My Personal Experience : My First Experiences In America

Just as we witnessed a generational gap in ideals and lifestyles of the participants in “Young and Restless in China,” I saw similar generational differences and similarities in my own interviews and observations. I came to the realization that the generation can determine the personal experiences one has, therefore impacting a person’s ideals and lifestyles. There was also a comparable struggle of the younger generation striving to remain true to the traditions and ethics of their family’s while

Memories and past experiences serve as a rail, a guiding support, for people in an effort to succeed in the present. People not only learn from the past, but the very act of going through something provides experience for a person who is to "move up the ladder of success and achievement". Some view failed experiences as a hinderance to future success. This is very untrue because history has a tendency of repeating itself, and in recognizing past failures, one can learn how to successfully approach

Living as Woman and a Muslim in America The term sociological imagination was a concept constructed by the American Sociologist C. Wright Mills in 1959 to describe the ability to understand how our lives are affected by the historical and sociological changes around us. In order to possess the knowledge of sociological imagination, we should be able to pull away from the current situation and be able to look and think from a different perspective. C. Wright Mills defined his concept of sociological

decided to come to America for my higher studies in Western Kentucky University. Although I knew it was really a challenge to me, this significant decision that I’ve made was going to change everything about my life and me. There are many things in life that can change the course of a person’s life. It can either make a positive impact or a negative impact on a person’s life. It’s always best to have the positive impact though. For me I have had a positive experience that has changed my life forever and

another chance for success to occur, growth to be realized, and potential to be reached. Providing these chances allowed for, what I would consider, transformational experiences to occur. My two years in the classroom allowed me to witness, first hand, the educational inequity that exists in America, known as the opportunity gap. My students were victims of a system that failed to adequately address their needs as

of foreigners lived with in America. Clancy establishes an argument of extreme and unjust racial discrimination against foreigners in America with touching anecdotes and personal experiences, riveting graphic images, and powerful diction, proving his points with ease. Clancy contrived a glorious amount of anecdotes to share with Congress back in 1924. As Clancy explains, “I learned more of the spirit of American history at my mother’s knee than I ever learned in my four years of high school study

Harsh stares and young blood draining out of an innocent or guilty body is what we hear and see in America. People have a side of nature of judgment, considerably known as racism. Ethnic minorities suffer racism in their lifetime, relating to Ta-Nehisi Coates memoir “Between the world and me” is an understanding of ineffectively influencing personal experiences, stereotypes, and ignorance towards people who face the issue of racism in reality like myself as a latina college student. As for Coates

class delved into the rise of ELL in America and how the best teaching methods to approach each learner with. Every ELL student is unique and has different learning process. Although the semester covered a wide variety of topics ranging from dialects to teaching methods, every module served its purpose in providing a framework for future ELL teachers. Learning about how to teach ELL was significant to me because when I first entered the school system in America, I was placed into ESL and I have gone

(p.3 the student personal point of view, 1937).As a first-generation student, from a working class family in rural America, I was significantly influence by the supportive communities provided by student affairs professionals. My academic success and personal development went through a transformation that ended up leading me to the field of student affairs. Through my

however it may take time to belong to a certain person, place, group, community or even the larger world. This issue is explored in Raimond Gaita’s biographical memoir Romulus, My Father and Khaled Hosseini’s confronting novel The Kite Runner. Throughout these texts, the themes of personal relationships, migrant experience and morals and values arise from the concept of