Observation Site: A lower class Vietnamese home. Population: 5 people, although only three are observed in this report. Thesis Statement: That despite the hardships life has to offer, human instinct instills in most people a desire to persevere and despite how impossible it may seem, strive to create a better quality of life for themselves and those closest to them. It’s 8.23 am on a Tuesday morning and already I find them at their sewing machines. …showed first 75 words of 1069 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1069 total…her machine and, like her husband, slowly withdraws back into the mind numbing cacophony of humming sewing machines. I feel as if I have intruded enough on their private lives, and do not have a desire to see more. I have been here numerous times before, but only to visit their elder children, and have never paid either parent much attention. This new insight leaves me saddened and I retreat quietly from their grey world.