As a young child, I have always known that I’m supposed to be very dedicated to school. My parents came to the United States 17 years ago to have better opportunities for themselves and me. They came to a country they didn’t know anything about with only a few dollars in their pocket. I can't imagine how difficult it must've been for my parents to be able to learn how to adapt to a new country. During those years of living in the United States, they have not always been filled with happiness but also with anger, pain, and sadness. When I was younger I had always struggled with respiratory issues I was at the point of nearly dying when I was just five years old. My parents struggled financially, they couldn’t afford a vehicle, we had very few clothes and they were only able to communicate with one language. The jobs both my parents had before were as field workers but with hard work, my father was …show more content…
The field I'm thinking about studying is as a Dental Hygienist. I want to get an associate's degree in this study but after that, I want to take two more years of it to earn a bachelor's degree. The reason I'm in need of scholarship money is due to the fact that my parents have five kids including me and they earn around 30,000 a year. They aren't able to pay for the college that I want but they want to try and help me pay things such as books and supplies needed for my career. Some of the strengths I already have that can be helpful for my career would be that I've taken psychology/sociology 10th-grade year and this senior year I'm taking AICE Psychology. After I have completed my career as a Dental Hygienist I feel like the best way to give back to my community is by educating the families and students from my small community about Dental Hygiene strategies that are needed for a good overall
In the speech, “America’s Schoolchildren”, President Barack Obama uses Ethos, Pathos, and Logos in an effective manner to support his claim that every student should have an active role in the responsibility of their education. First and foremost, President Obama begins his speech with an anecdote from his life, “I get it. I know what it’s like. My father left my family when I was two years old, and I was raised by a single mom who had to work and who struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn’t always able to give us the things that other kids had” (Obama 72). In his statement, he give us a personal story from when he lived in Indonesia, that he too went through hardships of having his father leave his family when he was two, not always
One other way that I believe I could give back to my community would be through the local nursing home. Comfort and not being forgotten are both important to our senior citizens. Checking with the nursing staff on the condition of the residents' dentures would be an opportunity to serve. The nursing staff could recommend those residents that might have minor problems with dentures.
As a child I did not know a lot about college. None of the adults in my life had been to College, my family did not talk about it, and it seemed like a distant land that I heard about only in movies and on Television. I was first introduced to college when my third grade class took a field trip to Iowa State University, clearly a much needed field trip considering my lack of exposure to higher education. I was immediately amazed by the grand architecture and massive buildings. I had never seen anything like a University campus before. The few things that I remember about the trip were that everything was big, the college students played with us, and we got to swim in the pool. While the larger purpose of the field trip may have been lost to my childhood excitement of getting to swim in a big pool, the field trip did mark the beginning of my knowledge of higher education and from then on I always viewed it as something that I would be a part of eventually, even if it did seem like a very distant future at age eight. As I grew older I developed other reasons for wanting to attend colle...
A global citizen is that who is willing to use its voice and knowledge to make a change. No one would ever be able to make a change in just one day, it is something that takes time and devotion. I’m really interested in diversity and I’m seeking to what is my role is as a world citizen. The fact that I’m searching for an international education is the proof of my desire to establish myself as a global citizen and my interest in the world issues.
I have been volunteering at the Cardiac Care Unit of the Cy-Fair Medical Center in Houston. In addition to that, I never miss an AIDS Walk or fail to participate in a Give Kids a Smile event. My volunteer work so far stands at the center of my world. Moreover, by regularly participating in conferences and seminars in a variety of dental areas, I have consistently labored to stay up-to-date with the newest developments in dental technology. Additionally, I keep myself fit and functioning by regularly playing tennis and practicing yoga. Listening to spiritual music, reading books and watching culinary shows is always my favorite free-time
College Education is of the utmost importance to me especially when competing with people in my age group. A college education is also one of the most costly obligations that one must do to gain success. In my academic career, I have gain many experiences that I may not have been able to experience had I not attended a post-secondary education. A college education has never been an option for me it was always instilled in my brain as an adolescent as a top priority. In my youth I was certain of my goals and aspirations, the person that I wanted to become and where I see myself in the future. Some people in my same age group with similar upbringing as mine had ne focus. Their prerogative was to acquire money in any way that they knew how. Their options including, dealing drugs or for women prostitution and or becoming a hair stylist. I was adamant that in my profession a college education was not only necessary as a requirement to obtain a law license but also there were no exit strategies. To elucidate I am speaking of secondary options such as a technical school. My peers often believed that my choice would change and I was just hoping that their state of minds too would alter. My dreams of becoming a lawyer was slowly approaching as I reached the age of 18. High school teachers of mine often attempted to sway me into a different direction since I was not as outspoken as my fellow classmates. However, I would inform them just as I have revealed to others that my dream is everlasting and my path is clear. I will become a lawyer and today examining the course of my short academic years—spending only 17 years in school beginning with Head Start- I would be the attorney I have always wanted to be. Life has not always been daisies wi...
