I take a high level of pride in my last name because I was always taught it represented our family as a whole. Whenever someone says “Alex Keller” is not a good person, they are shaming my entire family and that isn't something I should bring upon us. On the contrast my mother, hailing from Detroit, taught me about standing up for what is right and having my voice heard. Many social issues such as racism or homophobia were never really a problem for me. I literally didn't even know things like that existed till I got to intermediate school.
Adriana Covarrubias Ms. Villarreal Writing 110 April 13, 2011 First in the Family to go to College When I made the decision to attend college, aside from my grandparents and parents, most of my family had doubts about my being serious. I come from a strong Hispanic family with the best morals and hard-working, blue-collar ethics. The men in my family have provided for their families, and we have a big family. However, with the big family came the notion that college wasn’t in the equation. The University of La Verne’s core values have been present in my life throughout the years.
Sitting in my Dual-Credit Teacher Cadet Class listening to my instructor tells us, “see at this stage of life, children believe that all their friends have two cars, a big house and food on the table every night, because they haven’t experienced anything else” and everyone laughed and moved on. But for me, I knew from the very beginning that my sister and I had a very different life from everyone else, but for a long time I didn’t know why. My name is Charmaine Littlejohn; I was born on May 21, 1996, healthy as I can be. I grew up in a single parent household with my sister and my mother since my father decided that he would like to take a more indirect parenting course throughout my life. I have been in Gaffney, South Carolina all my life
We stay in our own little community, and not think what is going on outside of it as long as we are happy and safe. As a parent we want are children to be book smart and worldly smart, but to come to find out we can teach are children something’s we were never taught by our own parents. I have four daughters and three out of the four are out of are small little town and realizing what is going on in the outside world. But I don’t have any disagreements with this author of this book, like I said it was very interesting to find out stuff that went on in the past and what is going on now. Like the Ku Klux Klan started just to scare the people, then some individual decided to take it further and that’s where the problem all
Webster university | Diversity | Reflection | | Alonna J Scott | 8/26/2012 | This reflection is about diversity and my experiences with different people of many backgrounds, cultures and beliefs. This paper describes I how I dealt with diversity while I was growing up, in college and my working life. | Alonna J Scott HRMG 5000 Dr. Kim Scanlan August 26, 2012 Diversity can be defined as differences in human characteristics and composition in an organization (Mathis, 2011). While growing up, I was not exposed to many diverse groups. I grew up in a small town where everybody knew everybody.
My experiences growing up did not help me develop my diversity consciousness as much as I would've liked. Getting a college education and learning about diversity in this class and my human resources class have helped me develop an understanding that people and businesses must understand that the world, and specifically America, is diverse and we must learn and grow to help make it a successful achievement. The most difficult challenge for me will be stepping out of my comfort zone. I'm not exactly a hermit, but I do like to keep to myself a lot of time. I will need to put myself out there, ask questions when I don't have any clue what I'm talking about, and be more open to talking to different people.
Observant and wise, my mom always said Olga and I had a special connection. Whether it was playing in the backyard or trying to block out her noisy snoring during the night, she was unlike anything else. But as days went on, guilt built up. Our whole family didn’t like to see Olga’s sad, neglected face when we drove away to go on with our daily routines. So after many pleads and pleases to my parents, it wouldn’t just be one bulldog at the Browning household.
I took part in many competitions such as the state tournament for table tennis. There, the other competitors were at times so much better than me. I carefully examined the other players’ style, understood my own mistakes and practiced them to perfection. I developed my skills through practice as my knees and arms grew to strengthen and coordinate better. But later in my high school, winning alone wasn’t enough for me.
We came to the conclusion, agreeing with our study of the thesis, that this is directly derived from our up-brining. Our parents, not one, had discussed race with any of us. It was left for us to figure out ourselves. Not having the discussions of race drove the segregation outside of our public sanctuaries were we saw things a bit differently, at least sub-consciously, than we did at home. The topic of
In a pool with my peers, as we were all females and in the same age group, I had been isolated as the minority. Of note we were all the children of Italian immigrants. All of us were born in the United States, but only one of us had been raised for several years in another country. During that afternoon’s events, I had felt so small and yet at the same time I seemed to be the giant