GOALDS STATEMENT

IN ORDER FOR THIS INSTITUTION TO UNDERSTAND, (MY GOALS). I DEEM IT IMPORTANT FOR THIS INSTITUTION TO UNDERSTAND MY HISTORY. FOR IF YOU KNOW WHERE YOU COME FROM YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GOING. PERSONAL REASON My own personal reason for producing this project is because there is an uncertainty and mass confusion among the general literate and non-literary population, about dyslexia. As you will gather from reading this project, I have a severe case of dyslexia, probably one of the most severe cases of its kind. My reading, writing, spelling, and arithmetic is less than average. My dyslexia has been around all my life. It was first assessed when I was 20 at a California junior college. Before this, I received accommodations, but never the proper assessment for those accommodations. I was stigmatized as stupid, illiterate, and lazy. I was given no opportunity to flex my power of speech. I was constantly placed in classes where I simply did not belong. As I have said before I have dyslexia which is simply a disability not an inability. Because this is a disability, the forgone conclusion was that I would never be able to obtain an associates degree, bachelor’s degree, or a master’s degree. These are all foregone conclusions. Many stated I should seriously consider entering the domestic workforce and forgo any disillusioning goals of obtaining an education. This simple rationale was disturbing because I wanted to obtain an education. My family members had no desire to obtain an education, so therefore it was a foregone conclusion that I should follow their example. I fortunately fell much further from the tree than the rest of my brothers and sisters. This stems from my parents having no education except for hands on agricultural. It is a true statement that you must teach what you know and not what you think you know. My parents, throughout the years of my adolescence, consistently worked in the cotton fields, tomato fields, and cherry fields as migrant farm workers. This was the only type of education they knew, so it makes sense to have wanted to pass their extensive knowledge of agricultural on to their children. This life from so long ago placed myself and the rest of my brothers and sisters in the field working for $21 a day chopping cotton or pitching watermelons from 5:00 am to 5:00 p.m. As stated my family and friends did not deem education to be important. I on the other hand truly sought the importance of education, and embraced it with all things that I hold to be true, within these uncertain times. Education was a certainty to never to return to that type of life. I have arrived. This is my last goal in obtaining all of my educational goals. Knowing I have dyslexia opened doors and left behind derogatory statements. The Impact on cross-cultural learning disability. Within the educational environment, it is my goal to develop a cross-cultural awareness for students with multiple learning disabilities. I wish to utilize the educational praxis in developing multiple cross-cultural strands to assist multicultural/ nonmulticultural children. In developing this methodology the Educational Doctorant, cross-cultural program will be able to give me a sense of design of awareness within the methodology of cross-cultural understanding. There is a great need for developing a Cross-cultural methodology design and implementation therefore; no child is truly left behind. It is my personal goal to undergo the mechanics within the educational praxis to comprehend the cross-cultural methodology of learning disabled children. The need is very simple there is no sincere effort to analyze or collect positive data to interpret, what percentage of multicultural/ cross-cultural children possess a learning disability. As an educator it is my personal challenge to bring light the disproportionate analysis within the multicultural/ cross-cultural educational environment. Specifically, dealing with the looked over process of multicultural/cross-cultural children. These children are placed in classrooms and simply looked over because there is no clear assessment to determine whether or not they have a learning disability. This may seem trite however, within my own experience I came across a student that has personally experienced the looked over process. As an advocate for multicultural/cross-cultural children it’s been my experience this topic holds rewards unforeseen within our multicultural society. For if, I do not do this research who will.

