English 100
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yayyyyyy im the first one! my homewroke is almost done. oops i dont know how to spell. see you on friday!:)
hopefully im replying to the right class. im just so exhuasted
Hopefully it turns out to be an other good year !
OMG a fat rat is laying on my bed, scratching itself with it’s sharp claws.
Hope its another GREAT semester with you guys!
see you Friday!
holla ms. ogden como esta, Im excited for having you for a class once more hahaha
Hello Ogden am happy to have you again for english class cant wait for another good semester again =D
So happy to have you once more profesor ogden!
i know this semester will be great and ill do much more better than the fall XD
your class was the one i was so looking forward too
Yay, another great semester with Prof. Ogden! <3
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Hi everyone.
Time to put our knowledge to the test again. Let’s enjoy this semester again with Prof. Ogden and our classmates! Knowledge is the best Power we can have. Power to the Knowledge!
Let’s see what Professor Ogden has for us this semester.
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Hello professor I wonder if I’m the last student
oh well can’t wait to start on the amazing work we do together again 
Prof. Ogden Im looking forward to your class. I’m expecting your class to be challenging and very helpful in improving my skills in order to move to English 1a.
i hope i pass. ima give you my all Prof.Ogden
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Glad to be here! Ready for a great semester of reading and writing! See you tomorrow.
Hello, I hope this semester turns out good for everyone
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Hey does anyone know when we post for the morning english 100 class?
we post it during it the time we are suppose to be in class which is 10:40am-12pm tomorrow. March 2
thanks!!
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Rosi Vasquez has been reading since the age of 7. Her earliest reading memory was in the second grade reading Green eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss. Her pleasurable experience encouraged her to read more books by Dr. Seuss. So her childhood books like many children were Dr. Seuss books. Another book she enjoyed in the far past was “The child called it”. She really liked this book because it is a book based on real life. Secondly she can relate to it. It reminds her of the life she had with her mom. Every time she reads the book, it’s a book that really digs deep into her emotions.
Her most pleasurable reading memory was reading “He’s lying to you”. This book gives tips, examples, and comments on how to know when a boy is lying to you, likes you or is in to you. This book would be her key to understanding boys in the future. Rosi is attracted by romantic novels. She likes reading about the passion, love, romance and drama that goes on in couple’s life.
Rosi decided what she wanted to do as a career on a trip to the library. She randomly picked up a book on medicine and kept picking up more and more tell she realized she really liked the medicine field. She plans to study to become a nurse. This has been her dream since she was in the 8th grade.
Another book genre that rosi is attracted to besides romance and true life is mystery. The suspenseful moments and the feeling of wanting to turn to the next page is what she enjoys about these books. She always tries to figure out what ending is going to be about before she gets to it. Basically everything rosi enjoys reading and has read describes her.
Patty has been reading for a while, but she would read for the heck of it at first then as she went on with her life she noticed and took the time to get herself and family involved in reading. It has made a big impact on Patty and her family’s reading life. Patty takes the time not to just read for self and her enjoyment but also to show her nephew and younger cousins, that it is good to read. When Patty reads she reads to her nephew and her cousins also. It’s a learning experience for all of them; Patty says “now her nephew and cousins actually bring books for her to read to them.” Patty actually takes time to read to them so they can understand what Patty is reading. In Patty’s most pleasurable reading memory of the far past was reading the book named, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. She had to read this book for her senior year; Patty tried to put herself in the characters shoes as she read along in the book. When Patty finished the book she felt as if she knew this character, by trying to her put herself in the characters shoes and also trying to relate with the character. Patty said “the book made her real emotional, and think about her life.” Patty enjoys reading books such as suspense and mystery she enjoys these types of books because these kinds of books make her think and makes her asks herself questions such as why did that happen or who did that? Patty is the type of reader that wants to know what’s next, but she has to keep reading to know what’s next. Patty also enjoys reading autobiography’s she likes to read about people and their past so she can read what they went through to get where they are today in life. She reads these kinds of books to get inspired by what these books say and also how they came up with some type of issues in their lives. Patty takes the words to the heart and try’s to understand what that book is saying as she read a reads a book.
Hey does anyone know the prompt for the in class essay we took on Monday for English 100 -XL?
