I originally thought it was all just writing papers to improve our skills rather than do exercises that actually help us. I think this class gave me a great foundation to build off of in the future and to fine tune my writing skills in college and the future. I think this class for me has really opened my eyes to how lazy of a writer I was because I didn 't take the time or put the effort in. During this class I have improved in countless ways that will be needed to be successful in the next level of education. Although I feel I have drastically improved, there are aspects in my wring that need work, but I think they will come with more time and
Fortunate, is what I call myself because I have a better life than most of my extended family. I was born and raised in El Salvador up until the age of six. When my parents decided that my brother and I would have a better future here in the United States. My parents left everything behind in El Salvador to give my siblings and I a better opportunity in education and life itself. Though my parents had to leave most of their family behind to provide for us, they have done it without second-guessing.
Kite Runner Being an immigrant is about leaving one’s native country; but it is also, more importantly, about adapting and assimilating to a new culture. Relocating to a new country could sometimes cause a life-transforming moment. In 2003, when Khaled Hosseini published the mainstream fiction story, “The Kite Runner,” he was an extremely successful M.D. (Medical Doctor) who was practicing internal medicine. Throughout his novel, he describes different characters which possess different characteristics and personalities. As illustrated in the book, Baba and his family moved to the United States to get a better life, and they quickly started to assimilate the American culture.
Overcoming my Obstacles Obstacle--a word that most people in the world do not want to mention, but all of us have to face them every day in our lives. Some people have to face physical hardships, but others have to face spiritual difficulties. Overcoming these obstacles is very important for people to have a good life. Everyone has a personal way to overcome their obstructions, and each way has a particular lesson to teach us. I also have had to face many difficulties in my life, and my three big obstacles have been homesickness, car sickness, and studying English.
Although, the teachings were not the same as when I entered elementary school. While being tutored at home, I would learn my alphabet and numbers in Spanish. When I was enrolled in school, I would learn my alphabet and numbers in English, along with other subjects. As I grew older, I could understand most of my assignments being given to me, the difficulty about it sometimes would be that I had homework in Spanish and in English. To some this would be fun, but to me it was a lot more work that had to be turned in.
Now just because I say this does not mean I cannot learn a new language. I just personally find it a lot more difficult to learn a new language because I only remember it being easy when learning the 3 languages. Because of these experiences I can listen to people and read peoples facial expressions. Even if I do not understand what they are saying I usually get the right idea.
The reason may be that I do not think much about the sentence structure before I write down something on paper. Also, I try to write really fast in order to put my thoughts down before I forget about them. The SAGES writing crew is very helpful that the tutors point out my grammar mistakes and train me to find my own mistakes. At first, they do not just look through my paper and help me edit it.
Finally, Writing has changed from going from elementary school to college because the writing has gotten harder, because the topics have gotten more challenging and the page length as well has
Hardly any of the people that wanted to get closer to hardly even talked to me and when they did they only bullied me. That was not the only way that I could talk to them though! The only other way that I could think of doing to get closer to them would be to join a sports team. I thought about this for a while, but I did not know what sport to join. I went right to my ipad and looked at the school website so that could see what sports were open at this time of year.
I never felt as if I was a middle child until someone pointed out that it wasn’t normal to enjoy being alone. I feel like a middle child the most when I am thrown into social situations where I see parents give all of their attention to their children. Parents and children overshare their feelings and do not understand the value of personal
James says it was extremely difficult to learn an entirely new language and culture as late in life as he was. He had to put a large amount of effort into it, but now he is able to use English in his everyday life, and when he is presented with something new, he knows exactly how to work hard to get through
As coming from the third war country, where education have less importance I went through some tough challenges after coming to The United State of America. Since English was my second language I became a handicap. I couldn’t go out much due to communication barriers, felt left out of the family where everyone is communicating in English laughing and giggling. I wanted to be part of it. I started thinking what would teach my children if I don’t know English.
After the first semester, then I started picking up with speech and asset but was not that much. I started taking the science class from the second semester. Some of the topics were okay to go with and some were hard and difficult.
I felt that at first, especially, no one took charge. This weakened our group a bit, we were a little behind because we did not decide on a topic on the first day. We also had to throw the class activity together in the last few days because everyone was too nervous to say what they thought would be best. When we were presenting, we all knew our individual parts, but they were not very spread out. I know that I personally spoke more than some other members of
In conclusion I’m very happy with the class because it help me understand how my classes are going to be when I move up classes. I take English again next semester. I’m probably going to be pooped out from all the essays we did from this semester’s English class, but at least I know how rough it’ll