Garcia.Session 1.Journal As a thirty-three year old‚ I truly believed that I was too old for college. After high school‚ I was in a home situation that required I enter the work field right away. I made excuses for not attending college‚ often blaming it on money or time. The more years that passed‚ the more I embraced those excuses. I told myself‚ ?It had been too long since I was in school‚ I don?t remember any of it?‚ ?there?s no way I could do it?‚ ?I?d have to start from the very bottom‚ and it will
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Starting at eight years old‚ I always envisioned attending college and obtaining a degree that would allow me to accomplish what I want in life. Over time‚ I have faced many obstacles such as dyslexia‚ emotional trauma‚ and family challenges. All through these challenges‚ I never let anything deter me from my course of attending college. Despite being able to overcome obstacles‚ I have come to realize there are things in life that I have little to no control over. Now that I have had time to experience
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going to Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI)‚ I believed that my life was going nowhere. In my mind‚ going to college just wasn’t plausible‚ due to me not having the financial funds or just outright having no faith in myself and my abilities. With everyone around me getting ahead in their life‚ I just felt like every day my life was like a broken record‚ doing the same thing over and over again and never progressing. Above all‚ I needed to do something meaningful in my life to become financially
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Unity in diversity is a concept of "unity without uniformity and diversity without fragmentation" that shifts focus from unity based on a mere tolerance of physical‚ cultural‚ linguistic‚ social‚ religious‚ political‚ ideological and/or psychological differences towards a more complex unity based on an understanding that difference enriches human interactions. The concept of unity in diversity was used "in non-Western cultures such as indigenous peoples in North America and Taoist societies in 400-500
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I was placed on Academic Probation after my freshmen spring semester‚ I went to College with a new set of freedom I never had before and did not know how to adjust to my new freedom well. I come from a very large blended family and my parents worked very hard to provide for all of us‚ my mom had worked multiple jobs and was trying to continue her education so she would leave for work very early and would come home very late. That left the cooking‚ cleaning and tending to my younger brother to me
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day that I was dreading all week. It was the day my brother was leaving for college. Since the day i was born me and my older brother have been really close. We liked the same things‚ hung out with the same people‚ and played on the same sports teams. We did everything together. As time went on nothing really changed even through high school we were still really close. The day he was leaving for college I was at my friends house and didn’t want to go home until the minute he was leaving. I didn’t want
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PROPOSAL TO BRING MCDONALD’S TO PALM BEACH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Prepared for Ms. Alexandra Ramirez‚ Director Director of Palm Beach International Airport Palm Beach International Airport 2111 McDonald’s Dr. Oak Brook‚ IL 60523 1-800-244-6227 November 14‚ 2012 Ms. Alexandra Ramirez 4300 Southern Blvd.‚ Suite 506 West Palm Beach‚ FL 33460 RE: Proposal to Bring McDonald’s to Palm Beach International Airport
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“What College Can Mean to the Other America” by Mike Rose: Currently‚ there are very few programs and policies that help the poor with postsecondary education; American capitalism is the underlying cause of the lack of support. Mike Rose spent a year and a half going to community colleges to see those hardships in effect. He believes the disadvantaged should have the same equal opportunities in secondary education. However‚ such opportunities are being slashed due to government budget cuts. If these
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Tonight I can write the saddest lines Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write‚ for example‚’The night is shattered and the blue stars shiver in the distance.’ The night wind revolves in the sky and sings. Tonight I can write the saddest lines. I loved her‚ and sometimes she loved me too. Through nights like this one I held her in my arms I kissed her again and again under the endless sky. She loved me sometimes‚ and I loved her too. How could one not have loved her great
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I am ready for college. This is because readiness is not about age or intelligence. Readiness is about desire and maturity. Maturity can come in all forms‚ whether it’s turning in your schoolwork in time‚ feeding animals‚ or even thinking about long term consequences of a situation or decision. You can be 85 or haver an IQ of 400 but if you don’t desire something enough you will fail; or if your not mature enough you could potentially not know how to work for your goals or work for success
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