Personal Experiences Essays Page 4

In June of 2015, he left me. “Be brave”, my father said. With these cryptic words, he fled, never to be seen again. I was left to ponder over the meaning of bravery. I waited for him to come back, but he never did. It hurt that he, who I trusted, left me alone to…

Imagine a world without color. A world without color would have no variety. Everything always being a shade of black and white, there would be not much variation. That would be so gray and sad. Everything and everyone would be the same. Color is what defines our world as beautiful. Too see world in color…

As quoted by Robin Sharma “Without integrity and honor, having everything means nothing.” According to me, the amount of honor you earn characterises you. It’s important for an individual to have respect, trustworthiness and reliability. And above all people with honor should be recognised. A lot of people gave up everything just to live in…

This summer, I had to move schools so I could have a better education. But the apartment I was living in was far away from the school I go to right now. So, we moved houses which was a LONG process. When I got to the apartment we moved to, it was empty except for…

Cross cultural communication fosters a variety of important factors that affect people’s language use, self-awareness, perspectives, verbal and nonverbal communication, assumptions of similarities and differences, etc. My service learning experience not only puts this idea of cross cultural communication into action but also helps me to gain a greater understanding of each of these factors….

The Holocaust, we have seen movies, read books, and learned about it in history class, but how much do we really know? Can we really understand what went on and how it affected not only those that did not survive but also those did survive? In Maus and Maus II by Art Spiegleman, we are…

The Holocaust was a terrible time in which many people were discriminated against, specifically Jews. Elie was a young teenager (around the age of fifteen) when his life began to take a turn for the worst. Before the Holocaust, Elie was very determined, loyal and religious. Although, he begins to change. Elie had strong determination….

The Humane Society is a place where cats and dogs without homes live until they can find a permanent household to live in. I made the choice to volunteer there because I really love animals and I have such a passion of wanting all animals to get to live in a good and loving house….

When I was five years old my grandpa brought home a stethoscope that he happened to find. He gave me the stethoscope as a gift and I was fascinated by it. The stethoscope was rare and of interest to me; I wondered what could it be? I vaguely remember my grandpa picking up the stethoscope…

More than the technical knowledge I imbued, I relished my graduate school experience due to the internal transformation it brought in me. Prior to my Masters education at Xxxx Xxxx, my life experiences were limited to my home nation, India. However, in Blacksburg, I became a part of a diverse student community. I built a…