I Am An Individual Child

According to Deci and Ryan (1985), Self-determination theory focus on an individual’s knowledge of autonomy, competence, and relatedness, which are the factors to raise the most volitional and most important practices of motivation and engagement for activities, including enhanced performance, persistence, and creativity. In this theory, academic motivation is divided into 3 categories; intrinsic,

To start with, after being apart from my family, I become more independent. When I was in high school, I can’t live without parents. Perhaps due to the difference of culture, Chinese parents give their children excessive attention, which cause negative effects on children’s development. One day, “ I’m starving, and I want to eat sweet and sour pork” I said to my mom languidly just like usual. Mom frowned for a while and replied seriously:” you are already 16, and you need to learn housework instead of asking and commanding. You will realize what I am saying in the future.” “Okay, haha I will,” I answered inadvertently, thinking that mom was so garrulous. However, after being apart from my parents, I learned to cook and clean my room, which I had never thought before. Until then, I realized my mom’s words suddenly and regretted not listening to mom’s suggestions, and I started to observe what other people do when dealing with difficulties. Imitating others, I

Since I came from Cape Verde, things have been so hard for me because I had to deal with new things every day until I got used to them. Even after 5 years, my English is still not perfect. I still struggle understanding some things in English. It was funny when everyone was complaining about not understanding Shakespeare’s play in my literature class. They said that Shakespeare’s language was hard to understand. I did not say anything to them but I said to myself, “If it is hard for them, how it is going to be for me since English is my third language.” But I didn’t let it bother me because since I came from Cape Verde, I had been dealing with struggles. I had problems learning English, building a relationship with my new family and adapting to new environment. Three years ago, there was one day that I was so mad and I was complaining about my homework because it was so hard to understand, my dad came up to me and said, “you’re very lucky to go to school, to get the chance to learn English.” He continued, “when I came from Cape Verde, I tried to go to school but I ended up quitting it because I had to work two jobs to be able to survive because I had no one to provide for me but you don’t have to work. I work for you every single day so you can get take advantage of every opportunity.” I stopped complaining since then. I realized that my dad

Their mentality constantly fueled them to escape the hole of poverty that relentlessly sucked us in. They imparted the persistence of Chinese ethos to me and encouraged me to apply it to my academic endeavors. I began to ask for help from teachers after school and toiled each evening to master the language. By the end of the year, I was deemed advanced. I had tasted the rewards of hard work. I finally understood why my parents had clutched the persistent beacon of hope in the darkness of poverty and

I immigrated to America with my family five years ago and received an education that is impossible to gain in China. Some may not know this, but access to college is very competitive and one’s social status plays a significant role to China’s economy. Therefore, my parents made an very important decision, which was to leave my mother country and step in a foreign country that is America. Here, I am able to experience mountains of obstacles and learn how to solve these complex life cases.

Autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice are most widely known and utilized ethical principles. Guido, (2014),described autonomy as encompassing self-determination or the ability to access information important to decision making, or following one’s own values, and the freedom to choose a course of action free of coercion, and to be in control of ,and be responsible for one’s actions

Daniel Pink describes what autonomy means and what autonomy looks like. Autonomy uses people, or employees, in the workplace that do not have schedules; they show up when they want. Management involves autonomy, not emanate from nature. Autonomous behavior means people involves acting with the full sense of volition and choice. Moreover, Autonomy differs from independence because it means acting with a choice. People need autonomy over the four aspects of work: task (what people do?), time (when they do it?), technique (how they do it?), and team (whom they do it with?).

I had more challenges to overcome as I grew older. When I was in elementary school, my father left China for opportunities in America, and due to my mother’s demanding work schedule,

Everyone is a unique individual. We all have different experiences and influences and skills or talents that have an impact on the development of our identities. Furthermore, individualism is hard-coded into our DNA. Each of us is composed of DNA building blocks created in a specific order to form our individual genomes which makes us who we are. The amount of combinations to this is effectively limitless and, in addition to this, our experiences can effect the expression of traits coded by DNA. My talent, which is a major part of my identity, is that I can easily make annoying people stop bothering and scare others from doing what they are not supposed to. This is mostly due to the fact that my apparent default expression, even when I am happy, is either upset or angry. This has a plethora benefits, granted that it is has a just as bountiful

