Roger & Me

I grew up in a minority community where shootings, prostitution, drug trafficking, and deaths are not something new. Every day I would pray to God for my family and me to come back home safely. Schools in my neighborhood do not offer a good education. In my middle school, there were always fights. The majority of the teachers did not care for the students’ learning. I was lucky to have some teachers that care about my success as a student. Since I was planning to pursue a higher education, I…

My Goals This semester is a new beginning for me. I 'm excited to continue this year working hard for good grades and experiencing new opportunities that make me a better person. My grades in school are my highest priority. I’m always worried about my grades going down or not being prepared for an exam. However, I will not back down this semester. I plan to do the best I can to learn a good impression for the rest of the college years. This year is the start of many more and I don’t want bad…

Christoffer, as he inspires me to keep moving forward. I look up to him is because he 's smart, strong, and exceedingly determined. Knowledge is the best thing that one could be blessed with. The opportunity to go further starts getting harder as one learns harder concepts in life. College was always a goal that my family pushed me towards. They wanted to see me happy with what I do for the rest of my life. My boyfriend, Christoffer, was a star student in college; he motivated me to finish high…

time for putting a plan for the future. and it is the time for build my self confidence. For me I wasn’t care about anything but playing soccer. I was interesting with sports other than studying. My thoughts were not right. I wasn’t care about my grads in the school. My dad loves me, and he was worried about my future. Also I was lazy and I wasn’t like studying. My grads were low, so my dad prevented me from participating in sporting club at this year. When I was in high school I was care…

same or a similar instrument as me. Although the Freshman Service Day and the LIFE Walk were, to some extent required, I enjoyed it and thought it was a good opportunity to bond with the other people in my grade and help others in the community. I chose to donate to the Hawaiian Food Bank because I really enjoy donating to those who are less fortunate and knowing that I was able to help them in some…

ideas from their youth, help construct the advancement of a society. In Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me Ultima, this notion held absolute truth, through children who questioned the world not only on a physical level, but spiritually, society was able to find new innovations. Similarly, this idea is represented through young Antonio, who displayed a philosophical outlook on life. In the coming-of-age novel, Bless Me Ultima Antonio is far more wise than any other boy his age, or his century. Antonio’s…

In Bless Me Ultima, the most noticeable opposites that are brought together are the three religions Tony faces conflict between: Catholicism, Paganism, and Atheism. For all of his childhood, Tony was raised on Catholicism and solely that; his beliefs lied with…

regularly; therefore he faces an immense amount of difficulty to learn. Ms.Punj, the math teacher, has assigned me to help Jackson succeed and learn the material. After Ms.Punj has taught the lesson, it is my duty to take Jackson to a different room and reiterate…

could by accepting the fact that he probably wouldn’t live long enough to even see me graduate high school. I was right. I get to the fridge,…

Maybe we could have a Nothing Day, he suggested. I don’t think you are, he said. They told me that those days are canceled… He thought again. You know what? I’m going to come up with our own day. My daughter and I used to have these days when we had nothing to do, and they are not called Nothing Days. Let’s call them… Let’s call them lazy…