SOPHYRA SOKHAN
ESL 029
Harrisburg Area Community College
Elizabeth P. Barnes
My Personal Life
General Idea about life: People throughout the world have different lifestyles. Living standard is so dramatically different from country to country. It means that the way of living is not really similar in comparison. Some people are living in a very poor situation while other people are living in a good situation or in a privileged family.
About Author:
To begin with, I would like to brief my personal biography. Sophyra Sokhan, my official name, was given by my parents. My full name combines with both my father’s surname and my mother’s given name. I was born on May 11, 1994. I grew up in Phnom Penh City, which is
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It means that the priority of getting education and health care are much better than life in the countryside.
Life in Primary School
In Cambodia, mostly children have to start their life at school at the age of six years old; whereas, I started to be educated at the age of seven years old, in one of the public school in Cambodia. What I remember about that time is that I was so terrified to be sitting in the class. I was crying and wanted desperately going back to my house, but my parents tried to persuade me in order to stop crying and making noise in front of other classmates who sat silently and looked at me. It was so embarrassing to tell some of my stories when I was a child.
In Cambodia, the primary school covers from the first grade until sixth grade. At first, I felt upset and didn’t want to study at school because I thought it was so boring. But then I felt relieved, and I did an amazing job at school. Every day, I had to stay in a school and study for approximately six hours, but I had half-hour recesses between 2 hours. My parents always rewarded me whenever I got a good grade. Normally, a grade usually releases once a month which is at the end of the month. The rewards included toys, electronic games, and sometimes brought me out for eating a very delicious meal.
During my life at the primary school, I learnt a lot of things such as
We live in a society that is very unequal, in a way that people get treated differently depending on their social class, race or gender. Social inequality means the situation in which individual groups in a society do not have equal social status, social class or social circle. Clear boundaries in society are made that prevents
The variations in the living standards among the people from place to place, and from time to time have always been. Greed, injustice and inequality are the three sides of the triangle of poverty and when we see one of them or all, poverty is always there. Jacob Riis in his book, From How the Other Half lives, pointed it out offering a solution to end poverty saying: “the greed of capital that wrought the evil must itself undo it, as far as it can now be undone”. Humans cannot overcome a serious problem such as poverty without addressing those three issues. Even this problem is worldwide; it varies from one area to another. It is higher in areas which were colonized for a long time before such as Africa, Asia and Latin America than other
The majority of the people on the planet are poor. Most live in the third-world countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, where the typical standards of living are so far below that of the industrialized countries. Many lack adequate nutrition, shelter, and clothing. They are susceptible to disease and early mortality.
My name is Oluwadolanimi Zoe Tope-Banjoko; I was born on the 30th of April, 1999,
Read this article that discusses how to measure the performance of a warehouse in terms of storage space, cost, etc., and then answer each of the following questions in 6-10 sentences. Provide a critical assessment based on the above article, text readings, scholarly research, and personal experience. Cite your resources using APA format.
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The collection of the data for ABC Company will involve various instruments. The first will be existing wage and salary surveys that may be available to the research team. These could include government surveys or business surveys. However, since ABC Company's wage and salary policies and the administration of these policies are under scrutiny due to the pending lawsuit; various other data collection instruments will be used to present data to ABC Company's management.
Others may argue that it is the feeling of belonging that is more significant in why students consume alcohol, sometimes excessively and not stress. Teenage years is a time of uncertainty as there is a pressure to succeed in education by family as well as complications that can arise from the social side of life such as peer pressure. This has a major contribution to why so many young people tend to drink in order to be accepted by their peers especially for new university students as they are in a new environment trying to adapt to the new lifestyle and so are likely to be more reliant on their peer groups. This increases a peer’s involvement in an individual’s life who are easily able to engage a person in risk taking behaviours such as alcohol use as peer pressure has a strong influence as they can portray alcohol in positive ways meaning the individual’s attitudes will reflect that. This idea can be linked back to the social identity theory proposed by Tajfel (1970) who suggested that an individual’s self-concept is formed depending on what others think especially peer groups.
In conclusion, Indian students are a strong presence in USA. American higher education has been a light for international students around the world. However, global competition for international students is growing. The U.S. government should work to support colleges and universities as they continue to increase their international enrollment. International students are either most comfortable among others students from their cultural/regional background, or among other international students. That may be influencing the selection of location is fear and misperception. Many students featured in study identified the downtown location as
Starting school at the age of 3 is an experience that I cannot remember. The experiences I have with education were not always spectacular. Growing up, I went to school every year from the beginning of fall to the end of winter and to the dawn of summer, but I never thought to myself why I considered doing so. Maybe it was because of my devoted parents that I ended up in school early in the mornings or maybe because of my genes that were inherited from the souls of education in Asia. Nevertheless, here I am, ending my long High school career into spending another portion of my life in college.
As a result, I learned my social skills through either my friends or tv shows. I was quickly singled out by the older kids in the class, and soon the others would join. For the next three years I would endure constant mockery and isolation by my classmates. I would cry nearly every week, but my parents were numbed by their own culture, and deemed my scenes as sensitive. It was not that they did not love me, it was because they did not understand that my tears were a cry for help. Teachers showed the same lack of care, and I soon fell into a hopeless state of mind. I tried to keep everything within that school, and repressed my memories. As a result, I cannot remember everything in detail. A silver lining was the love and support from family and friends who kept me bubbly and energetic outside of my Chinese school. Slowly, I brought back my true personality to school, and that was when I made my first friend, Henry. Ironically, he was the bully to end all bullies. Despite treating me terribly in the past, he supported me through the rest of my Chinese school career. He
The variations in the living standards among the people from place to place, and from time to time have always been existent. Greed, injustice and inequality are the three sides of the triangle of poverty and wherever we see them, poverty is always there. Humans cannot overcome a serious problem such as poverty without addressing those three main causes. Even this problem is worldwide; it varies from one area to another. It is higher in areas which were colonized for a long time before such as Africa, Asia and Latin America than other areas which were not colonized for a long time such as Europe and America. We cannot imagine the swift change that happens in the last century in poverty. Surprisingly, it is only one percent of the population that controls most of the international financial assets, creating a massive change in the international landscape of poverty. It was mentioned in the introduction to the text that was taken from Jacob Riis’ book “How the Other Half Lives” this quotation: “Curiously, today, that economic divide has changed and we now speak of a much wider division: the one percent versus nighty nine percent”. It is interesting, but not surprising to see today with all modern thinking and technological progress, poverty is still growing to threaten our existence and it doesn’t seem to go away anytime soon. Most definitely, without addressing the three sides of the triangle of poverty which are greed, injustice and inequality, nothing really will work
Preschool was fun for me in Thailand. The teachers taught us how to sing different songs about our culture and the alphabets. We also did some math problems too. I totally forgot what I learned specifically now though. I was known as the best student in my class. My short tempered teacher would often say something like, “be more like Pleh Meh. Pleh Meh is your role model.” I liked it when she says that, but I didn't felt like I deserved to be called the best student though. Anyways, our school lunch was pretty good. They cooked chicken with mixed vegetables such as beans, broccoli, and potatoes. It was my favorite. Oh and I hate the bathroom that is close to my preschool. It was so old, there were small holes on the walls and it looked like it was about to fall down. It was tiny. It also had no locks on them! When I need to use the restroom, some of my friends would peek and I felt so uncomfortable that I don’t want to use it. Now I think about it, I’m not even sure if there was a toilet inside or was there just a dirt hole. After school, I would mostly go hang out with my friend Beh Meh. We caught butterflies, dragonflies, and crickets