Running head: Week 2 Assignment 1 EVALUATION OF A HEALTH-RELATED WEBSITE 3 Interview Description Issys Thompson COM360: Advanced Communications in Society (BHF1550A) Sarah Bowman 11/09/2015 The person I chose to interview is my grandmother, Pastor Thompson. My grandma was born in Coffeeville, AL she grew up in a house of eleven children with both her parents. My grandmother raised me and people always tell me I have an old soul because I remember all the things she taught me, that she learned from her mother. One thing I learned about my grandma is that she really valued everything that her mother taught her, and she used those values to instill in me. She’s really old school and she doesn’t care that she was born in 1938 and it is now a new way of doing things. My grandmother remembers The Jim Crow laws from being at school and not being able to use the same bubbler as the white kids. How they had separate entrances than the white kids at school as well. The importance of keeping your head up and never look defeated according to her mother. “Always look like you’re worth something, lift your head up be proud of who you are”, she would say. She was raised Pentecostal Christian, which is a very strict denomination. It surprises me how far back her memory goes and have vivid it is, of course as she get’s older she no longer remembers a lot of things. But I do think that she chose to makes sure she remembered certain things. In being around my grandmother all my life I realized that she and her mother are very superstitious, which to me contradicts being a Christian. No sweeping you foot, don’t step over someone lying on the floor, don’t sit you purse on the floor etc. I chose to interview her because she knows first hand what it was like for African Americans in the time where we regarded as nothing. 1. What is one thing that you valued most growing up? 2. Did you ever feel forgotten because you had so many siblings? 3. If you could change one thing about your childhood what would it be? 4. How do you feel about the world now compared to when you lived in Alabama? 5. What concerns you the most about society today? 6. What advice do you want to give to the generations to come? How far back in time can the person remember? What is his or her first childhood memory? (Consider how it reflects the interview subject's culture or subculture?) About 1954, visiting her grandmother’s house walking through the woods and being hungry. What does the person remember of the experience of being an immigrant or a subgroup member in that time? The bathrooms one said white and one said back, the water fountain, in the restutant she had to order out the back window. Riding in the back of the bus. Which impressions or experiences from that time are most vivid to him or her today? Bad customer service people don’t want to treat you like you’re a person. If he or she immigrated to this country, what was the country of origin like in t.