Growing up in Nicaragua‚ my family had never been one to have an abundance of money. At the age of 10‚ my mother had to wake up at the crack of dawn everyday to pick up the fallen fruits from trees‚ go into the city and try to sell them to tourists in hopes of making enough money so that she and her brothers could eat that day. She was forced to become the adult of the family when she should have been in school like the other kids her age. She was deprived of the one thing that meant everything
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When I sit back and look at how my life was growing up as a child and all the things I have been through in my entire life made me the strong woman that I am today. It all went downhill when my father passed away‚ he was my entire world. Since the death of my father‚ my mom became more and more depressed as the days went by and tend to distance herself‚ so it seemed like I had lost both of my parents that day. Growing up with no form a guidance I was a very rebellious kid‚ I did every and anything
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believe that the environment one grows up in and the people we surround ourselves with can shape who we will be for the rest of our lives. I grew up in a small neighborhood in the suburbs of a relatively big city. I enjoyed growing up in this setting because being near the city granted me many opportunities to do exciting activities – such as going to parks‚ nature trails and festivals – while living in a more small-scale neighborhood allowed me to grow up in a community with a strong sense of family
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Growing Up in Poverty. Growing up in poverty was the best was the best thing that ever happened to me. Living in a house full of 5 siblings‚ and having to share everything I have with all of them‚ sure did take a toll on me. Especially while being the youngest sibling‚ I have to do all the chores in the house‚ by myself. All of my siblings were always worried about themselves‚ so every time I had a fight in school‚ I had to deal with the person I’m fighting and their older brother‚ by myself. I
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Shouts and laughter echo throughout the kitchen as my grandparents recount stories of growing up in Mexico as young adults. Everyone’s eyes light up with animation as family members contribute to the conversation while eating homemade tamales and menudo. At each of my family holiday gatherings‚ the dinner goes beyond the consumption of a home cooked meal. These family gatherings are very important to me and have contributed to who I am today. My grandparents masterfully orchestrate the discussions
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Growing up in Rwanda one of the smallest and fast emerging nation in Africa has inspired me to take part and be the change that I want to see in my country. Rwanda is under African average of physician per persons‚ where one physician is accountable to more than ten thousand people and of course that could be a different case in villages where I grew up. I grew up in village near the local hospital‚ and I could see people going there but never come back alive and many of those were my friends or
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Growing up as a Latina and a girl I was constantly reminded of the differences between me and other people around me. Firstly‚ belonging to a minority group that is always seen as exotic or foreign‚ becomes tiring and overwhelming because you constantly feel like you don’t belong to the society you live in. It is tiring because I often hear people talking about how they went to a Mexican restaurant and had amazing food or how they love tacos but the tacos they associate as tacos have hard shells
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Growing up‚ most of the children I knew would go to church on Sunday’s‚ visit their grandparents’ house to bake cookies after school‚ and have milk and cereal for breakfast every morning. But I had never set foot inside of a religious building‚ couldn’t even speak the same language as my grandmothers‚ and ate congee with fermented soy beans like it was the most natural thing in the world. My little town where I’d grown up‚ made friends‚ and built memories was‚ to say the least‚ completely un-diverse
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Growing up in rural Kansas was boring. Especially since I grew up in the seventies. There were no cell phones or game systems to occupy my time. My family had an old black and white television set. I loved to watch The Price is Right in the days before Bob Barker’s hair turned white. After the show was over‚ the only way to kill time was to play outside and wander down to the creek that ran parallel to our property. There was a secret trail buried in the wall of trees that lined our two acre yard
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Growing up in Ghana in the mid-nineties was a very challenging moment of my life. The West African country was recovering from an economic recession mainly attributed to series coup d’états that destabilized the economy and crippled most state institutions. These coup d’états‚ to an extent‚ left the country that once championed the emancipation of Africa in a deplorable state; a state of despair‚ hopelessness and economic hardship. The then government –National Democratic Congress – implemented
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