, and
caused the unemployment rate to fall from 5.4% to 4.9% (D.C.
Beckwith, 2005). As much as I
wish I could have blamed my parent’s divorce on the economy
or natural disasters at the time, it
was purely an outside decision based upon the struggles within
the marriage. A few key

indicators from 2005 through 2010 include the rise of social
media. Social media started taking
the world by storm, rapidly expanding each year. According to
Graves (n.d.), in 2005, Facebook
went from The Facebook where it was only available to college
students, to Facebook when it
became available to everyone. That same year YouTube was
invented, allowing individuals to
share videos worldwide. In 2006, Twitter was introduced, and in
2007, according to R. Ritchie
(2017), the iPhone was invented. In 2010, social media users
worldwide increased from .97
billion users in 2010, to 2.62 billion in 2017 (Statista, n.d.). The
invention of the iPhone and
social media played a big role in my senior year of high school
and the years to follow. I have
remained friends with the individuals I graduated with through
social media. It has helped us
remain in contact and stay updated on one another’s lives.
Social media also played a large role
in the election of Barack Obama. For example, according to J.
Eilperin (2015) the head of the
White House Office of Public Engagement, Paulette Aniskoff,
“had journeyed from Washington

to the offices of the entertainment company Live Nation for a
strategy session on how YouTube
and Vine stars could use their digital celebrity to promote some
of the Obama administration’s
key policies.” I believe Obama paved the way for presidents to
reach out to the masses and the
younger population through social media. Some might even say
Obama won the election because
he was promoted over social media. Finally, the recession of
2007 supported the quantitative
data found from 2007 to 2009. According to the U.S.
Department of Treasury (2012), 8.8 million
jobs were lost due to the recession. In 2007, my father went
through a dry season of work. He
was working as an electrical engineer and work was scarce
during that time. Although we did not
lose a house, and my father remained employed, times were still
a bit tough.
Personal recollections, history, and quantitative data are not
the same, however could be
interconnected at times. Ecological or natural disasters,
political violence, poverty, or
unemployment might affect individuals personally in the world,

but it also might not. For
example, those whom live in the exact neighborhoods that the
massive natural disasters occur in
will be directly affected. On the other hand, those whom lived
in other parts of the world, may
only see it as a tragedy in history and could not connect any
personal hardship to the natural
disaster. Another example would be the 2007 recession. During
the recession, I had many friends
whose parents lost their jobs, and even knew a few neighbors
whom lost their homes. It appeared
as though everything slowed down financially for a while.
However, I was not as affected by the
recession, because I was used to financial instability. My
father’s free-lance career often had
times where money was scarce. I remember in 2004, my family
had a Christmas where my dad
could only afford to give my brother and I one candy bar each
and a picture frame with a photo
of the family in it. My brother and I were not foreign to
financial hardship, and we were aware of
dry seasons. Therefore, when the recession hit and my father
faced financial insecurity, we just
saw it as any other season when we had a little less to go

around. We never took it personally,
and only grew into more grateful individuals because of it.
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