Identifying Information
Mr. Kevin Evans is a 60 year old African American male. He is currently incarcerated at the Curran Fromhold Correctional Facility where he has been held since April 29th, 2017. Mr. Evans has been charged with various charges due to Driving under the Influence (D.U.I.). His case is listed for Pre-Trial Conference on April 2nd, 2018.
Sources of Information: Kevin Evans (Defendant) Coatesville Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center Cincinnati VA Medical Center-Trauma Recovery Center Introduction
Mr. Kevin Evans was born on May 8th, 1957 in the City of Philadelphia. For over half of his life he has been trying to cope and heal from the emotional scars that were inflicted upon while in the Marine
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He was visiting his friend Wendell and Wendell’s mother began questioning him about his household. Wendell’s mother brought up to Kevin the fact that his father was married to two different women who lived right next door to each other. Not sure how to respond, Kevin shrugged her questions off. When he arrived home, he questioned his maternal grandmother about the oddity of their family dynamic. For better or worse, he was given the truth and Kevin explained to me he felt following that conversation “I think I grew up after that. The blinders were off and my relationship with my mother was never the same. I never trusted her after …show more content…
Subsequently, the parenting responsibilities in his home fell on his maternal grandparents. Furthermore, his mother lacked the appropriate nurturing skills and maturity needed to raise Kevin and his siblings. In turn, physical, emotional and verbal abuse was her answers to everything. As Kevin indicated, the abuse “Goes back as far as I can remember” and his mother would beat him with “Whatever she got her hands on.” The abuse was often unprovoked and out of nowhere. Painfully, he recalled how is mother would bind Hot-Wheel’s race tracks together with rubber bands and make him strip nude and utter the phrase, “Take you clothes off because I am beating you, not them.” Kevin was not the only sibling subjected to his mother wrath. His brother Kerry liked to play with matches and after being told by his mother to stop, Kevin recalled how his mother punished him by placing his hand over the open flame on the stove. These painful memories are still ripe in Kevin’s mind. The abuse inside the home would only end when his grandmother intervened. Despite this grandmother’s best efforts, she could not stop all the abuse, and his mother’s verbal abuse was just as
Building off of the fact they were both raised independently, both my parents needed to acquire there own money and finance their own educations. Another aspect that similar on the surface, but shows a key difference upon further investigation is their experiences with corporal punishment. While both Lisa and Michael experienced corporal punishment as a form of discipline, they experienced it in different settings; Michael’s parents used slapping as the form of discipline for stepping out of line, while Lisa experienced in the academic setting with the nuns at her
To begin, the past plays a huge role in Kevin’s life. Kevin Coulson is returning to his hometown. He lived in New York City where he studied Psychiatry but where he lives now is a mystery but now he doesn’t want to be a psychiatrist. “You know the saying, psychiatrists are nutty…” said Mrs. Kittredge. (Page 37, Strout) Why would he want to be in the city helping many people with their problems, but deep inside he’s
The clip ‘Trouble with Evan’ narrates the struggle of a boy named Evan that puts his stepdad Mike and his mother Karen through stress because of his ill manners. Despite him being at a tender age of 11 years and in 6th grade, his mannerism is worrying because he is already engaging in morally unacceptable activities such as shoplifting, smoking, and gross disobedience, bullying other children and even stealing from his parents. Therefore, this puts his parents under severe psychological stress as they try to figure where their parenting is going wrong in a bid together to make him grow morally upright (Henning, 2016). Evan’s behavior was also straining his relationship with his parents and this stressed the parents as they tried to figure out different ways in which they could once again improve their relationship with their son. In addition, the clip revolves around trying to uncover the mystery as to what could be causing Evan’s unacceptable behavior.
Traditionally Kevin, his Father, Gary Hazen, and his brother, Gary David, all go out on the first hunt together at two in the morning after a breakfast of homemade pancakes, but this year is different. Kevin wants to break free from the life of his family and doesn't want to go on the hunt with his father and brother. He can't comprehend why his father is so set in his ways and Kevin doesn’t want to live his father's life. Gary is a forester and finds it important to work hard to most provide for his family and to conserve nature. Kevin, like most kids, doesn’t understand his fathers way of thinking, and wants to live his own life. A life away from Lost Lake. Kevin attempts to break free of his fathers lifestyle by attending a nearby college, in hopes to eventually become teacher. Gary isn't happy with his son's decision to go to school and Kevin can't understand his fathers views, which causes the two to butt heads throughout the novel. But a tragic accident suddenly leaves Kevin fighting for his and his fathers lives. Having to use the knowledge and skills that his father had taught Kevin suddenly suddenly realizes his dad was right after all.