Edith Mayorquin
Paragraph for Essay 1
Student writers create a transformative change for readers by expressing thoughts and beliefs through writing. Freewriting, First Thoughts, Critical Thinking and Writing to Connect articles have a basic concept of expressing thoughts and beliefs through writing. The two most similar are Freewriting by Peter Elbow and First Thoughts by Natalie Goldberg. Elbow and Goldberg walk us through the guidelines of writing freely to gather ones thoughts that could not be easily expressed. Critical Thinking by Bell Hook’s can be followed after Elbow and Goldberg’s idea. Hook’s gets more into detail evaluating ones thoughts and free writing. Once all thoughts and ideas are expressed, questioned and evaluated, Pipher gives you an understanding of how important the writing we begin with can turn into a life changing experience.
Hey guys does anyone know where the research confrence is?
If I want to talk about identity, I would start off with saying that to this day never thought about it really, never in my life thought about who I really was up till the day that I was told by my prof. that I have to read these books that talk about their identity and who they really are and where are they coming from. After reading those book I came to a point, which I was like wait a second just like these students and people I should have an identity but not yet identified it, so I said to myself lets get down deep in my childhood and find things about my self that I thought it would not matter that much. Let’s stat off with the fact that I am a Persian Armenian, who my ancestors immigrated to Iran almost 400 years ago for the same purpose that I have come to U.S. which was having a better life. I was born and grown up in Iran, lived about 17 years of my life there, growing up with the Persian culture mixed up with Armenian was pretty hard, because on one side it requires to be very mind manipulative and fooling people all the time and on the other hand being Armenian was required to be an honest person and not to lie in any situations. I have had a really hard childhood specially my dad having to bankrupt due to lack of freedom in Iran because he was in the clothing business. We have had troubles financial wise but never felt that, I am so thankful to my parents who supported me all the way to this day, any decision that I make they are behind me whether I make the right choices or not. After many years of struggle that we went through, we decided the right thing was to move out and that’s what we did about five years and never regretted that decision. Coming to U.S. was a big deal and coping with it as best as we could was another problem by itself, lack of communication with people around me was mainly what brought me down but I was not going to give up. I can tell after many years of struggle in high school I was eventually able to become more and more comfortable with people around but of course not as comfortable as I should be. On the other hand the dream is to become as successful as I can, to become the person that my parents have dreamed of, I owe them everything that I have today and the person I am today, I am just hoping that I will be able to make them proud and show them that they have not in fact invested in someone wrong. My dream simply is to be the kid that they look and proudly say, “Here that is my son, and I am very proud of him.”
I’m a 21 year old woman with dreams by the dozen. I live and learn obtaining lessons and no regrets. My passion/dream profession is to become a makeup artist; makeup is my form of art. I can’t draw a portrait but I sure can draw a pretty nice line of eyeliner. Also, my chosen career is to become an ultrasound technician, I absolutely love babies, I think it’s fascinating to discover how their tiny little brains and hearts grow by the week, I’ve always wanted to be in the medical field, overlooking the fact that I hate blood. So, to give parents the happiness of knowing how their little bun in the oven is doing and what the gender will be is what I call an enjoyable career. I work two jobs on weekends the other is on call. This is my first semester being a full time student, and it’s very difficult to get used to. I love to volunteer when I have the chance. I’m religious so I believe that god has us here for a reason, he’s been good to me, so I try hard to be the best I can be. This is why I like to help others. I’m starting boxing classes which is a dream of mine. I don’t want to go pro with boxing, but just to say that I can box is cool. After, I’d like to do dance classes, I’m thinking Brazilian samba. My number one goal is to eventually take singing classes and learn how to hit those high pitches, so I can soon sing for churches. Ever since I was a small girl I’ve been amazed by the voices and music performed within the church. I came from a broken home, Father was an x-convict and my mother was an x-gang member. I never learned much from my parents or any good values. Everything I now know came from learning it the hard way. I’m the only girl in the family, I have two brothers and my mom is more of a tom boy. Everyone wonders how I became so girly raised in a family like mine. I knew the way I was living was wrong and the people who came over were bad people. I never had the type of friends I wanted because their parents’ wouldn’t let them come over to my house. I was left to hang with the kids who had parents that associated with mine. That’s how it all started I became a kid stuck in the deviant type group, with all my friends I grew up with. Still, I was different; I’ve always been a dreamer. I use to constantly be mad fun of called snooty or preem madonna because I wasn’t ghetto like everyone else and didn’t do the type of things they’d do. That is what got me here the dream to make it into the lifestyle I knew I was meant to live and I WILL succeed. I’m not going to fall in the path my parents did. I have already come a long way. When I do succeed my dreams, I won’t forget my past. The past is what created who I am now and my motivation to become who I want to be. I have a little cousin named Natayah she reminds me of myself when I was young. She was abandoned by her parents and was left with my 75 year old grandmother. Natayah is my #1 motivation because I want to save this little girl from what I dealt with. I want to become a role model for Natayah and support her money wise and guide her right path.
