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2-3 Pages Rough Draft with 2-3 MLA Research Sources
First, identify, interview, and describe an Unsung Hero with a description of characteristics, setting, maybe a quotation or two, and a brief explanation of why this person is an Unsung Hero. Please don’t define “unsung hero” as practically everyone knows what this means, and you are going to extend its definition by writing about your person.
Second, choose one Ethnography characteristic such as a background, heritage, ethnicity (like Jamaican immigrants to the United States) or interest, hobby, dream (like restaurant owners or caterers affected by the Covid-19 Coronavirus) to research using the GVSU Library’s WRT 150 Subject Guide database – required. Important: The library’s databases let you email the articles to yourself to keep until you’re finished researching them, and they let you click to generate an MLA citation of the articles you choose, saving you extra work to write them yourself or upload them into your own citation generator.
Include one or more articles from a magazine or journal in the Academic Search Ultimate, JSTOR, or Ethnic Newswatch databases. Plan to take some time and explore all three, trying and narrowing down your searches several different ways before choosing ones you like.
Add a story or more about somebody else from the same or a related Ethnography group to compare to your Unsung Hero, found in a newspaper article from the Newspapers tab.
Third, in your writing, relate and compare information from your Unsung Hero to the Ethnography research you learned in the GVSU Library’s database articles.
This Rough Draft with MLA Research Sources is not scanned by SafeAssign for plagiarism.
My old neighbor in West Bloomfield, MI, Nadia Vassilev, works as a nurse at a local hospital. She has worked there for about 20 years. She worked throughout covid to help save people. I feel she is very underappreciated in her work and deserves more recognition. Nadia is also a first-generation American, coming from Bulgaria on a visa she gained thru a lottery system. I think she is a true unsung hero and one of the most recent to prove the “American Dream” is still alive. Nadia does not live a life filled with luxuries as she gives everything she can to her Bulgarian community, friends and patients. She quietly supports charities that provide medical care to the underserved. She also leads educational events at her hospital for single parents, relatives of hospice care patients and physical trauma patients. She is not asked to do these classes, and she gives them for free. She wants to make the world a better place, and she does, one student, one patient, one friend, and one community member at a time.
Questions 1. How has working as a nurse affected your Life? Being a nurse Helps me really appreciate some of the little things in life like being in good health and having a loving family. Seeing people’s families go through traumatic and devastating family events makes me appreciate my own. There are also many people suffering that come into the hospital suffer and die alone, it is horrible to witness and I try and spend as much time with them as possible because there is no life too small or gone too wrong to not show kindness and empathy for.
2. Does working as a nurse affect your free time at home? Yes, when I first started and had low seniority I had to work the over-night shift. I missed many dinners and evenings with my son. Now, although I have a day shift and we have moved to 3 on 4 off format, I still work 12 to 14 hour days.
3. What interests do you have outside of being a nurse? I love to travel, read, garden, knit and spend time with friends.
4. What are some of your future plans perhaps when you retire? I plan to be a nurse for about 4-5 more years. When I retire, I will travel with Vasko, my husband, who is a painter. I am also a volunteer in a woman’s shelter and I would like to continue supporting that. I also want to help my son, Vittorio, build his home and give him an opportunity to have an independent life.
5. Has moving to America from Bulgaria benefited your life and career? Yes, I would say moving to the United States at a young age was crucial in getting where I am now. I love Bulgaria but I would not have had the same opportunities. Resources are very limited and many people are still recovering from communism. Most people could not choose their education or employment type. My parents lived in housing that was chosen for them. I have the opportunity and freedoms my parents and sister never had. When I moved to the United States in the 90s I had been a nurse already for 5 years but I had to get my certifications again, I was given financial aid that I could never have received in Bulgaria. I have a very large community of Bulgarian friends in the Detroit Metro area and we help each other to assimilate but also to never forget our traditions and the hard work it took to live this dream.
6. Does being a nurse take a toll on you over time? Yes, after being a nurse for 30 years for about 25 years in the United States and 5 in Bulgaria It starts to drain you mentally and physically, Long hours, dying patients, families, and co-workers play a huge role in this. However, giving everything I can to make someone feel healthier, safer, loved makes me keep pushing.