My life would be nothing like it is today if my parents did not come to America in order for me to have a better life and to actually allow me to become as successful as I want to be. The most valuable lesson my parents have taught me is to always be thankful and to never take anything for granted. My parents struggled throughout their life and have and continue to work extremely hard to help me in any way that they can. They want me to have a better life then what they went through. They…
nervous, I stick my hands under my armpits and then I smell them like this!" (Superstar). The only good thing that that comes out of Mary being moved to this room, is that she ends up meeting her best friend Helen, who is also just as awkward as she is. Helen ends up convincing Mary to sign up for the talent show even though Mary's grandma strictly prohibits her participating in this event. Mary constantly is begging for grandma for her approval, but she consists that Mary's dream of being a…
through possible jobs based on what I was interested in that year. By the age of twelve I had gone from wanting to be a veterinarian to a teacher to the next Mia Hamm and finally stuck with wanting to be just like my mom. She was a successful lawyer and I knew in that very moment I wanted to be one too.…
only way to succeed is by living the American Dream. The American Dream is living a life of luxury, an illusion, that others tend to expect by being well educated. Children are being taught that by having to work physical labor like their parents, is unacceptable. For society, people who have a manual labor job are labeled as not being intelligent. Isaac Asimov’s, a science fiction writer, addresses his believes in the quality of intelligence by stating, “My intelligence, then, is not absolute…
If I could travel back in time, I want to go back to my senior year in high school and support the decision by telling myself that “what you have been through made me now”. Because of that decision, I faced the struggle and that struggle made my dream to be a professional accountant. When my mother diagnosed advanced breast cancer, I witnessed a miracle that mother recovering from the surgery and chemotherapy. Moreover, I saw the devotion from the doctors and nurses to mother to be heal from…
The Biography Of My Life. When I was a kid I used to live in chicago. I went to the elementary school called Henry Elementary School. It was a good school. My favorite teacher was Ms.Neecie because, she taught me how to write in cursive and the history of Harriet Tubman. She was a really cool and fun teacher. She made learning history really fun. She would have my classmates and I do a play on Harriet Tubman. When I was a teenager my parents decided to move to Round Lake. We moved to a…
have never felt more abashed about a conflict that almost shattered my dreams. Throughout life, I never truly understood the failure of success. There are numerous accounts of failure I have strived from. However, now that I have experienced true failure, there is only one account that affected me the most that I’ll never forget. Failure is difficult to grasp and accept, especially when it nearly jeopardized my livelihood. Uprooting my life: for school, based on nothing but hope and faith of…
mechanic. I started to day dream while they were giving our graduation speech. Thinking about working on cars and being able to learn how they work and how to properly fix them made me anxious and ready to get to college. As I walked down that stage and shook and posed with the district president, seeing my family and friends cheering brought a joy that no words could explain. I finally finished high school. As I was getting ready to move to Houston and start a new chapter of my life,…
culminated, my fifth grade teacher asked our class ,with a kind heart, the only question that can give educators a sense of achievement;"What do you want to be when you grow up?" Of course, the typical answers bounced back and forth:"a lawyer", "a doctor", "an athlete". I thought to myself, "These are all boring careers and won 't allow me to become rich and anyone in life". So when it came to me, I replied "a drug dealer". Jaws dropped but I was more perplexed than they were. Now of course, my…
from day to day media. The two articles (“The Myth of the Hero Teacher” by Allison Ricket and “Classroom Distinctions” by Tom Moore”) I read along with a section in a textbook, “To Teach: A Journey of a Teacher” by William Ayers, helped me find a distinction between the real facts behind the myths and made up ones like in the heroic teacher movie,…