A reflection of me
I am a mother, a father, a daughter, a sister, an aunt, and a best-friend. I am someone’s girlfriend and partner in life. I am my children’s teacher and mentor, but more importantly their hero. I’m often afraid, afraid of the unknown, afraid to commit, afraid to succeed, and always afraid to try and fail. I was once in a very unhealthy marriage; I lived in fear having no control of who I was. I thought this life was normal but after almost losing my life I realized there was nothing normal about us. It has taken me a long time to recapture who I am, and though I am no longer the person that I was 20 years ago I am still me deep inside. I am smart and witty, fun yet goofy, loving and caring. I try to be the best of me even when I am feeling at my worst. When I was much younger I wanted to be a writer, maybe even a journalist but life threw some definite curve balls at me and instead my dreams were put on hold. Because I had kids at a young age I always pushed back going to school; their needs of course always came first. So after losing my job a couple of years ago I made the conscious decision to finally come back to school. It’s been hard taking classes with these young students who have no clue just yet what life is about. Having to listen to their stories of partying on the weekend or what they consider to be problems is somewhat entertaining. Doing homework was a huge reality check especially because it’s been at least 18 yrs since I’ve been in school; but it is also nice to sit at the table with my brats as we all do our homework together. As much as I would love to be a student forever and follow the dreams I once had of becoming a writer or a journalist I know that that time has since passed. I have a greater purpose in life being both a mother and father to my kids that I do not have the same freedom of choosing the career I would like, instead I am attending school to further myself in getting a better position to prosper for my family and though it is not my first obvious choice of what I would want to do in life it is a choice I am at peace with. Because I am much older than your average college student I do not have the same luxuries of being free, of making irrational choices, of just having fun with it, of getting to procrastinate; I am responsible for two other lives so the choices I make therefore will not only affect me but them as well. I am completely content with that. I imagine that life will continue to throw curve balls at me but I will be ready as I think the worst is behind me now. People change, dreams change, and I’ve changed.
Identity, Identity can mean many things. The fact of being whom or what a person is. I consider my self-unique. I can look one way and be another. The people that surround me are different from me; they have different beliefs and lifestyles. When I was young I never thought about my future, I lived life day by day and chose a path that wasn’t any good. I got myself into situations and hurt the people I loved the most, my weakest point was my greatest point, because it was that day that I realized how stupid my decisions were. Those experiences made me realize and appreciate life more. Now I look into a future, I want to be someone in life, some one who my parents would be proud of. They mean the world to me and seeing them happy makes me happy. Graduating is my main goal; I want to become a History professor, have a family and keep progressing in life.
There are many events that have made me who I am today and made me realize many things about my identity among others. I am a responsible, hardworking. I have a heart but sometimes I focus a little too much in myself that I forget about other. I guess that is part of learning more about you. As a kid I had a dream, a dream that my uncles in my ethnic country had instilled in me. I wasn’t as proficient in my studies as I am now and I’m more responsible with my duties. I was taught to always be on time, to respect my elders, to eat with my mouth closed, etc. but I lived with fear of doing something wrong and being punished for it. They taught me so much even though I lived with fear in my childhood. This fear has made me become a stronger person and not be afraid of anything or be afraid to speak out. I am gratified with what I have learned despite I was taught the hard way. Now, as I move along in my studies, I am realizing there are so many others who I can relate to from my childhood until now. When I had barely come back from my ethnic country, I was expecting the U.S to be friendly but I guessed wrong at the beginning. I felt insecure, unstable; I couldn’t identify myself with others because I had been away for so many years. I felt at unease. It was the worse feeling of my life. not being able to relate to others and get along with them was the worse situation I encountered. Everything seemed so unreal and out of order. There were so many people from different countries and it took time for me to adapt to this new environment. Even my parents and their kids were so different from the family I was raised with in my ethnic country which were very united and caring. Everyone was so distant and different that I just wanted to stay in my room forever. School was always very important to me so I never failed to miss one day. As soon as I met friends I could relate to everything changed and just like them held my dreams high. Now I think of the U.S as the country of dreams. Just like many others I want to become successful and be able to show my uncles and my family that I what I will become and be a role model for others. I want my future kids to have a good life and be able to support them in all matters. I want to be able to make a difference and be proud of myself for coming so far after not being raised with love or a stable family.
