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in life. Life was okay for him the way it was. For me, it was different. I want more in life. So it
was two different brains." Her husband did very little to help the Nurse as she began to further
her education, and when the Nurse made the move to the US, she came without her husband. His
eventual arrival was followed very quickly by his death, and so the Nurse began to rely on her
mother to help her as she worked and went to college. Eventually, the Nurse met her second
husband and was able to mold the kind of family she always wanted-a close family that can
depend on each other for support and pass down traditions from generation-to-generation, like at
Christmas time. "We always get together, and we have that since we were small children. We
continue with that, and now my kids are doing the same thing. We stay together from the
Christmas Eve until Christmas Day, afternoon. We never separate." A more in-depth discussion
of family follows in the next section.
It's Very Important, Because Emotionally, You Need All This Support
While personal perceptions and goals and culture seemed to be two of the dominate
concepts in the Nurse's educational path, according to the data from the interviews, family
background was also a concept of importance to the Nurse's educational background, appearing
as the third most common influence. In the supermap coding, family background appeared 48
times. Family alone appeared only seven times or 15% of the time. In analyzing the data
associated with the concept culture, the concept of family served as a mitigating factor 32 times
or 43% of the time. So as stated in the previous section, culture and family seemed to intertwine.
In review of the interviews, family culture seemed to play a significant role in the Nurse's
life. According to the Nurse, family and its prevalence in her educational success can best be
illustrated by the quote that serves as the theme for this section: "I have what I always wanted. I109
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Colley, Kay Lynne. Latino success stories in higher education: A qualitative study of recent graduates from a health science center., dissertation, May 2007; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3687/m1/119/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .