Gideon Hausner Personal Statement

I was born in El Paso, Texas to Mexican immigrant parents who did their best to raise me and my three siblings. Growing up in El Paso I never even saw myself applying to college, but then my dad made a bold choice to start a career in homeland security and that was when we moved to the DFW area. Ever since we moved to DFW every grade in junior high, i was talked to about college: how to get there, how to pay for it, and how to make it a reality. The thought of going to college never even crossed my mind before coming here. Now as a Senior in high school I'am doing everything in my abilities to make my dreams come true, to go to college and graduate to make my parents proud and prove to them that all their sacrifices haven't gone by without

Same as any other regular students who decided to go to college and committed to excellence, I also wish to have a chance for a bright future. However, there are many obstacles along the way. Before I came to America, I had never thought about college because my family could not afford for me to attend. When we had a chance to go to America, it was like a dream came true for my family. We believed that we would have a better life here and everything would be fine. As we moved to America, I was so grateful for a chance to go to school. Nonetheless, the language barrier was crushing my dream. In school, I could not understand the materials my professors presented because they spoke English at a faster rate than I could process. I felt that there was no way I can pursue the American Dream like I always wanted.

The Spanish language and Hispanic culture has influenced many elements that constitute the United States. Through a PowerPoint presentation, Teea Dorsey and I plan to reflect on the implications of the Spanish language and presence of Hispanics in the US. I believe that a PowerPoint presentation is the best way to present the knowledge we have gained throughout the semester because it allows our audience to have a visual reference while we speak in more depth about our project. We will discuss the importance of the Spanish language in the US by exploring subjects of identity, Hispanic influences in Texas, the bilingual advantage, and other Hispanic influences in addition to the future impact of Spanish in the US. We will demonstrate our intercultural

In “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”, Gloria Anzaldua explains her emotions and personal situations about social and cultural difficulties that Mexican immigrants, or any immigrant could face when being raised in the United States. She creates similarities between English, Spanish and their variations and how cultural imperialism, defined as, the influence on people’s preference to speak one language rather than the other. And she discusses current social problems in the United States such as sexism, cultural imperialism, racism, low self-esteem, and discovering oneself.

When I arrived here, I had to go through the adaptation process that every immigrant goes through. Getting used to a new place with a different culture and where people spoke a different language was hard but the support of my parents and my friends has made it easier for me to get familiarized with this new environment to the point where I now feel that I can call this place “my home”. But, this process would have been much harder if I hadn’t attended high school where, thanks to some of my teachers who have taken the time to explain to me how education and success connect, my perspective of education has completely changed. When you grow up in a third world country, it is not always possible to attend school, and I never thought I would be able to attend college or to even get a high school diploma but with the advice I have gotten from my caring public school teachers, and my parents, and the opportunities that this country is providing me with, it has now become my goal to get to the highest educational level I

I was born and raised most of my childhood in Colombia with a big family. My grandmother had fifteen kids and my mom was the youngest one of them all. She was also the only one that was able to go to college; my uncles didn’t even finish high school. Because my mother was the only one that went to college I was expected to go to college, not only from my mom, but also my family was expecting me to.

As a child I never saw myself going outside of California. While in high school I left to Mexico for over two years. This trip made me value my higher education career that made me realize exactly what I wanted for myself. While in Mexico I saw many children who worked at the age of thirteen because they didn’t have the support from their parents or sufficient funds to pay for school. This made me see two different worlds where they were managed different. At this point, I realized that I can’t take for granted the opportunities that are offered

It all started with a family of 5 living in a compact house in Laredo - a border town south of Texas. Living in a border city neighboring Mexico, loving, heartwarming Hispanic culture surrounded my upbringing; A childhood I would never exchange for anything. The Hispanic community teaches to see the bright side of things and not dwell on the past; therefore, I carried on with my life to assemble the present and future for the better. Being raised by a single parent, my mom, and having one source of income, would remind my brother, sisters and I to always excel in school for it will provide knowledge, a career, and an overall benefit for us in the long run. A long, stressful day during my Junior year in High School after we were presented all the requirements we had to achieve to get into some of our dream schools and at the time being I still was immensely indecisive on where I wanted to attend since I didn’t meet the requirements for a particular school; therefore, I asked for my mom’s opinion on what to do. My mother said, “give in, to what you want to get out” which meant for me to give it my all in anything I do, my dedication and time for I will receive the results I want. Her words have had a crucial role in my life which I apply to my daily tasks and have stuck with me ever since. That being said, I was and still highly motivated to achieve in school.

