Personal Essay

fallen, I have been racially discriminated, and stereo-typed. After many bumps and hurdles, I have never lost hope nor lost drive to become a better person in my personal and professional life. A personal development plan is an essential tool for the improvement of quality life towards personal relations with your family and coworkers. A personal action plan also helps me in the development of basic strategies that evaluates positive/negative life scenarios, and it is resourceful tool for time…

When I first met Zack, I didn’t think much of him at the time, until one day he initiated a conversation. From the conversation, the way he carried himself and his personality outshines from what I thought based on his appearance. There were hobbies that I could tell were his favorite, based on how he smiled whenever he was talking about them. He told me of his goals and just how he was talking about his goals made me believe that nothing will stop him from achieving his goals. However, Zack…

into another person, which we shall call Person B. In the essay I shall argue that Jack is Person B by showing that a person is identified by their consciousness. Arguments have been provided to justify each person, Person A and Person B, as being Jack. Firstly, to evaluate these arguments, crucial terms need to be clarified. I will frequently use the term personal identity, a theory pioneered by philosopher John Locke in his book An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, to mean identity or the…

I. Why is being a Lightworker so important to you and how can you change the world with your gifts? When I think of the term Lightworker, I think of a healer. A person that helps to bring joy and sustenance to someone’s life that will lead to empower that person. Doreen Virtue defines this term as ““global missions,” which involve helping people, animals, the environment, or a cause other than themselves”. I was oblivious to this fact two years ago. I cannot simply state one type of…

As human beings dealing with everyday life can be stressful. Most people deal with their jobs, spouses, or siblings, and a plethora of other things that occur in this rollercoaster called life. A lot of stress for me comes from working with children and parents, as well as being a student full-time. I have found ways to battle my stress, though with work and being a student. Furthermore, working with children is a tough task. I always had a passion for working with children since I was a young…

Imagine yourself going to college, or moving out of your parent’s house without knowing anything about how to manage your money, make a budget, save money. It can be depressing. Most people say they learn personal finance by talking to their parents, who were also never formally educated about personal finance. High schools, however, are tremendously into making students college-ready, they failed to teach basic life skills, including financial literacy. So I think River Ridge High School…

Discovering what makes an individual can be difficult since there are many factors that play a major role on how the individual is shaped as they grow up and what they are born with. A majority of the people think identity is made up as the individual grows and how life changes them; meanwhile, others say it comes from birth and what we already know by looking at our parents. In reality, identity can be defined as who someone is, the name of a person, the qualities, beliefs, etc, that makes a…

I built my server, I decided I wanted to build my own personal computer. During a free day in Spanish II, we had a substitute, I started browsing online computer hardware stores and forums. I created not one, two, or three, but nine different configurations over the next 5 months before I had determined which one I wanted the most and was the best for my money. Using this process, I have built a total of five systems: a server and a personal computer for myself, a friend, my brother, and another…

Fighting Myself Can you imagine living everyday feeling like you don’t belong? Like you don’t have a place in this world. Like everyone is against you. It can feel as if your trapped in your own mind. It’s the feeling of being alone and feeling sad and mixed with so many other emotions, it’s overwhelming and it’s very common for women, most of us hide it and pretend to be the opposite of what we feel so we can get through our tasks. Some don’t even want to get out of bed and don’t know how to…

social structure. Freedom cannot be achieved alone as freedom is an attribute of society and external circumstances shape the desire for freedom; although some may argue that all people have agendas of their own, their journeys can be an insight for personal freedom. Freedom is a trait of society and the surroundings, as a desire for individual freedom necessitates societal support and the environmental conditions. Even strong proponents…