College Admissions Essay: Who Am I Am Racist

I did not know how to start the reasons why science is right for me without talking about my uncle. A family friend, who the only doctor in the big group of friends. And I remember telling him how nervous I was when declaring my major at University of West Florida. And he ask why? And I told him that I was nervous because science did not come as easy for me then like the rest of my friends. And he said something I will never forget “you know Kay..my brother and I started medical school at the same time. And he was always so much better at school than me. He blink and he got A’s but me I had to stay up all night just to hope to get a B on an exam. But than we graduated Medical School and all the people skills that I acquired from hospital volunteering and mentoring from doctor I did help me. Because I need the resume booster it help me so much more in my career. So when we started our career I got so much father than him. Despite science

For the entirety of my life, my father has struggled with alcoholism. My father’s addiction left me and my family with no choice but to separate ourselves from him eight years ago. For those eight years, I resented the man we had left. How could I not? His alcoholism, his selfish addiction, had taken my childhood memories of laughter and happiness, and left me with ones of worry and fear. I wondered how he could be selfish enough to idly watch his family suffer as a result of him.

Throughout the semester I have learned to analysis the dialogue of the texts we read and came to find out the characters voices derive the tone of the author's argument. Better yet, I learned how to read between the lines. Based on the series of texts I have read in GEW 101, I come to depict the significance of language to one's identity is that racism is not acceptable, by comparing texts, authors and scholarly sources. Some of the texts and authors include: Martin L. King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail; Urban Neanderthals; Black Ball; Gran Torino and a Very Old Man with Enormous Wings. I believe that the connection between all these texts brought about a social change in the community by the language of the authors.

In the essay “Under the Influence,” Scott Russell Sanders uses his recollection and metaphors to portray an image of his father’s drinking customs. While certain people believe that children who are raised in a home with a drunk often follow in their footsteps, Sanders did the paradoxical and became a man whom his father was not. Although nothing but disappointment was demonstrated throughout the manuscript, Sanders made a connection with himself and his father. The relation contrived was his father 's afflicting dependence for alcohol and his uplifting addiction to working. Although plentiful children suffer from growing up with a guardian who has an addiction obstacle, Sanders overcame his misery by concentrating on himself and becoming a “workaholic”.

Alcoholism does not only affect a person’s physical, mental, and emotional state, but it also changes the lives of people close to the drinker forever. It ruins relationships and trust that took years to build up, and may never be able to be restored. In Jeannette Walls’s memoir, The Glass Castle, she tells the story of her childhood in which her father was an alcoholic. Jeannette’s father, Rex Walls, was brilliant and charismatic when he was sober, but when he drank, he was destructive and dishonest.

I was surrounded by alcohol, even before I was born. One night, many years ago, my father walked down a pathway with my uncle in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. They were on their way home, when my uncle, Jose, saw a drunkard and turned to my dad.

As the youngest south Asian girl in a family with traditional values expanding my understandings of social value and public health to race, ethnicity and sexuality is an exciting process. I am now studying my master at the University of Manchester in Gender, Sexuality and Culture. My ambition to gain more knowledge of the power systems of complex identities and social value has grown over the years at university. My interest in social value and public health studies arose from my research from my undergraduate degree at Coventry University. Exploring and challenging current cultural identities, in particular, those of ethnicity has been a personal interest of mine throughout my further education. My undergraduate dissertation explored the history of India and Hinduism and how the homophobic attitudes have affected British Asian attitudes in the Hindu community. Since my undergraduate dissertation, I am now exploring how men’s mental health is now in the process of de-stigmatization.

I like to think of myself as a person who can appreciate and understand everyone's opinions. Although I might not agree with them, I feel as if everyone's beliefs and thoughts deserve to have equal initial respect. This leads me to where I was first introduced to discrimination and racism, the exact opposite concepts I now try to surround myself with. I have lived in Cross Roads, Pennsylvania for the entirety of my young life and if there is anything obvious about my community, it is that we are not very advanced in the diversity department. My hometown is predominantly white, which brings on a whole new set of problems concerning discrimination and racism, especially when a family of a different race moves to our community. Now don't get me wrong, my family, my friends, my neighbors, are not bad people. Most of them are great people but a few have just been brought up with idealisms that I myself find racist in nature. As an example, someone I spend a lot of time with because of family relations is in many ways ignorant to people different than them. They, like me, grew up in a

My father is a good man -- he isn’t a violent drunk, and even though he lived the majority of my childhood in a haze, he always had time to teach me new concepts, and to make me feel special. But even the highest functioning drunks have their limits, and my father has repeatedly tested his.

A staggering 30% of U.S. adults have been or currently are alcoholics, and not all of them have abstained from parenthood. The essay “Under the Influence” by Russel Sanders tells the tale of a young boy who had an alcoholic father, who he could not understand why he was an alcoholic, except for the belief that he was possessed by demons. He didn’t live around any treatment centers that could help his father, for he lived in the backwoods of Ohio. He talked about the constant fear of his father beating him (which he never did), and the constant fear of his father leaving him (which he did for small increments of time). The trauma of having a father who was an alcoholic father stayed with Sanders well into adulthood.

Prominent essayist and novelist, Scott Russell Sanders, in his essay, “Under the Influence” (1989), describes how having an alcoholic parent shapes a person. Sanders’s purpose is to reflect on his bleak youth and its lasting effects on his adulthood. He adopts a resentful tone in order to convey to readers who have no experience of growing up with an alcoholic that alcohol abuse is destructive.

The school was very far away, inside this old neighborhood, and was on the other side of Columbia; while we were passing the neighborhood, I had this eerie feeling and I didn’t like it, I knew from there this isn’t going to be a fun experience. My sister, my mom, and I got inside the school and were settled in from there; my 5th grade teacher name was Karen Bowling and she was the sweetest and kindest teacher, if it wasn’t for her I probably wouldn’t get comfortable with the new school and new environment that quickly. I made a few friends but still was shy and reserved, but I made a best friend that year her name was Kathryn Hamm. She had the same thinking like I did, she was funny, and we got attached quickly but by mid year things changed. I suddenly gained a lot of weight; I started looking very healthy, I had hair on my face,

Scott Russell Sanders, in the article Under The Influence, give a first hand account of what it is like be the child of an alcoholic. Sanders father was a drunk, he would drink daily. Sanders writes about how this childhood issue as affected him into his adulthood; specifically his early 40s. He explains that even his own children are affected. Sanders blames himself-- he feels as if he is the reason his father

I am the stereotypical story of an African American girl raised in the hood. I am one of two kids, raised by a single mom without a dad, in the nation's most segregated city, Milwaukee, WI. We lived in Milwaukee until I was approximately 14. My mother then moved us to Janesville, a small city in the southern part of Wisconsin. My Mom chose Janesville so we were closer to my family and to give her child, me, a better life and more opportunities that neither she nor I had in Milwaukee.

Have you ever been to Africa?" John asked his African-American friend, Kenny, whose parents and grandparents are American-born. Now some would assume that this is automatically racist, considering John’s most likely asking Kenny this question due to his race. Racism is a major problem in America and all around the world, affecting the lives of many people. Not knowing about a race or culture often can spring assumptions that could offend people while forming ideas about groups of people based on prior experiences are usually not a good way to obtain more knowledge. However truly hating a race is the most extreme version of racism, as it could lead to harassment and/or violence. Racism is divided into the subsets of ignorance, prejudice, and true racial hate, which are listed from the least to most extreme.