My Challenges while growing up Essay

Challenges of growing up The two poems “Identity” by Julio Noboa Polanco and “Hard On Gas” by Janet S. Wong both use symbols to explain how growing up is like. In “Identity” the author uses weed and flowers as different types of people. In “Hard On Gas” it uses a rough car drive to show that life is hard. In “Identity” the symbol the author uses are flowers. The flowers are people who get everything and that everyone loves them. While the weed, which the author wants to be, is looked down by everyone because they aren't as beautiful meaning that no one really cares about them. This is stated in stanza five lines 13-18 page 80, “I’d rather be unseen and if then shunned by everyone than to be a pleasant-smelling flower, growing in cluster in…

Many people think that rappers didn't face challenges to become rappers. Well honestly if you listen to their songs they faced lots of challenges growing up. Some main challenges that many rappers face are being homeless, lost of family member, or even growing up without parents. Challenges are presented with difficulties, problems, or even disabilities rappers face the most challenges growing up wanting to be a rapper. Nas, Lil Wayne, and even Kendrick Lamar, they all face different challenges…

In the story "The Black Pearl" the boy faced many challenges while trying to get the pearl. One challenge that he faced was that he could not stay down in the cave for that long because he would loose his breath " On my second dive I had no sooner reached the bottom than a shadow fell across the bed where I was working. It was the shadow of a gray shark, one of the friendly ones, but by the time he had drifted away my breath was gone." (15) and "So I failed to pry the shell loose before my lungs…

have been a minority . Wondering is all I can do , on how my world would be if I were in any way , not a minority . This assignment was perfect . I interviewed a middle-aged , American , women interventionist at my high school . As well as wondering what my world (1)be if I weren 't a minority , I also wonder what my future will be . I decided to interview Sarah Morehead because she is a majority and there is a possibility our futures (2)are different . She was born in Denver , Colorado and grew…

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Thanks to my parents migrating from Mexico to the U.S., I had the opportunity to be raised in South Texas or, as locals call it, “el valley”. Growing up in el valley is different than growing up anywhere else in America. The community is made up of primarily Hispanic Spanish-speakers who live in lower-class neighborhoods. At an early age most children from the area, including myself, are taught a skill that is valuable in today’s society, which is being bilingual. I recall going to school where…

My father was born in Haiti, and my mother was born in the Dominican Republic. They both faced poverty while growing up, and came to this country in search of a better life. My mother wasn’t able to complete her college education, since she had to drop out after an accident she had. In place of school, she ran a small business from home, and cared for her sick parents. My father on the other hand, wasn’t able to finish his schooling; he couldn’t keep up with the work he was being given. As he…

I am Daphne Williams, I'm originally from a small town near Pensacola, FL where growing up my parents pushed to work hard and do right by my elders. I never thought going to school to further my studies would be an option being that it wasn’t enforced in my household growing up. A few years after graduation of high school I joined the service after realizing that minimum wage wasn't exactly what I wanted to continue with. At the time of joining the service I realized I wanted to be capable of…

Life can be hard at times, especially if you are forced to give up everything you know and start a new one. In Joseph Bruchac’s novel, Code Talker, this is exactly the case. Kii Yazhi, a young Navajo boy, has to give up his life as a Navajo to go to boarding school and learn English. There, he must never speak in Navajo or else he will be punished by the teachers. Kii, now named Ned by the teachers, must overcome this challenge and many others if he wants to survive World War II. Upon arriving…

been a few educational challenges that I had to overcome. Considering the fact that I was not born in this country puts me at a disadvantage from someone who was born here. English was not my 1st language, Spanish was, growing up in the Dominican Republic most of my life until the age of seven. Learning English was a challenge that I overcame with hard work and repetitive studying of words that are now primitive to me. Another educational challenge was not having a parental supervision while I…