Becoming A Doctor Fits My Family

When entering college, there are many things to consider. Having to make such important life decisions can be very overwhelming for a high school senior. Not only are teenagers expected to make a decision on where they are going to potentially be spending the next four years, but they are also deciding who and how that is going to look like. In the article “A college education should include rooming with a stranger,” Ann Altman uses emotional diction to persuade readers to consider what their living conditions will be like their first year of college.

Andrew Sullivan, author of, What is a Homosexual, portrays his experience growing up; trapped in his own identity. He paints a detailed portrait of the hardships caused by being homosexual. He explains the struggle of self-concealment, and how doing so is vital for social acceptation. The ability to hide one’s true feelings make it easier to be “invisible” as Sullivan puts it. “The experience of growing up profoundly different in emotional and psychological makeup inevitably alters a person’s self-perception.”(Sullivan)This statement marks one of the many reasons for this concealment. The main idea of this passage is to reflect on those hardships, and too understand true self-conscious difference. Being different can cause identity

It is no secret that when Alison Bechdel was a child, homosexuality was not exactly met with open arms. Due to the unpleasant views many heterosexuals had in regards to homosexuality, Alison Bechdel was at first quite cautious when it came to being open about her newfound sexual orientation; however, she eventually opened herself up to her family, friends, and the world about who she is and did not let the political prejudices of others stop her. This is evident when Bechdel writes, “It was in that tremulous state that I determined to tell my parents. Keeping it from them had started to seem ludicrous anyway” (76). Here, Bechdel decides to come out to her parents, deciding that it was absurd not to tell them. Evidently, the prejudices of society could not keep Alison Bechdel down, and this resulted in her personality being shaped by the courage of being oneself, which is hardly an easy thing to

Throughout the 1950’s, the United States belonged to the Leave It To Beaver era. Families were structured around a strong, hard working father and a wonderful homemaker mother. Children were brought up with solid ideologies on what society expects from them and were warned about living a different and dangerous life. Only one-year separates Tennessee William’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room from there publishing dates during this decade of unwavering beliefs. These texts were seen as extremely controversial during their time due to their themes of homosexuality. Sexual orientation was an awkward topic during such a “to the book” time period and these texts pushed the limits, making them remarkable and memorable works. Both Tennessee Williams and James Baldwin explore the panic men experience while trying to comprehend what sexual orientation they belong to and highlight the masculine gay man. These texts also examine the woman’s role in the mist of it all.

Leading a meaningful life meant breaking away from the fear of criticism or rejection; conforming to society limits Illgunas’ definition of life. Illgunas’ suburban upbringing makes the danger of social conformity clear to him. Surrendering to society would consequently cause him to completely lose himself. After graduating from high school, Illgunas and his classmates follow the conventional path towards a higher education. Illgunas explains, “My high school class and I moved like a school of fish: we graduates were capable of going off on our own, in whatever direction we chose, but something demanded we all swim as one…” (6-7). Parallel to the claim Illgunas makes, graduates that do not attend college are stigmatized. Society has created a paradigm: after graduating high school, students should attend a traditional four year university, and then enter the “career world.” In Illgunas’ perspective, people in

Making the jump from high school to college involves a deal of decision making that we, as teenagers, come face to face with. One of the biggest decisions we have is to choose a major and career. The novel, Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, starts out similar to how our college careers are about to begin. We’re thrust into the next chapter of our lives, making choices and hoping they’re the correct ones and that we’re making them for the right reasons. Although, we are bound to doubt ourselves and these decisions.

In this chapter, bell hooks describes her experience with class privilege in college. Her race and socioeconomic status made her stick out from her classmates, which made her a target for their stares and torments. Her financial situation also made it hard for her to get into a college that she felt comfortable at. Hooks’ struggles ultimately made college hard for her, and left her feeling bitter and troubled about her achievements.

In his essay, “The Achievement of Desire”, Richard Rodriguez describes how his educational journey changed his life, particularly resulting in a cultural and emotional separation from his parents. In the essay, Rodriguez writes, “If, because of my schooling, I had grown culturally separated from my parents, my education finally had given me the ways of speaking and caring about the fact” (355). Rodriguez’s unique understanding of his family and education fundamentally alters his interactions with them, which influences his ways of speaking and caring about this separation throughout various stages of his education. These unique understandings are exhibited through specific dialogues

In Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin, David ponders over his past relationships. At the beginning of the novel, David looks back at his past and recounts a childhood experience with his friend Joey. This was David’s first intimate encounter with a boy, and it was through this experience that David learns that he is gay. This passage, which describes David’s thoughts after his night with Joey, reveals that David will not accept his sexuality because he is afraid of the power that his sexuality holds over him and of the future that he as a gay man will have in his society.

Giovanni’s Room written by James Baldwin was written in the 1950’s. A book about love, homosexuality, and the struggles of both. During the 1950’s being a homosexual wasn’t exactly a desirable thing to be, in America or England. The fifties was a hard time for homosexuals and bisexuals. In Europe families were starting back up as the men returned home from World War II, due to this being gay was seen as a threat to the typical family. This was a time in which one could go to prison for their sexual orientation and the sexual acts they pursued. Chain arrest could be made as well, where one would get arrested, questioned on if they knew other gays and if they did and could identify them, then their sentence would be lesser or easier (CITATION). So as imagined “coming out of the closet” wasn’t a thing that many wanted to do, they wanted to stay hidden. The phrase “coming out of the closet” or even just the term “closet” represents an idea where people hid their sexuality. If one were to “come out of the closet” they would announce or make it known in public that they were accepting their sexuality and letting others see it as well. In Giovanni’s Room we as readers can see a lot of this hiding, confusion, and struggle with the idea of being gay, especially with the character of David. David uses Giovanni’s room as his own sort of “closet”.

It is impossible for David to fully acknowledge his homosexual identity due to the expectations provided by his father of what a “man” should

With the realization of my newfound passion, my nonconformist qualities were locked in, and I began high school without the usual freshman trepidation about getting labeled or branded. Thereby, I

Growing up, people realize that around the time of reaching a mature state, education has affected their personal family life in one way or the other. With that being said, in his essay, “The Achievement of Desire”, Richard Rodriguez headed towards a path where he was unconsciously distancing himself from his family and becoming much more independent than he had expected. Rodriguez gives the reader a sentimental idea of the two contrary lives he had growing up, the life he had as a child, and the life he has as an educated man. He continued believing in his aspiration of how benefits of education can remarkably outweigh the past struggles of both his family and himself. Like Rodriguez, I also, in the past, found some form of solitude

Now that I am reaching the end of my undergraduate career I feel like it’s fit to reflect on how far i’ve come and some high and low points during this time of my life. Some people may say that these four years of college are the most wonderful times of their life, and for the most part that is correct. But there is this whole other part of college life that is super stressful and even scary. During this paper I will address my personal development and how certain experiences played a role in those developments. Even though I feel like i’ve grown a lot and have developed and learned new things, I have run into some issues. Those issues being family/culture, social and emotional growth, intellectual growth, values and beliefs, citizen and community member.

I want many things in life but the thing I want the most is to be a doctor. I want to be useful to this world. I want to make god happy for creating me. I want to be a doctor because there are many people who are in desperate need of medical attention, but either can’t afford it or there is no medical services near. I want to travel to poor countries with poor medical attention and offer free medical services. I also want to major in surgery and therapy because the there are many diseases that require surgery and some people had been through many bad events and need help getting over them. Many people don’t want to go to therapy because they thing that therapy is for crazy people. I want to educate people with low resources on important things that are beneficial to their wellbeing as well as the wellbeing of others. I also want to teach young teens about