but he was too into the woman he was dating at the time so I was shuffled around from family member to family member till I ended up living with my aunt. My brother was raised with all the confidence he could get, he was praised by my grandmother. Everything he did she would give him the love that he needed because he didn’t have our parents and me on the other hand I didn’t get that type of love I was told that I wouldn’t amount to anything and the only thing I would be great at is being a garbage man. I was a very active child I couldn’t really sit still so I would get in trouble a lot because of it and I would get told a lot that that was the reason why my parents didn’t want me because I didn’t know how to act, I guess that is what Dweck meant when she was explaining how when you falsely praise someone or praise someone too much they can get a big head and get dependent on it and those who were not praised enough got the motivation to prove everyone wrong.
The narrator of this short story is Adelaine, a young native girl who is being molested by her Uncle Josh for money and gifts. She is trapped in a cycle of abuse, her uncle was molested by the priest in residential school and now her uncle molests her. She has a flashback to when she was a kid watching Sesame Street and she says “Uncle Josh undoes his pants” (190) and that when “it’s over he’ll have treats for me” (190). She says that she is not like her sister who “runs to Mommy about everything” (190). She has no way out of the cyle, she is trapped in
A childhood full of abuse can have a tremendously negative effect on a person’s mental stability later on in life. A cycle of abuse, in which an abused child grows up to abuse their own children, is not an uncommon occurrence. The abuse is often accepted as justified discipline from an adult and it becomes more likely that the abused begins to blame themselves for the pain they are caused. David Small’s memoir, Stitches, touches on the subject of abuse and its effect on one’s behavior later on in life. It can be argued that David’s mother, Betty, was the victim of abuse at the hands of her own mother when she was younger. If so, her abuse riddled past can be blamed for her controlling behavior throughout the book.
As Minister Jennings, Hollie and Shelby Boyles and Mitchell were attending to the side of the street, Ethan Couch hauled out of his carport. A very inebriated Couch sped down the thin two-path nation street, apparently going at about 70 miles for every hour and notwithstanding playing chicken with approaching autos, as indicated by Tarrant Region Aide Criminal Lead prosecutor Richard Alpert. In testimony tapes acquired by ABC News, Sofa's companion, Starr Teague, affirmed, "I was shouting at him that he expected to get over. What's more, when he swerved, the back tires yanked, and we slid off into the side jettison." Another traveler in the truck, Garrett Ballard, affirmed he "just saw something in the street and afterward noisy blast, then
Before Dana and him meet each other, Kevin’s life is more on the bland side. “I think Kevin was as lonely and out of place as I was when I met him, though he was handling it much better. But then, he was about to escape,” (Butler 52). Kevin is about to escape his life of loneliness before he meets Dana, thus, meaning that he is completely capable of being happy by himself. He has an independent personality. This might be a leading factor as to why Kevin is so loving to Dana since his happiness and security does not rely on her. However, even though he does not need her to function, Kevin is still truly faithful and loyal to Dana. Kevin loves her so much, he even goes back to the past with her to try to ensure her safety. “Suddenly, Kevin was beside me holding me. I tried to push him away. I was afraid for him without knowing why. I shouted for him to let me go,” (Butler 58). He holds on to her without hesitation, fully aware of the consequences that come with going back to the 19th century. This kind of devotion is healthier than the one Margaret has for her son because it is not unrequited. The amount of love Kevin and Dana have is equivalent to each other, therefore, they both respect each other. Since they feel this way about each other, he is fearless when it comes to love, knowing that Dana and him can support each other. When he comes back from spending five years in the 19th century, Kevin becomes more reserved and hidden from the world. “The expression on his face was like something I’d seen, something I was used to seeing on Tom Weylin. Something closed and ugly,” (Butler 194). When a traumatic event happens, even love cannot tarnish the walls built up by the experience. Nonetheless, his character mostly stays the same during this period of time, but he still has to adjust to the “new world,” making him a bit moody and unresponsive. He deals with this situation step by step
Wendy feels lonely without her brother, and without any love from her parents. From a young age, Wendy’s parents abused her physically and mentally. The narrator states, “Wendy’s first spanking was the great organizing event of her memory…Her father humiliated her with language until she did so (take down her pants)—called her a slut and hooker and a princess. It wasn’t difficult to degrade her with language – she was four” (Moody, 237). Wendy’s sexual adventures her make her a constant topic at school. She is constantly out casted at school as a slut and
Kevin in Bringing Down the House sacrifices much of his time and life in order to live out his Blackjack dreams. Firstly his relationship with his girlfriend is cut because she is seen as an obstacle in the double life that Kevin wishes to pursue. "The only thing holding him back from truly inhabiting his new lifestyle was Felicia-and graduation was a perfect excuse to cut her loose,” (Mezrich 108). By getting rid of his girlfriend he shows how important the team has become to him. It also shows he is willing to give up other passions in order to pursue it. Additionally the Blackjack team has remained a secret from his family and after the first attempt Kevin will likely keep his life a secret. I believe that he will continue to alter his life
The justice system has changed for people that has excessive wealth and those who are less fortunate. Those that are more privileged take advantage of the justice system instead of setting the example for those who can't afford paid lawyers or lawyer at all. Richer people have the intentions that they can get away with crimes because they can afford the bail they know their going to get. People that have higher income are capable of getting off on their cases faster than somebody that is lower class or middle class, there is many example cases that somebody that is rich got getting off earlier.
