Abram Auguste: Law School Personal Statement

Nicholas Kristof once said, “ In effect, we have a class divide on top of a racial divide, creating a vastly uneven playing field, and one of its metrics is educational failure”. Human Rights Activist and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof is a very profound writer. Nicholas Kristof is known for his powerful and emotional passages that really gets in the audience 's thoughts like, “Is a Hard Life Inherited”. The purpose of this passage is to inform the upper-class families and society of the struggles of the lower middle class and the hardships that they need to overcome in order for success. The strategies Nicholas Kristof used can be separated into three important segments which are pathos, logos, and cause and effect.

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass embodies so much feeling and sorrow throughout it. His story also embodies the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness- which were the rights given to all except slaves and women in the constitution. He struggled for years but never gave up and strived to earn equal rights. He believed that he could make a difference if we given the chance to. He takes his own chance and talks about the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness throughout.

Every person faces a type of adversity at some point during their lifetime, and in that instance, he or she can choose to give up or persevere. In high school, I was on the football team. Everyday we had to push ourselves in each aspect of the sport, whether it be patience, discipline, endurance, etc. Whenever I got into the sport, I knew that it would not be easy, but I had no idea the amount of work that I would have to put into it to be successful.

Wealth is a possession that many individuals inherit, yet Trevor Noah 's memoir, Born a Crime shows that he worked against all odds in order to gain his wealth. Beginning with his birth as an illegal child, he and his mother were at a disadvantage. As such, she had to hide him from society because if the police caught him, she would face imprisonment. Poverty did not help his situation. In fact, it made him put his plans of getting a university education on pause, and caused him to engage in criminal activities. When a child is constantly at risk and suffers from poverty their life becomes tough, but adding abuse to the situation makes it even tougher. His abuse, in particular, illustrates that danger could come in different forms, from a bus driver to a

Growing up, my parents couldn 't always afford what I wanted, but I always had food and shelter. My dad’s family brought him to California chasing the American dream. He had to dropout of high school in order to help provide for his family due to economic problems. He was only sixteen having to work in the fields. My dad is currently working as a forklift driver for Driscoll’s where he has been working for over twenty-five years. My mom worked in the fields picking strawberries for about twenty years. Me and my sister were about three and four years old and my dad didn’t want my mom to work in order for her to be there for us and take care of us. With my mom being unemployed, money became limited. My parents couldn’t afford cable neither internet. As much as me and my sister wanted to watch Nickelodeon and Disney Channel, cable couldn’t be provided for us. Until now, cable is still out of our budget. When me and my sister had homework or projects that required internet we used to go to my aunt’s house where she would let us use her computer. Not too long ago, my freshman year, we were able to get affordable internet for low income.

The passage I chose to close read from We The Animals by Justin Torres comes from the first paragraph of Chapter Four, entitled Seven. The author begins the scene like any other day yet the tone of the author’s writing is of worry. Torres’ tone affected my own mood. I tried to imagine how it would feel to be in the position that the narrator was in. Someone had abused his mother; in this case it was most likely her husband. Yet, the trauma of this chapter is portrayed as something that is nonchalant. Paps, the narrator's father, has just presented his wife’s current health status as something the narrator and his brothers should just brush off. As I read, the narrator would state that “[Paps] said [this], [Paps] told us [that], [Paps] had forbidden us to set foot in [Ma’s] bedroom…” (Torres 12). Paps had clear superiority over the whole family. From my close reading, I came to the conclusion that Paps was the one abusing Ma that is why he never allowed the children to be near her. The more she slept, the less she spoke, and the less “true” information was leaked to the

After reading the document “The American Crisis” by Thomas Paine, published in December 23, 1776, I think that the author had written a very inspiring article. In front of the war, he was fearless, and he could not find any reason to be afraid. I agree with the author and believe, no matter anything, as long as we persevere, indomitable, we would have the hope to get the glorious results.

In life difficulties may arise, but an “instructive eye” of a “tender parent” is a push

In Matthew Desmond’s book Evicted, he writes about numerous eviction stories of families or individuals for several different reasons. Simply knowing about evictions are upsetting, but reading about real-life stories and how it impacted their life is horrifying. Without a place of safety – a place to call home – everything else seems to no longer matter. It’s like looking in a mirror and seeing beauty just to watch it shatter and fall to the floor. Imagine trying to pick the pieces of glass off the floor and put them back together. There are too many pieces to make it whole again, just like there are too many factors that play into being evicted and getting back on your feet. It’s not impossible, but it’s difficult. Unfortunately, predicaments such as hunger, gentrification, and lack of necessary

I was watching the Marlins Baseball team play while I was sitting in a Hospital.

Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses shows comfort is not always found in a place or in another person; sometimes comfort can be found within oneself. San Angelo, TX, where it all started to change. A boy whose only person he really grew up with had left, left him without a home as well. A new beginning awaits three young boys with different views of life, death, religion and love. But what awaits them can be a deadly comfort for the cowboys.

I have high expectations for my life, and plan on making a name out of myself, which requires my financial knowledge to be greater than many. My parents have been a crucial aspect in my life because even though they struggled in the beginning, they turned their mountain of debt and turned it into a beautiful life lesson, and they have taught me a great deal. Budgeting, managing money, and not relying on plastic is, in my opinion, key components in a financially stable environment. Difficulties tend to arise more often than we’d like, but knowing how to deal with this responsibility is a crutial.

Growing up poor was already difficult, but growing up with a selfish parent, specifically an unsympathetic mom, made life hell for the Walls children. The family barely had one source of income from Rex Wall, and instead of helping out with the family’s finance issues, Rose Mary spent her days at home painting. While struggling to live in Welch, Rose Mary quit her teaching job before it even started. She proclaimed she was an artist, not a teacher; “She intended to quit her teaching job and devote herself to her art… ‘It’s time I did something for myself,’ she said” (Walls 218). Rose Mary also hid food from her children knowing they were practically starving and gave childish excuses: “I’m a sugar addict, just like your father is an alcoholic” (Walls 174). Being that the family struggles to get food in the house, Rose Mary wasn’t afraid to shield her children from the reality of how difficult it actually is to keep food in the house. Not only did the Walls children have to grow up hungry with their selfish mother, they had to be led by a cruel

John Brown was born on May 9, 1800 in Torrington, Connecticut . John Brown was a major change for American history. He was a radical , his father was very concerned about slavery and religion. No one could do anything about slavery, so John Brown wanted to do stuff but in his other plans for many different things, stuff never turned right and his plans would fail automatically. John Brown decided to take his father 's trade. John Brown later on had married Dianthe Lusk in 1820 and had lots of children but unfortunately she died in the 1830s. He got remarried to Mary Ann Day in 1833. John brown had moved a lot because of his financial situations. John Brown had gave free land to the African Americans, because he hated slavery so much that he wanted to do

What makes America so great? Many would start with the job opportunities, the freedom, or some would even say the security. I, on the other hand, see America as more than that. What makes America great, in my opinion, is their willingness to help others in need, to welcome those begging for a new start. My family turned to the United States in their time of need, for an escape. It’s true. But it is not the picture perfect scene people envision when you tell them you escaped a war and found your way to a free America. The start of my American journey began in 1998 in Seattle, when I was just three months old. But being as I was so little back then, it would be more appropriate told from my mother’s perspective.