Aguayo 1

Kristopher Aguayo
Ms. Emily Ehrlich
English 131
20 January 2015
College Essay

Aldous Huxley, my favorite author, once stated that We are

simultaneously the subjects of Nature and the citizens of a strictly human
republic. When I read those words, I felt as if my perspective on life and
broadened by at least a mile. It was then that I realized that we are the
subjects of a plethora of things, not only nature or society. We are
simultaneously the subjects of thousands of things under the disciplines of
nature and society. I for example am the subject of teachers, peers, parents,
siblings, coaches, the community, culture, the wind, the rain, the laws of
physics, and ect. When I became aware of this, I came upon the notion that
each one of our subjectivisms provides us with a unique perspective on life
and that every person has multiple perspectives depending on how their life
has unraveled. Having unique perspectives has an incommensurable value,
life is not meant to be seen out of one perspective because existence is not
linear, humanity isnt limited to only one way of life. On our planet, we have
a plethora of races, cultures, and languages. In relation to my multicultural
experiences, when an environment is exposed to different perspectives, Ive
noticed that these environments are enriched. For example, school.

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I remember the conversations I had in APUSH with a group of friends.

We were talking about womens issues and if they were still pertinent to
America. Personally, I think womens issues are. I consider myself a feminist
because my mom wasnt allowed to go to school for the simple reason that
she lived in a male dominant society and she was a woman. In retrospect
with my family today, my sister doesnt get to enjoy the same privileges I got
to enjoy growing up. I was allowed to go out with friends, my sister not so
much. Returning to the point, some of my peers said womens issues where
no longer relevant. Its easy to understand why though, they were boys, they
were never really exposed or subject to experiencing life as a woman. The
conversation got interesting after that notion. One girl brought up the point
both her parents work the same job, but her dad gets paid more. I brought
up my sister, and how she isnt experiencing all the freedoms I experienced
growing up. Eventually we were all on the same page. In another discussion
we asked if race was still an issue in America, a few of the members of the
group said no, again it was understandable. Since we are little we are given
to the idea that America is the land of equality, its a doctrine we have
engraved in the back of our heads growing up. We brought up the point of
racial profiling; a few of us had experienced it firsthand. The term seemed
alien to my friends, they never experienced it. To some extent we achieved
mutual understanding on many current world issues in that class. It was our
multiple prospective that helped us achieve that. Like my peers, I learned
about different perspectives and stopped being insensitive to some also. All

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in all, our education was enriched thanks to the multiple perspectives the
people in that class had to offer
If admitted, I would bring my multiple perspectives as my contribution
to diversity at Western. When I have a question or problem before me, I try
to analyze them through different lenses. I might view an issue from the
perspective of a minority, I might view an issue from the perspective of a
feminist, economist, environmentalist, social justice advocate, prospective
scientist, a teenager, or a coming of age adult. I feel as if this diversity is
important to have in order to create an enriched learning environment where
new ideas are constantly contributing to education and all walks of life are
represented. Something I think I could contribute to.