According help me stay focused throughout my educational

According help me stay focused throughout my educational

According to the article Community Cultural Wealth by Dr. Taray-Yosso cultural wealth is defined as an areal of knowledge, skills, abilities and contacts possessed and utilized by communities of color to survive and resist operations. Although cultural wealth deals with the many skills aspects of economic growth, both of which are crucial to the attainment of higher education nonetheless cultural wealth can be categorized into three defiant groups known as cultural ties, cultural capital and cultural wealth.

The success of a college education is dependent upon my factors most of which are concepts of family, aspirational, social and resistant capitals. The reason my family capital will keep me motivated and determined is because the way my mom and family pushed me in school to get my college degree. I have three younger siblings that keep me determined to doing my work and staying in school. My mother is a hard working mother. She would do anything for one of her kids as long as they are getting their education.

My mother always took care of me since day one.She’s been my rock! I never had a male role model figure in my life to show me how its done or to show me how to grow into a mature young man. It was always my mother who stuck by my side and never gave up on me when I misbehaved. I always think to myself, how did she do it? Growing up as the second oldest it was me who took care of my younger siblings while my mother was at work and sister away in college.

I always took on a lot of responsibility when it came to taking care of my siblings such as feeding them, dressing them and bathing them for school in the morning.My mom always instilled two things in my head as I was growing up, first was to be strong hearted and secondly independent so that I can become successful in life and accomplish each and every goal that I set for myself. Without family capital, I would not have the great support system to help me stay focused throughout my educational career. Having support encourages me to strive and achieve my goals as well as not giving up while in college no matter how challenging my classes may become or my practicing with my team.Most importantly, I would like to continue the cycle of my generation and obtain a college education and actually graduating. That would also make my mom the happiest parent in the world and from that day forward I know anything I what to achieve I can.

Aspirational capital guides me to get me associate degree. Due to my determination and motivation I will be able to provide a stable future for my family. By having my associates’ degree, I will move forward into the transferring process to attend a university on an athletic scholarship.Aspirational capital is a part of my daily life; it also keeps me focused on my educational and career goals.

I have always aspired to be the best in everything obstacle that I attempt to achieve for example with my home life skills, I always inspired to learn how to cook because I love food. My athleticism will help attain an athletic career at the university that I will be attending. I’m using football to get me to that point however; obtaining an education will stay with me forever, “knowledge is the key to life”.

My education is more important to me than playing football. That’s why I decided on my own to sit out this year and make sure my grades are high enough so I can be on the right path to graduate from college in four years! Of course I want to become a professional in the NFL one day but I also want to see myself succeed with a degree and to tell my future kids that I actually learned something while attending college. Once I receive my degree that will be the one thing that no one can take away from me.

Social capital is defined as the capacity of social institutions, such as families, churches, schools, or other community organizations to make an investment of attention and advice, support and concerned interest in other community members according to reformer L. J. Hanifan. As a dependent of the community social capital is applied to my everyday life. It helps me to obtain resources for my education such as scholarships, teaches me how to work together with my peers, becoming a positive role model to youth, and build trusting relationships with others in the community.

Social capital is seen as a support group from leaders in the community. Finally, resistant capital allowed me to not engage in the negativity from my neighborhood and allowed me to be a leader and not a follower. Growing up in Northern Virginia, I would see some of my peers and older guys living unproductive lives, I was determined to not fall into that category of young men. They were committing crimes and engaging in illegal activity that would only lead them to end up either dead or in jail.

My mother was a great inspiration by always keeping me active in sports since the age of five years old.Looking back, I was able to bypass all the bad and negative things that I witnessed growing up. With the strength and dedication of my mother, I was determined not to become a productive of my environment. When I’m working hard at school, I’m concentrating on doing my best to prepare for my future. As I look into my life, I want no worries about my education or decisions I made to take me to the next level. From this day forward, I made a promise to myself to never get discouraged and In order to get closer to my educational and career goals, I must refer back to everything I was taught from my mother and learned through life’s experience.