The educational doctorate program will afford me an experience in which I seek in the cross-cultural paradigm through the educational praxis. THE -œI SOCIETY- Most certainly there is nothing wrong with editorializing your own opinion within educational settings. Here I stand by my words: The central problem has been stated over and over, time and time again. Martin Luther King Jr. and Caesar Chavez are gone and most of the dreams with those people have died. Moreover, the sad fact is these true heroes and others like them never asked for a hand out only a hand-up. The society that we live in has become the -œI- society. This society has progressed within multicultural paradigm, and we have forgotten whom is exactly the enemy. We only remember our enemy when a family member dies by that enemy’s hand. We will remember that enemy when they deprive us of our common right as citizens. Otherwise, we truly live in harmony with our enemy. Our enemy is our own worst fear it is not white, it is not black nor brown, it is what we are doing to our disconjunctive culture, and to all of our youth of tomorrow. We perpetuate unity within our own cultures. We especially perpetuate unity when it comes to getting ahead of the other culture. We symbolize and idealize our own race progression. We simply have forgotten what it was to be brown, black, or white. We simply have just forgotten how to educate our youth. We simply have forgot our dreams and aspirations. I say this because I have forgotten, and I see the multicultural society at large has forgotten to stand up for our youth and perpetuate a multicultural society. For if, we let one child down, we have let a generation slip by, the educational system has been aware of the problem for over the last four years that California itself was becoming a multicultural diverse state. All the data suggested that the educational system should prepare itself for this transformation. Based on these fears, we as a community should be looking towards understanding the problem within literacy education, so that it does not perpetuate itself in oncoming generations. Moreover, there is a growing connection looking at multi-cultural children with learning disabilities being placed in a juvenile system. Within the educational system, there is mass confusion on how to properly educate multi-cultural students with learning disabilities. The most frequent excuse for not properly educating the students is because of lack of funding for qualified teachers. The second most frequent excuse is that there is no standardized test for all multi-cultural students, and there lies the problem. Within California the multicultural society has long needed to acculturate, The Department of Education was aware that the influx would drastically drag on the system to implement programs to educate the multicultural students of today. However, the educational system simply ignored the warning, so the educational system is short with money, supplies and teachers. Moreover, the hardest hit inside the educational system was the students with disabilities. The students were promised a level playing field but instead they have become juvenile delinquents with a learning disability placed in juvenile facilities. Their future looks bleak because the correctional facility for young adults is an extra jail, and therein lies the problem. The educational system has continually failed students of color. It perpetuates the ongoing increasing numbers of multi-cultural people within the correctional facilities. Here I see a direct correlation with students with disabilities. According to Sagmiller most so-called professionals still think in terms of the basics. Dyslexia is not considered to just be a type of disability, which only involves the transposition of b and d. One clear way to eliminate generalizations about dyslexia is through education. The expedient way to educate people is through illustration. Illustration opens the door for English language learners (ELL). Storyboards, pictures, and movies are the type of illustration that makes teaching reading and writing in English more successful in reaching students that have difficulties within the educational system. More often than not dyslexia presents a difficult challenge with standard educational teaching. It is at this time our teachers need to rethink their 20 some odd years of educational practices. We have new and exciting tools to teach second English language learner students (SELLS). One of those multiple tools is the World Wide Web. We are able to enhance our education by visiting information published on different web sites to bring those students and ourselves up to the educational standards set with the bylaws of the department of education. There simply is no excuse for educators who do not bring their level of understanding up to the high standards of their profession. Illustration will offer the opportunity for small or large groups of students to learn expediently. Someone once said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Additionally, teachers who implement illustration are able to add language to the convoluted educational craft. Moving forward in time, it is a sad reality that if we do not succeed at the elementary level we will have failed our young elementary students, placing them in a juvenile system. Unfortunately, the professionals who deal with these children, namely judges, probation offices, juvenile prosecutors and defense attorneys, typically lack the training to recognize these problems and are unfamiliar with special education laws. Special education services in juvenile corrections are implemented in the larger context of general academic and vocational programs. Moreover, juvenile correctional education programs may fail to adequately educate youth with disabilities when they: (a) When the system lack effective processes to screen, evaluate, and identify youths for special education. (b) It fails to implement instructional strategies to address learning or behavioral