Topic (Biographical Essay): We are interested in learning more about you and the context in which you have grown up, formed your aspirations, and accomplished your academic successes. Please describe the factors and challenges that have most shaped your personal life and aspirations. How have these factors helped you to grow? I was born and raised in South Florida around Fort. Lauderdale, one of the state's largest cities, to very religious parents. My parents founded and pastored a Christian church before and after I was born, so much of their finances were put into and centered around it. My dad had a degree in Theology and my mom in communications but she soon left it for nursing as an LPN. There were many complications with my mother's womb and she always told me the story of how every doctor she went to said she would never be able to have a child. After starting the process for a hysterectomy (womb removal) however, they noticed a speck (me!) and ended the operation. My mom was elated to hear the news as she always wanted to bear a child and referred to me as her little "miracle." The first 10 years of my life were relatively nonchalant but had interesting aspects in its own right. I lived with my half-brother (from my father's side), my sister, and parents. When I was young we moved into a pleasant community in a city called Coconut Creek. During my first few years of elementary school, my Mom and teachers noticed that there was something a little "off" about me. My
We are interested in learning more about you and the context in which you have grown up, formed your aspirations, and accomplished your academic successes. Please describe the factors and challenges that have most shaped your personal life and aspirations. How have these factors helped you to grow? (800)
At the age of about six years old, I came face to face with my guardian angel. Ordinarily, most people have fairly rote childhoods, but I cannot attest to the same. The equation of my life had many variables, with a unique solution. During a portion of my life, not only did my family and I reside in the economically challenged portion of Joshua Tree, but also, my mother had seven children in her household, all under the age of twelve. My mother, loving four kids of her own, had felt obliged to take in her brother’s kids due to their unstable home life. Bionically, she managed to keep all of us rugrats alive while working full time as a daycare provider and completing her college education in order to become a credentialed
Essay topic: We are interested in learning more about you and the context in which you have grown up, formed your aspirations and accomplished your academic successes. Please describe the factors and challenges that have most shaped your personal life and aspirations. How have these factors caused you to grow?
“For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord,” Romans 8:38-39. There are several events that have occurred in my life that I could choose to write my topic about. Throughout my childhood, the thought of “being baptized” always kept me wondering. While growing up, I would ask my parents what the meaning of being saved was but never received an answer. My baptism influenced my life by completely changing my perspective on the way of life.
Over seventeen years ago, the last day of school for my siblings, my mom start to have contractions around two in the afternoon. She had been preparing for my arrival and the upcoming summer vacation while my dad was working nearby. Finally, at six o’clock in the evening, on June 3rd, I was born a healthy baby a few days past my due date of May 31st. It had been quick, intense birth for my mom, who decided to go without an epidural. Throughout the two days my mom and I were in the hospital, we had many visitors: Uncle Tom, Granny, (mom’s side) and my siblings (Ben and Olivia).
Going to college has reminded me how much I truly love to read. It’s also reminded me that there are some books that I cannot bear to sit through. For a long time, I only read books that I knew I would love, or that I’d at least like. I only picked up a book if it was by an author I knew, or if it came recommended by someone.
I never knew what it felt like to be content in a relationship, or what true love was, until I met Dan. Prior to this success, I disentangled myself out of a three year relationship full of manipulative and childish acts.
Joanne was born in National Women’s Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand in October 1964. Joanne’s father worked full time as a plumber, her mother worked part time as a factory worker while also bringing up Joanne and her older brother. Joanne has spent all her life, from birth to present day, living in West Auckland. Joanne has never married and does not have any children. At the time of this interview Joanne is at the middle adulthood stage of her life. This life history follows Joanne’s life stages and identifies her major normative age graded events, normative history graded events and also non normative events, and reflects on the impact of these events on her development. Normative age graded influence included
“Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanishes away.” James chapter 4 and verse 14. One of my favorite bible verses. Life is short, really short, and so many people take it for granted, I know I use to. Think of life like a puzzle, as you grow up, you keep adding pieces that make up who you are. When I got the question “What Am I Becoming?” I honestly had so much to write about but no idea how to write it. I know what I want to be but who I am becoming is the real question. So let me start at the very beginning.
One summer in my birth home in England, my birth mother had passed out on the floor in the morning after my father left for work. My brother and I heard a loud scream and came into the room, seeing that she has passed out. In our right minds, we thought it was going to be moderate, but soon later finding out she died from damage in her brain, causing her left side of the body not to work and to barely eat and support her other side. Her funeral was a warning of future events that started going ridiculously wrong after and I knew there was going to be a major turning point in my life, with a tone and cause us to leave and figure out problems on our journey. Due to my mother's death, an increasing amount of work was to be done to protect our future.
As a very small child I don’t remember too much, but the things that I do remember were seen through a child’s eyes that has made me the person that I am today and I will always have those memory’s with me until my last breath on this earth. In this essay I intend to show how my childhood and adult life to this point has influenced my life, my journey. By utilizing the adult development theories from this class I also intend on showing how they relate to my Life experiences and where I am today as an Adult student.
I was raised understanding life happens to everyone ,life isn't fair and c'est la vie ; so when "Life" happened to me, I never made it my business to tell my story; to seek help ,attention , or love because of my circumstances. I simply rolled with the punches and never let the outside world see me sweat. Instead I would come home and write; write my thoughts , fears, desires , goals , and regrets.
With regards to my personal life, I have been particularly blessed to have experienced a joyful and easy-going life. I was born and raised in Santa Barbara, California and later moved to Ventura, a city just south of Santa Barbara. As a result, its safe to assume that I’ve been and will always be a California kid. The beach was walking distance away from my home and the weather was always warm and sunny. My family also have been pivotal in instilling a happy demeanor by always inculcating my psyche with positive attitudes coupled with kind and outgoing manners to people of all colors, creeds, and nationalities.
In the summer after 4th grade, my family decided to go on a vacation to the big apple, New York City. I can still remember packing my luggage full of not only clothes, but also the essential snacks. I filled that suitcase all the way up to the seams with Pepperidge Farm Goldfish, Nabisco Teddy Grahams, and Little Debbie Oatmeal Crème Pies. I packed the food in hope of having good treats for the plane ride, and my father says New York City food is expensive. Little did I know at the time that this vacation would become the story of when I got lost in New York.
Everyone has a purpose in life.. a unique gift or special talent to give to others. Life might seem hard sometimes but if you look around you see people smile, talking about there day but inside they might be in burning pain. That’s what i had. People though i was happy and my life was perfect, because i would smile but inside i was trying to be gone for this world.