two of the poorest part of Haiti. From a very young age‚ I was exposed to events ranging from seeing cadavers in the street almost on a daily basis‚ drug dealing‚ authority brutalities to lose a couple of childhood friends due to gang activities. In the midst of my environment disadvantages‚ my parents were doing a little bit better compared to the rest of our community until I reached the age of 5. One month after my 5th birthday‚ my life took drastic turn. My mother migrated to the United States
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I was born in Cuba in 1993 to two fifteen year olds Ariel Roman and Brudys Garcia. My mom at age fifteen was breastfeeding while her friends were graduating from high school. The first six years I lived in Cuba are a bur. In fact‚ I only remember holding my mothers hand and waving goodbye to my grandmother through a distant glass mirror as tears were streaming down her tanned cheeks. A week later‚ I was in a classroom full of posters of apples and some writing that was not in Spanish. In about three
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My Life on Paper Everyone has their own perspective on what they consider a “perfect life.” My life was no where near perfect‚ it was perfectly imperfect and I was completely happy with that. Life isn’t about money‚ cars or clothes. Yes it’s important but like Notorious B.I.G said “more money‚ more problems.” I believe happiness is a destination and all that is just luggage. My name is Iliana and I was given that name the day I was born‚ July 5tth‚ 1989. I was born in Miami and raised
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My Life at School I am majoring in IT. In this semester‚ I am taking 5 courses which are ITE115‚ MTH163‚ ESL51‚ ESL52‚ and SDV100. As I am doing part time job also‚ I could only give 8-9 hours per week for studying. I am planning to complete my bachelor’s degree in 3-4 years. I will study for 2 years in NOVA‚ and then I will transfer to George Mason University. My Life at Home Besides studying‚ I also do a part time job. I work at Banana Republic Store as a stock associate. I have to wake up early
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Khalan Howell Final D.-Essay #1 Over the next five years. Five years from now‚ my life will be incredibly different because I will have graduated from college‚ become a juvenile probation officer‚ will be married‚ and living in my dream house! All of these life changes will take a lot of time and effort. To graduate from college‚ I will have to attend classes regularly‚ study every day‚ and ask for help when needed. I am in a school program called TRIO‚ which is for first generation
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GOALS OF MY LIFE There are many goals that I would love to achieve. I am 30 and had dreamt of achieving a number of goals at 30 when I was 20‚ some I could but some alas! I couldn’t. ‘Goal achieving is something that you absolutely must do if you wish to fulfill your potential as human being. Goals enable you to do the work you want to do‚ to live where you want to live‚ to be with the people you enjoy‚ and to become the kind of person you want to be.’ I have grown up learning something alike
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Independence. We also reposed faith in the potential of women in our public life. Today our local bodies have over a million women representatives. This is more than the number of elected women representatives in the entire rest of the world put together. But‚ this momentous action for political empowerment has not been carried over into many other spheres of our nation’s life. Our record in female literacy is far from satisfactory as the last Census recording only 54% female literacy in the country
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My first job was working as Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA). I started working in the field when I graduated high school. A close friend introduced me to the nursing field. My friend said the job didn’t require much education‚ you just had to like working with people. I thought well‚ I am really good with people‚ I thought this should be easy. I worked as a CNA for about five years‚ and I realize that the job didn’t offer any challenges. I felt as if I wasn’t really going anywhere‚ I just had
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Guatemalan and an American woman‚ throughout my life I have grown up in a misogynist society‚ my first language is Spanish and most of my education has been in Spanish. All my life I have lived in Guatemala and El Salvador. Since my childhood‚ I had the influence of two different mentalities. My mother is a Guatemalan and graduated from sixth grade with a very traditional education and my father from the United States who graduated from college with a four year degree in biology and is more analytical
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‘Hitch your wagon to a star.’ The logic behind it is simple. If we do not aspire for something great‚ we shall not strive for it and consequently lead a life of ignominy. The autobiographies of all great men reveal‚ that each of them very early in childhood had a dream‚ a vision of what they intended to do or become. This is distinctively apart from daydreaming‚ for in the words of William Shakespeare “Ambition should be made of sterner stuff’. Thus it is not suffice to only dream‚ but one must relentlessly
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