My Inspiration and Motivations - Joshua Quintos

J.A.Q 9-2-11-

There are many people that have inspired me but mainly I have 4 but technically 5. They are as followed: My Grandmothers, My girlfriend (Maica), and my parents. My grandmothers are very strong womyn (and no my spelling of womyn is not wrong google it). I also respect them for coming to America to start a new life and bring my mom and dad because they came from the Philippines to start a new life. I love them unconditionally and I mean all of my inspirations. My grandmothers are strong and living but though they received many complications in life. One of my two grandmothers is wheelchair bound and the other recovered from surgery. They both raised me when my parents had work. My girlfriend Maica, She is an amazing person and has inspired me to become a better person because Happiness is a way of living life. She is my inspiration because she just motivates me to do better in school and help my family around the house. We try not to fight because fighting is just a waste of time and time together is precious and we both cherish it. My parents though they give me tough love I also love them unconditionally. They help me with everything and anything they just want me to do better in school and get a better education and career then they had. My parents both had to work jobs for me and my two brothers for our education.

My parents came to America separately and got married here. My grandma (father’s side) came with herself and my guerilla war fared grandfather to America with ten kids. It was rough but in the end the family still met up. This motivated me because throughout everything they still managed to become a big happy family and after a few years my grandfather died when my grandma was just babysitting me and my brother. My other grandma came to America with six kids separately. My grandma’s husband died before my auntie turned five. So it was rough for them to grow up, each of my uncles and aunties and mother had to obtain a job to keep the apartment alive. My girlfriend Maica is just simply amazing even though I get in a sad mood she cheers me up without even trying. She is just my girlfriend, best friend and everything in between. I just cannot believe that I am dating her. She is always both my motivation and inspiration. She keeps my head up and keeps me heading in the right direction. The people I listen in this essay have inspired me heavily and I love them until I cannot love anymore. The people are just loving and inspiring because of the things that they have done for me. I love them all, I love Maica, I love Nanay G and my Nanay Linda and finally I love my parents for doing so much for me. I love Joey and Vivian Quintos.

Heros - Devin Linyard

Someone who I admire and respect, I would say my mom but she already knows that, so I have to say Tupac Shakur. To me I think tupac was the best rapper ever, because his work ethic he was so great he could possibly make up to 4 songs in one day, to me that’s incredible. Tupac was born June 16 1971 to Afeni Shakur who was currently a member of the black panther party so the revolutionary spirit was already in his blood. To me he was not just a rapper, he is but he was also a revolutionary.

In his songs he sent messages like in songs like, Brendas got a Baby, Changes, Keep ya head up and plenty more like these classics. Pac although in a lot of controversy he had a good heart and a good head on his shoulders and even though his life was cut short his legacy lives threw millions of fans and it we’ll continue to the day we all die,well at least from me.

Heros - Stephanie Cervantes

Someone I admire is Freddy he’s my brother in law he’s married to my sister Diana the oldest one out of my brothers and I. He gives me good advice when I need it and he’s always been there for me since he met my sister when I was very young. But one thing is that when he started dating my sister I didn’t like him at all for nothing, every time he use to call for her I use to hang up on him. And whenever he use to come and visit I use to close the door on him and say that she wasn’t home I hated him, the worse thing I use to do is throw rocks at him and scratch him and mug at him. Even though I use to do all that stuff to him he still took me places with my brother’s and sister’s he gave me rides after school to my house. Then after I started growing up more and getting use to him being with us 24/7 I started liking him and looking up to him. Then I got to age 13 I started going to places with him and playing soccer with him because he was my coach and we started bonding more and getting to know each other then. I got to the age of 15 and started trusting him with my secretes or problems that I had that I never would of told my parents or anyone else just him. Then till this day I admire him and look up to and respect he’s like my second dad that protects me and show me new things that I don’t know and I teach him things that he don’t know either. The second person I admire and respect and always look up to is my mom I love her so much. Back then I never use to tell her about my problems or anything that happened with me, until my parents sent me away for 5 and a half months at this military/boot camp school located in San Luis Obispo this was three hours away from Oakland. Once I came back I started trusting my mom more and telling her everything and telling her the truth but my dad I don’t trust him that much but I admire him and respect him because he can say a lot of harsh things but he tells you the truth at the same time. The last person I admire is my best friend munchies I knew her since 9th grade here at skyline. We never hanged out but we always use to say hi to each other. Then we got to 10 grade and we started hanging out more and started trusting each other because we had similar problems in the past. So when I got to know her more and she was a true friend because she always use to give me good advice and tell me right from wrong and until this day were like sister’s.