Seven years ago, I moved to United States. Like anyone who had welcomed changes in their life, I had a hard time dealing with my new situation. It’s very difficult to fit in. In my homeland, life is harsh with the great gap of poor and rich, but my family got everything. Our lives were plentiful. We were not prepared to face the changes and challenges in the United States. My mother didn’t know how to get a job or how my two older sisters would get into college. It was not the same life we had in the Philippines. We left our homeland while my two older sisters were college students. My parents didn’t know how to help them to pursue their future here so my parents decided to let my sisters return home to finish their education. As they graduated with degrees and awards, the truth is, I sincerely respect and admire my sisters dearly, but I don’t want to end up like my sisters who finished college with so numerous awards and can’t get the job she wants because her degree is from another country.
As a teen, as a student, and as an American citizen, I can say with honesty that America’s gift to my generation is a purpose and an opportunity to do great things. With the protection from Veterans, the fairness among gender and races, generous education systems and freedoms given as every citizen's rights, I can have extensive opportunities to do great things in this country. Education in our country has blossomed into a hopeful grounding place for students’ foundation to learn, grow, and explore possibilities for our future. I am able to focus on an education without worrying about where my next meal is coming from, or whether or not I will have running water, or electricity or anything we may take for granted
For this current academic school year, I received a nursing legacy scholarship, as well as a scholarship from the Marine Corp Scholarship Foundation. However, I did not receive enough to help pay for anything other than tuition. Books and room and board are being paid out of pocket, and because this school year in the nursing program is so strenuous, it is hard for me to work enough hours to pay for such things and then have the funds for other necessities such as food. Both of my parents are also going to school full time, and I have two younger siblings at home. My parents help me as much as they can, but given the circumstances I am currently trying to juggle around school, work, extracurricular activities, and other essential
When I was born, my family had just migrated to California from Mexico. In a new country, my father worked in landscaping earning less than $4 dollars an hour, while my mother relied on public transportation to take her newborn child to and from doctor visits. In the land of opportunity, my family struggled to put a roof over our heads. But never discouraged, my parents sought to achieve their goals and worked tirelessly to raise my younger brother and I. From a young age, I was taught the importance of education; this became a major catalyst in my life. My desire to excel academically was not for self-gain, but my way of contributing to my family’s goals and aspirations.
This book relates to my college experience in the way that my parents are giving up everything for me to succeed. My parents studied and made their entire life in another country, which is now known as a communist country, which is Venezuela. The year I was born a dictator was chosen as the president of this country. Since then my dad knew we had to move to another country. When I turned ten my mom got pregnant with a boy. Since my parents knew we had to move out of the country they decided to have him in the United States of America. My brother was born in the united states of America and
The United States is the land of opportunity, and there are many good schools here, where are also a powerful force for students entering an amazing career. People like to live and set up plans for their life in America, and so do I. My dream is gone to school and is graduated with a mathematical professor’s degree. Although I am a full-time mom of two sons, it is never too late to do something I really want. Thus, my sons and seventy-four credit hours of college are all my treasure. I am proud of that for studying hard, evolving things, and resolving problems with any conditions to survive in school and life, and I have changed from that. Every different stage has every different circumstance for dealing with, and obstacles or conflicts in life cannot stop me reaching my goal. My exceptional hardships and opportunities have just shaped my abilities better.
To better adjust to the new way of life in America, I focused my efforts on learning English. My mom and I would walk two miles to the local library for English classes every afternoon; I would sit at the table with a stack of kindergarten level books trying to form words in English and my mom doing the same. By tirelessly improving my English, I began to advance in my studies and intuitively, by trying to accomplish my own goals, I began to fulfill my parents’ dreams. My dedication and resilience resulted in my acceptance into the advance academic
I live in the United States, but it is not my home. My home is Bangladesh, where I was born and raised. My family moved to the United States in August of 2009. I was eleven years at that time. I was terrified to live a completely different life in America. The new food, new school, new language; it was very daunting at first but It was not as hard as I thought it to be. This essay is not about my experience when I first moved to United States; it’s more about the time when I went back to my home.
When I was younger, my parents would always tell me to do good in school and I never understood what that really meant. As I was becoming older I realized that education is very important in my life because most people in my family didn’t go to college and they had to work whole day from nine A.M. to nine P.M. and I didn’t want that to happen to me. My parents had sacrifice their lives to move to America so that I could get an education because in Vietnam education wasn’t free and that would mean the people who had money would have education there.