Perserverance

Hi my name is Jabari Harris and I’m striving to accomplish every aspect of my future goals. I’m family orientated and love to exercise as a form of meditation in my spare time. I graduated from Berkeley High School and I am currently enrolled in the community college of San Francisco. I am pursuing my educational goals as far as achieving my associates degree and following up with my bachelors in the near future. I haven’t had the best life, so my peers and my community inspire me and motivate me to want more for myself and my family. I also hope to be an inspiration to my peers and others looking to excel in life. My transition into the technical world has been a challenging but resourceful tool that I am now confident about. This has taught me the importance of technology and where our future is headed. There are new inventions and creations that are taken affect every minute of our lives. This is a precious fact that motivates me and how I can potentially be a part of the next generation’s future.

Devastation of Haiti

It has been a year since the earthquake in Haiti occurred and destroyed the city of Port-au-Prince.  There has been hardly any help, though billions of dollars has been pledged for aid. This is like a slap in the face for those who live in the country. They barely started to reconstruct the damage and it has already been a year. They are looking forward to building and uplifting their city, but the resources they have are procrastinating. The epidemic of cholera has added to the trouble and problems already occurring. This means that people are suffering from healthy resources. Such as food, water, shelter, and basic living needs. This is a depressing fact and us as Americans should be thankful and fortunate for not having to fight an epidemic while surviving through a crisis. I can only imagine the health and for parents trying to raise a family in a harsh suffering environment. The earthquake last year killed around 250,000 people and left more than a million people homeless. These are the real faces of poverty and shouldn’t be over looked as less than. These are devastating statistics and painful numbers to read for a country that’s already below the poverty lines. I couldn’t imagine waking up to a city of destruction for a whole year with suffering community around me in need of reliable help. The thought of what these people are going through makes me want to achieve higher goals for myself, so I can be established to the point to help other countries in times of disaster. Hundreds and thousands are still living in camps, but are still falling victim to the epidemic of cholera. It has already taken at least 3,750 lives since mid-october. So I just want my colleagues to appreciate what others don’t have…

Academics

I would tell interested outsiders that Berkeley High School is an excellent school because it had a school inside of a school such as the Community Partnership academy. This allowed for students to focus on specific subjects and criteria related to his/her area of study. The facility was huge and the atmosphere was positive and flowing with energy, but it''s up to u to make a conscious decision and complete your work. The teachers were helpful and wanted to push all the students to thrive to do their best in preparing us for the "Real World." I feel like they did a great job as far as being positive leaders and role models and setting forth the tools we need to be succesful. Even the students were helpful and we were like a positive team inside of a small community. So I would advise any kid in the nation to go to this school,plus Cal Berkeley is a few blocks away from the campus. So I feel this school is an excellent choice for anyone looking for a good school to join.

Influence of language

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9/14/11

I feel that my parents and the community I was raised in had the most influence on my language and dialect. Since birth, this was all I knew and listened to growing up. So this portrayed the way that language was suppose to be spoken in my eyes. It is only until you get older and realize the proper way to speak English for some of us. When you are around slang your whole life, you have to adapt to the new environment of speaking clearly and correct. This is a challenge a lot of us have to face because we are not use to speaking in that manner. Reading the dictionary has helped me improve my speech and I feel that If I grew up in a nicer area I would have already had proper English instilled in me. My biggest influence was my father because he was the male role model I looked up to and my support system while transitioning into manhood. The community around me influenced me heavily because my peers and colleagues are who I grew up with. To the business world we speak funny but in our eyes it was all we knew. So the community and my friends and family had the biggest influence on my dialect growing up.

Jabari harris