My mother plays a big part in my life. She is the one I go to if I have a problem, even though she lives three states a way. She is a special person in my life and my role model too. I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for her. She has been through so many obstacles in her lifetime and one way or another she has overcome them all.
My son was only two at the time so he did not understand that grandma went to heaven and what it meant. Until this day all three of my kids point at a picture that I have on my end table of grandma Dean and says “that is grandma Dean she is in heaven I miss her.” Even though the other two kids did not met her my oldest son Bryce told them memorize that he remember about her and how sweet of a person she was. He made sure that he told them about her that way they knew who grandma Dean was. I loved my grandmother with all my heart and I miss her dearly every day. My grandmother was everything to me and she will always hold that special piece of my heart.
Her home was not very big but my family was a total of fifty eight people when we all got together, she only had a three bedroom one bath home and we all seemed to squeeze in there, along with numerous friends which would stop by. IV. Body Paragraph III: .Transition/Opening Sentence: Everyone has to encounter this experience of losing a loved one and everyone deals with it in different ways. I’m so thankful that I got to spend the time I did with my grandmother. I would not change a thing about one second of the time we shared on the earth
Jobs are hard to find these days, especially when they are seeking a High School diploma or a College degree of some sort. My returning back to school is the best decision that I have made thus far and when I finally graduate, I will know for sure that I made the right choice. My family has a lot to do with me returning to college, I know that there are different job opportunities for me. In order to make it in this world, you have to have some type of degree. Having financial problems played a factor also in my returning to school.
I have faced many obstacles in my life. I lived in orphanage from birth, and was finally adopted at the age of 3. Throughout my life I have been placed in different treatment facilities and had to learn how to be able to learn how to view the world from different places. I now know that the world is not how I thought it would be. At age 15 I was placed in A Kidz Hope, a girls group home, and now am at my last stop.
We have all been through so much that it has brought us much closer together. My friends have always been there for me. I have always had friends come and go, but the ones that stayed mean the world to me. The one friend who has been there for me and knows me the best is my best friend Sharon. We haven't fought over anything and I've known her since I was basically a baby.
While men have increasingly been faced with the same choices, women's continuing greater responsibility for household tasks, including child care, means that the choices are of greater consequence” (Teachman,1989). After a few years, I realized that without a college education I would never be able to advance in my career or be able to provide for my family the way I wanted to. Returning to school was a must but I still doubted that I would have the time and the money. It had been a few years since I had been in high school and I was afraid that I could not remember some of the things I needed to
Why College Education is Important to Me For most individuals, a college education is merely the next step in the road to a successful career. For myself, the importance of a college education is more of a personal goal. Eight years ago, one of the last conversations I had with my mother prior to her passing away was her wish for me to attain my Bachelors Degree; a goal I had made for myself back when I was just entering High School but never attained as planned. I was one of those numbers who contributed to the statistics of having to drop out of college early on due to pregnancy. As a single parent, I had to put my educational goals on the back burner to raising my family.
This irrational parental logic held me back for a time but did not keep me from eventually attending college on my own. Now, with approximately seven to eight years left until retirement, I still feel college is important enough to go back to finish what I started! Working for my Bachelors degree couldn’t be more poignant to me than it is right now. My desire to get a college education was in defiance of my father’s view of a woman’s place. My father was difficult and hard on my two brothers and me.
The pursuit of new found personal goals lead to the University of Phoenix where I will garner the skills, contacts and confidence to succeed in my chosen career. Pursuit of a Graduate Degree My mother always said that I have a hard time doing things that my heart was not into and she was right! I have attempted to begin my graduate degree three times in the past four years. I would go so far as to register, pay my bill in cash and even purchase my books. Then something would happen that would make me change my mind and withdraw.