I Am A College Student Essay

1. I had spent my entire life in my home country, Lebanon. After I moved to the United States in 2013, seeking a better life and a higher quality education, the transition placed an immense amount of pressure and stress on me. I moved from a place where I have a strong support system from family and friends to a place where I do not have any social life. Even though I knew that moving to the United States was a positive life-changing decision, but the idea of uprooting myself from everything I am familiar with to a place where I am not familiar with their culture was very hard on me. Additionally, trying to adjust to new things was not an easy thing to overcome. For this reason, it was difficult for me to assimilate to the new culture, new language, and

The obstacles that I have faced, and overcome, stem from the same source: the immigrant status of my parents. Neither is English-fluent, and only my mother obtained even a high-school diploma. Due both to immigration status and low educational attainment, my parents thus have been relegated to hard-labor jobs which pay poorly. That low-income has posed serious barriers for myself and three siblings. Indeed, I had no home internet access until I purchased a computer this year, with my own savings. The lack of past access had required much effort, to use a school or friend's computer.

I was born in a small ranch in Mexico, and raised in Oregon .My first year and a half I grew up with only my mother and grandmother, my father in the US trying to raise enough money to send to my mom and me . I came to the United States with my mom at the time in only understood Spanish. The Spanish language stayed with me up until I was 3 , I was the only child but my older cousins taught me a new foreign language. From the moment I learned to speak English to almost 14 years later, being a year away fro graduation its been a big struggle. Fighting against the "I cant's" and "failure" it's been a bumpy ride. Something that has really shaped my life is, as I grew up I didn't quite understand the meaning of immigrant, my 7 year old mind didn't

To start, being in Mexico was really hard and frustrating for me because I barely knew anything that was in Mexico and also the shortage of money was really tough for as a kid that wants everything. Everyday I would get mad at myself because I felt useless around the people that really worked hard and had a good life, and compared to me it was tough. My parents would eventually

Nicki asks if Dana believes in her, it is a big step for Dana to allow Nicki, a person she met only a few weeks earlier, to save her sister from going through the abuse she went through as a younger child. Nicki is able to save Dana’s sister and helps Dana learn to trust her mother and sister again. In conclusion Dana becomes a trusting individual when she learns her sister is in trouble and opens up to let Nicki help.

Coming back to the U.S. for the second time in my life after nine years was perhaps one of the most challenging obstacles I have ever had to face. Not only did I have to accustom myself to the language but also to a newer, differentiated culture. Also, with that came some bullying and taunting that did not pull me down but instead opened my eyes to see what a strong and enduring person I could be. With help from my teachers and my supporting family as they helped buffer my experience and transition to a different world, I was able to overcome the typical immigrant challenge that thousands have to face.

Sophomore year, I joined my High School's division of Kiwanis Key Club. The club prided itself with their devotion to community service. I thought that the club would be a great vehicle for me to assist my community while creating and expanding my relationships. However, I was greatly disappointed in the club my Sophomore year. There appeared to be little leadership present, so hardly any community service successfully took place. I made it my goal to gain a leadership position and turn the club around. Junior year, I was elected as President of the club and was re-elected to the position my Senior year.

Type of pension plan would be a hybrid plan. Can you elaborate/provide some information about why you chose a hybrid plan for Plan A? What were the features of the employee group that led you to this plan type?

I am Codell Craddock for the Respondent. My colleague, Fiona O’Brien has effectively demonstrated why the Hybrid Rights is merely dicta on the part of Justice Scalia and I will immediately follow by defining rational basis review. Rational Basis is the standard of review used by courts when reviewing matters pertaining to the fifth and fourteenth amendment. If a law proves to be rationally related to a legitimate government interest, then it passes rational basis review. In addition, it is not the duty of the court to review the intent of the law, but merely to decide if their is a relationship between the law and a government interest.” This rationale was upheld in Swanson Swanson v. Gurthrie Independent school district when the supreme court ruled that the school district’s rule to require all students to attend public school full-time is a general law that tailors to a governmental interest. In our case, the candy ban was instituted to combat childhood obesity which is a governmental interest. Because as we saw in Barsky vs Board of Regents, the public health of a community is a vital part of a state’s police power. It is clear from this, that although the Candy Ban incidentally affects the practice of a religion, there is a clear relationship between the candy ban and public health, a legitimate government interest. Therefore, it passes the rational basis test.

12 years, 2040 days, 16,320 hours, 979,200 minutes, this is the amount of time American students spend on the first step of an education (K-12). After spending this massive amount of time in school you would think that students are leaving with a good education, right? But the sad reality of it is that American high school students graduate with a mostly irrelevant education and it is crippling them in the real world. I am a student at Denver south high school in Colorado, so I have been able to witness this issue first hand. Although Denver south has an impressive level of diversity of different ethnicities, cultures and ideals that adds a lot to the experience of a high school education, our curriculum is still far from what is should be. I 've witnessed students sitting at desks sleeping, playing on there phones or doing something completely different from what the class is doing, not saying that I do the same thing. Being a senior I was required to take a civics class, this class consists of mostly lectures that rarely interact with the class, for me this class is a study hall where I finish homework assignments and where I finished the majority of my college application I was able to do all of this while still maintaining a A, isn 't their a problem with this? The majority of teachers, and parents think that this is the student 's fault for not being motivated to learn and to resist boredom, on the contrary I

Coming to the United States for me was like a rebirth. It was a totally different life that I had to adapt to; a new language to learn and new people to meet. Frank A. Clark once said, "If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere." This quote says everything I believe about hardship in life because adapting to a new environment for me was not easy. It was a path full of struggles, hardships, and disappointments. But without them I would not be who I am today.

The gov’t didn’t need to invest in industry like the Dutch. Tragically, New World silver and gold became a curse rather than a blessing as

Our first year in the United States was one of the most difficult and challenging years of my entire life. I remember watching my mother cry every single day in the closet of that small one-bedroom apartment. Cried, because she missed home. Cried, because everywhere we went, she would feel the intense racist stares and mugs of people towards the new "immigrant family" in the neighborhood. Cried, because our way of life in Mexico was worthless here. My father struggled to find a job as his electrician certificate in Mexico was nothing more than a piece of

The challenges I faced are financial struggles back in California, living with my grandparents until I know which parent has custody, learning english as a second language, and finding who I am. I lived in California for 10 years until I moved to North Carolina in 2011. The household size was 10 and money became an issue. My grandparents household consisted of my aunt, 5 cousins, grandparents, my sister, and me. Most of my clothes were hand me down from my uncle that visited every week and I went to an elementary school that require uniforms. There was always food in the house due to food stamps from the government and family members helping each other out.

Time, said to be eternal, possess neither a beginning nor an end. Yet however there is a fixation on being able to measure it in years, months, days, hours, minutes and seconds. Trying to save time with new technology, manage time with multi-tasking activities. All in the hopes of giving meanings to the past, present and future. The past is able to been seen but not changed, today is in the present yet still unpredictable, and tomorrow is not guaranteed. If I Could Tell You by W. H. Auden is a villanelle much like others using rhyme, repetition, and meter, that revolve around the main idea of the continuity time and its unforeseeable nature.