Discuss how your family’s experience or cultural history enriched you or presented you with opportunities or challenges in pursuing your educational goals.
The Vietnam War ended in 1975 to the power of Ho Chi Minh and his Viet Minh communist party in North Vietnam. Fifteen years later, my grandparents and parents fled the country to settle down in America. My parents came to America with nothing but the hopes that they will make a better life for themselves. Knowing that, it was a given that they were going to be unfamiliar with the American culture and language. This was a factor that made me different from all my American raised friends. Growing up, my parents taught my siblings and I the Vietnamese language, traditions, and manners. My parents were able to teach me anything about my culture.
One lesson taught us that long ago, the Vietnamese people always valued education because it defined your rank in society. That education is the key to success. That it opens doors for people of all backgrounds and it expands the human mind with knowledge. It prepares individuals to solve problems, teach others, function at a higher level, and implement transformational ideas. Without education, ones chances for securing a career and ascending to a higher economic and social status are limited. So that being said, my parents were always strict that it made me fear them since I was little. It was not fear where I was terrified, but where I loved and respected them so much that meeting their expectations was important. I knew that everything was from love because they wanted the best for me so that I don't have to go through the struggles they faced growing up.
I did my best in all my classes, participated in student council, and received recognition certificates to prove myself. My aptitude for learning was a lot higher than most of my peers. This characteristic made me the person I am today. An individual who lacks motivation because many things were not brought as a strenuous challenge to me and if otherwise then I didn't bother applying myself to it, accepted the fact that I wasn't good at it, and received the acceptable score instead.
Now that I am in my second year of high school, my parents have been bringing up college and what plans I have for myself. I had no idea how to reply. I began to think about my future. I reflected on who I am, what I valued, my skills, and what my interests were. I fantasized about what a successful life would be like, returned to reality, then created goals that'll direct me toward the near future. I had to change my perspective of dealing with difficult challenges in order to proceed my roadmap.
Its a struggle to change myself, but its for the better. I take on challenges welcomely and stay determined where I don't back down till what I want is fulfilled.
I made it a must to continue my education after high school. To further my knowledge so that the chances of securing a promising career broadens. I believe that a college education will be the gateway to me fulfilling my career pathway so that I am able to provide my family's wants and needs and to simply make them proud. My family's experience and cultural history has made me the person I am today with opportunities such as the ability to use the power of knowledge to direct myself to success. I am grateful for parents sacrifice all so that their children deserve nothing less than the best knowledge and values.
One lesson taught us that long ago, the Vietnamese people always valued education because it defined your rank in society. That education is the key to success. That it opens doors for people of all backgrounds and it expands the human mind with knowledge. It prepares individuals to solve problems, teach others, function at a higher level, and implement transformational ideas. Without education, ones chances for securing a career and ascending to a higher economic and social status are limited. So that being said, my parents were always strict that it made me fear them since I was little. It was not fear where I was terrified, but where I loved and respected them so much that meeting their expectations was important. I knew that everything was from love because they wanted the best for me so that I don't have to go through the struggles they faced growing up.
I did my best in all my classes, participated in student council, and received recognition certificates to prove myself. My aptitude for learning was a lot higher than most of my peers. This characteristic made me the person I am today. An individual who lacks motivation because many things were not brought as a strenuous challenge to me and if otherwise then I didn't bother applying myself to it, accepted the fact that I wasn't good at it, and received the acceptable score instead.
Now that I am in my second year of high school, my parents have been bringing up college and what plans I have for myself. I had no idea how to reply. I began to think about my future. I reflected on who I am, what I valued, my skills, and what my interests were. I fantasized about what a successful life would be like, returned to reality, then created goals that'll direct me toward the near future. I had to change my perspective of dealing with difficult challenges in order to proceed my roadmap.
Its a struggle to change myself, but its for the better. I take on challenges welcomely and stay determined where I don't back down till what I want is fulfilled.
I made it a must to continue my education after high school. To further my knowledge so that the chances of securing a promising career broadens. I believe that a college education will be the gateway to me fulfilling my career pathway so that I am able to provide my family's wants and needs and to simply make them proud. My family's experience and cultural history has made me the person I am today with opportunities such as the ability to use the power of knowledge to direct myself to success. I am grateful for parents sacrifice all so that their children deserve nothing less than the best knowledge and values.
I really liked your essay and how it shows why you strive for good grades. The only thing I would suggest is maybe putting in some examples of things you achieved, just so the reader can see how hard you worked to get there.Overall I really like reading your essay and I think it really tells about who you are.
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I really enjoyed reading your essay and how your culture has shaped the way you look at your education. The way your essay talks about some of the hardships you've had really helps to reinforce how your culture has changed you. But one suggestion I have is maybe you can put a story of something that has happened that has really helped shape you. But good job!
ReplyDeleteI really liked your essay and how it shows the struggles you and your parents had gone through coming to the states. The structure you had your essay was easy to follow, how your parents had taught you things, you excelling in school, then explaining the hardships in your two years in high school, then ending how all this changed you. But one suggestion I have are that you should include more things that you had to struggle with. Also you should explain more how these experiences with high school had changed you. Otherwise great job on explaining you and your parents hardships.
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