Identity. I have so many sides. I’m sweet, polite, the “good girl”. I can be a bitch, mean, spiteful. I can be caring, and helpful. I can be eager to learn and ready to help teach.
I have been called many things. Slut. Whore. Cheater. Goodie Two-Shoes. Teacher Pet. Loser. I get lost, and I can’t seem to find who I am in all these terms.
But when I look really deep, I know who I am. I’m strong, and determined. I’m hard-headed, maybe to a fault, but it gets me where I need to go. I have dreams, mostly of cooking, but of other things as well. I have a dream of falling in love. Finding the one person whom I can share all these things I keep inside, and know I won’t be judged.
It’s something that I’ve felt for a long time, that need to share things with someone, just to know that there is another person in this huge world who cares about you.
Back to cooking, I knew it’s what I’ve wanted for a long time. Since about the 8th grade. Food was always a part of my life, and it made sense to go into that field. It’s been my biggest dream to be a pastry chef. And I never want to give it up, but right now in my life, I’m wondering if I made the right choice. I’m scared. I love cooking and baking, but what if I’m not good enough? What if there are other people, better people? That scares the crap out of me. I don’t want to fail at what I love. I want to be a success, I want that feeling you get when you know you’ve made something of yourself. I want to be somebody. I want to matter. And just like all the other billions of people out there, I want to make it in this world. I want to leave my mark in any way, shape, or form. Preferably cooking/baking. But that little voice nags me, telling me I can’t do it, that I’ll never be good enough. I want to kick it out, but what if it’s not lying to me?
I guess my dream is to prove that voice wrong. If it’s in cooking and baking, or some other part of my life. I just want to tell it that it hasn’t won, that I will make it, come Hell or high water, I’ll make it. I am my biggest setback. I encourage myself, just to falter at the last minute. I’m self-destructive. Just look at the long healed scars. Their just physical proof that I can break myself.
Being an openly bi-sexual person, I was harassed in high school by a narrow minded boy. He was younger than me, but still knew exactly how to break me down. He made me feel like I was a worthless piece of shit. At the time, I thought I had a knight in shining armor to help me through it. But no. I had no on to turn to. My knight in shining armor was as weak as any man could be. I didn’t know how to handle the pain, the ridicule I had to go through every day for two years. Many times, I contemplated killing myself, only to be stopped by the even more present guilt. Cutting was my escape. I thought as long as I wasn’t hurting the people around me, it was okay. It wasn’t. One day, a friend came over to my apartment unexpectedly, I didn’t have time to cover anything up. She saw what I was doing to myself, and did the bravest thing in the world. She got me help. She was my knight. She saved me, and now here I am. Alive, and fighting off the bad things in my head.
Right now, I’m focused on school. I have my life somewhat in order, and I know what I want to do. Not going to college was never an option. My parents made sure of that. What they didn’t anticipate was the torment I’d receive in middle and high school. Love, anger, sadness, hurt, lust, power. All these things made me who I am today. As much as I want tot take back the bad things I’ve done, I’ve come to accept it, good and bad.
To me, this isn’t about what I want to be when I grow up. It’s more than that.
I want love, acceptance, and success out of life. I want what everyone wants.
I just want to be happy.
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Shake It Out, Rabbit Heart – Florence + The Machine
A Lack Of Color – Death Cab For Cutie
Cough Syrup – Young the Giant
That Home – The Cinematic Orchestra
Fix You – Coldplay
Make It Stop – Rise Against
My identity is a strong girl, hard working, nice, sweet, but sometimes could be mean person. Am a girl who been through up and downs but whose been strong enough to move on. I am from a family who loves and supports me. I am someone who will fight for what I want no matter what. Fight for my dreams. My identity is something no one could take away from me. Everyone has different experiences in their life that has made them the person they are today. Maybe they are proud of it or not. But I am truly proud of the women I am today. I had many bad and good experiences in my life that has made me the person I am today. Things growing up were not easy for me and I would have thought I would become a bad person because of my mother’s bad influences. But I was able to make the right choices for myself. I would see how my parents would fight and I would experience something’s I cannot explain. Seeing how my father would be the only one supporting my siblings and me, seeing how my farther would work hard and do anything to be able to give us everything we needed and wanted. My father had sweat and tears but would not care because all that matter to him was seeing a smile in our faces. The person I am today is because of my father. Seeing my father work hard has made me a person who will work hard and fight for anything, love and care. I am someone who won’t give up or quit when things are getting hard. Experiencing life hard and seeing the pain of my father to take care of us has helped me have big dreams. The dream of having the “American dream” and become successful. My big dreams are to just work with children. I want any job as long I am around children. Having the dream of marry someone special, having a family, having a good health, not having to worry about money or about anything. The main big dream I have is to make a difference in some one’s life one day even if it is something small. The big dream is to change a life of a kid whose been through rough times growing up like I did. Let that kid not give up in his or hers dream because of where they came from. Mostly everyones big dreams are to be rich, drive a nice expensive car, in the end that would all be nice but knowing you could change some ones world is better than any money could buy. This is really making me think of my future (I really don’t think this.) Now my journey continues to help someone out in the future and experience more things to make me a way better person I am now. My dream is to be able to travel the world and help children because of how my father I saw helping everyone. To graduate school and attend USC to start my life is a dream am accomplishing today. To be continue…….
