successful and reach the goals you wish to reach. I choose this question because I have changed my priorities to reach my goals. What made me develop and change my priorities was by watching my siblings with their successes and failures. My sister Chrissy is very successful. She graduated from high school, has a good job, she’s almost finished with college and she is happy and working towards her goals in life. I look up to her. She is the reason why finishing high school and college is a big…
It all began with my mother reading the children’s poem Little Bunny Foo Foo to me. Back then I could not even understand what the poem was about. Although at the time I could not understand what my mother was reading to me, I slowly began to understand the words but not the meaning. The poem was a great bedtime story and also a great moral realization. The poem was about a bunny who went hopping through a forest and began to torment and harass field mice by bopping them on the head, then a…
On June 16, 2008 my family and I took a trip to Pennsylvania. It was an eye-opening experience. On the trip we met an Amish couple that changed the way I will look at life forever. No cell phones, television, music, none of that. Just family and quality time. Things that an average family does not experience anymore. It all started out one afternoon in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. As we were touring the land we noticed the Amish were giving horse and buggy rides. My parents thought that it would…
Chinese Aviation”, by Rebecca Maksel, each of the individuals faced turning points. Jackie Robinson, Melba Patillo Beals, and Feng Ru faced life-changing experiences that changed their lives and their countries. Jackie Robinson’s life changed when he became the first African American to play in the major leagues during a time of segregation in America. These life-changing events challenged him because he had to face racially…
society in which he lives. Man’s life is Independent. He’s born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self” (B.R. Ambedkar) Author Christina Henriquez in her book, “The book of unknown Americans” speaks about identity and the different experiences of various immigrants. The characters everyday activities are given with their past which explains how the sense of their own identity formed and has been continuously reshaped over their life. The book has been…
One thing that changed my life was my decision to follow Jesus and get involved in church. This event changed me a lot in many ways. This positively impacted my life by opening my eyes to different ways of seeing things and i had a different perspective of life, people, and many situations. All my life i attended church. From the day i was born i went to church with my family. My perspective on religion as a young child was mostly about rules and learning about stories in the bible. I was…
The autobiography Quiet Strength depicts Tony Dungy’s life altering experiences, which creates the principled man he is today. Throughout life we will all experience a time that we are told we can achieve anything. For some, this dream may become a reality. For others, they are left with a life that is below their expectations. If you desire unreasonable results, you must live like an unreasonable person. Tony Dungy’s autobiography has changed my perspective on work ethic. Developing yourself…
continues on in other aspects of their life. Sadly, Carley Conner from One For The Murphy's, by Lynda Mullaly Hunt, experienced these same events. Painful events of the past always affect our present reactions and emotions. Carley Connor experiencing an excruciating amount of pain, affected her attitude towards Mrs. Murphy. She felt content with her life, living in Vegas with her mother. Then her stepfather, Dennis entered the picture. Her life…
people may say, and I always wish I had expressed that more. Although, who knows where I would be if I had. Would I have found the right answers, rooted my faith in God, and not even be in this class because I chose to take Campus Ministry? Would I have gotten in trouble for “being disruptive” by asking the questions that do not really have answers? My favorite of those is “if God is great, why do terrible things happen?” Questions like that still intrigue me, but I know I am never going to come…
morning felt like a burden that could barely be moved, crushing my soul at every waking moment; and one morning, there was nothing. Not a single bit of struggle, no burden, and no soul crushing. That moment has forever marked the time when I can say I overcame my hardest challenge yet: depression. The morning I woke up, feeling good about myself, feeling as if the world was at my fingertips, changed my life in ways nothing else has. It changed my personality completely, from being shy to being…