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Princess Fatim Posted 14 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing

Essay correction please help me

This is the prompt : Describe the world you come from and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations.
Can you please see if the essay answers the prompt too?

I come from a place where people struggle to make ends meet. I come from a place where family means the most. I come from a place war has destroyed. I come from a place where malaria kills more than aids. I come from world I have had so many down sides that people sometimes forget about the ups.
My family is the most important thing in my life because I’ve learned how to appreciate them no matter what. I have been through lots of family struggles, but I’ve been able to overcome them and appreciate my family more each day. I am the middle child of a family of four. I have one elderly sister and a little brother. I have not seen my father since I was three because he was kidnapped in the Liberian war. As a result, I do not know if he is dead or alive, which has resulted in me growing up and the worst part is that I don’t even know how he looks like because we lost all out pictures in the war. This has been very difficult for me because I had to grow up without a male figure in my life, but thankfully my mother has done an exceptional job.
Back in Africa, it was very difficult for us financially because we had only our mother to take care of us and she tried her best. My mother has sacrificed a lot for our family and without her; I don’t know where my siblings and I would be. I remember a time in Ghana when things were hard for our family; she would sometimes deprive herself of food in order to feed my siblings and me, which makes her my hero. In the USA my family has more opportunities and life has become a lot easier. From this experience I have learned to appreciate even the worse times in life because it can be the most precious time in a person’s life. Even though life is easier now, the most precious memories I have is of when my family didn’t have much.
The community I come from is difficult to describe because I have been to lots of countries and I have seen so many things. Liberians had to travel to different parts of the world to start new lives because of the war. I have been to Guinea, Ghana, Mali and I am now in the USA, all those don’t include my native country, which is Liberia. I have seen lots of poverty from the African countries I’ve been to. I’ve seen people living on $1 a day and not knowing where their next source of income will come from. I have seen capable people begging on the streets in other to survive. I have seen people dying of malaria because they didn’t have better place to sleep and had to endure the raft of mosquito or because their water is polluted and attracts lots of mosquito. I are also problems in the USA and there will always be problems in no matter where a person goes. The community I come from has lots of different problems and people coup with these problems in different ways. I have learned that you should always be kind to others as you may never know what tomorrow leads to.

Worst of all, I’ve seen violence, which was the downfall of my country. Wars always start with people who fight just for power, not caring about other people around them and destroy the lives of those people because of their selfishness. The disappearance of my father is one great example of what a war can do to the lives of people because if not for the Liberian war, then I would still have my father with me today. Violence doesn’t solve anything, it just creates more problems.
This is the world I come from and even though it may have its bad sides, I like it just as it is because it has made me the person I am today. I want to become a better person in future by completing my education and being a dentist or general practitioner. I want to do something in the health field because of all the people I have seen die from sicknesses and violence. Without your world as it is, do you think you would be the person you are today?
  

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Hi Princess Fatim, That's a beautiful essay you wrote, I think it answers the prompt well. I admire you for all the difficulties you went through, and for your courage to overcome them and not let them get you down. You're also a hero!

  • Hi Princess Fatim, That's a beautiful essay you wrote, I think it answers the prompt well.
  • I admire you for all the difficulties you went through, and for your courage to overcome them and not let them get you down.
  • You're also a hero!
  • There were some grammar and spelling mistakes, which I fixed for you as seen below: I come from a place where people struggle to make ends meet.
  • I come from a place where family means the most.
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Hi Princess Fatim,

That's a beautiful essay you wrote, I think it answers the prompt well. I admire you for all the difficulties you went through, and for your courage to overcome them and not let them get you down. You're also a hero!
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Hi,

I just want to say "Keep it up."

Great job!

Greetings from Colombia.

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