Autobiography Essay

My mother, Wendi Briseno, is a 35 year-old woman. She was born in 1981 Ogden, Utah. My mom was only 19 years-old when I was born. She is the youngest of three girls. She and her family were a very poor family, and they grew up travelling around. Her home town is Ogden, Utah. They moved to Washington for awhile. They lived there a few years before moving back down to Utah. Ogden, Utah is right next to the Wasatch Mountains. She remembers and loves the four seasons; Utah had cold winters, and…

I’m the youngest from my 3 brothers and 3 sisters. My siblings were born in Mexico, unlike me I was born in Elmhurst, Queens and grew up in Junction Boulevard. When I turned 13 I had to move to Kearny, New Jersey. I do not have any memories growing up in Queens because my mother was over-protected. I do remember as to was why I had to leave Queens. My mother believed that the education system was not great. She was worry about teachers letting me off easily with my grades. It was a constant…

As a young black woman living in America, I am constantly exposed to harmful imagery and situations that attack both my race and womanhood, two very important parts of my identity. The struggles that we face as a community include but are not limited to, dehumanization and general disregard for our lives (Aiyana Stanley Jones, Sandra Bland, Rekia Boyd, and the countless other black wo(men) who were victims of police brutality), Mysogenoir (ie. oversexualization of our bodies, the 'welfare queens…

My name is Trung Jonathan Nguyen, I usually go by my middle name Jonathan just because it is easier to pronounce. I have four younger sisters and a little brother that is on his way, which makes me the oldest sibling. I am the first one in my family to go to college, and the first generation Asian American. My ethnicity is Vietnamese and I was born in Denver, CO on October 13, 1994. When I was a year old, my parents decided to move to Little Rock, AR to be closer to my relatives. From that point…

One day on a sunny, beautiful sunday. I woke up and was getting ready for my baseball game. At the time baseball was my favorite sport. I was one of the best players on my team. I left around ten o’clock that morning and stopped at Burger King and got some breakfast. When we got to the field my team and I went on the field and warmed up. We were ready to beat the other team. The first couple innings we were playing great. We were winning 2-0. At the top of the fourth i was playing short-stop. A…

Joe Milosch graduated from San Diego State University. His poetry has appeared in various magazines, including the California Quarterly. He has multiple nominations for the Pushcart and received the Hackney Award for Literature. His books are The Lost Pilgrimage Poems and Landscape of a Hummingbird. Before I retired, I worked for the last 40 years as a trail locator for the Cleveland National Forest and as a heavy equipment foreman in the private sector. My Poetry draws on those experiences; as…

As I hear the basketball hit the court, yelling and excitement in the crowd, and a coach telling us players what to do. It is now half time and we are up 47 to 29, we are getting complimented by our coach, but he is also telling us what we could work on. Our team went out to the court and coach is now telling our team what play we should run next. A half an hour passed and the game is over. We had won the game 56 to 38. We are now in the locker room listening to what the coach has to tell us. He…

1932 One late, stormy, afternoon I was in the in the drawing room watching the rain as it fell. Nothing ever happens to me, nothing exciting at least. Mother was downstairs in the sitting area, lying around like the drunk she was. Father had tried to get her to stop but it was no use. My mother says that at one point everyone was a drunk. In the 1920’s everyone drank alcohol and danced all night. When she was in her less drunken moods, she would sit me down and tell me all about her time in New…

Robinson Crusoe can be considered a spiritual autobiography, a story of a man’s spiritual pilgrimage, from reprobate through regret and faith to devout man of God. Indeed, it is possible to trace Robinson’s progress from a state of sin to a state of grace, “a rebellion-punishment-repentance-deliverance sequence described from the earliest moment of Christendom as characteristic of fallen men who are accorded God’s grace” (Hunter 252). The spiritual autobiography usually includes some elements…

without actually knowing why this actually happens, or a specific explanation of the process. This class has help to learn about myself and the world that is around me, and even provide me with beneficial tool that could help me in future. This autobiography is an explanation and analysis of different experience and memories of my life, and there explain by using sociological concepts and definitions. I analyze my experiences, when I was kid, and teenager, and when I started college and my first…