Essays on Life Changing Experience

Several people spend their whole lives living in only one place. Others move many times throughout their lives. But I had to move a lot throughout the years but never to my old place. Being Puerto Rican and moving back to Puerto Rico it's not as easy as it sounds. Many people think that moving back to the place you were born and half raised is good. In my case, It was one of the hardest decisions I ever made. This may sound confusing at first but moving again when you finally settled down and ...

An event that changed my life started when I was 15 years old and I had just entered school it was a new school year and we are all excited because we had a lot of time that we did not see each other. I was mainly too excited because I was in love with a classmate the which I had been in love with since kindergarten and every time I saw her it was as if time stopped, that's when my friends and I were sitting and she enters through the door 'Desire' that was her beautiful name and it was as if ...

Throughout the course of life people tend to do the same activities over and over again. These activities become routine; not only are these behaviors done daily, but weekly, monthly and even annually. These routines that are repeated over time become tradition. Imagine that one-day these traditions had been altered a life changing experience. This happens to people all around the world on a regular basis, which is not always predictable. Hurricanes, tornados, and earthquakes are all natural ...

August was finally here, the start of 4th grade. Excited because I was closer to being a big-shot middle schooler. With new clothes and super-fast shoes, I was ready to conquer this new year. As the day began it was scorching, it was like the sun was falling out of the sky. I get to class and meet my new teacher, Mrs. Student. Mrs. Student was very energetic and was always very eager to teach. She walked in that day and told us that we will be learning about different careers and what we had ...

Halfway through seventh grade my violin teacher suggested that I try going to public school. This would be a huge change for me as I had previously homeschooled, gone to an extremely small private school or went to a co-op. The Junior High school is larger than the college where we used to live in Tennessee. The decision made I went to school a few weeks later. Going to public school has had a huge impact on me as a person. It has taught me more about the world than I could have ever learned, ...

Why is it important to forgive? Sometimes forgiveness can be difficult. It is not always easy to forgive someone for doing something wrong. There may be times when the transgression is so severe that it causes a person to think differently about someone, never being able to forget what they did to them. A misconception about forgiveness comes when it is confused with condoning or pardoning the offensive behavior. Forgiveness is not the same thing as forgetting, that is why I believe in the ...

How would you react when you see a homless man on the street? Then your parent tell you to study hard to avoid having the same fate as those you pitty. But is it really their faults that they ended up in the state that they are in now or is it the politician that promised to help and to make our lives even better compared to now? I walk to school and continue with my day like any other but I take the time to notice all the people in the streets,all the people who failed to get a high ...

Imagine wanting to learn and enjoy different cultures your whole life. Yearning to go out and explore the amazing aspect of people different from the regular people you see every day. Culture is a big part of people's lives. It influences their views, their values, their humor, their hopes, and their loyalties. Ever since I was young boy I always had dreams of exploring the world meeting all types of people and I definitely still do. I was not one of the lucky ones to traveling a lot growing ...

Everybody had that kind of attitude that needs to be change cause it limit us to do what we want to do and there is someone who could help us to change our life so for me it is my girl best Friend. So my story started when I was in elementary it is hard for me to have a friend because I am very shy kid, even if my classmate approach me I ignore them because I feel that I’m different from them so I choose to be alone. In our classroom I’m a loner no one with me, all I think is all about my ...

Work-life balance is something people have struggled with for a long time. So why has it become a bigger deal in recent years? With time being such a valuable resource, everyone wants to spend it where it really matters. Therefore, depending on where your priorities lie, good work-life balance seems to be directly related. And with modern technology improvements, people can take advantage of its uses when working with employment. When we think options for a good work-life balance, we may think ...

Life of Pi is a novel by Yann Martel which tells the story of a young protagonist Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel who goes through a life-changing experience. He managed to survive 227 days after a ship crash in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Pi's life epic journey is about a search of identity under extremely difficult conditions. The theme of religion appears to be central in this novel. In spite of Pi’s young age, the protagonist felt that he should find his way to ...

The living conditions within Australia have differed greatly since the early 1900s compared to now. At the turn of the twentieth century, Australia was starting to evolve into a proper community with the six colonies federating to become the Commonwealth of Australia. There were a lot of jobs to be done especially coming out of the depression from the 1890s. The living conditions within Australia at the start of the 1900s were heavily influenced by social status. The wealthy lived high up in ...

Never have I ever been the person to tear down any of the many walls I've put up around myself. Every day of my life I've tried to smile and be as optimistic as I possibly can, that's truely the only thing that gets me through the day. When I think back every time someone has asked me if I was okay, I've always replyed with “Yes”. Someone out in the big world we live in has it much worse. When this assignment was first given to me a few big events in my life came to mind and I did infact try ...

In many people's lives, there is something, someone, or somewhere that helps make them learn who they are.¨The Namesake ̈ is a book by Jhumpa Lahiri which is about a boy named Gogol Ganguli born in America to two Indian immigrants as parents, throughout the book he tries to find out his identity as an American or a stereotypical Indian, and his name and the mystery behind it.Meanwhile, ̈I am Malala ̈ is an autobiography by Malala Yousafzai, which tells her life story and how she became a ...

Tell us about an experience, in school or out, that caused you to rethink or change your perspective. What impact has this had on you? (maximum 200 words) An experience that has really changed my perspective was international teaching in Morocco in July, 2013. I changed my perspective when I observed children aged 3 to 16 years who were fundamentally same as Canadians but with no educational opportunity. As a volunteer to AMESIP (Association Marocaine d’aide aux Enfants en situation ...