Tonya Hunt Research Paper

Anne Frances Robbins was born on July 6th, 1921 in New York City, New York. She was the daughter of Kenneth Robbins who was a salesman and Edith Luckett Robbins who was an aspiring actress. Her parents got divorced when she was a baby. Anne was nicknamed “Nancy” when she was young and was raised by her aunt, Virginia, and uncle, C. Audley in Bethesda Maryland. As a child, Nancy went to Sidwell Friends School.

Did you know that more sharks are killed yearly by people than shark attacks to humans? Well Bethany Hamilton was very lucky and unlucky at the same time. She was also very inspiring to a lot of people because of what happened to her. She was attacked by a shark and lost her arm which is very unlucky, but she’s also very lucky she left the beach alive. Bethan Hamilton showed great resilience in overcoming a shark attack in order to achieve her surfing dream.

She is strong, curious, independent and self-confident. Many trials throughout the book test her strength and independence but she overcomes. She recognizes as she gets older and gains more experience that there is a double standard for men and women. “The slave system defined black people as chattel. Since women no less than men were viewed as profitable labor units, they might as well have been genderless as far as slave holders were concerned” (Davis 5)

My family seemed to always be on the unjust side of things. In 2014 both of my parents lost their jobs. While my dad regained work quickly my mother did not. Though she was previously only earning minimum wage it was a boost of income our family needed. My brother was in need of double valve transplant shortly after my parents job fiasco, but we were unable to to pay for it.

I start off everyday by getting ready and heading to school. When I get there, I walk into the choir hall and prepare for an hour and a half long rehearsal that I know will leave me tired. We always start with ten or twenty minutes full of physical exercise. When that is done, we move into breathing exercises that always somehow seem more physically demanding. Finally, we get to singing; which is my favorite part of the whole day.

With the support from my family, I spread my wings and broke out of the cage. Now I am in a place full of opportunities. I take advantage of the opportunity that comes in my way every single day of my life. I’m not going to give up just because they said that it was impossible. I’m going to try because everything is possible if I believe in

With her last bit of effort, we trudged to a hospital, where my beloved, weary mom died. The hospital staff saved me from life in the streets and death by starvation by arranging for me to live in an orphanage in the city of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital. My life changed in the orphanage after long years I was able to be adopted from a family in the u.s. There is a big a reason why I think my mom made possible for me to in BYU Hawaii; she is my ancestors. My mother did all she can so I can survive and enjoy what life to offer. When things get hard my mother never give up on me.

“When you take things for granted, the things you are granted gets taken” is a quote that began to play a substantial part in my life. Never would I have ever thought my family would be cleaved apart. The separation brought me problems emotionally, financially, and also socially. Furthermore, around the time of me finding out my parents were divorcing, I was informed the amazing news of me becoming captain of the Selma High School Cheerleading Squad. Of course I was ecstatic, I attained one of my many achievements in life.

The House on Greenbrooke Ct. I didn’t always use to live on Greenbrooke Ct. Before that it was Chelsea, and before that it was Mayland Dr. That’s as far as I can remember.

She emphasized how i needed to have high grades if i wanted to stand a chance. But as i grow older i couldn 't compete to the level she wanted, that 's not to say that she forced me to get the best of grades. But i always felt as if i wasn’t good enough so eventually i stopped trying. By then i had come to terms in my own mind on how i couldn’t get into college because of my family’s lack of money and my low grades overall. But during my sophomore year i saw how my school 's avid class was accepting applications to join the class.

Even when we excelled in our subject fields, we stayed humble. Then, finances started to dwindle. My older sister was considering quitting school and working full time just to help with our family. I, four years younger than her, pondered on that same idea as well. Our mom was appalled, the very next day she sat us down and made it very clear that we would both complete our education, strive to improve our character, and reach for a higher career.

Every time I failed, I became an emotional wreck because the idea of “failure” had always been foreign to me when I pursued things I cared about. With perfection as my goal, making mistakes were emotionally and mentally draining, and, it was clear, that making mistakes was inevitable. Early in my junior year, I received a 23%

However, I quickly learned that with success came failure, and that with failure came valuable lessons. As an athlete, a Christian, a writer, and a leader, I was exposed to different circumstances that helped me grow as an individual. Through the good and the bad, my experiences helped open my eyes to a reality in which I have learned to understand and manage different aspects of life. Time after time, I made many mistakes. Tempted to give everything up, my family always came to mind.

In my short seventeen years, I have come to realize that life presents several opportunities at any given moment. I love to reach out and take advantage of these chances, but I know that a lack of success is quite a reality. I used to view this lack of success as a failure, but the lyrics “You only fail, if you never try” changed my perspective. I can learn from mistakes and the times I do not succeed. Today, I see only see failure if 100% effort and determination was absent and resulted in unmet expectations.

N.J.R.O.T.C’s Commanding Officer, and I’ve been captain of my school’s Math Team and Academic Team. So far I’ve only gotten A’s in all honors and AP classes. My mom tells me that I don’t have to take such intensive classes, but I tell her I push myself so I can get into a good school. I push myself so she can be proud of her daughter. I want her to know that her journey has not been made