For me, the greatest success in life was to see my parents proud to attend my graduation. So simple, yet the struggle to be graduated wasn’t that simple.
I was the first child of three siblings. My Mother is an honorary teacher, while my Father is a trader. Dad 's difficult life made him a firm Father. He didn’t hesitate to yell, beat, or even repel his children if we make any mistake. I hate him. Until one day, I realize that all he did was for our own goodness.
Since childhood, my siblings and I has become accustomed to produce money. We once sold chicken eggs, nata de coco, cassava chips, soda drinks - anything sell-well. While another friend can wake up at 6 am, we have to get up at 3 am for helping Mom wrap the wares. If we don’t have
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Campus life is great, yet it takes tremendous energy and persistence to survive. For students like us, we’ll do everything for tasks. We woke up at midnight, stay up until morning, even scolded by boarding mother for receiving guests until late night for teamwork. Sometimes, we went to campus at night for free wifi, though we knew that the cold air of Bandung will makes us catch a cold in the next day.
I didn’t live in an apartment. In the first year, I had to share a room with two other students in a rickety room located at the end of a narrow alley. Our room was on the 2nd floor. So we have to climb a steep stairs with a slope of 600 and 35-cm-wide footing every day. Our room’s door always rang when opened. The floor was screeching, the roof leaked, and the smell of rats is everywhere. At nightfall, the rats were free to roam the room and can easily bite our toes whenever they want. In this boarding house, there are only two bathrooms for 22 residents. The floors were mossy, the water was turbid, snails everywhere. I am surrender and accepted it all as a consequence for insisting on going to college. After all, I was ready, even for the worst
These living conditions were not healthy to say the least. The rooms did not see light of day because of lack of windows and the air in these buildings was not healthy air to be inhaling. The tenants living in these conditions believed that this was their only option for
With the use of details he captures and describes the sleeping arrangements, the hygiene, the harsh conditions, and the lack of privacy that come with living at
Growing up in this apartment was extremely difficult as Edmund grew older, having to move the dishes out the tub to shower, having a lack of air conditioning in the hot months and heating in the winter, and the fact
“The hot, damp air was full of dirt, cement powder, sawdust, and exhaust from the steam shovels (Drehle 13.)” They lived in Tenement apartments. Imagine living in a four hundred square foot apartment with no windows and a shared bathroom with the entire floor. It was common for the hallways to have no lights. It was also extremely crowded.
I am surrounded by darkness, confined in a paltry room its contents limited to a bed with a thin mattress and pillow. The air is dense and smells of blood. The brown walls smothered in writing reek of mulch. The only way to get in or out is through a small metal door that is locked from the outside. I feel like a caged animal, my every move being watched.
The bunkhouse has a very unique atmosphere. For example, the walls are unpainted, the three walls are small, and the beds have little apple boxes for personal belongings. Though it seems when someone walks through the door a different feeling appears in the room. For example, when Curley walks in it feels as if the atmosphere is nasty and troublesome. When Curley 's wife walks in it feels as if there is an inconvenience or a disturbance throughout the house.
It had one room not a limited of space. When she got inside, she was warned about the older mischievous boys that roamed the school. They were extremely difficult.
Sand fleas inhabited the couches and animal droppings decorated the floor. The adults went out and bought cleaning supplies and raided the place from top to bottom with disinfectant; after sanitizing everything, they carefully placed white sheets over each piece of furniture and the vacation continued as planned. The home’s horrendous conditions did not deter my family from returning to the Outer Banks for another thirteen years. Though, we did not go back to that disgusting beach house.
Prompt: The lessons we take from obstacles we encounter can be fundamental to later success. Recount a time when you faced a challenge, setback, or failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience? “It 's not about how bad you want it. It 's about how hard you 're willing to work for it.”
“you got swamped by the smell of mildew… The floor so mushy underfoot…the ceiling bowed and stained” (270). You usually don’t want to go in a room that is gross. You also usually don’t want to face your problems; the narrator’s problem was with his lack of control of his life. Entering the room was him realizing he has no control.
My proudest accomplishment would be being college bound. Being college bound delineates how far I've progressed in life and how much I've achieved. Taking my background into consideration, I've accomplished so much more than i would ever have predicted, and I have proved so many people wrong. Throughout life, my intelligence was often questioned and i was frequently told by my family and peers that I wouldn't accomplish anything of great substance and that my dreams are futile. Nevertheless, I never let their spiteful words bring me down or sway my focus and i continued working hard
The family stared at the row of barracks identical to the other thousand or so morose looking structures. With the plain, unsophisticated appearance, Yuki did not comprehend that this was the setting where her life would change from a fulfilling existence into a monotonous survival. “It isn’t a very exciting place, but you’ll get used to it, trust me,” the boy informed with a sorrowful grin. “Well let’s get settled in,” Ken disheartenedly sighed. He led the family through the dusty hazel door into a hallway of entrances to rooms on both sides.
Riis described the harsh reality of New York tenements. Riis shared the inhumane stories he had encountered while writing his book. He found that the tenement-house buildings were “often carried up to a great height without regard to the strength of the foundation walls” (Riis). Large rooms were divided into many other small rooms, without considering ventilation and light. These rooms were too small to contain anything, besides a bed.
People were forced to live in overcrowded multi-dwelling housing building. Since most of the people were not accustomed to living in such close confines, this situation demanded a totally different
A sense of accomplishment is invaluable to a person. Not only does a sense of accomplishment build confidence and faith in oneself, but it also allows one to reflect on how wonderful the journey to the accomplishment was, and how every little struggle and triumph was worth it. In the middle of summer, where time seems endless and the stress of the previous school year has been shed by students, I never expected to find out that I scored a five on both of the advanced placement exams I took. Nor did I have one-hundred percent confidence the goals we set as section leaders of the marching band would actually be met. Yet to my surprise, I had the good fortune of accomplishing challenging things in both aspects of my life.