In addition of going to school, working class students also have to get a job to be able to help out their families. Working class students have always struggled to get by during their years in college but most of these students have families who support their dreams of coming out of poverty and become somebody with no pressures. However there are also students who lack family support and deal with these issues alone throughout college. According to the New York Times article For Poor, Leap to College Often Ends in a Hard Fall, “Likely reasons [that low income students drop out of college]
Parents- students had more responsibilities than the other students. From my own experience, I am now a college students and mother of two children. At the beginning, as an immigrant, I had faced many difficulties finding new job, learning new language, and acclimating to a new society. I wasn’t motivated to attend community college. After that, I had my first baby.
Marilyn came from the part of North that we like to call the “bottom”. She showed me that just because you live in the hood doesn’t mean you don’t have a chance to become something positive in life. Marilyn is a success as a mother and wife. She is a successful woman because she was determined to do whatever it takes to make it out of the ghetto. My mom is the first in her family to have children to go to college.
Nowadays, we can see lots of teenagers who try to fit in on the society by living like the society; sometimes this led to destruction. As the novel continues, Josie also feels being pressured at her school. Firstly, because most of the students at her school came from wealthy families and her acceptance to the wealthy catholic girl’ school was trough scholarship and not by paying the fees. Secondly, because her parents weren’t married when she was born and she had never met her father until the age of seventeen; in other words she doesn’t feel as normal like the other girls at her school feels. In my experience, issues like this happen in many schools, when you feel you’re an outcast on your school because you came from a low standard of living and your studying in a wealthy school.
Many illegal immigrants live amongst us right now that have been here for many years and have worked for company’s many years and have homes and cars and many luxury’s we have. They might be here illegally but they have everything we have. Why would we look at them and think that it’s not right or it’s not fair? By bettering ourselves and educating our children so that they can have a better life for themselves is the answer we should not teach that they are illegal but teach that they are part of this country also and we must accept them as normal human beings. Jobs will always be hard to get especially when so many of us apply for them we must push for a higher education that way when it comes down to picking an individual you know you are better than the rest of the others who applied.
Until my cousin because a teenager was when all the problems started because he was not able to have a driver’s license neither get help from the government or take out a loan to pay for his college tuition. B. Tie to Audience: One of the people having this kind of situation might be someone you know, or this person could have been you also just because your parents wanted a better future for you. C. Thesis and Preview: 1. Thesis Statement- The need for this dream Act is very important to so many immigrants that are brought to this country when they are children.
Even though some kids don’t have the same circumstances as others, they should still be made to go to school until they are a legal adult because it will help them get a better job, make better money, and provide more opportunities for themselves than they might have if they dropped out at the young age of sixteen. Free public education is something that the United States has that many other countries in this world is not fortunate enough to have. To be able to send our children to school for free and have them receive a education to help not only better themselves, but also better out nation is one of the main reasons so many families immigrate here. From a young age, most children learn that in order to succeed, one needs to go to school and excel. This, unfortunately, is not always an option for kids.
Having no documentation or social security, Renya loses many opportunities at education since she doesn’t have the sufficient funds to pursue it. Worried that without social security her opportunities in the job market dwindle, Renya puts her hope in the Dream Act and rallies support to raise awareness about it. The act will provide a path towards citizenship for anyone undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. before age of sixteen. Renya Wences tries to use her life experiences in order to convince readers to support the Dream Act. The Dream Act and its association with immigration is the central focus of the entire article and the one of the basis of the author’s argument.
Being the first person in my family to get a college degree makes me feel so good. Setting example for children and letting them see that mommy can do it is priceless. The things that we do in life as far as school wise are thing we can take us to the next level is just a lot of us lose hope we are not sure where to go. I though getting a high school diploma was fine for me. I felt school was not for me because I have dyslexic and, I feel people just don’t want to help me.
A high school senior that’s so ambitious to start the road into her college education is what makes her strong and not look back. I’m a Hispanic young lady with both parents are non-English speakers. Since they didn’t go to college, they have encouraged me to go beyond anything and do what I want to do, in the aspect of finishing high school and going straight to college and become somebody. Since I was around the 4th or 5th grade I was always interested in psychology or detective kind of thing. As I grow up I know I wanted to major either in criminal justice, psychology or nursing.