Personal Narrative: Gaining College Acceptance

“Love you, mama, Miss you”(Aviv, 2), the words of three year old Adam to his mother who was placed with the Orange County Social Services. In Rachel Aviv’s article “ Where is your mother” thirty-nine year old, single working parent Niveen Ismail, “begged” them to return her son after she left Adam unsupervised at home whilst she was out. Niveen mentions that on this tragic day that, “It was mechanical-I wasn’t thinking anymore...I was just trying to survive” (Aviv, 6) she was overworked, undernourished and had just reached a “breaking point”. Months have gone by, the Egyptian mother complied to her case plan trying to learn to “Parent American style”, attending parenting classes in high hopes of Adam being returned to her. Despite her attempts, Adam was placed with a foster family (of which Niveen only found out a couple days later) who was willing to adopt him if “Niveen’s rights were terminated”(Aviv 6).

Jessica Krob is a sixteen year old girl who just had her life turned upside down. She just recently moved from Springfield, Missouri to Leachville, Arkansas, and is currently experiencing culture shock. Jessica had to leave all of her friends behind and wonderful school, but she has welcomed this adventure with an open mind and a positive attitude. Transferring high schools has been hard for Jessica, although changing high schools has allowed her the opportunity of graduating a year early. Once she set her goal of graduating a year earlier, she was determined to do well and overcome all of the challenges, because she believes life is boring if it is not difficult.

It is Mia's first day of school and she is a freshman at _________. She is extremely nervous and scared for her first day. She's always been kind of quiet and only had a few friends and the whole idea of high school frightens her. It is 5:45 A.M. and Mia's alarm is going off she rolls over and hits snooze. Then when it goes off again at 6:00 A.M. her mom comes in.

Her thirteen-year-old self, struggled with this phenomenon leading her to write out her feelings. School was hard for her and at the age of 26, she still was not finished with high school. She decided to legally change her age so she could continue to afford public schooling. The now ten years younger Hurston is left with her only desire in life: writing. Her fiery intellect led her to walk her way into the Harlem Renaissance and befriend luminaries such as Langston Hughes and Ethel Waters.

In the text Izzy says “ … what am I going to do for two whole months with someone I haven't seen since I was six?... she's a stranger! (24)” You can clearly illustrate the anger in the way she is speaking. Her mother clearly doesn't seem to care. Izzy and her mother have a big argument.

She has never worked in one job for more than a few years and has spent much of her adult life as a student”. 6. Feelings of hopelessness: It is described that Ellen began Psychotherapy after it became clear to her that her boyfriend of 4 years had no plans on marrying her and her depression significantly increased. The specifiers of Atypical Features, Severe and Early onset were all included as Ellen describes the atypical features of mood reactivity, hypersomnia, leaden paralysis and a long standing pattern of interpersonal rejection sensitivity. The ever specifier has been determined based on the fact that she meets all of the criteria in category B.

Julia Young English 1010 Larson, P.3 Personal Narrative The professional boxer Muhammad Ali once said, “I hated every minute of training, but i said ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life a champion.’ ” This quote became relatable the moment I looked back on the start of my cheerleading “career”. My older sister Aarika cheered for Brighton while I was in 7th grade, she tried convincing me for months to join a team and finally I agreed. I wasn’t very excited, I wasn’t thrilled having to be thrown into something I didn’t know anything about, and I was absolutely terrified about being the “new girl” on the team. I remember that first practice, walking into the gym and being shaken by the loud blaring music and girls running around

In 2014 I was set in stone to attend Cottey College, an all girls school in middle of nowhere Missouri. Sounds terrible? Not to me, especially since this college was transferrable to Smith College the school of various influential women such as Betty Friedan, Madeline L 'Engle, and Julia Child. Although, life took a turn for the worst as my family began to struggle with money- a foreign concept to me-and I ended up in a relationship that caused me to become severely depressed and maladaptively approach all aspects of everyday life at school, work and with friends. Not only that I had recently, been diagnosed with PTSD and Major Depressive Disorder.

She had set backs like, moving every time she got a new stepdad, not having money to go to college full time, not living in the best environments, and so much more. None of these things stopped her though. She has worked none stop since she was in eighth grade, to help pay for her own clothes, car, and education. She had plenty of reasons to give up but she would always spring back from them. Douglass didn’t grow up in the best environment either, never fully knew who his dad was, getting separated from his mom – Harriet Bailey – being whipped and beaten, watching many other slaves die or get beaten, and that’s just the start.

For many poor people the only way they can get out of poverty is through education. The movie “Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story,” based on Liz Murray’s experience of growing up with heroin addicted parents. Her parents would used their welfare money to buy heroine which Murray led to dropping out of school. She filled her mind with rubbish until one day her mom died which led Murray to pursue a better life since her mom died without changing her situation. At the age of 17 she was able to finish four years of high school work in two years.

Sasha Higgins was an unlucky and simple girl. She graduated high school at eighteen and tried to go to college but she was too poor to afford it. After years of working to save for college, her mother died in a car crash. Sasha finally fulfilled her dreams of being able to afford college after three years of working. But suffering from the grief of her mother she decided to keep saving not knowing what she wanted but knowing that she needed money.

While Cameron’s life was flourishing, Screamer left Messina in hopes of becoming an actress in Hollywood (65). Rather than showing the world her talent, she tried to sleep her way to the top, which hurt her in the long run (66). According to Nat, Cameron’s best friend since Kindergarten, Screamer looks like an aging high-dollar call girl, while Cameron is nothing but class (98). Neely neglected Cameron because Screamer was hot and trot, but fourteen years later all she had become was a thirty-two year old, looking fifty that was fat, ugly, and tired (97, 182-183). Outer beauty, obviously, cannot define a person for who they are.