I can remember it like it was yesterday, sitting in my house waiting for my last in-car to pull up so that I can finally finish driving classes and move on to achieving getting my license. On November 18, 2015 I achieved this long term goal. I woke up that morning excited and ready to take on this next chapter of my life. I had my mom take me out a school an hour early just so I could practice maneuverability one last time. It was not an easy battle, I spent hours driving and trying to perfect maneuverability. I struggled for months but I was not planning on giving up. I worked and worked and worked until one day it all slowly started to come to me. I perfected my to the left maneuverability and now it was time to work on the right. I kept knocking over one back cone or i couldn't straighten my wheel out quick enough and now am way to far over about to run over a different …show more content…
Determined to get a perfect score i continued to practice, then I got it. I have perfected both right and left maneuverability, i have never been prouder of myself. The day of the test i was nervous as ever, even though i knew i was able to do both ways of maneuverability it still worried me that something would go wrong. I took a deep breath and went for it, it was not the forward i ws worried about it was reverse. I went slow and made it forward, reversing i went even slower and was cautious to everything around me. The moment i passed that part of my driving test felt like weight lifted from my shoulders. Now it was time to do the driving portion of the test. I was not as nervous over this part, I trusted my driving skills. I proceeded to the streets where I had to drive for the test and flew threw it with flying colors. When I got back to the bmv my instructor told me I passed with 100% no points missed! My parents were so proud of me and since that day has treated me more like an
There was always times where I just wanted to throw in the towel and call it quits. However, I just knew that my persistence would eventually kick in! Also, I had to accept the fact I would not do so well at first. When I first drove a car, my nerves throughout my body were completely shocked through the roof. It was because I did not know how to do it since I had no previous driving experience. For some people, they like to drive four-wheelers or dirt bikes before driving a car, so they have some experience, but I am not that type of person at all and never will be. So, me and my dad went down to Buckeye Career Center one afternoon for me to practice driving for the very first time in my life. At first, he would go through the course to show me where I would go. The course included turning both left and right,parking into a space, reversing, and many more things. My dad would always say the same things to me: “Turn the wheel, Coast, Brake Earlier.” These are just some of things he stressed to me. Turning the wheel was a problem I had early on because I would always do the wrong technique. I would always turn for part of the way but not all the way. The next thing he would say to me would be is just coast. To be honest, I did not know that a car could do such a thing. Coasting to me seems like taking a little break from driving. Also, I did not know how far you could go when coasting a car. A big thing I learned from my
Throughout this semester I have written several essays and journals using techniques both important and unfamiliar to me. This class helped me use these techniques and steps that are involved in creating and formalizing an essay. The writing process of an essay includes information gathering, creating ideas, and writing it on paper to create a cohesive and organized paper. In complete certainty I can say I lack many of the skills necessary to create such a paper, but during this course I have learned some writing methods which I believe have improved my essays. The essays and journals in this portfolio reveal both my strengths and weaknesses in my writing and how I have both continued to make the same errors and improved in other areas.
As I entered high school, I considered myself a perfectionist and had thought so ever since I could remember. I had never failed a test before, nor even come close. During my first year, my high-strung tendencies peaked and I was known for having a high-achieving personality. When it came time to drive, I put the same energy and personality into mastering driving as I did with everything else. I only missed two questions on
Initial Reflective Essay When I first thought of what I wanted to do with my life after college, the first thing I thought of was helping people. The next step in deciding what I wanted to do with my life was to examine how I could accomplish this goal. I started pondering and I was thinking about how much I love to take care of my body. Health care and personal hygiene has always been an important factor in my life. So I decided to major in Health Sciences.
Michael was born prematurely to teenage parents and by eight had three siblings, divorced parents and his mother had abandoned the family. Mary was born to an overweight mother who emotionally and physically abused her, and a father with just four years formal education. Both children described in these examples from Werner (1999), despite sub-optimal childhoods, developed into successful children and adults with high self-esteem and other positive attributes. These do not highlight ‘invulnerable’ children who possess extraordinary qualities but children with an ordinary, common process arising from normal human adaptational systems (Masten, 2001). This process is known as resilience, the ability to adapt positively in the face of adversity (Richaud, 2013), which often emerges in childhood (Masten & Tellegen, 2012). The psychological study of resilience seeks to understand how some children develop well despite exposure to risk factors such as natural disasters or poverty, which increase the likelihood of negative outcomes like psychological disorders and low self-esteem (Slater & Bremner, 2011). Panter-Brick and Leckman (2013) comment early theories focused on ‘casualties’ and implied negative outcomes are inevitable following adversity. Modern research has shifted towards enhancing capability; focusing on those who emerge from adversity positively, the ‘survivors’, has led to identification, and understanding of, numerous determinants known as protective factors, which interact to reduce the likelihood of negative outcomes (Richaud, 2013). This essay will address how and why certain children develop positively in the face of adversity, discussing numerous protective factors and how they influence child outcomes.
