I am a first-generation immigrant‚ who have struggled with cultural identity because I grew up with two different cultural values. My childhood consisted of seeing people who look like me and who identified with the same cultural ideas; however‚ after moving to southern California‚ I witnessed a diverse population with different cultures. My cultural influences come from my parents and peers and the media‚ so I feel conflicted between the traditional and conservative culture of my parents and the
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When asked to write about a childhood experience most people think of the time they lost their first tooth when they were 6‚ or about the time they started school when they were 5‚ however‚ I’m going to write about summer. It wasn’t just any summer it was the summer that I went to the lake with my Dad and Papa. I was about 4 and couldn’t be any more excited about what was going to happen I have always loved going to the lake‚ but this time was a little bit different‚ we had a boat. It wasn’t a very
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Throughout elementary school I was a shy individual. Consequently‚ I disliked my peers reading my literary work and I utterly despised class presentations. Yet in grade six‚ I was tasked with the assignment of composing an argumentative essay based the idea that “restaurants create obesity”. I had written a pro argument with various sub points including the proposition that restaurants encourage weight gain and subsequently diabetes. Even at my young age‚ I was very aware that my audience was my
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It was a pain unlike any other. I have never felt this before. A scream builds on my lips‚ a cruel laugh sounds from the darkness. I bit back the scream‚ determined not to give him the satisfaction instead my silent scream resonates in my head. The smell hit me before the pain did. I did scream then‚ oh how I screamed. I screamed until my voice grew hoarse and still I screamed. I cried out until I could no longer until darkness clouded my eyes and I knew no more. My story begins the same way it
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My Adverse Childhood Events score is 4. In hindsight this makes sense; I grew up with an alcoholic parent. In rural New Hampshire‚ compared to friends’ families‚ we were stable. I was graceless and brash. I struggled to fit in. To cope‚ I read. I fell in love with the narrative. Stories of human resilience were my favorite. Fiction‚ non-fiction‚ and science fiction - it captivated me. I spent hours reading novels‚ discovering differences in cultures and people. I learned people communicate through
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The sideline‚ a place no one wants to be. A place where I spent the first half of football season‚ not participating‚ but watching my team dance at halftime. Tryouts were held every Monday morning. Tuesday morning the list was posted of the girls that made the dance. Everyone that didn’t make the dance stood on the side the entire week during practice and watched. Friday night‚ the girls dancing took the field and the rest of the girls stood on the side‚ once again‚ and watched. Everyone knew our
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Injuries have always been a consistent occurrence in my life‚ whether they are scrapes and scratches or broken bones‚ yet I have always been able to overcome them and allow such injuries to shape the person I am today. As a young child‚ I quickly discovered that I had hyperextension which. Of course‚ was further complicated by a broken arm procured in the first grade. September of 2015‚ I decided that it would be a good day to hang out at the park with a group of my friends. Everything went great
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Have you ever had to let go of someone who you loved? We decided to go on a picnic at my aunt lisa’s house one summer day of pizza and lemonade in her backyard with my brother and my sister and my dad and my mom and my grandpa me my brother and sister were playing on a slip and slide my dad and grandpa were watching tv and after playing on the slip and slide i ate some pizza and my aunt said that she needed to use the john when she came back she was not the same because she was moving in her
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Throughout my life I’ve had multiple individuals ask me how my childhood environment has impacted me and until now I never really gave anyone a straight answer because I didn’t really know the answer. But now going into my senior year‚ and on the verge of becoming an adult I’m just now starting to reflect on how it has molded me into the person I am today. From the very beginning my parents weren’t together resulting in me only getting to see my father on some weekends even than I didn’t. Ever
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I come from a world where the only thing that is constant‚ is change. Changing states‚ changing houses‚ and changing schools. Unlike most other kids‚ I don’t have a childhood home where I made countless memories‚ in fact‚ my earliest memories as a child all consist of cardboard moving boxes‚ along with unimaginably long car rides to foreign places. I don’t have a door marked to show how I’ve grown over the years‚ and I don’t have a bedroom wall thick with paint covering over colors I chose as a child
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