Cody Bareford-Final

Cody Bareford
Larry Neuberger
English Composition 102
Monday, December 12, 2011
Final
In today’s society the importance of furthering ones education past high school is almost required. Recent facts show that college graduates on average make approximately eight hundred thousand more dollars in a lifetime compared to someone with a high school degree or equivalent. Although it may be quite a struggle for some citizens to fund themselves through college at times, the evidence is apparent that in the long run it pays to get an education.
One of the most difficult parts about furthering ones education is choosing what field you would like to major in. Some people follow their life long dreams of becoming doctors or police officers, while others struggle with this decision considering every option of what they can turn themselves into. As long as the person enjoys what they do for a living, which can sometimes be difficult even with a college education, then money shouldn’t necessarily be the main priority in choosing a career, although a little extra money never hurts.
The most important step in continuing your education is to meet an academic advisor to set up an academic plan and begin taking classes, after all, one can’t educate themselves further sitting at home. The next step is to show up, do homework, and pay attention. This can be very difficult at times, especially when work begins to interfere with your school schedule, or family emergencies pop up, but never give up. As long as you keep a positive attitude you can overcome any obstacle and make any dream attainable, even if you have to make multiple attempts.
The most difficult part of having an education can actually come after you earn your degree, finding a job. Today more students are staying in school for longer periods of time due to the simple fact that the job market is becoming very limited because of the recession. With the limited job availability there are many older and more qualified citizens taking over jobs that aren’t directly in their profession to provide for their families, leaving college graduates out of the picture. Although more education is beneficial which allows students to learn more and gain additional experience in their field of study. On the plus side it is practically impossible to be over staffed in the medical field considering how they are often shorthanded.
In the end furthering your education opens many opportunities in a person’s life, for example in the state of Missouri as long as you have sixty two credit hours you can legally be a substitute teacher. Also holding a degree in general opens job opportunities in many fields. Yet the best part is, one can never have too much knowledge one and can always educate themselves further in numerous subjects.

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Testimony 2-Cody Bareford

Ursula Levy was born in Osnabruck, Germany on May 11, 1935. Ursula and her brother, George, lived with their parents until their father was taken to a concentration camp. Ursula's mother began worrying for her children's life and decided to send them to a catholic camp in Holland. While at the camp the priest took a liking to Ursula and her brother and even converted them to Catholic and baptized them with their mother’s permission. The priest also covered for Ursula and her brother by telling others that her father was a Catholic from America. Luckily Ursula was with her brother a majority of the time, although not all the camps she visited allowed males and females together. At one of the last camps she visited she was allowed to be in the male barracks with her brother. Ursula went into detail about her time spent at camps, although she was a rather fortunate Jew compared to most. She describes how she was never abused in any way whatsoever, and nobody ever stole her food, even though it would have been very easy to. She states, “A crumb of bread was the difference between life and death.” In 1945 she was finally freed and went on to do great things with her life. She talked about how she resumed school after being free and eventually went to nursing school in Chicago which took her ten years to complete due to her marriage and having children. Despite the atrocities she faced, Ursula overcame the odds and did great things.

Testimony-1 Cody Bareford

David Abrams is a Holocaust survivor from multiple Nazi concentration camps. Mr. Abrams was born on December 8, 1928 in Dej-Romania. Abrams led a fairly normal Jewish life for the most part until he was fifteen. Soon after his bar mitzvah his father passed away, and just a few months later he was taken to the Ghetto. His Ghetto was in a field and families were required to build their own shelter during their stay there. After a month the Jews were quickly rounded up and sent to Auschwitz where they began being separated. People were separated by their ability to work, if they weren’t able to work they were sent to the gas chambers. Mr. Abrams stayed in Auschwitz for approximately a month and was shipped to Mauthausen. He received the number 71,701 after steeping off the train, which was used to identify them. During his time in Mauthausen he began witnessing people stealing from one another and even witnessed a few eating the dead to survive. While being forced to work in Mauthausen David got an infection on the heel of his foot, at first he was skeptical to go get examined, but when he decided he was most likely going to die anyways he went and got checked out by an SS doctor. After seeing David was healthier than most he was admitted to the hospital where he spent two weeks eating and sleeping, which ultimately saved his life. David said he prayed every day at camp asking God that today be his last day at camp and stated, “That was the only thing that kept me going, my faith.”

"A Film Unfinished"-Cody Bareford

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I am from

I am-cody bareford

Introduction

Hello, my name is Cody Bareford, I'm nineteen years old, and was raised in Strafford, Mo. I discovered I wanted to become an athletic trainer after tearing my acl and meniscus during the first football game of my senior year, so I decided a good place to start was at Otc. In my free time I enjoy working on my honda(f20b swapped), hunting, fishing, listening to music, and spending time with my lovely girlfriend Jessica Elliott, whom i met in English composition 101. After my time at Otc i would like to transfer to Msu or possibly New Mexico.