Tram Chu Biography

Both Twyla and Roberta were misjudged. The narrator states that “no else wanted to play with us because we weren’t real orphans with beautiful dead parents in the sky.” The other orphans misjudged them because they parents were dead, but Twyla and Roberta parents were still alive and had a chance to repair their relationship as mother and daughter. Both Twyla and Roberta went throw a phrase of hoping that here parents make them proud but getting them self’s clean and health, but it turned out to be the opposite. The narrator states that”” By the way. Your mother. Did she ever stop dancing?” I shook my head. “No. Never” Roberta nodded “And yours? Did she ever get well?” She smiled a tiny sad smile. “No. She never did.”” As children whose parents are alive but can’t and won’t take care of them, Twyla and Roberta are outsiders even within the shelter. Twyla and Roberta were both two scared and lonely eight-year-old kids. As two young kids growing up they had to rely on each other so that they could survive the hard nights and

She believes deeply in her mission, and because of that is able to escape from the imprisonment of her home. As “she disappears for hours” the parents display concern and disappointment, believing that they “have lost her”

This type of upbringing would lead one to believe that her life would not amount to anything and torn by the fact that she was not residing with her family. However, subconsciously, when she needed reassurance, her paternal mother’s words to her would always surface in her mind, “Sunshine, you’re my baby and I’m your only mother, but you must obey the one taking care of you but she is not your mama”.

There was one moment in the book where she had to make probably one of the most difficult choices in her life, yet she did not hesitate to make that choice. Jeannette’s older sister, Lori, always wanted to move to New York to escape her delusional parents. However, she did not have enough money to pay for a bus ticket, wiping out any hope that she had. " ‘I'll never get out of here,’ Lori kept saying. ‘I'll never get out of here.’ ‘You will,’ I said. ‘I swear it.’ I believed she would. Because I knew that if Lori never got out of Welch, neither would I.” Then one day, Jeannette was offered $200 and a bus ticket back to Welch to take care of a woman’s two toddlers in Iowa for the summer. Instead, she insisted that the woman, Mrs. Sanders, should take Lori and her payment be a “bus ticket to New York City.” The fact that Jeannette easily made the decision of sacrificing her ticket for Lori amazes me; she knew how important the trip the New York was for her, so she wanted to make that dream happen. When Lori left, Jeannette still did not give up on her dream to go to New York and become a journalist. She joined just about “every extracurricular event at the school” to gain the attention of colleges, particularly in New York. The motivation that can be found in this is that you cannot give up on your ambitions

Danielle DeRosa. The life story is unique. Danielle has gone full circle from her days leading up to college to where she is now in her profession. “Unsure,” was the word Danielle used to describe how she felt the day she was supposed to move into college. Incoming freshmen usually feel some sort of uncertainty, but Danielle said she was so unsure of college, her life goals, dreams, aspirations that she almost didn’t even attend UConn altogether. Luckily the support and guidance she received from her parents turned out to be a life changer for Danielle and may have, unknowingly to her at the time, given her an idea of her future career.

“Naropa is a buddhist founded university, and a lot of people, when they’re asked why they chose to go to Naropa, will say that Naropa chose them, and I think that is the same for me,” She says. When she began looking at colleges in high school, the two things she knew was that she wanted to be in Northern California, and she wanted it to have a program that was about humanitarian stewardship. She looked and many colleges but couldn’t find one that really reeled her in. But then her college career counselor directed her to Naropa, and it was almost exactly what she was looking for. Delaney is currently in her junior year at Naropa, and is in an interdisciplinary major with concentrations in peace studies and scientific psychology. An interdisciplinary degree is taking two or three concentrations, and by studying peace studies and scientific psychology simultaneously, she studies how they overlap and when they do, what they create. Studying them also allows her to get a degree in humanitarian work. Delaney also has a job as a personal and private assistant for a man that is on the board of directors for her university who has many good connections and owns a startup company. Her parents pay her rent and her cell phone bill, but Delaney pays for her utilities, groceries, car insurance, school supplies and textbooks. She also nannies an eight-month-old baby

As told through her mother’s perspective, one will learn that Trina is a eighteen year old female of African-American decent and resides with her mother in Los Angeles, California. Trina’s parents, Keri and Clyde, provide their daughter with an upper/upper middle class lifestyle due to her father’s sudden successful career and her mother’s successful resale clothing business in Los Angeles. This well rounded and beautiful adolescent has recently graduated from high school with high grades and was accepted to Brown University, however, due to her summer manic episodes, Trina has not attended college yet.

She was responsible, stood up to Trujillo, and followed her dreams to go to college and obtain a

Imagine having to run away from your hometown with thousands of other boys you don’t know. Then imagine having to walk 16 hours a day to provide dirty water for your family. Well there’s a boy named Salva that had to run away and walk thousands of miles not knowing where he’s going or where is family is. But for a girl named Nya she had to persevere walking through the hot weather stepping on thorns for 16 hours everyday just to provide dirty water for their family. Nya and Salva have a hard and sad life, but they couldn’t have survived through it without unity, love, and perseverance.

Raicine Rodriguez was born in San Bernardino California; she was the middle daughter of three girls. Her siblings and she had all different personalities; Raicine was the one who always seemed to think things through, perhaps a little too much. She lived her life as full as she allowed herself, while always thinking about the “what ifs,” before she gave her one-hundred percent. It was a very cautious act, but it held her back in many ways as well. Once in college it took her several years to decide what she wanted to major in. In her mid-twenties, she moved to Nashville for a job. Here was able to figure out the kind of person she wanted to be in life. All of her friends and family were in California so she was able to concentrate solely on

Before setting out, she gave herself a list of rules she had to follow so that her experience would be as real as it could be. Her first rule was when looking for a job she couldn 't mention the skills she had learned from her education. Second, she had to take the highest paying job that was being offered to her. Third, she had to live

Aaliyah Holmes is a senior, and will be graduating with the Class of 2018. After graduation, she will attend Florida State University, to pursue a career in Obstetrics and Gynecology. With pride, Aaliyah shares that she will only be 16-years-old, when she accepts her high school diploma. When asked how she was able to complete her high school coursework at such a young age, she reveals that she attended summer school, and made sure that she passed all of her courses, in the first attempt (Failure was not an option). Aaliyah also joyfully shares that she has the support of her family, and that they expect greatness from her. She blocks out negativity in her life and maintains, “Tunnel Vision” in regards to her goals.

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.

Thompson started off harder dealing with getting into fights and abuse. She graduated from North Carolina A&T State University in 2005 as a 4.0 student and she mentions how coming here really changed her life around. She started working for PWC and then switched to Deloitte as a Tax Manager. Five years from college, Akilah saw herself becoming a manager and passing the CPA Exam. She completed her goal of becoming a manager at Deloitte but was not able to pass her CPA Exam in the time period. She recommends that you take the CPA Exam early after graduation because the more years you wait, the more you forget the things you learned in college. Her plans five years from now are to become a multimillionaire, be on TV, have a best-selling book, and have travelled to 20 different countries. She believes that you should always speak positive things into existence. This means that you should always dream big. She also believes that you should do what you would do if you didn’t think that you could fail. This leads to happiness in life because you know you wouldn’t be stuck doing something that you didn’t want to

     Throughout the story there are several aspects of the Protagonist’s character that play a major role in the shaping of her future. During her childhood she