Outside of your home who was the person that had the most significant contribution in shaping your life path?

I think my 6th grade teacher had a significant impact on my working hard in school and trying to achieve greater levels of success. While his methods of achieving this impact may not have been always positive, they had a lasting effect on me nonetheless. I went to school in Germany, where after your 9th school year you have the option of graduating and seeking out job training (for 3 years) that will prepare you for a specific type of job of your choice.

If you are lucky, the company that trained you for multiple years will sign you on after this time has elapsed and you can then start working for them fulltime. In 5th and 6th grade, I had made some very close friends whom I did everything with. After 6th grade, our classes had to make a choice: continue on with school to 9th grade in that same school house, or apply to a higher grade level school that would offer us greater opportunity in the long run.

This other school had up to 10 grade levels, after which you could then apply to another school to complete your 11th and 12th year of schooling, which however, was not required. I desperately wanted to stay in the school I was in, simply because all my friends remained in that school (because their grades were not good enough to apply to the advanced grade level school). I was not interested in meeting new people and was too stubborn to listen to anyone trying to tell me differently.

This was when my homeroom teacher grabbed up and pulled me to the side after science class one day. He told me that he heard I was not interested in switching over to the other school and proceeded to paint a very grave picture on what would likely happen if I decided to only complete 9 grade levels. In Germany there are limited options for students with only 9 years of education, one of which would be to become a hairdresser (a menial job in our country).

Thus my teacher placed pictures in my head of me having to stand all day long and having to touch nasty, greasy hair for a living. I quickly changed my mind thereafter and applied to the more advanced school. I was accepted and from there on I made sure to work hard and not let friendships blind me and keep me from reaching my goals in life.

You can always maintain a friendship, even if it is long distance. However, you may only get certain chances once in life, and times of fun should never outweigh the importance of a good education.

In my early childhood, I practically lived with both of my grandmothers. My parents couldn't look after me all the time, so they would send me to stay with them, sometimes for weeks on end. As a result, I became very close to both.

Today, many years later, my maternal grandmother and I are still incredibly colse (my other grandmother died), and we will always be, because I spent a good deal of my early life with her.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.