Throughout my childhood, I grew an interest for politics and history. Being immigrants from Vietnam, both my grandparents were Vietnamese refugees and had always lugged around their horrific stories of escaping to sea and settling in surrounding countries until officially entering the U.S. was possible. My family were always politics junkies. They loved following up on the news every night and reading numerous articles on global relations. Growing up in such an environment, I developed a fondness for global relations leading me to excel in all history and political classes. Despite the stereotype of Asians dominating the math subjects, I never found the beauty in math as I did in history.
History contains our past, all of the world's past and to reflect on the growth of our human race, it is truly magnificent. For an odd reason and from a young age, my mind was completely absorbed when it came to history class. All of the other distractions were shut out and I couldn't even start to think about anything else except what was being taught right in front of me. There was a beauty in history, one that any other subject didn't offer to me. As the school year progressed, my love for history and government expanded which has lead me to choose a
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Being at Tucker High School, we are fortunate enough to be offered four languages, despite that most people normally choose Spanish to become their language course. Learning languages has always been an ardent hobby. As a child, I had always took pride in my quality of being bilingual. It was a matter I had embraced within myself. Also, having parents that were constantly hopeful in me not forgetting my native tongue, I tried my hardest to never drift too far away from Vietnamese. However, that doesn't mean I couldn't broaden my knowledge on some languages. Many studies have proven that bilingual individuals learn a third language much