Why Am I Here

My parents have done an amazing job raising my brother, sister, and I. My parents are very involved in my life and would do anything to make sure I am happy. I hope that when I become a parent, I will be as selfless and kind as mine are. Honestly, I wouldn’t change anything about my mom and dad’s

I grew up in a small southern town, so my parents have this image of what they expect my life to be like. They expect their baby girl to go to college for teaching or agriculture. They also expect that I will be stable enough to be on my own and completely support myself by the age of twenty-one. They even expect for me to marry a country boy who can help out around home if need be. So far I have not met their expectations at all, and they still manage to be proud of just about every decision I make.

I learned so much about the prestige of being in the Army. Dawning this uniform every day comes with significant weight. This isn’t limited in scope to General Officers, or those in public relations – it extends to every member of the organization. Everything you do is reflective of the Army, directly or indirectly and by being unprofessional – you are compromising the trust the organization has put in you. It is important to remain cognizant of the fact that regardless of who we are with or where we are – we bear the burden of being an ambassador of the Army and each of its values.

Perseverance is the only thing that will truly keep the world alive. If humans had given up instead of persevering America would not exist, tyranny would reign and slavery would still exist. Several characters throughout literary history, such as Odysseus from Homers’ Odyssey, and Louis Zamperini in Unbroken are the prime examples of perseverance, and they did it through personal strength and determination to not be broken. After all, it is better to persevere and live a hellish life than to relinquish that life in order to live more comfortably in the hands of those who seek to degrade the soul.

Failure is all around us, but so is success. Both result from one thing, setting goals. I set goals to achieve a sense of accomplishment when they are completed. From doing my homework every night to getting 100 percent on a test, goals help me focus my time on the activities that I must accomplish. Taking responsibility for your own failures is difficult. My failure makes me wonder what could I have done differently. I was forced to ask myself that question after Cross Country Districts Junior year.

So I love my parents for this, for the way they raised me, because I am one good beautiful person inside and out. I will be sure to do the same for my kids, and not act like Hucks dad.

This is a time were people feel offended most of the times, due to the verity of the many different races and social groups who were raised in deferent areas in the world, and are living now in one place. And a good example of these places are the American campuses, they are full of foreign students from all around the world. These places are dense with people around the globe and each one of them have their own expectations about others and each one of them have his stereo types about others around him. That said and what happened in the past from wars and the relation between races and social groups in the past count to what make students feel offended from some words, and increasingly feel the need of protection from ideas and words they don’t like.

I do have expectations placed on me, but it is because of the things my family wasn’t able to achieve. It is the opposite, and I do want to make them proud. I want them to know that everything they have done for me will be worth it in the end, and that I’ll set the example for future generations to

My parents have said to work hard and do my best in school. I never understood why until I got older. The reason they told me to do my best in school was because they wanted me to think about school and my future. Both of my parents didn't get the chance to go to college. They both came to the United States looking for what most people come to the United States for ‘The American Dream’. They wanted a place where they could raise their children and find a stable job. Well what they had planned didn't work out. They found physically demanding jobs with low wages. I watched as they came home tired and stressed. Even through all the hardships they still maintained a positive attitude. They have pushed me to get better grades and to succeed in school.

I could finally see a future for myself again and from that day on my hopes and dreams kept on growing. As of right now, my dream is to be an engineer, I’m not completely sure what field in engineering I plan on going into, but engineering definitely interests me and I could see myself enjoying it in the long run. The dream that I am certain of is a future in which I’m financially stable and don’t have to live paycheck to paycheck like my parents do because I know that everything they have sacrificed is for me to get to that point in my life. Ultimately I want everything that they went through to be worth it and not a waste, I want to make them proud and happy to see what I’ve become through their hard work and my own hard work. I want to be able to have a job or career in which I can provide for myself, my own family and them without having to worry if I’ll have enough money to do all of that. I want to pay them back in some way for everything they sacrificed for me because they deserve that and so much more.

After these failures, I was depressed, I lost my confidence, and from then on I lost faith in myself and began to look down on myself. I had never failed miserably at anything before and although at first, this experience was

Through the trainings I have been to and the skills I have learned from my home unit, I have valuable knowledge that can be passed down to recruits at a Recruit Training.

Throughout my life my parents have been very frank about their expectations. I consumed myself in my education and had very little time for distractions. When my family and I first moved to Fairhope, AL ,my freshman year of high school, I knew not a single person. I became friendly with our social worker at the school, Mrs. Callahan, who was my main influence throughout my time with Fairhope High School. She seemed to make the days less stressful which helped me not to implode. I would visit her everyday after school and we would have long conversations on how I was transitioning. The transition was difficult but I managed to work hard and maintain decent grades in the first year. Mrs. Callahan taught me to never give up and work for what

Thought-out my time as a Security Guard at USAMRIID I have always showed high interest in assuming extra duties and responsibilities thus leading me to pursuit a promotion as Corporal Security Guard. As of April 2018, I have been given the opportunity to show my potential and I have been promoted to a Corporal. In the short time that I have been a Corporal I have learned a lot and have strived to be the best example possible to all other guards at USAMRIID.

Perseverance is something you can not teach a child, instead it is developed throughout their life, throughout my