Fresh Perspective Living in Texas most of my life I was no stranger to Americans who either didn’t speak English at all or whose first language wasn’t English. As I interacted with people‚ mostly from Mexico‚ I had a hard time understanding why they didn’t want to speak English . Although I’m ashamed to say it‚ I often viewed these people as less educated and meek. A statement that Ive heard all to often is that people who don’t speak English should learn our language or leave America. However
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I was about the age of 10 when I finally learned my heritage. My mother and I were standing in the bank vault‚ and she was getting some papers for a trip to Canada‚ to update all of our passports. I was there with her‚ and while she was going through the things in our lock box‚ one particular‚ colorful document caught my eye. I pulled it out and held it up to her‚ asking what it was. She told me it was my birth certificate. I looked at it once again and replied that this couldn’t be my birth certificate
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their neighbor prosper as much as them and believed that there was enough good in the world for everyone to share. That small town outside of Guadalajara‚ Mexico taught me valuable lessons that I still hold on to today. It taught me to never forget about family and carry on their legacy and beliefs. I also learned that there is room enough in this world for people of all cultures to come together and prosper. My grandparents are predominately farmers and did not have much‚ but are loving people and
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ever get bored of telling a story over and over again? It’s like listening to a song so many times that when it comes on the radio you want to change it but can’t help but leave it where it’s at and sing along. That’s what happens when people ask me about being adopted: what happened? Why did it happen? When did it happen? But being adopted doesn’t ever change no matter how many times I tell the story. I always hear how jealous other people are of my life; “I get stuff handed to me”‚ “I don’t work for
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When I was little my parents got divorced. As that happened they said I had to move schools. I would have never thought this would ever happen‚ but my parents just decided to move where it was halfway from work both ways‚ so they decided Royalton. Moving to Royalton was very scary‚ but also a great‚ fun change. It was scary being the new kid‚ but I worked my way around it. There was a bunch of different changes I went through. I also had a very fun time living at royalton since fourth grade and to
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However‚ everything went to a new level in 6th grade when I got expelled from school. My friend took the top off of a stapler remover and made it into a ring that you could wear. All the students thought it was the coolest thing ever because they were about to put it around their fingers and poked their friends in the back by giving them a hug. I thought that was so much fun‚ and when my friend was not looking‚ I took the stapler ring away from him. The next day‚ I thought it would be funny to try what
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everything away‚ they tear up the cherokee they threw refrigerators‚ ovens‚ tables‚ beds and everything that was damp‚ I have never experience seeing Houston like that. It was my first time seeing that Houston was dying of too much water. My house got about 2-3 inches of rain‚ I was really proud that my house didn’t got flooded or had any damages. At the same time I was unhappy of the people that lost everything they had. There are a lot of organizations that were helping people with food‚ clothes‚ cleaning
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what the world was about. I couldn’t have been more wrong. My life changed forever on a random‚ seemingly normal afternoon. My secure sense of how things were‚ and how I expected things to continue‚ was shattered. All it took was one moment; in one instant‚ everything changed. Dr. Judith Rich refers to this as a “Sputnik moment.’ She defines a sputnik moment as‚ “events that jar our sense of reality.” These moments can be large or small‚ and they change the way one feels about reality. My sputnik
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smartest only because he had the same first name as Albert Einstein. George was the complete opposite of Albert. He was a rather large fourteen year old boy with uncontrollable curly hair that molded into an afro. Then there is me‚ Frank‚ I am just your average guy. I am content with jeans and a t-shirt. You might be wondering how us three became such great friends. Well‚ we have been neighbors since we were born so it was bound to happen sometime. At the middle school that all three of us attend
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It was 5 am on a Thursday; everything was turning out to be just another day at the beginning of the summer. All of a sudden I was shaken awake. I was slow to open my eyes so I was not aware of what was happening yet. I was unaware that my life was about to change forever. I finally opened my eyes and was very startled to see the face of a man that I had never seen before me talking to me and directing me to get out of bed. I did what I was told and noticed that there was another large man standing
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