Why College Matters College has always been a topic discussed by a high quantity of people. It is usually a top priority on a lot people’s mind after they graduate from high school. This is mainly because they want to further their education and earn a degree in their chosen field in order to have a successful career in life. There are numerous reasons why college matters and plays an important role to help people be successful in life. The first reason is because a lot of people want a job that will pay very good money.
I finally had self- confidence and the drive to make the most of my career as I neared completion of Banker’s College. Finally completing bankers college only started a drive for personal interest in a full fledged college degree and a chance at a new dream that I one day would like to complete, my own day care. I returned to an online college in a degree program for Early Childhood so I could prove to my family that I could graduate with honors and receive a diploma and I did with an Associate’s Degree the proudest moment of my life. I now have the chance to do many things with my college degree as well as returning to college and adding to it to
Frida Kahlo had many factors that helped to shape her art and world. Each aspect in Kahlo’s life, affected many lives even after her death. Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907, but she often told those who met her that she was born in 1910, to identify herself as a daughter of the Mexican Revolution. At the young age of six, Frida contracted polio. She would live, but was restricted to bed rest for nearly a year, one leg that was shorter than the other, and ulcers in her feet that would later cause the need to amputate her right leg.
I graduated high school twenty-five years ago. Since then, I have raised a family and bounced from job to job. A college education is important to me because I have finally matured enough to complete my education and fulfill my dream of becoming a college graduate. In order to succeed in college, it takes dedication, discipline, and structure. Throughout my lifetime, I have always struggled with these.
When you hear the word college, what comes to your mind? Of course the big parties with the music blasting and bottles of alcohol everywhere, the hangovers, the all-nighters with your books and papers spread out all over the place, the self-motivation it takes to make sure you always to go class, and that tingly feeling of success once you graduate, receive your BA, and make your family proud. To some people different things may have come to mind, it all depends on our own personal views on college. In Charles Murray’s essay, Too Many People Are Going to College, his main point is the fact that “…large numbers of students are in college to buy their admission ticket-the BA.”(pg.66) The BA is not all that it used to be, back then only people from upper class were given the opportunity to achieve their degrees and it really showed that they learned something. Now in days once employers sees a potential employees degree, they aren’t even worried about the skills they learned in college, they just see that that person attended college.
Sierra Hayes Mr. C English 1301-14 28 January 2013 Narrative Writing Remembered Event As a little girl my greatest bond was with my grandmother, she played a major role in my support system. When my grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer my senior year, it was really hard on me. All I could think was she won’t be able to see me graduate, which was her wish for me from when I was younger. I was born September 1st, 1994 in Brooklyn, New York. My mother was fairly young and still in high school, so my grandmother Christine Cooks made it one of her top priorities to take care of me.
Novello was diagnosed with congenital mega colon, at a very young age. The condition was very painful, in which Novello visited the hospital frequently. She was told that the only way of treatment was through surgery. It wasn’t until Novello was 18 years old did she receive the surgery, but the results were unsuccessful. She suffered for an additional two more years, at the age of 20, was she finally cured.
She was forces to enroll at La Maternite, a highly regarded midwifery school, in the summer of 1849. While she was attending to a child, about 4 month after enrolling, she inadvertently splashed some pus from the child's eye into her own left eye. She contracted ophthalmia neonatorum. This caused her not to be able to work, study or even read. She eventually had to remove her eye which made it impossible to become a surgeon.
In my mother’s case, she was struck on the left side of her car, impacting the left side of her head which gave her paralysis on her right side. Traumatic brain injury, (TBI) may result in life long impairments of an individual's physical, cognitive, psychosocial functioning, memory, speech, attention, reasoning, judgment, sensory, problem solving, and motor skills which severely impact the injured person's life, their families, and significant other. Family members are making decisions for their loved one that they never envisioned having to make. The majority of TBI patients will need extensive rehabilitation following their hospital stay. Rehabilitation can last months or even
My mother has been a nurse for many years; vividly observing her work made me realize that I wanted to pursue something similar. Although my mom played a great role in the realization of my dreams, my grandfather is the one who most significantly impacted my decision to choose nursing as my focus. By the time I was in high school, I was in California and my grandfather was diagnosed with cancer. I was told that he was alone most of the time in the hospital, because the rest of the family was working and could not visit. I decided to miss a week of school and flew to New York to take care of him.