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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. …

…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.