problems. (c) There is an absence of involved parents, guardians, or surrogates. (d) There is lack to organize transition services for youths released to the community and (f) ignore the school education accommodations for youths with disabilities . Therefore, youths with disabilities, who do not receive appropriate special education, and related services may be more vulnerable to exclusion from school for alleged disciplinary infractions in the correctional education program and within the larger institution. The information you are about to read may not be the typical personal statement, and I am very aware of my lack of successes inside the academic arena. However, all these unsuccessful ventures with inside the educational environment have led up to the amount of disappointment. Until now, I never thought that I would make it so far, but I have made it this far. What I’m trying to illustrate here within this paper is that I have been disadvantaged all my life. It is unfortunate that I have three strikes against me; they are color, dyslexia and awareness. I am aware this committee is looking for what sets me aside from thousands of other applicants much more qualified for missions then I. Absolutely nothing sets me aside from others with inside of this world, we all share some stories and each story constantly repeats itself so nothing sets aside from anyone else applying for admissions to your school. It is also my understanding that Cross-Cultural Studies schools are looking out for the best and brightest. Here again, I am not the best nor the brightest, however, I bring to your Cross-Cultural Studies school a sense of community, a sense of honor and respect for the Cross-Cultural Studies. I bring to your Cross-Cultural Studies school a sense of culture as an multicultural students so that they may be unified in achieving one simple goal for the betterment of our society at large. And also bring awareness of how cruel our society is, and despite the cruelness I am here facing another challenge, Cross-Cultural Studies. In short, I have been thought of as a person most likely not to succeed, please do not make that same mistake that has been a made before. I am ready for the academic challenges of Cross-Cultural Studies. Anything in this world might give you strength but it is up to you to determine what it is. Dyslexia, Stupid, Inability, Nigger, Underachiever, Black, Ignorant, migrant farm workers, poverty, the first to succeed with then in an educational environment. These are the things most people would be a shame to admit. However, they are my strengths and never my weaknesses. I have dyslexia, I have a reading and writing deficiency and I have used accommodations for all of my 36 years of life, K through Grad-School. I was unable to read or write a cohesive sentence or paragraph, simply because I have dyslexia. Unfortunately, there was little to no research done. Fortunately, I possessed the drive and determination to seek out innovative ways of accomplishing complex task. Unfortunately, the task now is to attend Cross-Cultural Studies. This is unfortunate because I am placed in a situation where I am asking for admission to your Cross-Cultural Studies. I have never asked for help or a handout. Fortunately, I have finished and accomplished all of my academic challenges, except one, Cross-Cultural Studies. In researching Cross-Cultural Studies, your school does not spoon feed its students. I am ready to put in 15 hours every day of study time, and receive five hours of sleep. The importance of elaborating this to you is to illustrate the seriousness as an adult student of my focus and my determination to receive a Ph.D degree from your Cross-Cultural Studies. I have devoted my whole life to obtaining an education and accomplishing goals at a great expense to myself. Moreover, here I stand at your door waiting for your reply. Stupid: you may say my only rebuttal is ” I am the thing that speaks for Itself ” Inability: yes, for several years I possessed and inability to accomplish simple non- convoluted task. However, today and forever more this is a something of the past. Nigger: This word is a standard word to inform me I am not stupid, ignorant nor do I possess any inabilities. This word angers myself so it gives me strength. Underachiever: yes, this is very true, I am an underachiever; However, the awards and honors that I receive do not come from the University nor does it come from friends. The honor that I receive comes from my family. Fortunately, my younger nieces and nephews have honored me. An award can never measure this. It is the betterment of my life that shows that theirs can be 10 times more enriched. So yes, I wear the honor badge of an underachiever. Moreover, this need not be mistaken for laziness or weakness. Try walking in my shoes because what truly matters at the end of the day is we will all come home and we start a new day. Here, my new day is Associate’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree, and with your help Doctrine. Black: unfortunately, this is a word that applies to pigmentation, need I say more? Ignorant, you are only given the tools your parents possess. If they possessed no tools, you become what others perceive as ignorance. Poverty: it is shameful but true for my adult life seeking something better. Migrant farm workers: we needed to survive and this was the only tool we knew. The first to succeed within an educational environment: unfortunately, the struggles, difficulties and lack of knowledge of the educational system simply made my challenges difficult beyond belief; However, this made my accomplishments cheerful. As I have previously stated the only issue here is your Doctrine program. Your public assistance programs are truly innovative and I wish to bring a new perspective to enrich it within our community. It Is my mission to serve my community with high morals such as I have demanded from my nieces and nephews. In obtaining my Doctrine, I will be able to lend myself to honorable organizations within