Discuss some issue of personal, local, national, or international concern and its importance to you.
220-500 words
We need people to call for legislation, like the stalled DREAM Act, that would provide undocumented students with a real path towards college and citizenship. Undocumented students pursuing a higher education are not asking to be given anything; they only yearn to receive the same opportunities as other students. While the federal law guarantees undocumented students a free public K-12 education, after high school they face enormous barriers that make it nearly impossible to continue pursuing a higher education.
Every day, as I walk to class, as I enter the combination to open my locker, I don't see undocumented students or U.S. citizens, I just see students. It is important to me that they receive the same opportunities as I have because there is no difference between us; we are both students reaching for a higher education. They too wish to attend a prestigious university, they too wish to pull their family out of poverty, they too wish for a better future. Even though there is no law that prohibits the admission of undocumented students to U.S. colleges, financial limitations are enough to prevent them from thinking about college. It is crucial for people to be aware of the decisions concerning the DREAM Act, because with this bill, these undocumented students can dream of a future that includes college.
The DREAM Act has remained on the sidelines since 2001. That is a total of eleven years; eleven years that these college-ready undocumented students have been biting their nails and pulling their hair out, anticipating for the bill to finally be passed. I realized that in order for the DREAM Act to be passed, it is going to take millions of voices to help these undocumented students be heard. Just recently, I created a blog called: "Estudiante, اŮداعس, ĺŚç", student...does it matter? We are all students, aren't we?" I created this blog with a goal to raise awareness about the issue of undocumented students receiving a higher education. I thought that perhaps my blog could help pass the DREAM Act or it could be an additional voice that will influence others to help undocumented students receive a higher education with the same opportunities as other students. Even though I currently have no subscribers, I will be persistent with my blogging until I receive my first subscriber, then until I reach my tenth, then until I reach my hundredth; I won't stop until this injustice has ended.
Once the DREAM Act is passed, these students will be able to succeed academically, despite seemingly insurmountable financial and legal barriers. If the United States of America is still the land of equality, then the DREAM act is a piece of it.
220-500 words
We need people to call for legislation, like the stalled DREAM Act, that would provide undocumented students with a real path towards college and citizenship. Undocumented students pursuing a higher education are not asking to be given anything; they only yearn to receive the same opportunities as other students. While the federal law guarantees undocumented students a free public K-12 education, after high school they face enormous barriers that make it nearly impossible to continue pursuing a higher education.
Every day, as I walk to class, as I enter the combination to open my locker, I don't see undocumented students or U.S. citizens, I just see students. It is important to me that they receive the same opportunities as I have because there is no difference between us; we are both students reaching for a higher education. They too wish to attend a prestigious university, they too wish to pull their family out of poverty, they too wish for a better future. Even though there is no law that prohibits the admission of undocumented students to U.S. colleges, financial limitations are enough to prevent them from thinking about college. It is crucial for people to be aware of the decisions concerning the DREAM Act, because with this bill, these undocumented students can dream of a future that includes college.
The DREAM Act has remained on the sidelines since 2001. That is a total of eleven years; eleven years that these college-ready undocumented students have been biting their nails and pulling their hair out, anticipating for the bill to finally be passed. I realized that in order for the DREAM Act to be passed, it is going to take millions of voices to help these undocumented students be heard. Just recently, I created a blog called: "Estudiante, اŮداعس, ĺŚç", student...does it matter? We are all students, aren't we?" I created this blog with a goal to raise awareness about the issue of undocumented students receiving a higher education. I thought that perhaps my blog could help pass the DREAM Act or it could be an additional voice that will influence others to help undocumented students receive a higher education with the same opportunities as other students. Even though I currently have no subscribers, I will be persistent with my blogging until I receive my first subscriber, then until I reach my tenth, then until I reach my hundredth; I won't stop until this injustice has ended.
Once the DREAM Act is passed, these students will be able to succeed academically, despite seemingly insurmountable financial and legal barriers. If the United States of America is still the land of equality, then the DREAM act is a piece of it.