A College education means that my daughter will have a good example to follow. A college education also means that I can finally make my dreams come true and have a better quality of life. As I desire to return to the workforce and one day have my own business a degree will be necessary for me to succeed. (Nelson Mandela quote) Upon graduating from high school in 2000 it has been an ongoing struggle to get a job that fits my career path. Obtaining a college degree is important to me because it would enable me have many opportunities to provide a secure future for my family.
How do the media portray adolescents? 16 and pregnant is a documentary series that covers the journeys of young women during their unplanned pregnancy. One of the main characters of season 2 was Ashley Salazar, a high school senior with a passion for writing. Salazar relies on her mom a lot, but she has big aspirations to move out soon, go to college in New York, and study to become a photojournalist. However, she may have to reconsider her dreams because Ashley is now pregnant.
Many mothers want their daughters to strive to do the best they can under any circumstance. This was especially evident in “Two Kinds” where the mother expects all to succeed in America, especially her daughter. The maternal figures in the story are competitive with each other and the narrator’s own mother wants her daughter to be a star. More specifically, she wants her daughter to be better than her friend’s daughter, a girl characterized as being an amazing chess player. Not only does she want her to be a better chess player, but the narrator’s mother believes that her daughter could be a music prodigy and become famous.
Karen did not see herself as a very beautiful or talented girl so she then leaned to her studies as a partial comfort. Karen succeeded in school and did very well in most everything that she attempted. Shortly after being accepted to a college, Karen married the man that she had fallen in love with, Oskar Horney. Oskar was a law student that she met in college. Shortly after being married Karen gave birth to her first daughter.
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.
They should give special treatment to athletes to maintain their high grades and stay in the team. In return, if the athletes are really talented then the team will have a chance to play in the finals and become champions. However, if the student starts failing their academic grades, they will loose their college scholarship and will be removed from the team. They should give special treatment by providing them a tutor or a chance to make up on their exams. If they finish college and they
I see my friends getting good jobs and pursuing their education and I was a sixteen year old mother with nothing to look forward to. My life have change so much and my goal was to go back to school and complete my education. For the past three years my mother and brothers always encouraged me to continue where I left off. Finally one day I decided to reapply to a secondary school to complete in education. I try looking for a job first to take care of my daughter and pay for my finances but that wasn’t successful.
Online Versus Traditional Education Frederick Williams Everest Online Composition I -30 “Online Versus Traditional Education” I have always stressed to my girls that a solid educational foundation is necessary for them to be successful in life. I knew that in today’s world that having only a high school diploma would not be sufficient. If they were expected to be able to have a career, not simply a job, it was important that they receive some post high school training. Imagine how shocked I was when my oldest asked me why I did not take my own advice. My first reaction was to send her to her room, but she got me to thinking.
In the novel 'Before I fall', the protagonist Samantha Kingston portrays the female voice on many different levels, primarily through situations that she experiences. Sam conveys the perfect teen pitch by being one of the most popular girls at school, although that soon changes. Initially, Sam relates to the reader how when she gets out of school her and her friends will look back and know that they 'did everything right'. However, her belief soon changes as she
Beauty pageant participant, Kelsey Killeen said, “When I started going into pageants, it gave me so much self-confidence.” Pageant moms believe pageants are a good way to teach their daughters skills needed in life. Eight main skills mothers thought or hoped their children would learn from pageants were acquiring confidence, learning to be comfortable onstage and around strangers, gaining poise, determining the best way to present oneself, realizing the need for practice, learning good sportsmanship, becoming more outgoing and learning to listen (“Child Beauty”). Some parents have even said that they have placed their children in pageants because of a birth defect their child had (“Child Beauty”). These parents wanted to support the fact that their children are normal and beautiful no matter if they have birth defects (“Child Beauty”). In numerous pageants it is required that the contestant raise money for a local