Autobiography Essay

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From a young age I knew I was different, I wasn’t like everyone else that lived near me. Being born and raised in a small predominately Italian influence town that was all I knew till my pre-teens. My nationality was something that has shaped me into who I am and what I believe in to this day. Once said by Irena Sendler: “People can be only divided into good or bad; their race, religion, nationality don 't matter.” In my eyes she couldn’t have said this any better because we need to not let race define who we are but only to mold us into the person we should be. My great great grandparents on my mother’s side were immigrants from Naples, Italy that settled in wonderful Westerly, Rhode Island where I resided the first 12 years of my life. From the language spoke to the food all I knew was my Italian heritage. Being raised by a single mother, she told me my dad was Egyptian but it wasn’t something I wasn’t exposed to daily so I had no …show more content…

This was something that didn’t sit too well with me because that means moving extremely far from my family as well as the friends I grew up with. I was in the 8th grade where I began my journey here and needless to say I was not happy with the schools as well as my peers in those schools. I went through four different middle schools until I found the one I wanted to be at because it was a culture shock for me and going to school with so many different races was a strange concept. Thinking about it now I laugh due to the fact I actually judged schools based on nationalities and not by education levels. It wasn’t till about sixteen that I released it didn’t matter who I went to school with, I was different and so was everyone else that’s what made it interesting. We all had different backgrounds and it made me expand my horizon from what I was to what everyone else was as

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