Who is Bisrat? Well, it is a question that I never took my time to answer. Understanding one’s own character traits is proved to help them understand the ones around them as well. I’m from a busy city in Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, where I spent most of my childhood. I then moved to the US in 2011 at thirteen years old where I spent my teenage years. It was not difficult to adopt to the American culture but was a bit challenging to practice two cultures at the same time, one at home and the other everywhere else. I come from a family and culture where education and religion plays a big role in life. I believe these cultural experiences made me who I am today. The three character traits I would use to describe myself are humble, patient and self-reliant. …show more content…
Being humble is putting one’s own importance aside. The way a humble person reacts to success very much differs from the reaction to success of the arrogant. One experience that defines me as humble is my decision to attend montgomery college. Most of the people I surround myself with look down at community colleges and assume that only students left with no other options settle for it. I applied to eleven colleges and got accepted into ten, but still chose montgomery college because it saved me the most money. My friends, who are paying more than 10,000 a semester to the only school they were accepted into, tease about how MC is basically a high school since it doesn’t have the “luxury” of living in dorms. But I don’t brag to them how I could’ve went to any of those ten 4 year colleges if I wanted too. I personally don’t believe my decision process is an important factor to discuss with anybody because, at the end of they day what matters is the decision I made and how comfortable I am with it. This specific experience is one of the reasons I see myself as a humble person. One thing that influenced me to become humble isn’t only the way I was raised but also observing the difference between people that are all talk but no action and those that are no talk, all
R/s Quintina and the children moved back to Horry County. R/s Quintina and the children are staying at with a friend Larry, on Raspberry Lane off of Highway Chapel Road in Conway, SC. Quintina’s grandmother, Mary stated that she can provide more information on Quintina and Quintina’s mother Rosemary Brown Spain. Since last Friday until Thursday Thanksgiving night Nevaeh was staying with her paternal grandparents Queenie and David Bennett.
True Heroism and Self Sacrifice An Analysis of leadership of Lieutenant Michael Murphy during Operation Redwing by: Second Lieutenant Logan Dean Scallen Small acts of heroism are common in wars, especially in the United States Military. Our dedication to each other during battle and the ferocity of which we fight leads to many heroic stories of soldiers risking everything during battle. However true acts of heroism and dedication embody the attributes and competencies of the US Army and show true leadership in the face of unfathomable odds.
Culture is something that is important to everyone. When a person goes from one place to another, the shock of the different culture can be considerably large on a person’s character and their identity as a whole. In Into the Beautiful North, Urrea illuminates cultural collision and its affect on character’s sense of identity through Nayeli’s naivety and her reaction towards how America truly is throughout her journey. Nayeli’s naivety really stems from her home of Tres Camarones.
My character Arn from the book Never Fall Down values friendship and other people above all. This is true because he always help others by stealing food for them which would have gotten him killed. He protected them, taught them how to play instrument so they would survive. Arn to just does it without thinking. He stated that he didn’t know why he did it
According to Lencioni (2016), “Humility is the single greatest and most indispensable attribute of being a team player” (p. 157). Humility is a form of integrity. When a team player is humble they do not have egos, neither are they concerned about their status. When a team player is humble, they tend to point out the contributions of others and do not highlight the contribution of their own. The success of the team is collectively not an individual effort.
Humility may be the most difficult quality to learn and maintain. As a society we reward arrogance and “attitude”; and our heroes tend to be loud and brash sports figures, millionaire developers, movie stars, and the like-those kinds of people who don’t know, or don’t want to know what humility is (Marshall,
Nayir is a main character from the novel Finding Nouf, written by Zoe Ferraris. His full name is Nayir ibn Suleiman ash-Shaeqi (84). The book didn’t seem to mention Nayir’s age but I imagine he is in his early twenties. He is a large man and people say he looks like a Bedouin, but he is actually a Palestinian (29 - 30). Nayir’s profession is as a desert guide for many wealthy families, such as the Shrawis (3).
Adapted to the fact that unlike other people who have families of four, I had a family of seven and numerous amounts of close relatives. That my parents, although lived in America for quite sometimes grew up in Nigeria, so English was not their first language so I adapted and changed myself in order to fit into societal standards. I learned to understand and interpret my parents’ native Igbo dialect but left that part of myself at home so that people will view me as the perfect American citizen.
Culture impacted my personality and how I act and feel. To me, culture is a very important part of every person’s life. Culture can influence my different types of values. My mom practices Mormon and my dad is Catholic and because of this circumstance, I grew up with both beliefs. In my family on Christmas, we celebrate the Birth of Christ.
Character Analysis When thinking of families most of the time its people you grew up with, and the culture you grew around. The story " A Pair of Tickets" () draws on what family and culture do to family 's and more importantly one person. June grows up in America where the culture to her is more familiar than that of her Chinese parents. While growing up she thought countless of times that the ways of her mother where strange and embarrassing, and at time she didn’t think of herself as truly to her heritage. Throughout the story June goes through different stages of grief, and finding herself when she truly thought she wasn’t a part of a culture.
Imagine your home being burnt before your eyes, your family unjustly slaughtered, witnessing innocent people shot without reason, imagine being behind the trigger. Experiencing traumatic events such as these will negatively affect anyone’s character. Ishmael Beah, a child in Sierra Leone, experienced just that. In A Long Way
If a person’s parent or guardian drilled the idea of college into your head, or if they told you ‘do what you want’ or ‘I don 't care’, or ‘You’re not going’. While college is great, there are other means of education. The value of college is a low because there are people who do not qualify for a college education, and also because there are other ways of post-secondary education other than college. College is not valuable because many people will not make it into a 2 or 4-year college, much less graduate from one. To support this, in the article Why College Isn 't For Everyone, it says, “As a general rule, I would use graduates in the top quarter of their class at a high-quality high school should go on to a four-year degree program, while those in the bottom quarter of their classes at a high school with a mediocre educational reputation should not.”
“Two Kinds,” by Amy Tan, essentially revolves around the struggle of Jing Mei and her constant conflict with her mother. Throughout her life, she is forced into living a life that is not hers, but rather her mom’s vision of a perfect child; because her mother lost everything, which included her parents and kids, so her only hope was through Jing Mei. Jing Mei’s mom watches TV shows such as the Ed Sullivan Show, which gives her inspiration that her daughter should be like the people and actors. First her mom saw how on the television a three-year-old boy can name all the capitals of the states and foreign countries and would even pronounce it correctly. Her mom would quiz Jing Mei on capitals of certain places, only to discover that
Have you ever read a book series, and about halfway through, the point of view changes? One example of this would be in The Selection series by Keira Cass. The first three books (The Selection, The Elite, and The One) are in the point of view of America Singer (later Schreave) and the last two books (The Heir and The Crown) are in the point of view of her daughter, Eadlyn Schreave. The last two are also set 20 years after The One. America and Eadlyn have many similarities and differences including, but not limited to, matters relating to their personality, their life, and their appearances.
Imagine that you have just graduated high school. You are more full of life, enthusiasm, and energy than you have ever been. Your four years of hard work have finally paid off, and now it is time for the next step. According to your parents, teachers, and just about every other authority figure in your life, college is that step. However, what if that did not have to be so?