My goal for this year is to be a risk taker so I can be fearless to anything that comes in my way.I am going to work on being principled and honesty‚ doing the right thing. I want to be a good at spelling to improve and don’t have any mistakes. For my results of how I learn here it is my test results is that I use my eyes.35% my hands 35% my ears 30% it seems like. A good amount of senses and you are probably wondering “SAM what is your color personality.” Well my color personality is GREEN as
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Football meant every in my life so much that I had immersed myself in the sport‚ and was dedicated to it and nothing else mattered. I had even had committed to coming to the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor to play football. However‚ on March 31‚ 2013 I was driving home from work‚ when one of the biggest moments in my life happened. While I was driving my car began to shake and I ended up losing my front driver side wheel and my back passenger side wheel. As these came off my car I went into a tailspin
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crossed my mind. I am the first generation child it was hard to adapt to the American way of living‚ despite been born here. I only gathered with Hispanic kids who were also the first generation of parents who came from Mexico‚ Salvador‚ Guatemala and other places in Latin America. I was never around other ethnicities‚ not white‚ Asian‚ black etc. Embracing
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” was the question my mother asked. I was 7-years-old and we were sitting in traffic on the way to gymnastics practice. Little did I know that this question would become my reality in a few short months. There is no other way to describe how I felt about this move‚ besides absolutely devastated. We lived in Virginia at the time and I was beyond happy. I had great friends‚ I liked my school‚ but most of all I absolutely loved my gymnastics program. I suddenly felt as though my whole world was coming
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“Yay!” my mom said ecstatically. I had finally just taken my first steps. I felt so tall. My feet clunked unevenly with one thud and then another over and over again. My dad silent while he held the video camera. My dad wasn’t around much. He usually was working‚ but I was happy he saw me walk for the first time. Although‚ before I knew‚ I stumbled and ended up on my delicate knees. *** My dad made it home just in time. It was my tenth birthday. I was finally turning 10 and I was in
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experienced racism‚ I was a young naïve 18 year old girl. It was my first year in college right out of high school‚ and it was my first time outside of my predominately black world. I had just moved to San Bernardino‚ Ca to attend college‚ from South Central Los Angeles. I had gone to an all-black high school‚ attended an all-black church and at the time had all black friends. I remember the first day my family packed me up and we headed off to my new life in college. I had only been in school for a little
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Let me start off with my mother’s journey to America. It was 1985 when her parents decided it was time for a fresh start. It was very difficult to come to America legally‚ so they made their journey by traveling to other countries. They left Cuba and traveled to Spain where my grandfather found a job as a farmer. They lived in Spain for almost 2 years before they gathered enough resources to travel to Mexico. The journey from Mexico to the USA was very easy for them because they had a family member
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Bam! My face is up against the now very noticeable screen door just like the birds in the Windex commercial. It was ten young years ago‚ and seven year old me was attending the annual summer party on Windsor Court. A respectful little one I was (and still am). I resented negative attention like the pelage. Sickening to think that I had let myself go at just seven years old. My determination had gotten the absolute best of all my being. “If you want your candy kabob‚ you have got to get running
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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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thoughts‚ imagining he’s dead or if I did something to keep him away. I have always wondered where my father could be. My emotions were always uncertain about where he could be and why he wasn’t present in my life. Never wanted it to be known I had that I cared and had a heart to know where his presents was. Somehow my mother managed to still loving care for me without a mate to help. For example‚ My anger caused a big role in not having a father. Having a empty and a questioned heart was not as
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