My First Generation Research Paper

I believe that Polk County Early College High School would be a great school for me because of smaller class sizes and more one on one opportunity with teachers. I feel that I thrive in that kind of setting because you can feel free to ask for help if needed, and it will be provided much more easily than in a larger class room. I also love the opportunity that the school provides to be able to earn college credits while attending high school. I am a very self motivated person and being able to complete work at my own pace would be significant. If I am working at my own pace I will be given the chance to work ahead and cover more material which is great. I think Polk County Early College would be the perfect school for me because I would be

Everyone knows there's a lot of responsibility that comes with being a first generation student that plans to go and get a college education/degree whose family comes from a foreign country. People do not understand why I feel I have so much of a responsibility on my shoulders. However I now understand why there is so much responsibility that comes with being a first generation student that plans to go and get a college education/degree with family from a foreign country, thanks to my grandmother’s wise words. She said “ being a first generation student that plans to go and get a college education/degree with family from a foreign country isn’t about your success, it's about the success you bring to the family name, the pride you bring to the family/country and moreover the success you bring will represent your parents hard work has truly paid off”, at the time she said this I was only 12 years old so I didn't quite understand what she meant but it has stuck in my mind ever since. Now that I’m more mature I understand what she meant. I believe that my success or failure is no longer just benefiting or hurting me, if I fail that means I fail my family and my people and that is why going to college is so important to me. In this paper I’m going to write about what high standards mean to me, my goals, activities I’m involved in

In the 1960s, my grandfather Donald Horn was a successful businessman in the feed industry; he became successful and achieved wealth for himself and his family without the use of any college degree. However, this changed for my mother Melissa Horn because she did not know what she wanted to do to become successful and continue her father’s hopeful lineage, until she went to cosmetology school where she learned how to style hair while grooming her own future. But now growing up in the present era, I must complete more schooling if I want to attempt a career in medicine, along with the rest of the generation, to be able to accomplish some semblance of prosperity for my own future. It is evident that a transcendence between how generations

As the generation of babies born after World War II are known as the baby boomers, my generation will likely still be referred to as the millennials. This is due to many of us being born around the turn of the millennium. However, my generation was also the first to have modern technology interrogated into our academics, vehicles, and all other aspects of our personal lives.

Although being a Vietnamese American did not fully resonate with me until later in my life, I have taken that identity with stride and used it to better myself in all aspects of my

To begin, my second month as a seventh grader at Pinelands has been different. It was definitely different from my first month, because now I am used to all of the middle school things(lockers, changing classes, etc.). Pinelands is a pretty big school, considering I came from Frog Pond and that was what I considered big. I’ve also joined after school clubs, and had my first middle school halloween. It is a lot different from what I’m used to; now you wear your costume for the whole day. A few of the other GATE girls and I even did a group costume, and it was so much fun.

As of right now I am writing to you where you will one day be sitting. I hope that my first born is a boy named Elliott, but if you have a different name or you are a girl i still will love you the same. I am seventeen and at the end of my senior year. I hope that when you are a senior you like school so much more than i do. I am not the biggest fan of school, but I never have been. I hope that when you are in school there is no dress code. The biggest fight every student has with authority here is about the dress code. Jackson County's dress code in 2017 is a bit ridiculous. You can not wear shorts, tank tops, and basically the color white without getting sent to iss (in school suspension).

Being truly Vietnamese is something I have yet to achieve. Both my parents are Vietnamese and they have grew up in our homeland for years before deciding to move to America. I have lived in America all my life and instead taught bits and pieces of Vietnamese history and culture that I learned while trying to focus on living life in America. I might know how to speak and read some Vietnamese, but that is not what I believe being Vietnamese amounts to. I believe that being Vietnamese is knowing and being proud of their rich history, being able to make contributions to the world around them and persevering in the face of adversity. Although I try to make contributions of my own because I believe in making a difference, I can only work with the Vietnamese community if I want to contribute towards it.

My first day as a member of the 501st... it was hot, it was sandy, chaotic. Nothing at all like the simulations on Kamino. Of course that's pretty much the way it was for all of us, wasn't it? All that breeding, all those years of training... it doesn't really prepare you for the all the screaming or the blood, does it? Frankly I'm still amazed we ever made it through the first hour, nevermind the first

Each and every generation from the 1500s, to the 1900s has its greatness and downfalls. But the unfortunate part about generations is that they downfalls outweigh the positive accomplishments and greatness about the generations, like mine for example. The two biggest problems that my generation has to face is one, child and adult obesity, and secondly over use of cellular devices. Obesity is the state of being heavily over-weight also known as being fat. In the past 30 years the childhood obesity rate has doubled. The percentage of children aged 6–11 years in the United States who were obese increased from 7% in 1980 to nearly 18% in 2012. Similarly, the percentage of adolescents aged 12–19 years who were obese increased from 5% to nearly 21% over the same period. These statstics disgust me everytime i talk about these

I grew up in Vietnam and came to the United States (U.S.) when I was eleven years old. I have lived in the U.S. for more than thirty years and have integrated new ideas and contrasting perspectives to the cultural lessons that I have learned growing up in Vietnam and from my parents. I feel that I would be most accurate identifying myself as being bicultural. However, I am certain that the first eleven years of my life have a strong influence on my character, my values, and the person that I am today. Vietnamese culture is influenced by Confucian philosophical beliefs, where the emphasis is placed on giving respect to people that are older and a responsible person to our family and society.

A generation in a nutshell is basically a compilation of people who were born into the same era, and belief in similar fads and concepts.

Having grown up without a father, he was killed in motor vehicle accident six months after getting out of the Army after serving two simultaneous tours of duty in Korea; I did not know how to be a man. My mother and grandmother get the most credit for me being who I am today. My grandmother started me reading the Bible at the age of three, even though she only had a third grade education post slavery and being a sharecropper.

For example, my grandfather Jerry was a doctor and my Great Aunt Margaret and Pat were nurses. Anytime I was sick, my mom would always call her dad up and talk to him rather than rushing me to a doctor. When I was in the 7th grade, it was one of the hardest times of my life, Jerry was suffering from heart attacks and fluid in his lungs. I had never been exposed to the feeling of loss until he passed away. Losing one of my role models and someone that I cared deeply about made me a stronger person. Since his passing, I have seen more and more of my aunts and uncles than I had before, and growing strong relationships with all of them.

My father's protectiveness and selflessness generated at a young age for him. He is the ninth of twelve children, and often told us stories of how he had to look after, and practically raise his three younger siblings after my grandfather had passed. He made certain they completed their chores around my grandmother's farm, maintained good hygiene practices, and kept up with their schoolwork. School was extremely important to my father, because he knew an education was the only way he could be successful.