FratFiles

• Save Paper

I AM A SURVIVOR

We all have dreams of making a better life for ourselves. My dream is to become

the first person in my family to get a college education. I want desperately to become a

Radiological Technician. This goal may not seem like a big deal to some people but for

me it would be a way out of my oppressive heritage. In my family, the highest level of

education is barely a high school diploma .This is not because my family is not intelligent

enough to get a high school diploma or a college degree, but growing up in a home with

only one parent, we didn't have a lot of resources. I would like to put an end to this

vicious cycle and to prove to my family, my children, and myself that it can be done.

However, life has taken me down a path filled with obstacles. These obstacles have at

times caused me to become discouraged and frustrated in my quest to better myself.How-

ever, they have also made me into the strong, courageous, and......

View the rest of this paper...

Approximate Word Count: 1613
Approximate Pages: 7 (250 words per double-spaced page)

Similar Essays

1. I Am A Survivor
   

   I AM A SURVIVOR. I AM A SURVIVOR We all have dreams of making a better
   life for ourselves. My dream is to become the first person ...

2. Personal Values Development Paper
   

   ... I did counseling for several years after that because of my childhood and the sexual
   abuse I had suffered for years, but now I am a survivor of my past. ...

3. Never Too Young
   

   ... weakness of this as an overarching priority is particularly well explained by a
   high school principal in the US (Siraj-Blatchford, 1994): I am a survivor of a ...

4. Survivors Of Suicide
   

   ... I am one of those people; I am a suicide survivor. Reading In Search of
   April Raintree was both painful and enlightening for me. ...

5. Crazy Dream
   

   ... The plane burns and burns. Everyone is dead. I am the only survivor of the crash.
   I am, for some odd reason, unharmed. Can you believe that? ...