Throughout my life I have been faced with many different challenges that has helped me become the person that I am today. My life started out pretty simple. For eight years I was an only child, and viewed by my grandparents as their pride and joy. Then my brother was born, my mom and dad separated, and I started getting into trouble in school, at home and eventually with the law. At this point in my life, I grew up fast and started forming the person that I have become based on my elders and other influential people I was surrounded by.…
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said “To be yourself in a world that is trying to make you something else is a great accomplishment”. A question such as “who am I”? Really gives me the opportunity to differentiate and express who I really am and who I can be. I am not a complex person who thinks the world is against me, nor am I overly sophisticated “know-it-all” who doesn't take time to pay attention to my surroundings. I can't say that I am like every other person because there are certain things that make me a unique individual. What I can say is that I am progressing towards a brighter future.…
Growing up, I have had many experiences in my life that have shaped who I am. These influences have given me qualities that I consider both good and bad. Each of these chapters in my life have given form to the values that I hold as well as my self-identity. There are five main chapters of my life that influenced who I am today, and those chapters are elementary/middle school, Boy Scouts, High School, college, and lastly my parents.…
After a long while of thinking about what I believe in, I finally found the solution. I believe in cookies. Well, now you’re probably thinking this is some kind of dumb joke and that I’m not being sincere. But, it’s not what you think. Now you’re more than likely waiting for some sort of symbolism about cookies and their delicious, crispy edges. But no, we’re talking real cookies, right out of the oven, fresh off of the cookie sheet.…
There are a great deal of beliefs that I have about this world, how to live, how to act, how me think. First as human beings we are emotional as well has rational beings. The events that occur in life are not meant to be bottled up, but need to be felt, lived and learned from.…
Up until this point, my life has been particularly uneventful. After my father was stationed at Fort Indian Town Gap, my family moved to the small town of Annville Pennsylvania when I was five. Being that there was not much to do in such a small farm town, I started to join clubs in middle school in order to occupy my time. Through these clubs I completely changed. I transformed into a person who is a leader and is confident in their own abilities.…
The origin of our Universe is best explained by the Big Bang Theory. It states that our universe began some 13 billion years ago from a primordial point containing millions of particles that are still expanding today. Through the scientific method and observations, we can conclude this is the most accurate explanation of how everything started. However, I also believe that it’s very coincidental that this universe ever had a chance at surviving. Science can explain that if there had been one less or one more particle out of the millions and millions that produced the big bang that out universe would not be able to support life. This idea gives me hope that there is a purpose of the human race and that our universe may not only made up of material matter but possibly something mystical as well.…
I believe in patience. In 5th grade I was given the opportunity to get a dog. My family and I went to a local breeder who was selling baby yellow labs. I walked to a cage with seven little pups and a mother. All of the puppies were feeding on the mother except one, Bronco. At first I felt bad because I thought he was starving and was left out. But the more I observed, the more I realized he was just patiently waiting his turn. I went up to him and he kindly licked my hand. I learned something that day.…
to Job. Job is a blameless up right man, like no other on earth that fears God…
I strongly believe in Aristotle’s words of “everything happens for a reason.” I do have belief that random chance exists because I think we can change our design. The way I can prove this through a first hand experience. My family and I were getting dinner from Whole Foods and then my brother decided to go to Barnes and Noble to read a book. He made us stay 5 extra minutes, and on the way home, we got into an accident. Thankfully, no one was hurt, but I think it was random chance for us to get hit by that women, but it was all apart of the plan for us to stay later at Barnes and Noble. There was a sequence of events that had to go in order like him wanting to Barnes and Noble and stay extra, which then led to the accident. That is also the…
is a reason for everything that happens in life whether it’s good or bad. Having to accept the fact…
These past experiences and accomplishments stuck with me and they remind me of the type of person I am. I learned from them because that’s what I want to pursue in my everyday life. Along the way, the areas that I need to grow in have come up through the years and they also show the person I am today. When I put someone before me, it makes me feel proud when someone can count on…
I aforesaid all this to say that I would not change my childhood experience because I am proud of what I become today. Every negative event from childhood, I have internalized them, and turned into something positive because I made a promise to myself that I will not be anything that will prompt my future children to have a similar childhood as mine. In turn, I became mature at a young age, and more grateful everything I have earned or have in my life. I only desire to have a high prestige as an adult. In conclusion, I am because I have a desire to improve on what I was…
I belief that whatever you put your mind to it doesn’t matter where you are or who you are, you can achieve it. The reason I have this believe started when I was a child back home in Africa. When I was at the age of 7 I believed that one day I will graduate from high school, and become a great soccer player. In my hometown in west Africa if you’re a high school graduate it’s a huge thing, not many of my friends when to school because most of them don’t have the money to pay for their tuitions, even some that have the support from their parents were not willing to go to school. With my goal of becoming a high school graduate I took a job at a restaurant, my job at the restaurant was a waiter, calculate goods every week, and see how much profits we make, with this job I use to get paid five hundred dollar a month. Five hundred dollars in Zwedru my hometown can do lots of things, you can pay for a whole semester, rent an apartment, buy food and clothes. While I was working at the restaurant when I got paid every month I used to keep money aside for my tuition, I did not pay rent because I was living with my parents, and I used to…
When i as a kid i knew i was different from everyone. I had friends but never seen to fit in their groups. Even when there moments where I fit in most of the time I was abandon to the side. Things for me in school were more difficult than the rest. I don’t know when my parents told me that i was dyslexic, but from that time i had extra help and went into private tutors or anything to bring my grades up. Nothing that people tried would work or work enough. As a child I was ignorant about my problems and as a little kid I only saw the positive, living worry free. That ilusion broke when I move from Spain to America. I realized that I was alone. Even though my childhood had its ups and down I did not know any better, but soon I would realized to how to use my flaws to my advantage. My life experiences have taught me many things that I can use to help people.…