In 2006 I moved to California with my parents, to pursue the American Dream that was dreamed by every foreigner It was seen as a great way to escape the danger and poverty we faced everyday in Peru. When we finally got here, the american dream was a myth, and working hard barely got you anywhere. Since day 1 both my parents have worked more than 40 hours a week to get food on the table, and the table back in Peru. They both support their parents and siblings financially, meaning there is no aid for me here. I wake up to do everything by myself, cook, clean, go to school, and especially homework. The workload from school kept getting harder each year, and it got worse during the start of high school. When I first arrived back from my first day of 9th grade I had to annotate a poem written by Shakespeare. As I sat down to do the homework I realized I didn 't know what annotating meant. I asked my parents for help and they didn’t even knew who Shakespeare was. The same routine happened everyday, it 's even happening now as I ask for advice on how to apply for college. No answer.
I was filling out the online sign up course for my 11th grade classes, and I didn 't know what to choose. My peers talked about taking the
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Mid-junior year the level of going to college dropped at an all time low. I believe that giving up was the easiest thing in the world. My grades where low, and It was too late to turn back and fix them. By the time March arrived, everyone was cramming in all the knowledge for their AP test. From getting tutors to pulling all nighters to learn a month 's worth of materials. Thats when I came across the idea of taking the AP Spanish test. I was born in Peru, and only talked spanish at home. Who can stop me from taking the test? Everyone. People told me that it didn 't matter if I was a native speaker, my grades and knowledge showed the little potential I had. They even tried to stop me from wasting the resources available and stop me from taking
Several individuals from different ethnicities, races, and citizenships, compose a society. The United Sates allow us to have a close interaction with numerous individuals from diverse backgrounds. In my own case I have been able to interact with many incredible individuals from all over the world who come from extremely different backgrounds. I am a proud Mexican who cherishes respect towards diversity. Coming from a very suffered country I am able to understand not only what does it means to feel proud to be a Latino, but also I can feel acquainted with the pain and struggle that our community has to face every day.
From sleeping through an English class, to skipping a history test, because you haven’t touched your textbook all semester. Seniors are so close to moving onto the next step of their life that the things that were so exciting their freshman don't appeal to them. They are ready to experience life outside of high school; whether that's college,
My Vision For America 's Youth would be to help stop bullying and make a difference in the world . A challenge I want to address would be to help start a chain reaction to stop bullying . A chain reaction is something that happens when one person does something and it influences others and causes them to join in . In October of 2015 I recently experienced a very serious and emotional assembly at my school .
I grew up as a poor immigrant child from Italy. I grew up into an American Dream from a immigrant into an all American, New York Yankee all star center fielder Background info: I was born on November 25, 1914, in Martinez, California. I grew up as a poor Italian immigrant with 8 other siblings. When I was one my parents moved to north beach, San Francisco for a better life. I used baseball as a getaway from fishing with my father.
Some of the youth who were brought to the United States as children don’t have any recollection of their migration journey. Those youth that were too young to remember go their entire childhood without realizing or being told that they are illegally living in this country. Roberto Gonzales explains that there is a specific transition that adults emerge into when they find out that they are illegal. When the youth are in school (K-12) is when they feel a sense of protection. Feeling unprotected emerges when the youth are transitioning to adulthood and have to decide whether they will attend college, work, or both.
My identity has always felt inextricably linked to what Miami is. A city that is teeming with immigrants, a city with dreams stacked and slopped atop each other, and a city that is living proof of the failed American dream. I say so because of my early observation that generation after generation of immigrants often seemed to stay trapped in dead end jobs; I saw this within my own family – within my grandmother, my aunts and uncles, and even my cousins. Here it was even within my own family tree the deep implicit message that there was no way out of our socioeconomic level. When I made it into an Ivy League college, it was a message that was slowly re-enforced by the fact that my demographic was the most represented in the custodial staff rather than within my own classmates.
On my father’s first day in America, he was shoved into a compact 1-person apartment along with two other refugees and was merely granted $19 a week to accommodate for basic expenses, including food and transportation. Despite such desperate circumstances, he maintained an optimistic outlook, and while hard times were ahead, my father knew that new opportunities were also awaiting him in the land where the American Dream thrives. My father initially left Vietnam as a last desperate hope to escape Vietnam’s strict communist government, where a future of military service was inevitable for young boys, who came from families of lower social statuses. As an orphan, my father fell victim to poverty and suffered from food insecurity and insufficient
America’s Gift to My Generation There isn’t just one gift that America has given my generation, America has given us multiple gifts and I couldn’t imagine a better place to live. America has given us freedom, individuality, and safety. I can come out of my house and play whenever I want because if you live in America you aren’t being denied to do activities just because of who you are, what you look like, or who you are related to. A long time ago immigrants from other countries came to America to escape their country.
The great Marcus Garvey once said that “a people without knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture are trees without roots”. This quotation has always stuck with me because it validates that, as humans, we all have a story to share. No matter where I go or who I meet, thanks to my story, I have the confidence to embrace who I am every single day. I am a first generation student. Both my mother and father were born and raised in Nigeria and came to the United States in 1998.
The America of Tomorrow I When you look at a pine tree on the mountain, it seems like it stays the same and never grows. However, what you see of that pine tree is different every second because there is nothing in this world is identical. As the Anglo-Saxon has imposed their culture on the people in the United States, particularly the minority groups, they thought the culture would be replicated but it would never be the same. In fact, we, the people, are looking for something more, something more exciting.
Many people don't believe in the "american dream" but I think it's there.now the American dream may be different for everyone people want different things but this is my opinion. Today I will be talking about the American dream for my grandparents, the American dream today and is it achievable. First I don't know about you, but my grandparents are old and the American dream for them is way different than it is now. Now I think there American dream would be something like having money to support a wife and two children.
The American Dream - the reason most Americans get up every morning, and go to school or work. With hopes that, one day, they will live a life free of financial burdens. Is the American Dream attainable for most Americans though? I do not think so. Most Americans are stuck in their parents social class.
The American Dream is known as succeeding in life by working hard and earning your own future, many people believe the American Dream has died and others see the American Dream transforming over time. Bob Marley says in his song, “Zion Train”, “Don’t gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold”. I believe that the American Dream has made our society very materialistic, finding shortcuts to the top, wanting more and more, and forgetting the important things in life. I still believe in the original American Dream of working hard, succeeding in life, but staying humble because that’s how I was raised.
As a child, somewhere after princess dresses and before pimples, I developed my own plan of action towards the society named lifestyle known as, "The American dream. " It relatively went something like this: Finish high school, Go to college, Get a good job, Get married, Have babies, Send your kids to college, Retire, Join a country club, Buy a winery, Have grandkids, and Die. I look back on this plan now and realize that this is not a plan that could possibly be deemed as a dream, and that it was intolerably ignorant of me to believe that such would bring me joy. Although, There are some people, I'm assured, that this plan would work exceptionally for, perhaps they would even be happy, but for most, the cookie cutter version of "The American dream" is null more than a nightmare.
Prior to this semester, I would have to sate with all honesty that I went from a diligent learner to a chaotic learner. In other words, I lost most of my learning techniques and motivation once I came to college. I am not sure how or what time it occurred, but I suddenly found myself to be total disaster in the middle of the fall semester. However, like any other struggling freshman I also had environmental factors that contributed to my learning habits in high school.