When I was ten‚ I started assisting at our church outreach program to feed the homeless in Yuma. We created sack lunches and during cold months soup. Saturday’s often were spent driving around the city‚ stopping when finding people in need and providing a meal with some kind words of encouragement. This made me realize a few things. One‚ we had a lot of homeless in our city from young children to senior citizens. Secondly‚ each homeless person had a story to tell and each person was unique in
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that it was May and spring was in the air I knew that my day would be perfect. As I leaped out of my warm and comfortable bed to put on my Bullwinkle slippers‚ my stomach nerves began to tighten. I figured it was just a small bellyache and I would get over it soon. I walked slowly to the bathroom not really realizing that the house was not filled with sunshine as it usually is during these beautiful spring days. As I began to brush my teeth my eyes caught a glimpse of the window that I now noticed
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At the age of seven I enter prison‚ my life took a different direction at a young age where I was surrounded by people I didn’t know and faces I never recognize or even known existed. That was the day I came to America‚ imagine being taken away from the one place you called home to another dimension where people spoke a complete different language from the one you knew since birth. The angry and confused‚ I felt was intense‚ trying to figure out where I belong in such a huge place without actually
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about something‚" mom says. My brother‚ and I look at each other strangely. Ethan asked "what do you need to talk to us about mom?" Divorce the legal dissolution of a marriage. This is what happened to my parents in August of 2009 they got divorced. It was a very big challenge for me to face. At first it was just a separation which happened in 2007 then slowly turned into a divorce. I was young so I did not understand a lot of it. After the divorce I had to change my schedule completely. It felt
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As an Immigrant‚ there were many challenges I faced whether it’s related to language or understanding the culture. My family moved to United States of America when I was in 6th grade. I was always told by my parents that building a successful career is very important. This idea of building a successful career never stuck in my mind until the junior year of high school when I all sudden all the teachers and counselors started talking about going to college build a career in a field that you were interested
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Throughout my life I did not really see myself in any kind of career field‚ I found it very difficult to pick a job or even find something I’d consider myself to be good at. After doing COOP it has come to my attention that I would like to learn more about the placement I have been at these last few months. I feel like this is the right placement for me‚ I am comfortable with the environment if anything I want to dig deeper and do more studies on different stages that occur before clients show up
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to go fishing. It was a time for me and my father to bond. It was also a time to relax and clear my mind of everything else. I have been fishing since I was six years old‚ and every since the first time I threw in my line I loved it. I have gained much knowledge in the sport from my father‚ who is a lifetime fisherman also. I have developed into a good fisherman‚ and learned many things over my fishing career. One of the things I have learned was to bait my hook and to cast it. I also learned how
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it but I didn’t like it as much as I did the first 2 books and this last book disappointed me. I was expecting some amazing ending to the series of the hunger games but I was let down from the things that happened in the book. Mocking jay is just a sad book that doesn’t even seem humane for the capitol to be doing to all of these different districts. In the book the parts that I like in the book are the best parts with all the detail and the story plot of things throughout the book. One thing I
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Writing about my personal experience in the military‚ reminded me about all those Noncommissioned officers who lead me throughout my career and my life. It also recapped the obstacles I faced to make it to where I am today. Minus one plus nine is a symbolic way to describe my story of how I came into the Army as an Enlisted with a pay grade of E minus 1 instead of E-1 and reach the Enlisted pay grade of E-9. My personal experience began on February 14‚ 1992‚ when I immigrated to the United States
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Monday 04/17/2017 my friend Rachel asked me for a favor on behalf of her professor Dr. Dena Kniess for a multicultural course for graduate students. To be a part of a panel discussion on Arab students. Rachel asked me to talk about my experience as an Arab student at EIU and told me a bit about what I should expect from the students. At first‚ between me and myself I was a bit afraid and nervous. I was going to say “sorry Rachel‚ I can’t make it”. But then‚ I’m like “no I’ll make it‚ it’s definitely
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