Nashville Youth Poet Lagnajita Mukhopadhyay

Her life changed so rapidly, going from outgoing to a shut-in, laughed at due to her iniquities. Not wanted to deal with the frustrations of public school, she decided to go to Lexington School for the Deaf. She exceled there (well rounded) and was valedictorian her last 2 years

Jane’s goal is clearly much higher than reproducing other’s works. She sees herself acquiring the skills of a professional artist. Jane

Unlike most people, I did not get to be a carefree child for long. Even though I always said that I could not wait to grow up, now I wish that it all did not happen so fast and early in my life. From eleven to twelve years old—that would be the period I describe as the time I had to put my big-girl pants on and face the real, cruel and unwelcoming adult world. In that time period, I can specifically pinpoint two major events that ended my childhood: my move from Russia to the United States and the birth of my baby sister Toma. To some those might not seem significant enough to change someone’s life to the extent that they changed mine; however those events molded me into the person I am today.

She said “...perhaps even on Sundays when I was in my mother’s womb, my mother pointed across I Street to Seaton as we come and go to Mt. Carmel” (Jones, 1990’s, p.1). This is an anomaly because it she says she even remembers when she was in her mother’s womb. This shows that even before she was born, her mother had an idea of where she wanted her child to go to school. She thought ahead and began to plan a future for her child. “...my mother continues to pull out the documents with the purposefulness of a magician pulling out a long string of scarves” (Jones, 1990’s, p.2). The mother had everything ready for her child to get into school. When a parent wants to get their child an education, when they go to sign them up for school, they will be prepared and have all paperwork for the school. The parent cares about their child's education and

She eventually decided on what she wanted to study at the university and continued on to

For the first time, she clearly saw what her life would have been like had her parents didn’t take the risk of leaving their home. Poverty was omnipresent, opportunity was non-existent and educated, hard working professionals were barely scraping by. Even the youth had nothing to look forward to. “Their faces all shared the same expression -- hopelessness. I would only see a small glimmer of hope in their eyes when they spoke of America, and how different their lives would be if they could live there.” says Cameron, “My parents risked everything because of hope. Hope for opportunity. Hope in the American Dream. Hope for their children. The risk they took is unparalleled to any risk I’ll ever have to face as an entrepreneur in America, and I felt so ashamed that I had allowed ignorant remarks shape my life and translate into resentment, especially towards them. The very thing that I viewed as a disadvantage growing up as a foreigner, which I let cripple me with fear and insecurity throughout my childhood and teenage years, was now my biggest blessing. My perception shifter, and it transformed into pride, a strong will, and an unrelenting ambition to succeed. My culture is unique and beautiful, and so am I, and I am grateful to have the opportunity to become anything I choose. My entrepreneurial instinct kicked into

But as she said before, growing up there is different than growing up here, and she sees this with her daughters. She went on to tell me that she felt prepared in her career path, while her daughter is unsure of what she wants to do.

The theme of "Growing Up" by Soto Gary is to be grateful for your family and do not resent spending time with them because you will never know what will happen and then you will loose them. At the beginning of the story, Maria did not want to go on vacation with her family because she believed that she was too old. She was quite ungrateful that her family was taking her and her siblings on vacation. Her father had said " When I was a kid we didn't have money for vacation. I would have been happy to go with my father." (Page 2) Maria then replied with " I know, I know. You've said that hundred times. The tone was snappish and it felt very disrespectful, I would have been very angry if I was her father. She had also said "We never do anything, it's

The environment in which i was raised on was a pretty and calm back then. I came from a not rich or medium class but a low class. That place was that i was raised where i came from is mexico matamoros tamaulipas not a really good or great place now but where i lived was the best place ever. lived there all my childhood until i was six. My parents wanted a better future for me a better education a better life for me so we moved to the united states. I still had my both parents and in still do except at that time we had bad economic situations. My dad had to head up north and look for a job in florida i didn’t want him to go especially because it would be hard for me not being able to see him. Sometimes i wouldn’t see my dad for a year or two

There were numerous hardships uncovered throughout the interview, which allows one to re-examine the trials and tribulations individuals face when immigrating to a foreign country. It was difficult at points of the interview to seek clarification on sensitive topics such as employment, and the notion of otherness. Carmela often recounted issues of great misfortune in her parent’s inabilities to make enough money for all nine siblings. Listening to such emotional stories often threw my interview off track, causing for a total review of the initial question. However, such stories

After a year living here, she realized the “America Dream” would not come true, if she does not go to the school and get a career. So she did it!. she started taking two classes at night, then three. After almost 6 years she finally graduated with a degree in Hospitality Management. Then she starts working as a banquet's supervisor at the hotel Holiday Inn in Stamford, Ct. After a little while, she was promoted to banquet manager. Mery made a tremendous effort doing all this, but at the end she felt that it was worth it. Now she has a better life than before, and she can give her family the stability that they need. She said that immigrating with her family was not easy, because she had more responsibilities than others, but it did not stop her and they were the reason that pushed to achieve her dream.

Most families are complicated but supportive. For example, a family could argue a lot, but still love one another. In Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” mama still supports her daughters even though, they’re not around much. Their issues are not unique because my family has its issues, too. The family in “Everyday Use” and my family both have similarities and differences regarding siblings, bonds, and mothers.

never go to school. All of this was taken away from her at such a young age, when she

Having been born to Laura Guse and Thomas Ward, in Cottonwood, Idaho, who were the ones who cared for me until Thomas died, Life was full of many disappointments, both from others as well as towards others from me. Life has been very turbulent but, disappointments are a huge part of growth and this is why change happens constantly around the world. Mine is just a small part of this enormous amount of change that happens every day

She had little schooling, but she had run businesses. She had managed on her own, with a husband and sons, in a country that didn’t care for her or her culture, but only for their aggrandized version of it. Her experiences were rightful cause to be jaded and hard, and yet she saw brightness and she saw brightness in me. She saw the great things in life, she loved hard and appreciated the little things — us going for a walk together or just sitting in the sun on a warm day.