My first extended stay away from home occurred at age ten when I attended Camp Elliot Barker. Camp Elliot Barker was a Girl Scout camp which I decided to go so that I could experience something new and exhibit independence. I had the opportunity to gain a wide exposure to people from different walks of life and learn many practical skills. Though I found it difficult because of my battle with homesickness, I was, and am still grateful I was able to attend the camp. The weeks prior to attending Camp Elliot Barker were filled with excitement, anticipation, nervousness and stress.
The life experiences of Mary Crow Dog is very interesting. It puzzles me somewhat though. She speaks of going to a mission school called St. Francis as a young girl. She states that her grandmother, mother and sisters went there. (352) She speaks of the only being allowed to go home one week out of the year, and that two of those days were spent for travel.
The pig farm was located in Denmark, where she stayed for 13 months as a foreign exchange student. After that she returned to her hometown, where she worked for minimum wage at a clothing store, which opened her eyes to the reality of her needing to go to college. She went to Onondaga Community College and graduated after 2 years. While
LaShawnda, Elaine, and Tracy had been friends for about three years, meeting for the first time at a pre-adoption workshop sponsored by a local nonprofit adoption agency with a 75-year history of helping children in the city. They had done everything possible to be selected by the agency to adopt a child. This involved allowing social workers to conduct home studies, having their employment, driving, and court records checked, then waiting for about a year until a newborn child was available. Today the women were gathering in Elaine’s backyard, where their kids could play in the wading pool and the adults could sit in the shade and sip iced tea. The occasion was Darcie’s second birthday: she was the oldest of the three kids present, and the
Mae Jemison 1 Mae Carol Jemison  Mae Carol Jemison Mary Taylor Jones College of Jacksonville Mae Jemison 2 Mae Carol Jemison was born on October 17, 1956 in Decatur, Alabama, the youngest of three children of Charlie Jemison, a maintenance supervisor for a charity organization, and Dorothy (Green) Jemison, an elementary school teacher of English and Math. [1] When Jemison was 3 years old, the family moved to Chicago, Illinois to take advantage of better educational opportunities. By the time she entered kindergarten in 1961 she knew how to read, and she had already decided to be a scientist. “ As a child growing up, Jemison learned
I found a breeder in Mabelvale, AR that was selling puppies for $325. After contemplating for about 2 hours all three of us hopped in the car, we were just “going to look” at the puppies, not necessarily buy one. My daughter was so excited but I
Henry Merida Period 3, English Looks over Experience In the article “Going for the Look, but Risking Discrimination” by Steven Greenhouse, the article starts off with the story of Elizabeth Nill. Elizabeth is a sophomore at Northwestern University, and often shops at Abercrombie & Fitch. She said that in at least in 3 Abercrombie & Fitch stores, managers have approached her and offered her a job. “Every time this happens, my little sister says, “not again,” said Elizabeth when she recalls how often it happens. Is it a coincidence that this happens?
Running head: Reflective Essay It is good to be a College Student IDS 4001 Dr. Joseph L. Kibitlewski, Ph D. April 6, 2010 Graduating from college has always been my personal passion since I was a little girl. Upon graduating from high school twenty years ago, I have attended different colleges. January 2002, when I first coming to this country I did not think about going back to college anymore, because it seemed like it was too hard for me as a single mother with two children, and a full time job. In 2005, after a lot of experiences that I have been through to get a better job with a good pay and a good benefit, I found out it wasn’t too easy for me because I don’t have a college degree. Then, I realized there is nothing better than being a college student, and at the beginning of 2006 I decided to go back to college for another orientation in my life.
From then on when a writing assignment came up I would relate that topic to my life and twist events and experience to please my audience. I started writing A papers, and all this kept building and opportunities started to appear where I could use my way with words to get me where I needed to be. The beginning of my 8th grade year I decided I wanted to go to Alaska for the summer with our schools “Alaska Great Lakes Project,” which is a unique project that takes 70 8th graders to Alaska for a summer to climb mountains, go on boat explorations, and learn about the environment first hand for 4 weeks year after year, it was
My fiances brother, his wife and their three children moved to Ohio over a year ago. My niece just started middle school this year, and was very excited. My soon to be sister-in-law (her mother) and I are very close, and we talk all of the time. In one of our recent conversations, she was telling me about an issue that they were having with the middle school. She informed me that this particular school enforces uniforms, which to me sounded fine.