It took me several years to communicate to other people because of the fear they might laugh at me. While I am in school I got a job as a dietary aide position, it doesn’t pay much because it’s unskilled jobs. I worked there for about three to five years. I was hired at McDonald way back, and after a month’s I got fire because I did not speaking English. It took me a while before I got myself used to this country.
Looking back on my life, I have face challenges and paid consequences for my action. For example, the challenge that I had was I missed a lot of school days because I was often sick and sometimes I skipped classes, so when I backed to school I had to go to my every classes and make up all my missed work to catch up to my classes. Even though I did all my missing work sometimes it came up short to pass my course. When the work that I need to do is a test or exam it gives me a hard time to answer every question because of I did not come to my classes to understand the lessons that I was supposed to be learning. The consequences that I paid for my actions was I earned low grades for my classes because of not going to school everyday
It took two very long months to completely detox, I decided to go cold turkey. The medications they prescribe to drug addicts to help them detox are just as addictive as the drugs themselves. My legs cramped up so bad that I had bruises from the knots that came up, and no position I put them in helped. I had the cold sweats, I was hot and cold at the same time. I had to change shirts two or three times a day for the first month of detoxing.
Math and science have always had priority in my life, as they always will. I have always had problems with writing English papers because of my constant desire to make my work perfect. My thinking process does not leave much room for analysis or interpretation, for I often despise thinking that way. Writing analytical papers that were 1000-1500 words was truly agonizing and borderline torture; however, without writing these essays, I would have had no way of expanding my thinking process and becoming more open-minded about writing. The first essay in my portfolio is an analysis of an advertisement promoting a specific brand of vodka.
When I was in high school I experienced a bad teacher in English, then that following year I had an excellent English teacher. The bad English teacher kept to the same old ways of teaching by requiring us to memorize boring vocabulary words, and work out of the Text book to learn grammar. We would walk in and she would tell the assignment and then we would barely hear her speak throughout the remainder of the classroom period. My classmates and I dreaded going to this class everyday and most of us had very poor grades resulting from
I knew I could succeed in whatever I wanted to do with my life, but the problem was I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life. As students; however, we all process many strengths, mine being that I’m a great reader, but I wasn’t always a great reader. When I was in first grade, I was placed in special education because of my poor reading skills. Now this helped me a lot, by showing me where my weaknesses where in reading. Consequently
Vanessa Lopez Our Challenges We all have faced many challenges in our lives. A challenge is not only an obstacle in our lives; it’s also a situation where we can learn a lot from. Challenges should be faced with determination, hard work, and perseverance. A great example is the story of “A Homemade Education.” by Malcolm X, in which his first language was English but he recognizes his lack of efficiency in the language due to the need of education. Even though Malcolm was in jail he found the way to educate himself.
Alma Contreras Dr. Zipperian English 099 Tue. Thur. 9:30-11:30 October 15, 2013 Stress Me Out I have to deal with a difficult phlebotomy instructor, a big family, and some financial problems which causes me to have a very stressful life. First of all, my phlebotomy class is hard for me. In phlebotomy class, besides the tedious 160 questions every week, the instructor is more interested in socializing than in teaching.
Through analyzing the two pieces of literature by Diaz and Friedman, it is apparent that there were definitely “walls” that made it difficult for people in the US, or around the world, to communicate with others. Although there were some forms of communication, such as the sending of money from country to country, there was limited means of actual communication, such as talking or visually seeing. The lack of technology and web certainly did put some less fortunate families in a hard spot. This includes Diaz’s family multiple times during the story. Friedman argues that, “the cold war system was characterized by one overarching feature- and that was division,” we see this in the 70’s portrayed in Diaz’s story.
One time I tried to sneak away at lunch but they found me in a matter of minutes. Also once a week at random times, I had to have body checks and my entire bad dumped in the clinic. I would get so angry that I tried kicking the nurse once or twice. It was not only embarrassing but also irritating. I am now a sophomore at Southwest Early College and I realized that I put myself in bad situations and lie.