Who am I?

I am a west African student, from Guinea Conakry with full of dreams and ambitions. I decided to pursue my education with the hope to make my dreams come true. I landed in this country seven years ago without any english. However, i struggled to learn as much as i could back then just to be able to communicate with people around me. As a child, back then i realized nothing is impossible in this life. Moreover,if other people can speak the language why shouldnt i speak? i was determine to used the opportunity i have to engage my self in reading books in my classes.I challenged myself to throughout my High School years, which i found beneficial to me ever since.Knowing that where i came from lack of so many opportunities a person could have.

 I decided to continue my studies in order to achieve my goals, because i believe without an education a person looks just like an empty bottle which will always make noise. Curently, my major goal is to complete my studies here in BMCC and go for a career in human services. I chosed this field because i love helping those in needs. Further, i feel that my country is not a well develop country which means there are many people who need help but they are denied to have the help because of who they are or where they came from. Therefore, me, taking sociology this semester will help to understand why human beings behave in certain ways to a fellow human. i believe, it will not just give me this concept of human behavior but also deeper imformations of how we react and see the world in a better sense.

In Peter Berger reading, "Invitation to Sociology". He clearly explains what is sociology and how sociologists should engage themself in the field to become a good sociologist. In our society, people see things differently. In other words, we have our own individividual perspectives when it comes to see the world. For instance, some people may thing that Slavery was a good thing to become rich. while others think it was totally wrong and inhuman practices to become rich.

Well, i believe my biography is being influenced by something in history, because as an African in this country people usually treat you by your skin color or by the language you speak. People may discriminate you in any for that fact that you're from a different race. However, one have to learn how to live with it especially in this country. If the native Americans and Africa Americans had endured it all the way from the begining to the end, why won't someone else endures the same discrimination? People tend to judge you even if they do not know you. this is why we should know human behaviors and why we do act that way in order to fully be able to judge one another. This is exactly what good sociologists do as explain in the reading of "Invitation to Sociology". The tend to dig deeper for information about human beings.  they use scientific method to convey knowledge and evidence to the society. Therefore, i think any one can influenced history, it just depends how one sees it been part of a society.

We, humans tend to ignore things that we think is little. However, if we analyzed everything or atleast few of these things then we will learn more and better. Having said that, i sometimes ignore things that i surely know is interesting, but once i sit back and about it then i realized how crucial that was. The only different between a sociologist and another profession is that sociologist are interested in even the things that many people find boring. They like to have as much information as they could to advance in their research.