St. Louis Community College

Getting my scholarship for Santa Fe, graduating high school, moving out of the house, moving into an apartment, getting a job, and now starting freshman year of college. It is insane! It feels like it was just yesterday that I graduated from Klein Oak. Seeing all my family tear up as I walked across that stage, getting my diploma. Being part of the graduation of the Class of 2018. Seeing the acceptance letter for Santa Fe, crying with my mom in happiness. Saying goodbye to all my friends,…

“Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Pleaseeeee! C’mon, let’s go! We have to!” I shouted. It was January 20th, 2015. 8:00pm. (AKA my birthday). We were in the middle of having cake. And as in we, I mean my Mom, Danny, Zio, Nonna, and Nonno. As we were enjoying our strawberry cake, we were discussing if we should drive to Arizona or not. The only reason we were thinking about going is because, well, Danny’s mom had just passed away and my Nonna Angie (his mom), and Nonno Vito (his dad) had a house out in…

why it was difficult the cultural thing in America, learning the new language, learn how you can travel from place to place not knowing people around you was very difficult to handle. Especially where I grow up everyone knows each other we all one community. To come from that culture back ground and to see how in America is very hard for us. Eventually we kind of understand and get used to it. When I left my friends and my extended family back in Eritrea in 1997 and moved to the United States.…

have always dreamed of becoming a teacher and I will soon be one degree away from accomplishing one of the biggest goals I have ever had. Often times I put my high school and college years thus far together. I have spent three semesters at Meramec but high school to me felt almost harder than college. Taking up to eight college credit classes a year in high school made my course load more difficult than the…

St. Louis is located at the confluence of two of the world’s great rivers, the Mississippi and the Missouri rivers. St. Louis, Missouri, has a long history and diverse culture and is the largest metropolitan area in the United States. The place where the Gateway Arch is located, home to well-known sports teams like the St. Louis Cardinals and St. Louis Blues. St. Louis's long-lasting history begins when it was first founded in 1764 by French fur traders Pierre Laclede and Auguste Chouteau. Since…

implement desegregation efforts. This essay will situate the Brown decision in the context of St. Louis, Missouri. This is because many scholars have regarded…

deny entry for the refugees aboard the St. Louis. The purpose of Shapiro’s article is to explain in detail Roosevelt’s actions regarding the Holocaust, including his decision regarding Jewish refugees and the motivations behind those decisions. For the purpose of explaining Roosevelt’s motivations behind his decisions with Jewish refugees, Shapiro reveals that xenophobia amongst the American public was one of Roosevelt’s motivations in denying the St. Louis…

to escape all that I've known. I wanted to put St. Louis behind me. I wanted to move on from my current life. I wanted to make something of myself, and up until recently I thought the only way that I could accomplish that goal of making something of myself was to get away. For me, getting away meant proving a point. Getting away meant that I wouldn’t become trapped like so many of the other students that had came before me got trapped in our community. For outsiders, it's a weird phenomenon to…

students constantly led events both in and out of school. I was particularly impressed by the compañeros or the seniors in my freshman homeroom. From the first moment I met them, I decided to become as actively involved and well respected in our community as one of them. Now as my experience at DeSmet will soon come to an end, I believe that I have achieved that goal. From the beginning of my freshman year, I pushed my awkward and shy fourteen year old self to join the photography club,…

we lived with my grandmother and uncle. My mother moved us to Missouri when I age 7 and now live in suburbs of St. Louis County. I am a returning online student to Indiana Wesleyan University pursuing my RN to BSN. I am recently divorced, and I have 4 children. Three of whom are all married and are ministers, and my youngest who is still attending college. My children are all college graduates and are enjoying ministry leadership along with their wives. My youngest is still with me and I…