Charles Kendall Adams Accomplishments

Throughout my high school career I have participated in many activities and been awarded many great honors. As a member of my high school color guard, I have led as co-captian and captain for four years, traveling across the country to compete. Beta Club has given me the opportunity to serve my local community and create a service project to reach the globe. I was asked to lead the volunteers at my church for the early service in the children's ministry area my sophomore year and I continue to serve in this position. During my junior year I was acknowledged as a junior marshal, a Wofford Scholar, and a Presbyterian College Scholar.

My entire family was born in Guadalajara, Mexico. After three and a half years of living there my family decided to seek a better future in The United States. My father would go to the United States back and forth to work and earn money to send to us in Mexico. Eventually my mother was able to get a visa and my brother along with my little sister had an alternate way into the United States. We lived in Dallas Texas and Atlanta Georgia before settling in Howard county Maryland in a very small apartment. Luckily we were doing pretty well with my dad being the only one knowing English at the time. My father was working two jobs and I was getting ready to start kindergarten. I was very excited because the education we would have received in Mexico was nothing compared to the education in Howard County. I was excited for what was to come, but there were disadvantages of knowing only Spanish. Being bullied because of my poor English had an impact on me. I was in completely separate classes learning things that were simple compared to the regular course. I was excluded from certain activities, field trips and assemblies. I was clueless at first though as I slowly learned the language I understood things a lot more.

In addition, towards the end of the year, I had so much experience on almost everything that I’ve learned in Mexico. By all of that learning, I could make my own money, and buy my own things. In school, I worked hard to keep my grades up and end of the school of year I passed with an 8.8 and with all of that hard work I got my diploma and I could make my own money and work hard. I overcome the obstacles by working hard and having confidence in yourself.

During high school I have made some great accomplishments that I am very proud of such as being on the honor roll all four years of high school even receiving academic excellence for two out of the four. I am a member of National Honors Society and Student Council at Central High School. I ran track for two years and played volleyball all four years of high school. When I am not busy at school I am either working at Whitey’s Ice cream where I am currently a supervisor or volunteering.

John Adams birthday is on October 30, 1735. His place of birth is Braintree, MA. His death date was July 4,1826. The place of death was Quince, MA. His occupation is the second us president. His education is at Harvard collage from 1751-1755.His full name is John Adams.

I grew up in a small town in the state of Michoacan, Mexico until a few weeks after my seventh birthday. In 2001, after six years since my father petitioned to have us come to the United States with him and finally he had received a letter from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services that his request had been approved. Being of that age, I was my mother’s companion everywhere, however, all I could grasp from those conversations was that we were going to the United States. I don 't think any of us knew what this meant or to what extent this would change our lives, not even my parents whom I thought knew it all.

Charles W Adams was born on August 16th, 1817. He was born to Benjamin and Susannah (Goodhue) Adams. In 1819 the family moved to New Albany, Indiana. Adams worked in a home mercantile from 1830-1835. He later moved to Helena, Arkansas. He was officially a lawyer in 1839. In 1840 he went into law partnership with William K Sebastian, who later became the United States Senate in 1846. Adams judged 1852-1854. Adams married Lucy Everett and they had a granddaughter named Helen Keller who went to accomplish many things in her life. This is just some of many of his accomplishments.

Samuel Adams was born in Boston to a merchant and a brewer. He was an excellent

Throughout my high school years I have achieved more than I thought I ever could. I began to get involved with the Evergreen FFA due to my family background of farming. As I got more involved I decided to run for an office and today I am president of the Evergreen FFA and a State Degree recipient. One thing I love about my experience in FFA is getting to help people in need and making our community a better place through all of the community service that we do. For example we go to christmas cheer to help local people in need during the holiday season. We also collect can food items for thanksgiving dinners for the less fortunate in the area.

Many immigrants come to America seeking greater education opportunities, I am proud to represent many of these immigrants that succeed in their educational endeavors. In 1990, at the age of ten, I immigrated to the United States from El Salvador, one of many countries with the highest death rate in war and violence. Now, at the age of thirty-seven years old, I still remember as if it was yesterday how difficult it was to enter to this country. For the purpose of being reunited with my parents, who migrated to the United States to escape conflicts like war and violence. Unfortunately, I entered this country illegally, which made it even harder to overcome many challenges as a

Two years later I received the "Presidents Awards for Educational Excellence." With this new experience in hand I moved into high school where I was an honor roll student and where I decided on my career. I took a pharmacy internship position at Walgreen's that was provided by my school and I loved it.

The year is 1996 and I am a five year old girl in Mexico who cannot speak English and was apart from my mother for what seemed like an eternity. My Mom traveled to the United States to obtain work in the hopes of starting a new life and ultimately getting her children to eventually come as well. The following recounts what I remember from my long, scary, and transformative move from Mexico to the United States.

My journey began November 1997 in Mogadishu, Somalia. A civil war erupted through the country which caused thousands of Somali families to migrate in different directions so they can seek refuge through all the commotion. My family in particular boarded a small fishing boat and went on a voyage to begin a new life in America. I was born 16 hours after my mom set foot in the land of the free. Both my parents weren’t given the opportunity to pursue knowledge so they wanted the best for me and my siblings. They encouraged me to try harder every time I felt like I was giving up. Their struggles made me understand that education was a very important factor in a person’s life. My first day of school I walked in not being accustomed to the American

Every time I am asked about my story, I have to start gathering pieces from different places. I was born and raised in Colombia, graduated from high school in Costa Rica, and came to the United States shortly after turning eighteen. During my first years here, I could not utter more than a few words in English. Like many immigrants, I studied the language while working as home health aide, housekeeper, and even as a production worker at a chocolate factory. As I grew more confident with my communication skills, I enrolled at a community college in Florida only to realize that I did not know what I wanted to do in life.

The day I arrived to the United States was the most important moment in my life, but first, let me give you some backstory to that. I had always been an average, shy child, and I simply enjoyed the everyday distractions from the real world; submerging myself in my own world. I had average grades and I just did barely enough work to pass the year; those were my childhood years in Colombia. I cannot say that I ever had a boring childhood, in fact, my childhood was great despite all; I had great friends and my family lived really close to me, so I wasn’t really alone. There was something missing in my life, something that made it hollow, and as the years passed, I started to realize. I had no goals. In that moment I realized: I was diverted