My life’s path and choices had some correlations and parallels to the writings of Weaver, Tan, and Malcolm X. To venture back to a time I have not thought about in years was difficult. My mother’s important goals for us after my father died included keeping our family out of poverty, and for her children to obtain a high school education. My family influences discussed in this paper include hard work, responsibility, and education, along with societal gender discrimination. The family influences of my past did not become my future, but affected my life choices. The traditions my husband and I made for our family come from a better understanding of our beginnings, the poverty we lived through, and the importance of education to a successful life.
My hard work and fear of failure was instilled in me by my father. My father was a strict disciplinarian and taught me and my five brothers that one must work hard, take pride in one’s work, and laziness was unacceptable. His method of instilling work ethics included fear and physical punishment. My early teachings of what constitutes work, and how one should work are still with me today. One must work hard, there are no excuses, and one must strive to provide a perfect product or service. My fear of failure is great; along with the idea that something horrible will happen if you do not succeed. My family consisted of my mother, father, and my brothers with no extended family due to my parents’ difficulties with them. My father
After reading Annette Lareau’s book, “Unequal Childhoods”, I gain a better understanding of how my childhood affected the person I am today and the person I will become. This book categorizes Americans in classes of poor class, working class, and middle class; Lareau studies multiple families in each of these classes, including different races. In the following essay, I will apply the same concepts Lareau used in her book to my own life.
Family history is vital to knowing who you are, where you come from, and how it shapes your personal identity. As I reflected over the course of my life, and explored family’s educational past, a startling revelation was uncovered. I have a lineage of uneducated family and did not recognize this truth until the assignment. Research extended back to grandparents on my mother’s side, revealed neither one finished elementary. A lot of unanswered questions are now coming to light. Although I completed high school, college education was incomplete, which yielded a poor end result; my son dropped out of college as well.
Topic (Biographical Essay): We are interested in learning more about you and the context in which you have grown up, formed your aspirations, and accomplished your academic successes. Please describe the factors and challenges that have most shaped your personal life and aspirations. How have these factors helped you to grow?
Early in life, I realized that education often determines one's destiny. Being born and raised away from city with a remote and long isolated community, exposed me to the challenges of facing poverty coupled with squandered opportunities for education, health, and happiness. Though struggled to meet days end , my father insisted me along with my three siblings receive education to break this notion. He inculcated in us the compulsion to strive, the talent to prosper and the ability to overcome failure are strongly inherited. Even though confronted the stigma of social status, my parents relinquished us with every possible comfort in the defiance of material paucity........I fear I never noticed those tears melted away with water dropping
Human beings are always in constant development process, throughout their life history. People often pass various stages and occurrences in life, which in one way or the other shape their being into what they are today. Actually, this is the reason why sociologists argue that we are the product of our environment, implying that every human behavior emanated from what they saw or experienced in life. In relation to this, this paper will discuss at length about my individual development narrative, and go a notch higher to explain every occurrence/stage in my life from a theoretical perspective.
I always wondered why people made bad choices, always doing what they hated to do. For me, it seemed like life was a narrowing tunnel. Right when you were born, the tunnel was huge. You could be anything. Then you started to grow up and everything you did closed the tunnel some more. You broke your arm climbing a tree and you ruled out being a baseball pitcher. You failed everyday math test you ever took and you cancelled any hope of ever being a scientist. On and on through the years the tunnel narrowed. You suddenly became stuck. You’d become a baker or a librarian or a bartender. And there you were. I figured that on the day you died, the tunnel would be so narrow; squeezing yourself of so many choices, that you just got squashed. But I
Some choices I made in the past cost me to stumble. The choices I made in my past experiences taught me a lot. But I wouldn’t change any of the choices I made. Those choices allowed me to become a better person for today and tomorrow. A lot of my actions taught me you can never be a leader if you continue to follow. So I am sharing a few moments in my life were choices affect me and my loved ones.
Especially because I am a young woman, I am expected to perform at a lower standard than men. Society does not accept the fact that I am capable of doing anything a man is able to do, academically or physically. Therefore, I am determined to break barriers and show all young women that accomplishing dreams are possible with consistency and perseverance. Specifically, I am an African-American woman. Because I am a minority of society, I must work even more efficiently in order to prove that I am worthy and have the skills to thrive through my college career. Serving prison sentences, being impoverished, and even death are some of the hardcore life situations that are geared toward the African-American community. My aspirations are what keep me stimulated in order to ignore these stereotypical expectations. Instead, I create unique standards for myself that I will uphold and follow for my future endeavors. Without such hardships, I could not honestly admire the feeling of triumph. Abandoning a strenuous task may seem as if it is the only way out of a difficult time in life. However, because I am willing to use my strength to push forward and achieve my goals, I am destined for
One's dream and aspirations to supersede in life must be stronger and greater than limitations set forth by others. The experience that were bestowed to me during my short life has elevated me to the woman I am today. Please walk with me as I give you the opportunity to see the world from my eyes:
My life has been a crazy roller coaster with many events that have affected my life all in different ways. There have been times where my life has been at its highest peak in the world then it falls down, right into a deep valley. From the time my lovable younger sister came into my life to when my grandpa had a near death experience, I have learned many valuable lessons through the rough times as well as the more happy times. When I was a young girl, my mom had always told me the same thing over and over again. I never really thought about how a few words would have a deep effect on me in a short amount of time.
I can remember as a child always asking myself the "why" questions of life. Why are we here? What is the purpose of life? Why do certain things happen? And is there really a God? I had always kept these questions to myself and eventually pushed them out of my mind altogether. I was raised in a Christian household and you just were not allowed to ask questions of that nature and doubt the faith. The world is the way it is because God made it that way and that is all there is to it. I was really excited to take this class because it would finally give me the opportunity to exercise my personal thoughts and beliefs. I have come to agree with Socrates that "the unexamined life is not worth living." In my opinion life is a combination of
As a very small child I don’t remember too much, but the things that I do remember were seen through a child’s eyes that has made me the person that I am today and I will always have those memory’s with me until my last breath on this earth. In this essay I intend to show how my childhood and adult life to this point has influenced my life, my journey. By utilizing the adult development theories from this class I also intend on showing how they relate to my Life experiences and where I am today as an Adult student.
This explains the beginning of my life all the way to the end of my life. My life from the beginning was very fun as I grew up living with my mom’s friend and my friend. But there were a lot of fights and I was very hyper back then. I have ADHD so back then when I was little; I was very hyper and wouldn't stop moving around the place. I always was annoying back then and never seemed to get my homework done at school.
I can remember as a child always asking myself the “why” questions of life. What is the purpose of life? Why are we here? What is the purpose of life? Why do certain things happen? And is there really a God? I had always kept these questions to myself and eventually pushed them out of my mind altogether. I was raised in a Christian household and you just were not allowed to ask questions of that nature and doubt the faith. The world is the way it is because God made it that way and that is all there is to it. I was really excited to take this class because it would finally give me the opportunity to exercise my personal thoughts and beliefs. I have come to agree with Socrates that “the unexamined life is not
“For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord,” Romans 8:38-39. There are several events that have occurred in my life that I could choose to write my topic about. Throughout my childhood, the thought of “being baptized” always kept me wondering. While growing up, I would ask my parents what the meaning of being saved was but never received an answer. My baptism influenced my life by completely changing my perspective on the way of life.