Andrea Alcantar

My name is Andrea Alcantar, i'm from Mexicali Baja California. When i was nine years old i came to the united states, and was really scare since my first language is Spanish. i felt really scare when i knew that i needed to start making new friends on a new place that i wouldn’t know if they would understand me. Therefore, when i had my first day of school they had introduced me to a students who name was Stephanie. she help a lot when it comes to my work, writing and reading as well as speaking and translating me English to Spanish. After all this years leaving in the US, i have learn a lot. That everyone knows even a little of Spanish weather is for working etc. Sometimes i ask myself what would've happened if i have never came to the US to live .

What is Erikson’s “ Stages of Psychosocial Development” and how does it relate to your development? At each stages we encounter different needs, ask new questions and meet people who may or may not influence our behavior and learning as well. This changes can either have a  positive or negative influence in our life. But some of the psychosocial development is in the personality and course of the development of how a person depends on certain psychosocial crisis where they would be solve early in their life. The eight stages of psychosocial development are; Basic Trust vs. Mistrust, Autonomy vs. Shame & Doubt, Initiative vs. Guilt, Industry vs. Inferiority, Identity vs. Role confusion among others. In our infancy we ask ourselves if we can trust the world,later on we learned that if we can trust someone now then we can also trust others in the future. This development is called basic trust vs. mistrust which is stage one that happened to be from ages 1-2 years old. Wh

In the united states there was a lot of racism and there wasn't respect at all. until three black students decide to stand up for their rights and even if they weren't from the same color they should not only be treated equally but also when they are being payed. people started to realize how big of a deal this was. so the president John F. Kennedy decided to start the planning of the civil rights, and then he said, " I will not be fully free until all of its citizens are free. This was the response that president John F. Kennedy gave to the American Society since they wanted to stop the discrimination that was going on in the 60’s. Which didn't let some people go into churches, restaurants, and restroom. But mostly this happened to the black community. Once the Civil Rights was done a lot of this discrimination was almost fully stop and it made people realize that just because they are not the same skin color they are still human and should be treated the same.