What is my identity? I am who I choose to be, not what people expect me to be. I am me, myself and I! People might want to determine who I am, but at the end of the day, I, myself determine who I am and where I’m heading in life! Wow, big dreams. I might have a lot of big dreams. Some may come true and some might just stay as dreams. As a little girl, I always had those “BIG” dreams. I think it’s natural for little kids to dream big. It’s in our genes. One of my biggest dreams that I know will become true, is that I WILL BECOME SUCCESSFUL! Society might want to stereotype me and think that just because I’m am Latina, I won’t become successful. Screw that! I’M GOING AFTER MY DREAMS NO MATTER WHAT! Living in the “ghetto” made me want to become the better person. Go to school and get my education. I didn’t want to end up like half the people in my block. They made wrong decision in their lives and they learned from their mistakes. They all advices to go after what I really wanted in life and NEVER GIVE UP! That’s exactly what I’m doing now, going after my dreams and not giving up. Life may throw me some obstacles, but it’s up to me to overcome those obstacles that are thrown to me. Maybe seeing my own family and family friends fail in life encouraged me become successful. Like I said, I didn’t want to be another “failed Hispanic”. Like I said, I’m going after my dreams no matter what; I’m not planning on stopping till I know I became that successful Latina my family want me to be!
I am a citizen from United State raised in El Salvador. My parents took me to El Salvador when I was eight months old. When I was on El Salvador, I learned many things from life. My family was always together and my parents were hard workers and they brought food every day to the house. I had a big house and 4 cars not that fancy, but it support us to live comfortable. When I went to school I made many friends most of them live near by my house because the town where I used to live was small like nine blocks long and five blocks wide. Everyone knew who you were. In the school, in the house and on the streets people always show the values of life. When I met someone in the street we always greet each other. Then whe I turned eith years old, I started working with my father. He was building a house on the town and he asked my brother and I if we wanted to helped him. We were on vacation and we decide to help to my father my first 3 days were hard because I couldn’t use the shovel but then after 2 days of working I started getting and doing it fast. At the end of the week, it was the pay day. All the workers were getting money and I just saw that when my dad look at my brother and I waiting for something. I thouthg that he will not pay us because we just work 4 days, but we said is alright because he was my dad. After that, he took twenty five colones like three dollars or a little be more in dollars. But for kids of 8 and 9 years old were a lot of money because my brother and I can bought many things. From the time I started realizing how life works, it open my eyes how people and how adults have to work to maintain their life and their family in good conditions. My father and my mother always encourage us to study for a better life. They always told me that they couldn’t study because their parents couldn’t support school, so they decide to work and learn a profession. Knowing how life works and working hard for I want, my parents decide to come to United State. I was 14 years old I didn’t know any english I took some classes on school, but it wasn’t enough. My parents told me not to lose the values and the dreams that we want can become true in United State because I am a citizen and I have the same rights of others cityzens, so he say to put all my effort in school because they will support me. I always dream to become a doctor in medicine because I saw how people don’t have the money to pay for health, and becoming a doctor I will be able to help them even if they don’t pay me. I don’t really care about money because when you died you will not leave with the materials. I prefer to be recognize by people’s mind to be a great person not a bad person who doesn’t care about any body else.