the community as an icon of what they dream to aspire to. In addition, with each turn I will praise my institution for granting the last of my dreams my Doctrine. I am not unique, I am not special, I am a simple ordinary citizen trying to obtain a degree, and I have come from illiteracy to literacy over the last decade. I have struggled within this educational system for lack of accommodations, dealing with my illiteracy and inability. Moreover, unfortunately my disability is unseen and much like thousands of other people with dyslexia, it affects my reading, spelling and writing; However, I have not let illiteracy or disability hinder my goals. It has just progressively slowed me down at various moments throughout my life, which brings me to my transcript. When you read my horrible academic history please understand when I entered college I was reading at a forth grade level. This should explain most of my academic failure. Nevertheless, I was determined to succeed academically no matter what the cost. My determination and self-preservation kept me aspiring towards my Associates Degree. I was never properly evaluated until I attended Sacramento City College. Unfortunately, I had wasted all those years over at Butte College. As you can see from my under graduate transcripts it was an all-uphill battle. I make no excuses for any of the grades I received as an undergraduate other than to say, it was well worth it when I obtained my Bachelors Degree. Currently, I am finishing my Master’s Degree over at California State University, Sacramento. I still have dyslexia that particular part of my life will never leave; However, do to the assessment over at Sacramento City College, I am able to seek out new research methodologies on comprehending complex material. [Side note: my Master's is on special-education students with disabilities and the law providing coverage for those students.] I assure the committee, being given the privilege to attend your school does not disillusion me. I am most aware of the long hours, of the Socratic method, mountains of notes, and pressures of staying 150 pages ahead of the class. I am either lacking intelligence or I truly wish to join the profession. When in fact the committee admits me, this is just the beginning of a long career in community service. If for a moment this committee feels that I am not their law school candidate for any reason, please reconsider. I am truly interested in serving the Community as a public person doing hundreds of hours of pro bono work, this is in the distant future, and nevertheless it is my future. In addition, as the architect, I have chosen a profession, where I may be of great assistance with inside of the greater community. Nevertheless, I am of the reality that there are thousands of Bryan K Hickman’s out there, and we all have our own individual story. My story is one of assisting the impoverished community at no cost to them selves. The pressing question here that every committee wishes to know is what sets Bryan Hickman aside from the thousands of applicants you receive. Aside from the factual story told above, everything I am ready to do the hard work so that I may join the profession. And by accident or on purpose accomplish some good. I have an innate ability to critically analysis any and all cases. I Have a stronger understanding of what a good analysis may do for any future client. I possess a strong understanding of (Issue rule analysis conclusion-IRAC) and given the opportunity, I will not embarrass this school. I wish the opportunity to show all of my verbal talents as a public speaker. I am always looking for the critical flaw with inside of the analysis of others. This fortunately makes me a strong person, if given the opportunity I will shine. These are just a few qualities, which I possess. I have been given the opportunity to produce quality work within the Master’s Degree Program. My Master’s Degree holds true passion simply because the research allowed me to understand my legal rights with inside of the Americans with Disabilities Act. I have a true sense to pursue a education so that I may further assist those people who were once placed in my past situation. This is my true calling for wanting to join the profession. In summation, the purpose here is clear; I wish to work within the community dealing with public assistance. It is a true reality that your school is open and assisting your community at large. This was my sole mission of my research in looking at perspective schools to apply to. It is enlightening the assistance over the past years your school has gone into the community and it gave a helping hand. It is truly my calling to be among such god like people. As you have read above, education has been my single focus, from my adolescent threw out my adult life. Within educational process having dyslexia. I have learned that I am truly not isolated with this learning disability. There are two schools, which I have devoted significant amount of free time to in order to demonstrate to these youthful minds. That you are able to accomplish whatever you put your heart, mind, body, and soul to. I would take this time to mention; Gatty Middle School, I was an assistant teacher for disadvantaged youth. I was a volunteer for Howe Avenue Middle School for the second English-language learners, Both schools are title 1 schools in need of volunteers to assist with inner-city kids. These are my two greatest claims to fame, besides 12 nieces and nephews with bright and intelligent minds. I take this Opportunity to thank the committee for reading my statement of purpose. Moreover, once again offer a suggestion of a reconsideration for admission at least until all applicants have been fully admitted. And even then there may be one or two applicants who cannot show please consider my application again on a conditional admissions status. I respectfully request admission to your school . Sincerely, Bryan K Hickman AA, BA, MA, Ed.D

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