He began to talk about his home life in bits and pieces that painted a picture of his father. Brian’s dad, Earl, was a large burly man’s man who was only going to have a rough and tough son to carry on the family name. Earl smoked Marlboros and saw no problems with his teenage son continuing the vice. Earl drank American beer and expected his teenage son to have the same penchant. While other parents would have reacted in an outrage to find their teenage sons with beer in the car, Earl just laughed and said “boys will be boys. That’s my son.” The two events that Brian shared of Earl’s discipline were in regards to theft and fighting. Brian told me, “We were in Eckerd’s drug store, stealing records. We’d done it lots of times. I didn’t’ do it for the records themselves, it was for the thrill. He wants me to be a hard-ass so I was trying to be one my way.” The thefts were executed differently from the norm of sliding items under a jacket. Brian was significantly smarter than he liked for people to know. He and a couple of friends would go into the drug store, with a paper grocery bag folded and hidden in their clothes. They would browse the records and slyly put selected albums into the open grocery bag at their feet. The managers and store employees were vigilant about checking patrons as they left the store, to see if anyone had suspicious bulges in their clothes. While two of the
Kevin was only able to truly be himself around his mother; lying about himself was not something he was capable of doing with Eva, he never had to 'fake' positive emotions in front of her. When with his father, however, he had to play the perfect son. Franklin was so dead-set on having the ‘perfect’ ‘ideal’ American family, he turned a blind eye to the things Kevin had done to his mother with a simple, “boys will be boys.” In turn, Kevin would play video games with Franklin, practice using a bow and arrow, the typical father-son bonding. Kevin might’ve even felt some form of admiration towards his mother. When Eva flung him across the room, he didn’t cry but instead obeyed what she said and during one of her visits, told her that he was proud of her and that was her ‘most honest moment.’ Kevin and Eva are similar in the sense that they are both resentful, judgmental, intelligent yet highly difficult people who pushed back against each other and refused to give in when they perceived a lack of love from the other. The eventual divorce between Franklin and Eva could have been what led to his last incident. The divorce would mean that Franklin would have custody of him and that would be hell for Kevin since he’d have to keep up the act of being perfect. He let Eva live because he ‘wanted the audience to be alive for the
Winsome was rarely physically punished and neither was my mother. However, as mentioned before my father was the outlier in the equation of my upbringing. His working-lower class socialization over-ruled my mother’s upper class upbringing. My father was alcoholic and diagnosed with bipolar disorder and we were subjected to the same physical and emotional abuse he observed growing up. He chose to go unmedicated and drank as a way to cope with his mental illness. Families in which alcoholism or other substance abuse is present have higher rates of family violence (Camelot, Family Violence). Staying true to classic authoritarian parenting style, he often used the phrase “I’m the parent, you are child. Dont question me”. He required unquestionable obedience from his children and achieved this by instilling fear. Viewing domestic violence as a child causes social learning and is likely to result in being in a domestic violence relationship in adulthood (Camelot, Family Violence). By the age of twenty-five I had somehow found myself in my second long term relationship with an active addict/abuser; another example of symbolic interactionism. My sister has not experienced physical abuse within her own family of procreation but her husband shows signs of alcohol dependency. As a Pastor and leader in the community my mother hid what was going on at home and taught us to be the best actors always reminding us that we had a reputation to uphold as members of our family. She turned a blind eye and tried to discuss and love her way through to us after our father’s beatings. We were the prime example of the front stage family. Our family ministry provides aid to families living within the economic margin just as we did and ironically one of the main organizations we partner with is a shelter for abused single mothers. We were forced to get help as a family thanks to a family crisis and now we no longer have