Mr Frye Needs example essay topic

Rush 2 I interview my friend, Timothy Frye. Mr. Frye was born on January 08, 1976 Cleveland, Ohio to Mary Johnson and Jordan Frye. Mr. Frye prefers to be addressed as Tim. He is mixed, Tim's mother is mixed with black and white and his father is black.

His dad left them when he was twelve years old but still came around every now and again. She remarried when he was eighteen. He is an African American male at the age of twenty-eight. He came from a middle class family, but his had more money than she leaded him believe.

He was an only child but he had plenty aunt and uncles to go around. His mother came from a big family. She had three older brothers, two younger sisters and a younger brother. She was the middle child. Having three older brothers they always were harder on her she said, because she was the oldest of the younger girls. That's why he felt that his mother was so hard on him.

Mr. Frye is a kind-hearted person. I thought I knew Mr. Frye very well until I did this interview. He showed a side that I never knew he had. Mr. Frye attends New Harvest Church. Mr. Frye currently stays here in Montgomery, Alabama with his daughter Nicole. Instead of going to college Mr. Frye joined the Marines at the age of twenty-three.

He wanted to make a better life for his self because he said that he was going to end up dead or in jail and that is two places that he did not want to be. Mr. Frye felt like the Marines would be the best route to not only developing him into manhood but also providing him with the best thing to do. "I wanted to be a better person and open up doors of opportunity for myself. I wanted to provide for my family, buy a house and be able to live Rush 3 comfortably. During the four years he was in the Marines, Mr. Frye traveled thought the United States and around the world to Japan, Australia, Korea, Panama and the Philippines while traveling he was available to get numerous certification in computer programming.

Mr. Frye lives in Town Lakes in Montgomery, Alabama upper class area. He is one of a few black neighbors in the whole neighborhood. Sometimes he feels that he should have not moved out there, because he wants his daughter to feel what it is like to not be handed everything in life. Mr. Frye loves his daughter to no end, but Nicole's mother on the other hand, he say he could just live without.

Mr. Frye weakness is he gives into his daughter too easily. As a child Mr. Frye he often found himself in trouble with his mother, his teachers and the law. After one day in his in later adolescent, he and a teacher got in to a bad disagreement about his behavior and he got suspended from school, his mother said enough is enough. That was the last straw for her, Mr. Frye elaborate on how he tried to explained, and tell what all was said but she did not want to hear it. She gave him a serve whipping and locked him in his bedroom with only his bed to sleep in. No T.V., phone and games, nothing that he could or would enjoy for some time playing with.

That is when he felt that the only person at the time he could ever trust betrayed him. That why he spoils Nicole, because he wants her to have a better life than he did. But many times Nicole will ask for something and her father knows she does not need it but he will give it to her anyway. Nicole knows that her father is a push over and personally that is why I Rush 4 think that she wants to live with him other that her mother. When it comes to giving Nicole anything she wants, she got to get it. Mr. Frye likes to make up excuses on why Nicole needs unnecessary items.

Once when going to the store, Nicole wanted a very large pack of gum and I looked at him as if she did not need it and he replied "it keeps her quiet at home". Nicole has enough things at home to keep her quiet, but it is like he just can not say no to her. Nicole knows when she is with me; it is a limit on what she can get. And if and when she gets an attitude she knows I will put her back in her place quick and fast.

Mr. Frye knows how I am about how he spoils Nicole. It hurts me to see Mr. Frye's face when he can not give his daughter whatever she wants. Nicole on the hand she does not care because when she gets whatever she wanted ten minutes later it is thrown in the back of a closet or in the trash. Nicole knows that I am not trying to take her father away from her or move between them Nevertheless, Nicole starts to act childish, when another woman other than her mother in the house, as if they are a threat. I feel that is was because of the relationships that her father has with women. That is another weakness that her father Mr. Frye has.

Mr. Frye does not let woman get very close to him personally. He will talk to women for a while but when things start to get too serous he begins to bag away form them. He said sense the relationship with his mother was bad, he felt safe not getting into a relationship with women. "If you do not let them (woman) Rush 5 in they can never hurt you", Mr. Frye said as he looked in my eyes as if he saw the same characteristic in me.

Mr. Frye and I have been good friend for three years now. He and I met through a friend of mine when he and Mr. Frye were in Australia. We hit it off right away, Mr. Frye told me he had a daughter and spoke very highly of her. Mr. Frye also told me that he and woman do not get along very well and I had ensured him that I was not the average woman.

After meeting Mr. Frye we agreed to be just friends. Mr. Frye did very well in our first interview. At first he was acting silly and then he started being serious. I feel that we should get him to learn to say no to Nicole. He needs to realize how much she loves you no matter what. The more he can say no to her, it will help her understand that everything will not be given to her.

Mr. Frye also needs to learn to let more people in his life, especially women. If you don't ever let anyone in you won't ever learn how to really love another and yourself. I also really feel that he needs to at least try to make the relationship between him and his mother a little better. Mr. Frye needs to go visit her more and make more phone calls to her. I know that she would like to see her grand -daughter a little more. I interviewed my client Monday November 08, 2004, at his home here in Montgomery, Alabama.

I started out by read the confidentially form and made sure that he understood that anything he said would just be between he, my teacher (Mrs. Strong) and I. I used the preliminary phase by turning in to self Rush 6 and to the client. I was also trying to form a relationship between the client and his mother. I made Mr. Frye elaborate more on all of his answers. I showed the client that I was listening and I understood all of his answers. At the end of the interview, I mentioned to the client that we would have another meeting the following week and discuss our goals.

During the interview, I hoped to get the client to be more willing to open to people. I want him to feel that not everyone wants to hurt him. By letting people in your heart, you can not only help yourself in the long run but when you come into certain situation, you can really empathize with that person feeling. At first, I was nervous about the interview because I have never done one before and I did not want to mess up. I did not think I was asking the right question, giving the correct responses; I was a nervous wreck. I really feel that I should have asked more questions about his mother and the past relationships with women.

In the beginning, I felt that I should have asked more question about childhood, but since getting this experience I feel that if I had to do it again I can do it a little more professional. With this being my first interview I think I handled it very professional. I told Mr. Frye who I was and what agency I was with, and why I was there. I tried to use various skills that I leaned in class in the interview. I observed that when talking about his mother he tries to start get on other subject. After trying to ask the certain question in a different way, Mr. Frye was still reluctant to answering the question.

That is one thing that I feel that I did not do enough of, is to keep on Rush 7 and stay on track of the answering of certain questions. He had seemed to be in a fun mood the day we did the interview. Earlier that week he and his mother got into a disagreement about something. He did not say what it was at the time but now I know it was because Mrs. Johnson-Frye was upset because she has not seen her grand-daughter in almost a year. I was pleased to that he agreed to do the interview, after having a bad week earlier. When I told him that I would be video taping him he was ecstatic.

He was in a playful mood. I listened to everything my client had to say and wanted to say. I also took notes on some things that we should have talked about in our next meeting. I showed good body language to my client. He knew I was paying attention to him because I was nodding my head and restating some of his comments to him answer. Some of the things I need to work on would be is to just let him continue talking and not cut him off so much.

I feel that because Mr. Frye and I are very good friends and that is why I feel that cut him off so much, but I think I can and will do much better next time.