Catching The Dream Scholarship Case Study

Service is simply an act of helpful activity and the transferable skills that are gained from service illustrate the importance of being involved. By volunteering in my community and taking part in organizations that are centered on service, I am able to strengthen my understanding of my surroundings, and I am taught more compassion for others. Being involved presents unlimited opportunities to give back to others, and with the skills instilled by service, I am able to make a difference in the lives around me. Experience gained with service creates characteristics in a person that can shape the direction of my life, and I will value that in the future.

I was born in a middle class family in China and my parents care about me very much. Before I was even born, my farther adjusted the business hour of his clinic to make more profit by accepting more patients and my mother was a nurse who worked in my dad’s clinic, so they saved the money to send me to school and prepare to move to the U.S. Most of the members of my family already moved to the U.S. Moreover, once my aunt got her U.S. citizenship, she, as the sponsor, was able to apply for us to come. When I was 15, we finally got our immigrant visas and my parents told me we were ready for move to the America. Therefore, we sold everything we had in China we were staying at my uncle’s house in Hong Kong because we need to take the airplane from Hong Kong to Missouri, U.S. I still remember what my uncle said to me because he looked at me with a very serious face that caught my attention. “Qianxin, the America is different from China. I’ve heard people said life in the America is harder than China. However, if you work hard enough, you will get what you deserve.” The words are always in my mind. I tried to do my best in school and in everything because I want to be the person who can help my family.

America, known as the nation of chance and flexibility, where any man or lady can come and have a reasonable shot at accomplishing the coveted objective usually alluded to as "The American Dream." To many, effectively getting the American dream implies having a steady 2 parent family, with money related success, and rich in political and social opportunities. This "fantasy" be that as it may, is all the more effectively accomplished by specific individuals over others, and in spite of the fact that America prides itself on being the place where there is the "opportunity" and "correspondence", those words serve all the more unequivocally as a wellspring of false reverence and incongruity. One's race, economic

It’s been a subject of news reports both local and national: the opiate drug epidemic in central and northeast Pennsylvania is skyrocketing and Geisinger Marworth is stepping in to do something about it.

I am extremely thankful to have the opportunity to receive this scholarship. The "My Biggest Success" scholarship would help me with my journey through college in many ways. Considering the fact that my mom is a single parent with a low income, I never thought I would get the chance to attend college because of our financial situation.

The two words that describe Tiffany best are outgoing and friendly. Prior to coming to Arizona State University, she has had a lot of volunteer experience. She volunteered with Feed My Children: an organization that packs food for kids in countries

In her 1961 essay “What Has Happened to the American Dream?”, Eleanor Roosevelt stated that “no single individual and no single group has an exclusive claim to the American dream...but we have all a vision of what it is, not merely as a hope and an aspiration, but as a way of life, which we can come ever closer to attaining its ideal form if we keep our belief in its essential value”. The belief of pursuing the American dream is one that has been instilled since the formation of the country itself, and with those beliefs come those who pursue it. Unfortunately, achieving this dream is not without difficulty, and those who realize the true obstacles in front of them turn to other ways to sustain themselves in this nation. Not everyone has an equal opportunity to pursue the American dream because of social exclusion, the government prioritizing the wrong issues, and economic gaps, which has thus led to organized crime, however some say that all citizens do have the equal opportunity.

The American Dream is indefinable. There is no one set of words or characteristics that the entire population assigns directly to its definition. With the American population consisting of people of various races, ethnicities, ages, classes, and genders, it seems trivial to even attempt to attribute a single definition to the concept of the American Dream. It is this inability however, to be confined within one single meaning, that allows for the American Dream to govern the desires and goals of the large and diverse American population. And, regardless of all of the heterogeneity within society, the American Dream is generally a goal of all American peoples. In examining this idea, I began to think about the specific meanings attributed to the American Dream for different types of individuals. I broadly outlined the American Dream for myself, to represent the belief in hard work as a pathway to success and raising oneself in society. Consequently, this higher position in society allows for the possession of increased amounts of power. My definition however, neglects to take into account the certain other societal constructs that could possibly have a decisive role in how to both define and achieve the American Dream for the wide variety of people who pursue it.

American Dream: Noun, the ideals of freedom, equality, and opportunity traditionally held to be available to every American. That is the definition of the American dream according to Dictionary.com, but the American Dream is more than a definition, but a way of life for many. Millions of immigrants come to our country in search of this “American Dream” including my grandparents but more and more are disappointed. So does the American Dream exist? Has it ever existed or has it all been an illusion?

More than 500 immigrants and their families from the Peninsula gathered to attend a "delayed action for children" workshop at St. Anthony Catholic Church in Menlo Park, California, on Sunday, August 26, 2012. 370 arriving To where the consultation of voluntary lawyers. The event was sponsored by Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto, the Bay Area International Institute (Redwood City Office) and Catholic Charities CYO. (Josie Lepe / Staff)

She is intelligent, hardworking, witty, charismatic, dedicated, loyal, and is an excellent speaker, reader, and writer. As a student, she read two or three grade levels above her grade level and was well read—reading most of the classics at a young age. I was quite impressed, but not surprised when she graduated at the top 10 percent of her high school class and graduated from The University of Texas in

I am very grateful for your contributions to my education at Valencia College. The only thing that can prevent me from pursuing my educational goal of earn a bachelor’s degree in Dietetics & Nutrition from the University of Florida is my mindset. I have made up my mind that I will strive for a 4.0 GPA every semester, search for additional scholarships, make connections, and become involved within my community because I know that I can. As a first generation college student of immigrant parents, I understand that there are so many excuses to reasons why many choose not to further their education like the cost of living and tuition being one of them. There are several avenues and helping hands at Valencia College for driven students that are taking advantage of the skill-shops that offer life skills about financing, career readiness, and getting ahead in college,

United We Dream began in the 2000s, when key national advocacy groups, led by the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), developed an informal coalition of organizers and advocates to promote equal access to educational opportunities for immigrant youth. The Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act brought this group together. The DREAM Act would provide a path to citizenship for immigrant youth brought to the U.S. as children. There are about 1.8 million immigrants in the United States who might be, or might become, eligible for the Obama Administration’s “deferred action” initiative for unauthorized youth brought to this country as children. This initiative, announced on June 15, offers a two-year, renewable reprieve

With spring graduation quickly approaching, I look back on the countless amount of hours spent studying, high lighted notecards, and coffee runs that kept me going these past two years. Within the last two years two jobs and eighteen courses, as well as life events have kept me on my toes to say the least. However, with that being said I feel that I have done the best I could academically and proudly apply and hope to receive the Eldridge scholarship.

As a common student who studied in high school in U.S and China, I strongly concerned that the educational purpose in both countries have been far away from the original purpose of education. As one of the students who have a dream, the thing is, I strongly recommend that we need to improve our educational quality and enable the basic purpose of education return to our school. As the matter of fact, the basic educational purpose for students is teach them how to make them dream come true or teach them how to live with their own mind. On the country, the thing that school teaches you is how to find a good job.