.:Abstract:.

This written testimony takes a psychoanalytic look into the life of Elise Houge. Much of the focus involves unearthing specific forces that influenced her interests, personality and behavior. Both her parent's distinct upbringings are looked at as they pertain to the parenting style used on Elise. Their personalities will also be analyzed and compared with Elise's today to determine the extent to which they truly influenced her. Major events in her life will be touched on with detailed explanations of how they made an impact on her. Being an only child for the first five years of life, living in an older neighborhood, her summers spent in rural Iowa and the District 150 school system are studied to see what importance they made on Elise in her early childhood stage. Looking on to her adolescent stage, moving away and going to a new school are again events that will show reason for her personality. This process will overall give psychological proof to the fact that Elise's early influences made a lasting effect on not only her personality but her view of life.

.:Brainstorms:.

Houge's vs Kings
Mennonite vs Lutheran
Mom and Dad both introverts, nonsocial
Games/Toys I had
First born
Parents delt with food
Problems in school system
Church youth
Body issues
Peoria to Germantown Hills
8th grade year
Depression?
cross country in high school
Teachers I loved

.:Aides:.

Prayer of Protection
Newspaper articles
Pictures
Song lyrics
Peoria Public Schools
and demographics
Metamora-Germantown schools
and demographics
Academic writing for the conclusions on personality