I committed to a lot of preparation that would assure that I passed the exam on the first try. I studied for three weeks day and night and created flash cards to help me memorize rules. When the day came to take the written exam I isolated in a room with a piece of paper and a pencil, this did not help my level of anxiety that I had prior to arriving at the DMV. But by some miracle, I had passed the test. Receiving my driver’s permit made me one step closer to freedom, but it wasn’t over yet. Now that I had my permit, I had to learn how to actually drive a car. I had a little over four months to perfect my driving skills and learn the interior/exterior of a 2003 Toyota Corolla. Through the course of that time, I put in hundreds of dreadful hours in learning how to drive and locating the interior buttons. I practiced turning left and right correctly, as well as how to accelerate and stop smoothly on public roads. I was told by many that having a car wasn’t only about driving it, it was also about knowing how to keep it clean and knowing how to make sure every aspect of the car was running well. The hard part of learning how to drive was memorizing all the rules, such as the meaning of the lines and signs on the road. Every day spent practicing was a day closer to turning eighteen. On the day of my birthday I made my DMV appointment to take my “Behind-the-Wheel” test. The fear of failing my driving test made me far from excited when the day came. When I arrived at the DMV, I was told to park the car on a drive way next to the building. As I waited for my instructor to get in the car I was sweating bullets but despite the twenty nerve-wrecking minutes the drive lasted, I
Up until this year, before taking the class intermediate composition, I thought I was a terrible writer. I was right. Writing isn’t something that I enjoy doing, nor am I good at. Writing is difficult for me because I’m not very good at explaining things in a professional manner, that can be easily well written. While writing you are expected to make little to no mistakes, which is not something I’m great at. I am so much better at explaining things with verbal words rather than written words. I had not taken any extra writing classes before this year rather than the mandatory ones. Like I had stated before, I hate writing, with a passion. I dread writing anything, especially an essay for school, like this one. I’m
It was the summer going into 11th grade and I still had yet to get my permit. Meanwhile there were people in my grade who had their licenses. The reason for not having my permit was because my birthday was in the summer and sixteen is the age you are eligible for your license. I promised myself that on my birthday I would be at the DMV the minute it opened. My peers informed me passing their permit test was one of the easiest tests that had ever taken.
I wasn?t nervous to drive because my dad let me drive sometimes to my grandpa?s house If I took the back roads, so I had a little experience. When I took behind the wheel it was a little different than driving on the back roads, but I did ok. When I finished behind the wheel I signed up for a driving test. This was the part I had been waiting for, I wanted to pass so I could drive alone. The day of the test was very stressful, I had to use my grandma?s car because mine had tinted windows. I had never driven my grandma?s car, and I could not do corner backing with it.
When I was trying to get to my third class luckily I made the right turn. I made to the right classroom right on
Before I started this class I never knew what sociology was. I thought I knew, but I actually didn’t. I thought it was some boring study about the society that we live in, but I was proven wrong by this course. Through many different concepts taught I have been able to understand what sociology really is, and how to apply it to my daily life. There were many topics that we talked about in class that I can apply to my life be it school, work, home. Some of the many topics we talked about that really spoke to me were sexuality, race, and gender.
A skill that I am now aware that I learned through the Natural Human Learning Process is the skill of driving. I was motivated to start drive because, I didn’t want to ask my parents to take me anywhere, and I was also tired of being late to events. I began practicing by...
A precautious individual, I began to pedal at a slightly increased rate. Still I didn't feel as though I was in any real danger, until the car flew past me, grazing my arm. An excessant shriek erupted from the car as it grinded to a halt at the coming stop sign. Then, to my greatest horror the white lights on the rear of the car ignited......the car was going in reverse.
My experience with learning to drive started in middle school where kids were too young to enroll in driving classes. My parents were a busy pair and I was an athlete who was determined to do my best for my team. This of course meant I was required to train with my team to build a chemistry with them. I drove myself to
That day I was so happy that I got to finally be the student of the month. When I came home from school and my mom told me good news. She told me that she was expecting!! But, after that my mom told me that we were going to move to California. Since my mom was expecting we had to move because there was not enough room in our apartment. My whole family lives in United Kingdom. So, my parents thought that it would be a good idea to buy a house in California.