College Admissions Essays - My Volunteer Work In High School I was involved in the D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program. I was the head coordinator for both my Junior and Senior year. Throughout the D.A.R.E. Program I had the opportunity to go into the elementary class rooms and teach them about the effects and consequences of using drugs and other substences. This program gave me the chance to see how different aged classrooms worked and how the children interacted with each other. It was a great experience and I would do it again any day. Also through out my high school career I took a job over the summer at a local summer camp. In the 3 years that I worked there I spent 2 of them working one-on-one with special needs children. I had so much fun those summers. I learned so much about how to work with different children. Those two summers I felt so rewarded while working with the children. I would be so happy when they accomplished something new or if they tried something new. I loved to see them succeed. After that summer I learned that if I do not end up having my own classroom I would really like to peruse a career working with special needs children. Even though it can be hard sometimes I think that the rewards over weigh the struggle by far.
Special education has not always been a passion of mine. I went back and forth during my college experience deciding if I wanted to be a certified strategist I teacher. I was convinced my last year of college to take summer courses and 18 credits last two semesters just to finish my special education endorsement. Now that I look back on those who encouraged me to go for it and squeezing in those required courses, I am thankful for those people and happy I did it.
The freshman year of high school came around and the influences of drugs and alcohol were a daily presence in and outside of the classroom. Peer pressure was the biggest problem of all as the friends I had at the time started drinking and lowering their grades. I life wake-up call and I began seeking out a portion of the school that wasn’t involved in these social illness. I started to become a member of the JROTC and Emerald brigade band to be focused. Sharing my experience was part of the remedial process, useful tool that bring the opportunity to help other students and start to become a leader.
Nine patriarchs found a town. Four women flee a life. Only one paradise is attained. Toni Morrison's novel Paradise revolves around the concept of "paradise," and those who believe they have it and those who actually do. Morrison uses a town and a former convent, each with its own religious center, to tell her tale about finding solace in an oppressive world. Whether fleeing inter- and intra-racial conflict or emotional hurt, the characters travel a path of self-isolation and eventual redemption. In her novel Paradise, Toni Morrison uses the town of Ruby and four broken women to demonstrate how "paradise" can not be achieved through isolation, but rather only through understanding and acceptance.
Paradise deals with the lives of dejected women and the support group the women form for each other. Morrison draws attention to this key issue by removing the element of race from the novel, a heavy contrast to her earlier works, by not allowing the reader to know the races of the women. Thus the relationships present throughout the work can be seen strictly through the contrast between the abusive and damaging relationships found outside of the convent to the supportive and loving ones in the convent. This removal of race also allows us to see the bigger picture, which is not dictated by race (Smith). By examining the relationships in the novel, we see two distinct arenas dealing with identity and the women, which is the world outside of the convent, and the convent. Before reaching the convent, identity for the women is a broken notion in which the men they associate with dictate.
Although I had a variety of options to choose from as my career, I was very passionate to take the path of an Early Childhood Educator. This was to not only inspire the young children that are going to be looking up to me, but to be an educator that will help guide the children to become the best they can be in the present and future. I believe with all the support I can provide my future students, they can achieve the basic knowledge required to move on towards attaining higher academic accomplishments.
I work with children and families now on a daily basis and enjoy it. I actually could never picture myself doing anything else at this point. For the last thirteen years I have been helping others and that makes me feel good. I know they were helped, they are in a better situation, and I am blessed to be in the situation to do that. I want to pursue professional social work education because there is more people out there in need and I feel a calling in that field. When you love something you do then it is never called a job in my
The wife of bath begins this section by giving an account of her first three marriages. She treats her first three marriages as one marriage; talking about how she used the same techniques to control her husbands and does not refer to individual people but a combination of all her first three husbands which she refers to as her husband.
I wanted to start making a difference in kids as soon as I had the chance. I started to take Early Childhood Education classes at my school. This course was rigorous and so important, due to the fact we ran a preschool of 20 four and five-year old’s. Their education was in our hands; we were that building block for their first insight on school. I feel in love with writing lesson plans and being hand in hand with other teachers and the students became a part of my life that I never wanted to go away. I interned at an elementary school just to get more involved and learn more about collaborating. I started taking a Teaching as a Profession class, so I could not only know today’s education but become familiar with the history of education, how to accommodate your classroom for students with special needs, and the issues in todays education. I completed this class and took the state mandated test to complete the pathway and get a cord at graduation. I came in on Sundays to work and study with my teacher for this test and it all paid off when I passed the test with the highest score out of the nine people who took the test. While this was all happening I was inducted into National Beta Club for my grades and averages in my classes, which mostly included advanced courses. I then completed the Early
A lot of people ask what inspired me to become a special education teacher, and why I am continuing to pursue a career in a field where many unfortunately decide to leave. I wish my answer were as simple as saying “I love children and I want to make a difference.” Although there is obvious truth to that statement, what I love more is celebrating the achievements, both big and small, of a child who faces adversity every single day. Nothing brings me more joy than watching students succeed beyond the expectat...
I have had several wonderful opportunities to work with children. At my school I enjoyed helping teach a young children's music class by playing songs for them, telling them about the violin, and helping them develop a love of beautiful music. I would enjoy continuing this as an adult. Last year I helped a kindergarten teacher in an underprivileged school, stapling papers and supervising children. I most enjoyed helping small groups learn the alphabet, supervising two children at a time as they tried to match the capital and lowercase letters and identify each letter.
I started working for the school district and really enjoyed working with the kids, but they were only mild special education, kids who had reading problems or language barriers, some with more severe problems. I knew that I wanted something more challenging.
One of the greatest things about continuing to get a degree in education is the feeling that I will be able to help little kids learn and strive in live. As a paraprofessional, I love this feeling. There is nothing in life like the smile on a kids face when they have figured how to do something that they have worked hard to understand. I am looking forward to getting a degree in education so I can experience this great
My life has not always been easy, but it was through my diagnosis that I found my desire to help others. People come from many different types of struggles and I plan on using my education to help those who struggle in their daily activities. I found my life's calling not only through my experiences volunteering as a personal care aide and as a mentor for foster children each summer, but also through my disability. Though I struggle daily with A.D.D. the thought of reaching my goals and helping others through occupational therapy makes it worth it.
Since I was 12, I knew I wanted to work with children. I thought about being a pediatrician or social worker; but upon self-reflection, I knew I did not fit those molds. After years of teaching in schools and camps, I realized teaching was the field for me.
The Wife of Bath has a very negative view of women because she shows how women misuse their power given to them. She depicts women as being manipulative and always placing the blame on others. The Wife of Bath “wrecked [her husbands’] peace, innocent as they were, without remorse! For [she] could bite and whinney like a horse and launch complaints when things were all [her] fault”(268-269). She shows how women are not strong enough to accept their own faults; therefore, they take advantage of their youth given by God, and attack old, innocent men. Moreover, in her tale, the Wife of Bath shows how the old woman takes advantage of her power to make the knight