Personal Statement
Whatever I experience, at either dark or glorious times, all are invaluable treasures in my life. Each of them may be not so particular, however, all of them combined, which I profoundly appreciate, forms my unique personality.
At age seven, I was compelled to live alone at intervals due to my parents’ unusual work. My father who worked at another province, went back home only once a month, and my mother who worked for diurnal or evening 12 hours three days a week each, just had a day off. Hence, I had to look after myself at most of the time. I totally comprehended that they were struggling for our bright future life, although, I still felt frightened in the empty room in the late of night sometimes. However, I was gradually accustomed to it and mastered some basic living skills such as washing clothes, cooking meals, and cleaning the house. Compared to the majority of children at that age in China, I learned to be independent and mature earlier. Moreover, I took attending to the puniness as a habit and
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Another affair is that when I understood I may be not as intelligent as the pupils at the top, I made a decision to insist on the preparation, careful listening, timely review, and doing immense exercise for the class content during the complete semester in 2013. Sometimes, I was so tired under this high-intensity study and enormous pressure day by day that the idea to stop flashed across my mind. Fortunately, I felt it was a pity to give up halfway and made it. Ultimately, I ranked 3 from 500 among 1500, the amount of the whole grade. There is one spirit of making up for natural dullness by diligence, which inspires me to be a better self physically and mentally. I still persist in running every day, and gradually realize that perseverance has become a principle which guides me to do everything. Only when you devote yourself to what you indeed intend, can you achieve your
As a person goes through life he or she may wonder “Who am I?” and “What is my purpose?” The objective of this paper is to allow me to reflect and critically analyze who I am as a person. In this paper, I will discuss my social location and identity, my life experiences and my privileges and disadvantages.
Life Goals In the essay “The Storyteller”, Sandra Cisneros describes how her identity was shaped by goals that she had for herself. Starting from a young Cisneros dreamt about living in her own silent home that fitted her taste. Years later after coming home from college she still had the dream of living on her own and also with a career goal of becoming a writer. Cisneros determination to follow her dreams was strong, however, her father’s did not agree with the dreams and even had a different idea of what he wanted for her.
In the book Of Beetles and Angels, by Mawi Asgedom, a sudanese refugee family immigrates to America, seeking new life. The value of reading Of Beetles and Angels is that it shows that you can become something from nothing in the hardest situations. It shows the value of setting goals, working hard, and being kind to others. In OBAA, Mawi shows the value of setting goals and persisting to get them.
Personal life stories are the important highlights in this line of research (Schwartz et al., 2013). McAdams (2008, 2011) is one of the leading scholars in this area. He proposed the six principles for the narrative study of lives (McAdams, 2008). According to him, the self is storied and these stories integrate lives. They are also the cultural texts which are told in the social relationships.
Being in front of this challenge students try to work harder in order to succeed. In the article, Sherry uses pieces of evidence from her personal experience and examples to support her thesis. Also, her article is well-organized, and Sherry uses an academic language. However, Sherry do not consider many aspects that might affect students. She gives to much importance the example that she gives with her son.
People always telling you that you can’t do it and that your dreams are impossible but you don’t have to listen to them this is what comes up to my head when I think about perseverance have the guts to show people that you can do it and not let them bring you down. “ steadfastness in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success.” (Perseverance). A great example of a person overcoming perseverance was Jackie Robinson because he had to play in the MLB while overcoming a lot of perseverance like being called black, and that he didn’t belong in the league and even being hit on purpose. Jackie always had a goal and that was to earn each and everyone of the players respect and he always gave his best on the field.
Perseverance may seem difficult at times, but in the end it is what will make people satisfied with their own
The environment in which an individual grows up in can affect life greatly. Our surroundings influence one’s personality, self-expression, and individuality, otherwise known as identity. Finding one’s true self is the most grueling stage of life and expectations of family and society make the process even harder. One’s true identity can sometimes clash with hopes of others, thus breaking tradition and/or family ties. Pressure to change will always be present, but staying true to uniqueness will prevail.
As each writing assignments is graded, I realize how much I have improved as a writer by the grade and the fewer mistakes that I have made in them. As each time the grammatical and spelling mistakes are fewer on each paper. I want to share how I have grown as a writer on second semester by being in class and reflecting on my previous assignments. Even though there weren’t many writing assignments this semester. There were some assignments that I have done poorly on.
Introduction As a young child, I was very shy with a giant heart. I thought the best in everyone and was anxious about others and whether or not they liked me. I lived in a small town up until I turned ten years old, living with my biological and abusive, absent parents. I was a good student, afraid to fail and upset my mother.
Growing up at a refugee camp in a very poor country is not what an average child has to go through. In Nepal we did not have much shelter to live by. We were given some bamboos, thatch and some rope to build up our home and once a month they would give us some rice. I grew up without electricity therefore television was very rare to me. I was born at the house made up of bamboo and thatch rather than a proper hospital with some form of professional care.
If you need to motivate yourself and stay determined, do it!
Education plays a crucial role in our life. Education is a part of our life that we can 't ignore. To have a better future, every one of us desires the quality education that can give us a beautiful and happy life. As a part of this, we write competitive exams to pursue our favorite courses in our dream colleges. The ways to reach this objective may differ but there is one thing common for every aspirant.
My journey in this English 3001 course during the past ten weeks, and over the course of taking is English class I have grown and learned more that I thought it is necessary for me to know as a student. I have improved in my overall writing skills because if you look at my second in-class essay and the rest of my essay you will see that I have made progress and improvement compare to my diagnostic essay and the first in-class essay. Moreover, now that I have completed the English course my skills are better that I am capable to meet the university standard writing requirements. This English course additionally taught me how powerful the composed word and language can be. This quarter my ability to compose essays and express my thoughts, ideas,
Context Motivation is regarded to be an important tool that can be utilized in accomplishing a given task. However, lack of motivation could result in inability to accomplish the task of poor performance. In this regard, it is worth noting that there are various factors that contribute to lack of motivation among individuals. Additionally, while an individual can be motivated at other times, some circumstances can make him or her to lack motivation. This reminds me of the time when we were doing group work that I realized that most of my group members were not motivated to do the assignment.