Illegal Book Report Book Hook: This little girl named Nora was left with her mom and grandma by her dad to go over the border from Mexico to America. Now she is 15 and lives with her mom and grandma. There dad stop sending money to help them pay for things. So with the money they have Nora and her mom decide to go over the border to go find her Dad. With the long exhausting trip over the border in the back of a fruit truck having trouble surviving in Texas is extremely difficult.…
So, it seems like you will get to know the story about how I became myself. I was born in Garden City, Ks in August 22, 1996. Garden City is a small town at first, but now the town has been expanding throughout the year and from what I think of it, it’s not really that bad that it is getting some new stores and restaurants. When I was the age of two my parents were starting to notice that there was something off about me.…
By going abroad and having absorbed different landscapes, cultures, and values, I am able to analyze more complex problems and find new ways to solve them. I moved to Guatemala, where I first had a notion of life preservation through the Mayans, the Native Indian tribes. I went to reservations to provide assistance to the people and see the Mayan pyramids and was given a lecture by a leader of the community, who taught me about Mayan history and traditions as well as natural preservation, geography, and architecture. Being in this country, I learn how to appreciate other cultures and by being surrounded by beautiful landscapes I learned more about being aware of the world around me.…
Africa, a continent made up of 54 different beautiful countries, which has very different characteristics and wealth. Cameroon, located in the center of Africa, is where I am from. I was born and raised there. I grew up with a lot of family around, but I am the only child of my parents. I am proud to say that I was raised by my family.…
She knows I would get harmed if I return to Cameroon because we do not own anything in the country I would be an easy target for those who are not fans of her. Further into the application, I say, I was very little when my mother brought my sisters and me to the United states. So if you reach into my mother's file when she filed for asylum you might get a deeper insight of why I cannot return to the country Cameroon.…
I was born and used to live in Baghdad, Iraq. But due to some curves in the road, I have been to Damascus, Aleppo, Jableh and other cities in Syria. Then I moved on to a small town called Sioux Falls in South Dakota. After a year there, my parents decided to re-evaluate their college degrees.…
I was born and brought up until the age of 20 in the Dominican Republic. I’m from a rural town known as Vietnann in the province of Santiago. It’s in the northern side of the island, approximately 150 kilometers from the Capital called Santo Domingo. My family is well regarded in my town, with a lot of influence and respect.…
We only lived in virginia for only a few months, when my dad was transferred to new jersey. My younger brother was born in new jersey. We lived there for 2 years , then my parents decided that my mother should go back to school. My mom, brother and I , moved back to alaska as my father stayed in new jersey.…
"She is so stupid!” a girl told her friend. They both laughed at me. Even though I could not speak any English at the time, I still understood what they said about me. Those words would haunt me for the rest of my life.…
I was born and raised in Thailand refugee camp. Like most Karen families, my parents fled from Burma to Thailand to escape ethnic cleansing and the civil war. They settled in Mea Khong Kha camp in 1998, and I was born in the following year 1999. In September 2002, Mea Khong Kha experienced a massive flash flood which destroyed the camp and forced the population to relocate to Mea La Oon.…
What are you grateful for? I’m grateful for my opportunities. Living in a small town in Iowa you might not expect there to be many things to do, but I’ve found invitations for adventure all around me. In eighth grade our school had a trip to our nation’s capital, my church group goes to conferences across states, our band was able to go to Chicago, and our soccer team went to Scotland. However the opportunity I’m most grateful for was when my parents were asked to go on a missions trip to Africa because that trip gave me a realization that changes the way I think.…
Where I call home? I end up talking for a long time about how I have moved around. I was born in Bountiful, Utah, and I lived there until I was nine. I moved to the small town of Hawthorne, Nevada. It wasn’t a great place to grow up, so my mom acquired a new job in Daegu, South Korea.…
Both my mother and father are originally from the Côte d’Ivoire. My mother was from the economic capital, Abidjan while my father was born in the town of Toumodi. My mother was a elementary school teacher and my father was a law school student before they both made the decision to move to the United States in search of a better life. They met each other while in the United States and in 2000, I was born. Growing up, I felt different from both my peers and my family.…
My Life: I was the first child in my family. My parents, Ed and Tammy Viviano, had been married a little over a year when I was brought into the world. I was born at Wilson Hospital in Binghamton, NY. When I was brought home from the hospital I was taken to the small town of Afton N.Y, which I have called home for the past 23 years. From the day I was born I was a part of different systems that already existed in the world.…
Cheickna Dembele URST 241-1003 My role in my local community I am originally from a different community. I am originally from Mali in West Africa I lived there until my age of sixteen and I when to Senegal for two years, and I am living here in United States for two years now where I am a student-athlete that plays basketball. I have had many different roles in all those places that I have lived.…