Life Event Interview Paper (150 points): For this assignment, you are asked to write a four page life-event paper as a result of interviewing a family member. This assignment will help you develop a life-stage perspective. It is based upon utilization of the oral history and qualitative research methods. This assignment will require you to identify a life event that will be your primary area of focus.

This life event can be a marriage, birth of a child, a divorce, graduation from school, loss of a loved one, surviving a traumatic event (e.g., natural disaster; car accident; violent crime), etc. Life events are circumstances (can be positive or negative) that occur in all of our lives that require us to adapt to them.