According to the text, people want autonomy – “to have some sense of control regarding the things they do and the directions their lives take” (p.435). Based on this statement, learners are “more likely to be intrinsically motivated when they have a sense of autonomy about their present circumstances,” meaning that they are more likely to (1) “voluntarily engage in [activities] for long periods,” (2) “think meaningfully and creatively about tasks and problems,” and (3) “undertake challenges that maximize long-term learning and development,” among other behaviors (p.436). One variable that can influence people’s sense of autonomy, and in turn affect motivation, is student choice, given that learners “have a greater sense of autonomy (and so are more intrinsically motivated) when they’re able to make choices… about the things they do and the outcomes for which

It was devastating for my family to start over from point zero after all we’ve been through to get to where we were and all out efforts and moments of hardships.In the process of settling down, I had to be there for my parents at their lows. It struck me that I had to take responsibility for myself and those around me as an adult. I had to solve my problems solemnly and take responsibility for my actions despite all the pain and pressure that I had to take in and keep it in and let no one notice it. I also tried to keep my academic life untouched of this pressure that was caused after the migration and settling down from a much lower lifestyle that we had before migration, but they were moments that it had affected my academic performance. Also I felt the responsibility to become successful and not give up since my parents sacrificed so much for me to get here. I didn’t want all their efforts and all the pain and hardships that we took in go to waste, thus I feel that I have to pursue my studies and not give up no matter how hard it

I remembered my reading journey that began long time ago. My father has a big library that contains many books. Before I joined the school I used to read simple text and write my name and my family members’ names. I am the youngest between my brother and two sisters. I was feeling jealous seeing them going to school and I am not. Therefore, I tried my best to get engaged in what they did. But I could not because they were at higher level than me. Though that had a positive effect on me.

Before I went abroad to study in the US, I hardly knew about American culture. All of me though of culture inheres in Chinese culture. I never thought there’s such a large cultural difference between Chinese culture and Western culture. It did not occur to me to consider why it happens and what I could learn from it. It’s my first year here in America and I choose to live in home stay instead of living on campus. Both of my home stay family are so young as 30 years old. While I was living with that home stay, I have understanding about cultural differences between China to America deeply. One day my home grandmother came home. She said she wanted to live with my home stay mother because of some physical issues. Her face showed that she was so eager to get a positive answer. But my home stay mother said no to her. The expression on her face was so decisive and resolute that I kind of hated her on it. I was so confused

When I look back in the past, I would see those days I was working restlessly while studying eagerly at school. I call my father a hero for his encouragement to pursue my studies. I would also remember he kept telling me, “Do not worry about the expenses, and just move forward to accomplish your studies at any cost!” So when I had a problem, I would share it with my father and nothing could defeat me to reach my goals. My father taught me that education is the ultimate goal to succeed while leaving the desperation behind. With the help of my father, I devoted most of my time studying English language and attending computer classes when I was about fifteen. I could hardly

I am a traditional Chinese girl. In my memory, I was always told that I was very quiet and assiduous, and I was always being commissary in charge of studies of a class from my elementary school. After 6th grade, I enrolled in an outstanding students class of junior high school with distinction score. In the junior high school, I also studied hard, it was certain that I got good grades during my junior high school. There was a turning point to me in 2011. After consulted with my parents, I decided to go to an International high school. It was a completely different educational system compare to my previous study. Because the instruction language and study mode changed, I felt difficult to adapt myself to the study life of high school. I was confused my future study goal and I fell to the bottom of my study life and school life in the beginning of my high school. In my grade ten’s summer vocation, my cousin, Edmund came back from Seattle, he was a freshman of UW in that year. He showed me some photos of Seattle, I was attracted by the Sakura in UW, they were so beautiful. He also introduced some campus details and funny stories of UW to me. From that time, UW became a worthy goal for me to strive for. I began to have more communication with my teachers and tried more study methods for my IB study. Finally, my grades became better and better, and got 41 in my final predicted score. In 12th grade, I applied UW to be a freshman, unfortunately, because the application pool was