Life can be super interesting, There are many living styles and situations in which everyone upholds, many are similar but almost none are exactly the same.There are many things you can do in order to influence or guide your life in a direction but not everyone is in control of how their life ends up or is at the moment. As a child growing up, I unfortunately did not have the most ideal living situation. Though for the most part I was taken care of there are many rough patches in my life in which I had encountered, with very few things in between to help me get through it.

 

 In the pictures above, are photographs of my brother and I. My brothers name is Juan and he is 18 years old. Him and I are 9 months apart as well as full biological brothers.The reason I had chose these photos for my photo essay is because my brother is one of the very few, but very big reason upon how I’ve overcome a lot of the inconveniences and rough times in my life. Me and my brother had grown up together and at the start had been in and out of homes of family members, foster parents as well as a children’s home. This living situation alone is very traumatic however I felt as if things were ok because I luckily had the company of my brother.

 

  I believe that the reason I am where I am today is because of the influence and support i’ve had from my brother. Brotherhood can be one of the most important relationship a male carries in life. Throughout my research I have found that brotherhood is very important and the single most important way for a man to reach his potential and speaking from experience I find this to be true. Even at a later age I was at one point, abandoned by my father and kicked out of my mother’s house, both my and my younger brother. I believe whats kept me going, is not having to go through these detrimental situations alone. Ive been accompanied by my younger brother and I feel as if these unfortunate events have only brought us closer.

   

  Since emojis have first been created, they have evolved and have developed into a new possible language for the human race. I believe that there is a variety of reasons one might use emojis. Emojis can be a great addition to a sentence or conversation, it allows the reader to create a better understanding of what is being said and the emotions behind what is being said. Emojis are used all over the world within all different age groups but mainly used within youth and many of us use them all for the same reason I have previously stated, they create a better understanding. There are many different types of emotions that emojis can convey  such as sadness, happiness, or even being mad and you can add these emojis to enhance the feeling and or emotions of a statement or sentence to give the reader a more accurate comprehension of how the author is feeling

 

  Personally I use emojis on a day to day basis, it’s usually within an informal conversation between friends and or family as well as in captions to photos following a statement on social media. Emojis can be very helpful within conversation because you aren’t having to wonder what type of emotion or tone someone is trying to get across, they enhance both feelings and emotions. I did my emoji translation on a poem about running. The reason I had chose to do my translation on a poem about running is because it is something that I have a deep passion for. I translated my poem into all emojis without using any text. This alone was a relatively difficult task. It seems that there are hundreds of emojis and you would think that there might be an emoji for a majority of our language, however it is not as easy as you’d think. The most difficult problem that I ran into with this project is finding emojis that would represent some words, or finding emojis to put together to create the full sentence. Even though I feel that I’ve successfully carried out this task through the difficulties, many people might see the emojis that i’ve chosen and translate them in a different way.

 

Within these photos are more than just pictures of me and groups of people, more importantly they tell my story and progress of where I come from, How I got here today, and what I love doing most. For the past few years of my life, I have not only dedicated time but my life, to the sport of running. I have developed a passion and love for the sport and it has warped into the lifestyle I live today.

The tasks I do on a daily revolve around my sport, in a way it is my job. within these photos it tells a general story of how I have progressively ended up here in Chadron, NE from Yuma, AZ, starting off with a couple pictures of my final high school races. In the next couple photos it is showing an event at my high school which was held for the decision and signing of my agreement to compete and further my education at the next level at Chadron State College. This was by far one of the most important days of my life. At this moment I had taken a new step towards life for myself as well as my family, becoming a first generation college student.

Within the last few photos pretty much sums up my weekly training since season has started. It was a little rough of a transition at first but as weeks have gone by, I have developed a bond with my teammates and am enjoying it here in Chadron

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for joining me!

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton