Growing Up Research Paper

My Dad didn't go to college. He worked long hard hours at southwire and traveling. As I was growing up he told me to keep working harder, and not to give up in life and just work for things. He wants me to go to college or the Air Force that way. I have a better job and I don't want to start my life off struggling. Instead of struggling he wants me doing good. College is not worth the cost, because some people can not afford it. With college being expensive a lot of college kids having to work and study and go to class some kids just can't handle it.

To come of age is to arise to a level where one can propose or make decisions without the need of someone else of mature status. It may come earlier to some than others, it might come later than average, but it all depends on what factor you base coming of age to be on.

Growing up in Theresa was an experience that will live with me until the day I die. Theresa is a town with a population of roughly 2,000 people and it is very rural. Theresa is a blue collar community where everyone works hard and everyone plays hard. I saw this 24/7 at home. It was a small town. Everyone knew what was going on with everything in the town. The town of Theresa was basically one giant family. I went to school their from Kindergarten through 4th grade. The school was three blocks from my house and I would walk to school and back every single day. I usually had people who would walk with me. Some of those people I am still friends with to this very day. This was were I got my very first taste of school and first taste of friendship. One friend that I have made in Theresa is standing up in my wedding in July. Growing up their was a blessing for so many reasons. Probably for reasons I may realize later in life.

I am a first-generation college student. My parents never got passed high school. They were both faced with hardship and had no choice but to get a job to deal with the responsibilities of home. My dad left India at the age of 16 to build a better life for himself and my mom in America. In my household, education has always been a priority. Since my parents have felt firsthand how life is like without a degree, they made it their mission to ingrain in us a value for education like no other. However, there have been many situations in which I have found myself lost and looking for answers about college. Sadly, by being a first-generation student, my parents could not help me. Not only could they not help me, but being the first to attend college

In 1986 my mother divorced my father and moved my brother and I from a small town in Pennsylvania to a small town in New Jersey. My mother chose this particular town because of its close proximity to family members. The house my mother grew up in and that my grandmother still lived in was two houses away from our new house. Also, my aunt and uncle lived about three houses away. With her new life as a single mother with two kids the convenience of it all was too hard for her to pass up.

Growing up, I was raised in multiple different environments. From the beaches of Florida to the mountains and high elevation of Missouri and to the hot plains of Texas. I have moved a total of 7 times and gone to 6 different schools. That's insane and I have been able to meet some amazing people!

A quote often used by the older adults and said to the younger adults,“When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind you” (Gail Carson Levine, Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly). A person is an adult and no longer a child when he or she is responsible for their actions. Even when they are responsible are they truly mucher? There is no telling whether a person is an adult at 18 or 21, it's no one's chose but your brains.

Both of my parents did not go to college. It was sometimes hard to find my college path and finding my way through High School without a guide. Thankfully I joined Upward Bound which is a college program at CSU. It was the asset through high school that helped prepare me for college. Upward Bound helped me become more comfortable with college life and showed me what I need to be successful through my entire college experience. Upward Bound helped up meet with people on campus who would help us transition from high school to college better. If you look around there are many different programs that help you prepare for college. Find one and make the most out of it because it will only benefit in the future.

In the picture if you look quickly you would assume my sister was older, but in fact she is actually only 13. I have noticed for the past few years the 13 year olds of today don’t look like the 13 year olds when I was 13. They actually tend to look a lot older and near their 20’s. That’s because millennials of today try to look and act older. They think it’s cool to wear all the older looking outfits, do their hair everyday, and wear tons and tons of makeup.

When you hear someone say “coming of age” you think of new responsibilities and expectations, that come with milestones of a certain age group. There are different ages that have different expectations, becoming a teenager, society expects that you accept more responsibility and that you are able to care for yourself in most situations. The ideals that society creates and expects us to follow often increase in responsibility as we grow older.

You don’t get to choose where you grow up, but you do decide if you’ll stay there the rest of your life. Growing up I feel I saw things that I shouldn’t of ever seen for my age. The neighborhood I lived in had a lot of violence, and the cops would show up at least once a week so that nothing too major would happen. Crimes were always committed on my street, and the only time I was away from it would be when I went to school. After school I would go to the salvation army with my sister, and wait until my mom would get off work. We never knew when we would get home. Sometimes it would be until 5, and other days we would stay until 7. I met many new people which taught me a lot about working with others. Some days were good, and others were not

Growing up I would do plenty of silly things with my older brother and sister. We were all two years apart and I was the youngest and my brother was the oldest. When I was around 7 years old I remember playing outside of my front house. We had a decent amount of plant bushes spread out in the front of my yard and the floor was filled with rocks. We would make up games to play to make the time go by and one day we decided to throw some rocks at the bushes. All three of us didn’t think it was a bad idea to all continually throw the rocks into the bushes and all of sudden we hear a big crack behind us. We looked at each other than at the car than back at each other. I then see my sister running in the house and my brother and I stood there frozen

Growing up as a child for me was no walk in the park, it actually was a somewhat challenging experience for me because of the environment, people, values, and morals that surrounded me growing up. Two years after I was born, my father, and my mother separated, leaving my older brother Luis, and I with my mother. Even though my father did not completely leave us, and did support us in a way, my mother was still both mom and dad for us. Seeing the pain my mother had to endure throughout the years motivated me to pursue the dream of being something big in life so that I can get my family out of this metaphorical dump. The community that surrounded me was for the most part into bad influences like drugs, alcohol, and gangs, but none of these things

As people grow older, their perspectives can change based on several different aspects. Family, friends, and experience are all factors that can change the perspectives of a person. One perspective that can change quite often is politics. As people grasp new thoughts and ideas their perspectives can alter. People may not recognize it but everything they learn can go into the way they view their oncoming perspectives. Coming-of-age involves recognizing different perspectives.

Authors try to capture the true story of how teenagers life are truly are growing up and that may mean that their stores are not “all sunshine and roses”(Uwire Text). Author’s captures teenager as the world changed around us. In the fifties, they captures how teenagers struggled to make sure their families were not shunned or that they married at the right time they were told to. Then to be able to do whatever their husband told them. As the decades went on authors wrote about how hard it can be to be a teenage women in the earlier days. Having to do what they were told or be punished if they did not. It is harder for the teenagers in the earlier decades to find their path they are meant to take because there are so many rules stopping them from exploring the