Identity is something I find hard to explain myself. I mean I can identify myself with a lot of stuff. I can identify myself with the sweat of my ancestors who once picked the ripest fruit and veggies. Music is something I can be indentifying with, writing music when I put my heart into. I would love to perform on stage one day just rapping with my rells and hear the crowd’s claps, and cheers like it’s a celebration because I finally got famous through all this great collaborations that have happened in my life. Acting is also something I can identify myself with, this is where the hard part comes into play. I don’t like just being one person. I act different with different people because I don’t know acting became a part of my life and I mean many people will take this as fake, but it’s not like that I just have different personalities and it’s something that is stuck to me. Being in a movie or even in a theatre is something that I would love to do and I identify myself a lot with acting and the character I begin to create. I can also identify with modeling. Modeling is also I am very passionate about, I love taking picture and having my make up done and have costumes on because it relates back to acting where I can become a different person. For culture identity, I am Mexican where I grew up in the poorest barrios and literally smell the spiciness of the chilies that were being crushed in the molcajete and the colors red, white, and green with the eagle in the middle also identifies me. The fresh smell of tortillas and the broken roads where poverty lives and is spreaded, but somehow seems to be beautiful. My big dreams are FAME I want the fame. I don’t care what it take I really want to be famous. Most of my identities are the reason why I want the fame. I want the stage and the crowd, and am able to travel all over the world to my fans and give amazing performances. I would also love to come out in Hollywood and make it to the big screen with my acting talents. To be able to film and act with all your heart and actually have a real act and scenes would be amazing. My other big dream is to become a Victoria’s Secret angel and model in the run away and not just model Victoria’s Secret clothing but also Versace , Gucci, Fendi, Prada, Louis Vittion,Alexander McQueen, Marc Jacobs, Michel Khors and all these amazing, successful clothing lines. My big dream is to be an amazing singer/rapper, model and actress. I just want to blow off the charts and have my name on display in ever billboard. If I do make it big and win an Oscar and Grammy I’ll be sure to mention all my friends who were there to support me and also my teachers who have taught me so much. One thing that I won’t leave, no matter how big I get I wouldn’t want to stop learning. I love to learn. When I was little I remember always telling my father I want to be a singer and then it was acting. I never dared tell him that I wanted to model in underwear and half naked on a runway, so I kept it a secret. My dad would teach me singing and acting and how to change my voices on every pitch. One of my greatest experiences that I had which made me actually want to go through all of this was a soap opera in Spanish called REBELDE. I was such a huge fan and I wanted to be as big as them and sing and act in front of people. Their fame just blew me away and that’s when I decided I had to do something. My mother is a big supporter of everything I do. I went to a modeling, acting, and singing academy for a good while where I learned a lot of the basics of those professions. I loved it there, but my mom had to stop taking me because it was very far from where we lived. I remember I went to this audition in L.A and I guess it was a school and I remember auditioning and the lady told me I needed a little more work, so they recommended me to go to school there once a week. I was up for it until they told my mom the cost was 2,000 dollars, something my mother couldn’t afford. I was really heartbroken when my mom told me she couldn’t afford it and I turned to my dad, and my dad didn’t help me. I felt like that day was the end for me and I should just give up on this fantasy world that I’m living, but college came and I started taking an acting class and I love it. These experiences have helped me still fight for this dream that I want. I hope I really do make it big and achieve every single one of these dream.
My identity is very usual for me because I have different personality, such as being hard working man and a jokester who enjoys making people laugh and trying to have a good time. But things go on for me that change my identities such as being a different person for example so serious and very quiet. It began when we had many family problems such as my father living us, and my mother being a single mother with four children including me. But when I began to become a better person my families gave me the support and love to become that someone. Especially this one person that was a father figure and an older brother to me that took care of me since I was at his kindergarten class. He made a man that I am today, no matter what goes through my head I was go to him to give some advice and when I need things for school or some important situation that is going on he will always help me. This teacher, father figure and older brother was a role model because he sacrifice himself to be there to help me out, to make my life better and healthy. And when I was getting older my grades of my middle school were not as great but I improve and learn that materials of the class, and in my high school years my grades were horrible in the start, but when I learn that if I didn’t good grades I would stay in the same grade and I wouldn’t be able to graduate on time. So I told myself and I learn from my teacher that being someone you should be that someone to be professional with your actions, so my actions were to have proficient grades. And I learn from my mistakes so my I had my grades in a great level I raise them up over the years. I preferred having the grades are in a high level than the low levels. I had many big dreams such as becoming a teacher or a doctor because I really wanted to help students and people with their lives. And those big dreams became better because I had a different career that I wanted to achieve; my dream was to become a FBI Agent because I wanted to make the crimes to become less for people to be saved in the world. This career was my dream to have that I want going to prove everyone that I want to become this someone this Agent. But I had many obstacles in the pass because but with mistakes I learn I was able to learn those mistakes and the help with many love ones.