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From Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Valparaiso, Indiana all the way to Dunedin, New Zealand Back to the United States to Tucson, Arizona where she stayed just for a few months. Then off she went back to the Midwest to Hugo, Minnesota to be closer to her family and now finally settled in Denver, Colorado with her husband Jeff and daughter Freya because of an outstanding job offer that was just too hard to resist. Never has Annika Pittman been one not to take risks. “Regret is meaningless. I don’t like to dwell on what I could change because I can’t.” Being a teacher of ten years, a wife, a mom, a friend, a daughter, and a sister she has made outstanding accomplishments. Knowing she wanted to be a teacher since kindergarten she had her whole life to strive for

In The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon does not illustrate the life of an average teenage boy. He shows us Christopher Boone, a 15-year old boy who lies on the autistic spectrum. Christopher experiences many of the everyday activities most people his age do; he goes to school (where he relishes math), watches TV, and plays with his pet. However, his home life is fraught with conflict, causing readers to think Christopher may be better off without the frightening presence of his father, or the unreliability of his mother. Although Christopher may have the determination to live on his own, his unusual tendencies can be detrimental and outweigh the positives.

The article “The (Mis) Education of Monica and Karen” illustrated the lives of these two women in their first year at a Midwestern University. Monica and Karen both grew up in the same small struggling mid-western town. Monica was from a working-class family and she worked a full-time job so that she could afford in state student fees so that she would

Lou’s family did not have an educational background. His high school football coach, Coach Watts, was the one that spoke to his parents about him going to college. Coach Watts’s idea

basically his whole life taken away from him, he was all alone except for his

“Naropa is a buddhist founded university, and a lot of people, when they’re asked why they chose to go to Naropa, will say that Naropa chose them, and I think that is the same for me,” She says. When she began looking at colleges in high school, the two things she knew was that she wanted to be in Northern California, and she wanted it to have a program that was about humanitarian stewardship. She looked and many colleges but couldn’t find one that really reeled her in. But then her college career counselor directed her to Naropa, and it was almost exactly what she was looking for. Delaney is currently in her junior year at Naropa, and is in an interdisciplinary major with concentrations in peace studies and scientific psychology. An interdisciplinary degree is taking two or three concentrations, and by studying peace studies and scientific psychology simultaneously, she studies how they overlap and when they do, what they create. Studying them also allows her to get a degree in humanitarian work. Delaney also has a job as a personal and private assistant for a man that is on the board of directors for her university who has many good connections and owns a startup company. Her parents pay her rent and her cell phone bill, but Delaney pays for her utilities, groceries, car insurance, school supplies and textbooks. She also nannies an eight-month-old baby

He felt like he didn’t belong in the reservation and felt the World State represented everything he despised has a child which was his mom inability to control her sexual desires. He felt that he didn’t belong in both those worlds and the feeling of isolation can really eat away at a person mentally and physically. At the end, he found that the only solution was to pull the plug on his miserable existence. Even though he enriched himself through his appreciation of classic literature and to getting to make new friendship to set him apart from his

Growing up Robert, the father of this family, was the eldest of three siblings. His parents didn’t give him much to any

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He lived in constant fear of his surroundings and didn’t lead an exactly normal life. When he finally decides to get out of his predicament and stages his own death, he

Wes Moore grew up in poor conditions, where he and his small family barely made ends meet. Wes tried his best to stay strong despite all the misfortune things in his life, and struggled through days looking for the light at the end of tunnel. Years later, Wes Moore heads to a private school where he learns at a steady pace and passes classes. Later on, when his life at home becomes unbearable and he is unable to keep up with school, Wes Moore drops out of private school (Moore, 2011). However, he remains focused and determined not to continue living in poverty. Hence, he makes up his mind that he must get educated one way or another.

He was used to live in his brother’s shadow, but when the boat accident happened to them, he was the only one to survive. As he was always indentifying himself the less important one, he considered it was wrong that he was the one who would still have a life. As a result of nervous breakdown, he tried to kill himself with cutting his wrists in the bathroom, fortunately his father found out and save him. Then he went to the psychiatric for four months. When he comes back, there are still issues he needs to deal with.

Lance Huck graduated from high school in 1984 and started his college career at Colby Community College, where he judged livestock. After Colby he went on to Kansas State University where he majored in veterinary science, but after realizing that becoming a vet wasn’t for him he decided to switch majors. Lance switched majors to a feed science degree and this is where he found his true calling. After he received his bachelor's degree in ruminate nutrition, he went home and worked for his dad. Lance grew tired of the day to day work running a feed yard, and he decided to go back to school. He went back and obtained a master’s degree and P.H.D in ruminate nutrition. After acquiring a higher degree of education Lance went on and moved to a job

feeling of being isolated where he lived in a world where everyone was like him.

His father was moody and very irritable and wasn’t a strong figure in the household