That’s What I Call Talent -Brittney Akins

I truly admire people who have talent. I’m really attracted to people with talent. I’m really good at drawing and coloring even though I’ve never had any lessons and I’m really good at acting. I believe people with talent have a certain something about them that makes them interesting.

I really love to hang around talented people. Almost everyone I hang out with has a certain talent. My friend Nancy plays the clarinet and is in marching band. My friend marquis is good at making people laugh. My friend michala is a D.P. dancer who has a lot of spunk. I just enjoy the company of people with talent.

Guys with talent are extremely sexy, especially when they play a sport and have an athletic body. Most girls would tell you the same thing. I don’t necessarily like guys with talent just because they have a nice body, but because they have talent and that makes them interesting. People with no talent are boring. It’s like they have nothing to bring to the table. I believe everyone is good at something, but to me talent is more than being good. It’s being good at something and having that little something extra that makes you special. I can’t describe what it is… but I just know it’s there. It’s kind of like the difference between Kobe Bryant and Matt Barnes. Kobe has talent, but Matt Barnes is just good. I don’t know if that makes since or not. My talent isn’t my way with words. But I know for sure that talent is something special that I admire. It’s something beautiful. No matter if your creative, athletic, dramatic, flexible, smart, or just extremely skilled, it’s talent that makes me admire you. It’s Talent that makes you interesting. Talent that makes me attracted to you. It’s Talent that makes.

Talent is something effortless. It’s not something you learn it’s something you’re born with and something you can’t get rid of. I think talent is in your soul. I guess that’s the special thing that makes talent different from just being good at something.

Sometimes being talented isn’t going to get you anywhere in life. You have to know the right people. I hate that talent no matter matters. Beyonce and usher got to where they are because of talent. Lil Wayne and Michael Jackson got to where they are because of talent. Some people struggled to get where they are like Wiz Khalifa and Big Sean. But the rest like Kim Kardashin and the Asian guy from American idol who can’t sing for shit, they got famous because of luck. Some people are just lucky and that has nothing to do with talent.

I admire people who have talent, who have that gift, not people who are just lucky… or ‘good’. I admire people like the performing arts kids at skyline high. I admire people like the volleyball team at skyline high. I admire people like the basketball team at skyline high… That’s What I Call Talent!

Heros - Kevia Ruiz

I admire my mom of how strong she is, and how she never give up on anything. She’s just the kind off mother you can count with, she’s always there when I need her, and she can tell when I’m sad, mad, or happy. She always had been there for my brother and me. When I grow up I really want to follow my mom’s steps, like I want to get a career like she did, I want to make her proud of me, and make her feel that she did a great job, trying to make my brother and me someone in life, everything I do I always think about my mom. I respect my mom because she just deserve my respect, she be going thru a lot of thing but she never give up and that’s one of the thing I love about her the most, I been having my up and down moments but she always been there when I need her, she’s more than my mother she like a friend to me, I can tell her my secrets. Another thing that I admire about my mother is how beautiful she is, when people see me with her people thing we are sisters, and I love that. We always play around like little kids; she’s really fun to be with. There’s not words to describe of how much I admire, respect, my mother, she’s like the most important thing in my life, and I can fight the whole world just to see my mom with a smile in her face. We been having our little problems, but is just a thing that a mother and a daughter have, but besides all those little problems we be having, I still know I can count on her, like she knows she can count on me! When I’m with my mother, is like if I’m with a friend, we always talk about anything, I can tell her about my boyfriend, and I love when she been giving me advice about anything, we also be going to clubs together with my brother, we been doing some funniest things. One thing that makes my mom special is that she’s a fun, cool, crazy (in a good way), she’s like funny, and I love when she having her moment when she start telling jokes, and she been doing all those funny faces, I also love that she love to dance, when we feel like dancing, my brother my mom and me we go to parties or somewhere we can dance because we are some dancer freaks. I really love my mother and I always will, and would do whatever for her, because I positive she would do the same for my brother and me. She just a unique mother, there’s no one who can replace her, and I would never replace her for anything. I think if I wouldn’t have my mother right now, I think I wouldn’t be the person I am right now! I love my mother she like the half part of my heart

