What It Means To Be Young Research Paper

Many people ask me what are my plans after high school? Luckily, I have come to the decision to be in the military and attend a postsecondary education and major in Nursing with the intention of becoming a Pediatrician or becoming an Architect.

Everyone knows there's a lot of responsibility that comes with being a first generation student that plans to go and get a college education/degree whose family comes from a foreign country. People do not understand why I feel I have so much of a responsibility on my shoulders. However I now understand why there is so much responsibility that comes with being a first generation student that plans to go and get a college education/degree with family from a foreign country, thanks to my grandmother’s wise words. She said “ being a first generation student that plans to go and get a college education/degree with family from a foreign country isn’t about your success, it's about the success you bring to the family name, the pride you bring to the family/country and moreover the success you bring will represent your parents hard work has truly paid off”, at the time she said this I was only 12 years old so I didn't quite understand what she meant but it has stuck in my mind ever since. Now that I’m more mature I understand what she meant. I believe that my success or failure is no longer just benefiting or hurting me, if I fail that means I fail my family and my people and that is why going to college is so important to me. In this paper I’m going to write about what high standards mean to me, my goals, activities I’m involved in

Being a senior is a very exciting and important time in your life. This is the year that you have to decide where you are going to go to college, what you want to do in your future, and how you are going to afford furthering your education. Lets face it, there are very few people who can say that paying for college is easy. That is why you go to school everyday, put in as much effort as you can to become very knowledgable, so you can get good grades, and score well on SATs. Working hard is one thing that I can say I have always done. Not only in school but outside of school as well. My goal is to work hard so that I can get as many scholarships as I can to help me pay for my years of college. I think that I deserve this scholarship not only because I am a top student in my class and work extremely hard, but because I would be appreciative of any amount of help the scholarship is going to offer me.

My junior year of high school was the most challenging and eye opening year that I have experienced during my high school career. Although my junior year was extremely difficult, being assigned all honors classes, I also had some outstanding accomplishments. My junior year I was faced with some hard curriculum, but with my determination and mindset to do well, I finished off my entire year with second honors. I was finally rewarded for all of my hard work by being invited to join the National Honor Society and the National Hispanic Honor Society. I know that being invited to join these honor societies meant I had to keep my grades up a lot higher than even my standards, and at the time with this curriculum, it felt impossible.

Spending your whole like with an eroding secret is like spending your life stuck in place. Once my family was made aware of my past I was finally released, and I hit the ground running.

“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still,”-Dorothea Lange. Since the day I was born, my mother has been dreaming of the day I would turn fifteen. In my culture, turning fifteen is like winning the lottery. Turning fifteen means you are now a woman and people treat you different. One of the many rituals of turning fifteen is a beautifully designed album. Unlike most girls, the thought of a Quinceañera frightened me. I was terrified of getting an album full of my pictures. However, even though the experience was horrendous, it taught me to see the best in everything.

I think our country should have 18-year-olds serve in compulsory military service. There are many beneficial things from this, you will learn some discipline if you didn't already have some, also you won't have to pay a full college tuition. However, you can't choose where you go, you do what they say, not what you want.

Turning 16 was a big deal in my family. My parents believe that I should have a license and have enough money to pay for gas and insurance. This was a big burden on me because all I had was a permit and leftover money from my birthday which didn’t cut it. My mother nagged me about 6 months everyday mentioning “maybe you should go online and looks for jobs with all the time you have” or if I would say something like “I’m bored” she would respond back with “hmmm if you had a job you wouldn't be bored”. This caused me to later get grounded for two months. My mom got sick of giving warnings and followed through with an action. I didn’t want to lose my free time, my friends and my hobbies but I lost it all anyway so finally I convinced myself

Freshman year to senior year, to me, are two completely different things, though in many ways they are also very alike. They are both endings as well as beginnings of new eras in your life! Freshman year is an ending to your elementary while still being the start of your high school. Your senior year is an ending to high school, while on the other hand, a start to your college career. Both are very important times in life.

There are over two hundred and fifty higher education institutions in the state of Texas. This number will most likely seem like a lot to the average high school senior trying to figure out which college is best for him/her. For me it was hard before my junior year, I went from wanting a Longhorn to Roadrunner, a Bear, an Aggie and a Leo before eventually deciding to become an Islander. As you can see I have changed my mind a lot and this was all between my seventh grade year to the end of the summer going into my junior year. Not to mention the stent when I wanted to go to Yale because I was obsessed with Gilmore Girls one summer in elementary and also because I loved Rory’s dorm room. That was the problem when I began to decide on colleges,

Turning fifteen is a big deal for a girl because she is considered as a woman, and it’s important that she gets to celebrate her coming-of-age in the best way. After looking for her quinceanera dresses, arranging the dances, and finishing the invitations, she deserves a great time. She will only turn fifteen once and she wants to make sure she has the best time at her quinceanera party.

I believe that 18 year-olds should perform one year of national or community service before they pursue college or a paying job. This performance has the capability of teaching 18 year olds the aspect of responsibility, help develop a sense of leadership skills, and it gives them the advantage of working with other people, which is an experience much needed before going to college and in the workforce. With this experience, there is a high possibly that 18 year olds will be better prepared for what is to come on their career path.

Psychologically, the general belief is that people do feel they need to “belong” or fit in with their peers. Especially in teens, in both middle school and high school, most will change the way they dress or act similar to others and succumb to peer pressures to fulfill the need to belong. As well adults may find themselves participating in activities that normally would be against one's morals or beliefs or even living beyond their means in an effort to achieve the feeling of belonging.

Before you are twelve years old, it is important that you should learn some life lessons. So when you turn twelve, you are prepared for the life ahead of you. See at twelve, you become an adult so you have to start acting like one. There are a lot of responsibilities as an adult, so you need to learn how to handle them. You can no longer run around, play and just have fun. You have to be serious and take responsibility for your actions. Here’s some advice to make you a good adult and these things can make you a better person from other people's standpoint.

I have read a lot of articles to find a match articles with images that I took and I drew, mainly from two years ago. The first article is about photography, but not just a how to article. I am trying to find an article that describes photograph as a communication tool. There are many articles about it, especially on Google Scholar, but most of them are too long. The first article is written by Patricia M et al titled, Intercultural Friendship Development. This original article is 15 pages long with an essay style paragraph and font. Images that I am going to use for this article is from my trip to Bali with my friends few years ago and photos of my first international friends in Perth during my English study in 2014. The second article is about the effect of social media towards society by Nicole, Cliff and Charles. This article is pretty interesting and related to the images that I had. The article is pretty long and looks boring, the original font is too small and pretty hard to read. I am planning to make it a bit bigger and add more images to make it interesting, not too much. The last article that I chose called Social Media Effects on Young Women’s Body Image Concern, written by Richard M. Perloff.