My parents were born and raised in Mexico. At a very young age my parents faced the realities of poverty. In Mexico my parents only saw two options, moving or starving. Although life for my parents improved in the United States, they quickly realized the reality and the difficulty of fieldwork. Living paycheck to paycheck began to take a toll on my parents, so at the age of 9 my older sister and I began working in the fields, to help my parents financially. As I grew older I realized that in order to leave the fields behind, I would have to put a lot of effort into my academics.

A judicial method that fabricates laws without concurrence not only fails to invoke justice, but also invalidates the system of international law. Yet the Nuremberg trials contrast this idea. The London Charter ensured a foundation of accepted agreements, of which Germany was aware (Linder, ???). Moreover, the agreement applied internationally accepted conventions of limitations in the conduct of war, a German concept originally promulgated by a Prussian military theorist (Jackson, 1945; Clausewitz, ???). Responding to Frankl, one may identify his illogically drawn correlations between biblical and ancient war to modern international societal norms, recognized through accords since Westphalia (Frankl, 1995). Frankl benefits from hindsight, and although the Cold War stalled international efforts in the proliferation of human rights, the foundation established by the action, vice stagnation, of the Nuremberg Trials has set the conditions for future international

Moreover, the participants had to be fluent in both English and Spanish. The Hispanic parent participants were selected if they had been attending the school district for at least a year and had their “ELL children enrolled in the district’s elementary, middle, and high schools” (Good et al., 2010, p. 325). All the parents’ main language was Spanish.

By critically examining Eichmann’s trial, it is clear that the criminal proceeding was facilitated in a way that did not ensure Eichmann’s basic human right, to a trial free of bias and subjectivity. One of the major flaws in Eichmann’s trial was the trial being held in Israel, as opposed to Germany, where the crimes were actually committed. As outlined in the Jasper reading, holding the trial in Israel, was a strategic and political decision (Jaspers, 2006). As was discussed in lecture, the choice to hold the trial in Israel, was made to fuel the opinion that Israel was the land where the Jewish community was safe, despite Israel’s complicity in the horrendous actions that were committed during the Holocaust (Tasson: Course Slides (W6)). The choice to hold the trial in Israel was an unfair decision, that was made to promote Israel’s pro-Jewish perception, and put the metaphorical stake in Eichmann’s coffin (Tasson: Course Slides (W6)). The right to a fair criminal proceeding is a human right that should be afforded to all human beings, despite the crimes they have committed. Holding a criminal trial in a nation unrelated to the crime, is a human rights violations, due to the basic fact that the facilitation of the trial is being used to further the nation’s interest, as opposed to fairly prosecuting the individual (Tasson: Course

Throughout time there have been many memorable trials of this century, but there has been one case that’s been more forward in the way that international cases should be organized, in the sense of who has the jurisdiction to try the case. The Eichmann case that Hannah Arendt discusses has many aspects that fit in the sense that Eichmann was not given a proper trial. Arendt provides this information by asking the questions of whether the case she is faced with should have been thought of as solely legal or whether there was a philosophical agenda behind how the trial occurred. This allows for a discussion on the eagerness to think of how consciousness plays in the manner that Eichmann should have been and was judged. For this to follow through with the aspect that this case was all about paying respect to the Jewish culture, it can be provided that the Jewish court was less focused on setting a precedence for international crimes.

“You’re going to love Mexico City I can’t wait to show you the place where I grew up,” said my father on the drive to the airport. He was enthusiastic his eyes looked like bright stars from the excitement he had. I wasn’t very excited about the move, but hid my emotions behind a smile. Months prior my parents had a business idea in mind, since my father was born in Mexico City, he wanted to go back to his hometown and work there. He wanted to experience life as it was for him before he came to the United States, and fulfill a lifelong dream that he had to open his own business. He was convinced that opening an English school in the heart of Mexico was a great idea, and that having Americans teach the classes would be a great opportunity for the people of the city. My mother and I weren’t as excited as he was, my

“Come on sweetie, you can do it!” These words have constantly been spoken to me ever since I was a child, and by my parents enforcing these words towards me they inspired me to achieve all that I am able too. In the Mexican culture there are many of us who yearn to learn new things yet there are many of our people who instead of lending a helping hand they thrust each other downward. With this key fact in mind I push myself to become an educated person with a degree so that I can prove to myself that if you want it you will get it. My family has always been very keen on education. One of my childhood memories is that of my father telling us “The only great inheritance I can leave you with is that of