Heros - Narda Zamora

Someone I admire and respect is my mother. I look up to her because she has dedicated her life to taking care of her children and taking care of the household. After she had her children she stopped working and made sure they were set-up to have the best future possible. Since my father was always working, my mom was the only that could really pay attention to us, and attend our needs. I think it takes a real mother to realize her daughters are the most important thing in her life, and is unselfish enough to put them before herself. My mother has ironically played both father and mother roles though my father has been there just not present as much.

She has always wanted the best education for her three daughters, and because of that she’s been consistently been at school’s checking up on us making sure we’re on our path to success. She had a difficult childhood, and simply wants us to have a better and easier life than she had. She feels like we can achieve whatever we put our minds to, and even though we know she’s right, we still have trouble staying on track and making her proud.

Because, most of the time she’s been the only one around, I’ve developed a much closer relationship with her .Most of the time I can talk to her about all my problems and future dreams and that’s because I’ve learned to have trust in her and her advice. However, I do NOT consider her my best friend, because she’d just freak out about stuff I look at as normal .It’s alright though because after all she’s my mother and I believe there should be a certain amount of respect and distance between us.

I respect that she’s come so far from where she started. She was born and raised in Mexico, at 17 she came to the United States and started working, her family didn’t encourage her to go to school but to instead work because money was an issue since now they had to maintain a house, and had a sick mother back in Mexico. About a year later her mother died and one way or another she had to grow up and become an adult. That’s when not only she had to deal with a mother’s death but she had to become independent. Years later, she married my father and soon had children, that’s when she decided she wanted us to be set-up for success and didn’t want us to go through what she did. She has become the main person in life and I’m very grateful for having her, this is why I admire her and look up to her.

Heros - chanchoy pharn

Someone I admire is family, because you learn a lot from family that is around you every day, and no matter what the issue is, or what you have to say bad or good, family will always be there. The main reason why I say myself, admire family is because my family has been through a lot, and they worked hard for what they own today, being immigrants from Thailand, coming to America living in the ghetto of East Oakland California. In my family in general the person I admire most, is my brother from another mother I am not going to say his name on here though. The reason why, I admire him most is, he thought about dropping out of school, but then he thought about his life and what his future would be, so he started changing his ways of doing negative things to positive things. My brother from another mother went to Oakland High School, and graduated the class of 2007, after he graduated he didn’t go to college, he just stayed home thinking about what to do. So he decided to get a job, he started work at San Francisco Air Port, where he didn’t really like to work, but you have to get up and work every day to make money. He then thought about quitting his job, but his boss wouldn’t let him, because they valued how he did things fast, and they didn’t want him to quit, so they gave him a raise, and he decided to stay. I call him my brother from another mother, because we the same person, but just a different ethnicity, and we consider ourselves family, and if we ever get into drama, or a bad situation, we will always be there for each other no matter what it is. Why I admire him is, because he graduated out of high school, and even though he did not go to college, to achieved all his goals, and much more then what he thought he would. He worked for only about four years now to this day 2011, and he owns a Lexus 2010 ES 300 brand new already paid off everything , including his second car a 2007 Camry brand new as well fresh out of the parking lot. The house he lives in now, even though it is in a okay neighborhood, it is the biggest, and best looking house in the neighborhood, and he pays the bills for his parents. This gives me the motivation that all those times I thought about dropping out of school to do my own thing, to make me stay in school to it least graduate, then in the future be successful like him one day. That is why my goal is to graduate out of high school, but go to college, so I can do more things in the future. The crazy thing is even though we young and we think we got out future planned out we don’t know what will really happy because unexpected things can happen in the future and when those things do happen randomly they are always good things so keep your head up high and keep doing the things you do and you will be able to achieve your dreams make them a reality.The crazy thing is even though we young and we think we got out future planned out we don’t know what will really happy because unexpected things can happen in the future and when those things do happen randomly they are always good things so keep your head up high and keep doing the things you do and you will be able to achieve your dreams make them a reality. That is why he is one of the persons in my life that i admire and motivate me to do the things i do and stay in school.