Passion In the Form of An Essay

I've been trying to maintain my feeling of passion lately. I have found that my fiery feeling of passion is dying out. So, in the midst of my daily life I've been trying to find books, videos and the like to keep it lit. My last major feeling of passion came from the book, Beloved by Toni Morrison. I expressed this at the beginning of class this semester in our passion class. Born out of that passion, fiery passion ignited with this book, came this essay assignment for English 4 last semester. This here is the best essay I have written. This essay was not only my passion and my call to the Black African-American community but it was a success story for me. Before writing this essay, I found it difficult to finish an essay, before writing this essay I had never received an A on an essay, before this essay I had never passed an English class with an A. This was my stamp of success on something I have struggled with in my life for years academically. I found that even though I could write poetry and express extreme thoughts and concepts verbally I had a hard time putting it in essay form. When I would go to write an essay, I'd be filled will this idea and the more I wrote the more it got jumbled, confusing and blocked. This caused me to get to a point where I felt I would never pass and complete my English classes without the pity of a teacher resulting in a pass. I did this, and I did it on my own this pass semester. I was able to do it because I found a teacher, Mr. DeWit, who saw  or sees passion and potential in his students and he attempts to construct ways to fan their passions and potential and help them bring them forward, make them known, and set them into play.

The point of sharing this essay is to show what pursuing your passion can lead to. It is also to share the concept and passion that I have developed and believe that we as Black African- American people should consider, understand and put into action in our lives to overcome this extreme burden that still weighs on your community till this day.
Past to Present: Redefining Ourselves

What Gets In The Way of My Passion #2

What I want to do                                                       Things that may keep me from them

Start my business	Fear
Become a certified-nurse midwife	Criticism
Be married with kids	Insecurities
Attend Emory (college)	Academic Grades
Have a stable job (income)	Money
Become an author	Inexperience
	Self Confidence (Self-Esteem)

What Gets In The Way of My Passion #1

My Voice 2/6/14 -2/12/14

There's sound to it
It's stifled
Hard for them to hear
To Understand
Take time to make it clear
Hard for me to get it out
Speak and be received
There's a break
A struggle
To heal
To mend
Silence in pain
When waiting again
For my voice to be heard

I'll cry about it now
Either way my voice will be heard
Whether it be through silence
and you missing me or
Loud and you hating me
Misinterpreting me,
Making assumptions and
Thinking that you know me
Just cuz you hung with me,
lived with me, go to school with me
Whatever with me
Still doesn't say that you know me
It only says that you know of me
Therefore my roar and bite ain't always
Anger, frustration and pain or
You thinking I'm trying to control
To know me is to know my soul
Young and old, bold and meek
Truth be told only got can know me
He's the only one who's taken the time to really study and learn me

My Passion Statement

My main thing that I'm passionate about is carrying on a legacy in my family, which is nursing. I want to be a certified nurse-midwife. My main passion overall is to assist in giving life and putting life forward back into the world. My other thing is I want to advocate for people to live more freely within themselves. I want to produce, own and run a facility that helps young mother, and women.

With One Wing I Still Choose To Fly (My Passion In A Song #2)

One Wing -Jordin Sparks-Sparkle

My Heart Cried

This hurts my heart. I understand discipline but I think that was a little too much for me. The hair cut and a whipping was enough but the workout? Some methods of discipline when pushed too far create different reactions in kids. They may start to act right in one area but show trauma from that same discipline in other areas of their life. I know this for a fact because I experienced it. I didn't experience the hair cut and workout but I did experience the whipping in fact a public one. It scarred me. I hope he at least hugged him and told him that he loved him after this video and explained to him that the reason he put him through that was because he loved him not just to teach him a lesson. Teach, discipline but show love afterward. Love is another common fact that some people forget to show while teaching and disciplining their children.

WorldstarHiphop Video

My Passion in A Song

Reba McEntire - I'm A Survivor Live