Tell us a bit about yourself using a heritage/genealogy map in a brief PowerPoin

Tell us a bit about yourself using a heritage/genealogy map in a brief PowerPoint (5-7 slides) presentation with a narrative (minimum one slide with a genealogy map; you may add slides with significant family pictures and pictures of historical importance to your family). please make this without any family pictures Ideas of what you may discuss in your response:
This family heritage discussion forum involves the purposeful gathering of information, artifacts, anecdotes, records, graphs, and reflection statements to tell the story of your ethnic heritage and in particular the story of the oppression within your personal culture group. The purpose of the assignment is to encourage critical self-reflection and explore oppression from your point of you, in your shoes.
Understanding your cultural background is a crucial first step in developing cultural competence. This reflection process is intended to help you understand how your ethnicity and experiences affect your beliefs, thoughts, and biases concerning groups that are different than your own. Remember that older persons have a great appreciation for their cultural history and practices. Oral histories are an important source of information.
You may discuss family traditions, parenting styles, values, rules, habits, sayings, food, attitudes, religion, discipline, etc. Students are encouraged to discuss clothing, costumes, music, dance, or family specialty foods. Describe your ethnic/racial mixture, stating which ones you have selected for this forum and why. You may describe what and how you were taught about race/ethnicity and culture in your family and community, including your own and groups other than your own. Tell us about the specific ways in which your experiences have influenced how you view and relate to people from different backgrounds. *(on New Years Day we go to my grandparents house to drink Soup Joumou ( pumpkin soup)
You may discuss family traditions, parenting styles, values, rules, habits, sayings, food, attitudes, religion, discipline, etc. You may talk about what makes your family unique. You may place pictures in your PowerPoint presentation with objects that reflect your cultural identity and are personally significant to you. Each picture should include a description of what it is, the name of the source that provided it for you, her/his relationship to you, and the date of collection (self-selected artifacts, anecdotes that link you to your ethnic background). You may gather information from multiple sources. Suggested sources for evidence include family members (parents, grandparents, and other kin) who can provide stories, anecdotes, artifacts, histories, and personal reflections. You may present (a) Works done by family members or someone from your ethnic/racial group with which you strongly identify (e.g., a photograph or sketch of grandmother’s hand-painted Polish Easter eggs). (b) Short stories, personal accounts, or interviews (e.g., an interview with someone from your ethnic background who participated in the civil rights movement). (c) Documents that say something about a part of your ethnicity, race, and culture (e.g., a family tree, descendant birth certificates, a newspaper article). You need to include a brief immigration history of your family, both your Family’s specific history and your general group overview is highly encouraged: (a) Where did they (your family/group) come from? Haiti, Leogane
(b) When did they arrive in the US? My grandpa( Merilus St Fort , Dad’s mom ) took a boat here in 1987 and file for all his kids and grandkids to come afteer (c) Why did they come? a better life
d) How did they journey here. grandpa took the boat and everyone else by plane
(e) What work opportunities were available to them?Field Work of sell things from home
(f) In what ways were they affected by discrimination? In what ways were they stereotyped? they were not
( g) What are some of their contributions to the US? doing field work and voting. good citizen
(h) Where has your family lived in the United States? Florida
(i) Critically reflect on how the previous information has impacted your heritage. How hard they work to get here my grandpa’s name from my mom side is Merilus St fort, my granma’s name is Melaaide St fort, their kids name are Merilia St Fort, Riguad St fort ( decease ) Miglese St Fort ( my mom ) Jeremy St Fort , Lisbotte St Fort, Yvolette St Fort. My name is christley Sylien. you can come up with Random names for my dad’s family with the same last name . just create a tree with out picture. just add the one i sent to the top. just add names to everything else an example ( I was born in Steubenville, Ohio. A very small town in comparison to Louisville. I am not sure of when my family arrived in the United States. I know it was prior to my grandparents. My mother’s lineage is German/Polish, while my father’s is Polish. My mother’s family had been in Erie, Pennsylvania. My father’s was from Steubenville, Ohio. My family heritage is from the Euro-American, white ethnicity, middle class status. Adherence to the Catholic faith was strong on both my maternal and paternal side. The cultural background of my family is rooted in traditional Euro-American values and social norms (Hays & Erford, 2023). Growing up, my father and then my step-father held the role of the head of the household, demonstrating traditional masculine values. My father was the religious leader in our family, but when my parent’s divorced, there was less focus. I continued at parochial schools and even extended my schooling to Bellarmine University which is Catholic by tradition. Our extended family was not diverse. Although my family was welcoming, no one married into the family of other ethnicity. Our social circle primarily consisted of individuals from a similar background, sharing common characteristics and beliefs. Both sides of my family have a history of hard work and resilience. My father’s family worked in in the steel mills, while my mother’s family owned a barber shop and real estate. Both my grandmother’s were stay at home mothers. My father and mother were both college graduates. My father had gone to Vanderbilt University on a full scholarship for football. He majored in history, but ended up being a computer programmer and that is what brought my family to Louisville, KY. My mother was a teacher and shortly after our move to Louisville, they divorced. She continued her education by obtaining her masters and being a single mother. My stepfather married my mother while I was in grade school. Despite facing economic challenges, they prioritized our education and ensured we continued to attend parochial schools for the duration of our school prior to college. We had many family gatherings, but over time rifts began and several divides occurred. This made gatherings more intimate. This created a hardship in the ability to maintain closeness with various members of the family. While my family has not personally experienced discrimination, I have faced challenges related to my choice in partners. I have been married and remarried due to unhealthy relationships. My mother is remarried also. My step father was the predominant figure in my life and continues to be that father figure for me. However, watching the rifts form and divides occur within my family, it encouraged me to look beyond my own beliefs and love all of my family no matter the circumstance. I often receive criticisms for including all members in my life. However, I feel this a positive model to my own daughter. Despite the divides in our family, we remain close with those we choose to maintain relationships with in our lives. Mental health was not something we discussed when we were younger but it has come to affect many members of my family. My mother still struggles to accept thoughts of mental illness in family members but it is not something my siblings or I find difficulty in speaking about. I would think this is due to society’s acceptance of this and there being less of a judgement socially when it comes to mental illness.
Reference
Hays, D.G., Erford, B.T. (2023) Developing Multicultural Counseling Competence, A Systems Approach, 4th Edition. Pearson.)