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1. Huntington Library and Gardens (in Pasadena, CA)
2. Archdiocese of Los Angeles (the Catholic Church of Los Angeles)
3. Girl's State
4. Homeboy Industries (Boyle Heights, CA)
5. The 1984 Olympics (held in Los Angeles)
6. My mother (with me at the Huntington Library below!)
7. My older sister (we played school)
8. Learning video games at my public library you got to play for FREE on the brand new Apple 2E computers donated by a new little-known company called Apple Computers (Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? & Oregon Trail)
10. Public library (summer reading program where reading got you free pizza points!)
11. S.E. Hinton
12. Weekly piano lessons with Mrs. Crider
13. Dr. Williams (favorite undergraduate professor)

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1. My brother's Godfather, Lambros (told us stories & sang traditional Greek songs)

2. Playing Scrabble as a kid

3. Being translator for my immigrant parents, brother (before he learned English), and grandmother

4. basketball (coach gave us notebooks to learn plays)

5. Practicing my French when we would visit family in Montreal

6. Greek School (church)

7. Greek Mythology (giant book I read over and over)

8. Dr. Paul Goldstene (college)

9. Human Services 45 (an elective course where we tutored lementary school kids in reading)

10. Used to play 'school' with my neighbor, who was 1 year older than me. I was the student and she was the teacher (learned years later I was doing her homework)

11. Sesame Street & The Electric Company on Saturday mornings

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My grandfather's almanac

Full House (Thing before Fuller House)

Hollywood movie series on Friday nights (in Japan)

Essay writing contests (many Japanese school children participated in these as part of school curricula)

Friends from home

UCSB

My child's Spanish-English bilingual school

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-2 Grandmothers (pictured below at my college graduation) and their full journals and bookshelves
-being the only child meant being included in conversations as a peer, not a child
-community conversations
-Judy Blume
-Dr. Betsy Watson
-Jody Woodbury (HS English teacher) and Carl Woodbury (HS Gov't teacher)
-Thomas, my grandmother's Siamese cat (aka my best student)
-Reading Rainbow
-Sweet Valley High

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Eye exams.
Watching older sister record herself reading books.
First grade reading circles.
Moving to Australia in 6th grade and mispronouncing words when reading aloud in class.

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-My brother who helped fixed my grammar and get me back on track.
-Being a son of an immigrant family, I grew up having to translate a lot for my grandparents and my parents.
-The Internet, giving me access to online resources and reading material.
-My parents who are helping me pay for college and allowing me to go to college.
-My Computer giving me access to anything on the Internet.
-Learning Vietnamese as a child and having to learn English in elementary school.
-My Aunt who was the first one to take me to Barnes and Noble and pick out my first physical books.

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- Cambridge preschool (learned how to read using aquarium animals in an interactive aquarium we had at the top floor of our nursery).
- International Community School, Singapore (where I spent the better part of primary school years).
- My uncle (who used to read the comics in the newspaper with me at a coffee shop every Friday morning).
- My nanny Martina (who helped me with my studies and would take me to the library once a week).
- Singapore National Library
- Mr. Brown (who helped me learn to love math, but in a literate and creative way, basically by using stories).
- My mom (she always sends me articles and informational readings that I actually find interesting). -Thats how she got me into investing lol.
- My grandma (she used to make me read her sewing instructions for her).
- Mrs. Batzianis (high school AP lang teacher.)
- Mrs. Nosal (high school chemistry teacher.)
- Marilyn Monroe (I'm obsessed with her and everything she's been in. I love reading her autobiographies and conspiracy theories).

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The Marilyn Monroe post is me!!-Monica Ward

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The Marilyn Monroe post is me!!-Monica Ward

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I don't know why it posted as anonymous, but its me!! Just ignore this message. Sorry guys!

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1. My mom(They read books with me when I was a child)
2.My Chinese teacher, Mrs Chen(She taught me comprehend the meaning of poetry)
3. My father(He always watched the newspaper in the morning and allowed me to read with him)
4. Shirley(My ap teacher in the high school)
5. Studying in the United state
6. American drama

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1.  North Beach Library (San Francisco, CA)
2. PBS Kids (Wild Kratts)
3. Mrs. Lew (3rd Grade Teacher)
4. Ms. Morrison (10th Grade Teacher)
5. Percy Jackson series
6. My mom reading to me before I slept
7. Elementary school book fairs
8. mandatory reading journals
9. Chinese School

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1.  My parents who were patient enough to teach me to read and write.

2.  Working on word search puzzle's with my dad

3. Mrs. Motely(taught me better grammar, punctuation, and reading skills)

4. Mr. Mudd (favorite English teacher taught me rhetoric)

5.  My grandparents who taught me Spanish and who I helped learn English

6. Dorothy Ingram Public Library (reading programs at the public library that would give us free things after reading a certain amount of books.)

7. Ms. Bonds (dance teacher taught me to express myself not just through words/ also taught me musical literacy)

8. CSUSB (provided tutoring for any subject and students of all ages)

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1. Parents (taught me to read and write in 2 languages)
2. Book Series (Magic Tree House, Goosebumps, Diary of a Wimpy Kid)
3. Comic Books (Batman)
4. Games (Scrabble, Scattergories, etc.)
5. TV Entertainment (Sesame Street, Go Diego Go, Yo Gabba Gabba)
6. Grandparents (often gifted me books when I first began reading)
7. Book Fairs
8. Ms. Ying (one of my high school teachers that used entertaining and engaging novels in her curriculum)
9. Dinosaurs (my interest in dinosaurs lead me to read many books)
10. Musicians/Artists have gotten me to read articles and books based around people that interest me

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1. My parents who supported me throughout my English learning process.
2. Junie B. Jones books (served as a fun way to learn English)
3. Baraem (an arabic cartoon channel)
4. Ms. Hudson (4th grade teacher who's hard tasks have made me progress)
5. Card Games (that allowed me to develop logic)
6. Conversations with my friends
7. Stories from my grandmother's past
8. Abdulrahman Munif ( an Arabic author)

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1. My parents(read book with me when I was a child, taught me vocabulary)
2. Playing lego
3.Playing volleyball(our coach Tell us the rules, told us how play and practice every day)
4. Studying abroad in the United States and South Korea
5. Mrs. Song and Mr.Li(my violin teachers in China)
6. Mr. K(My favorite history teacher in high school)
7. Mr. C(my English teacher in high school)
8. Dr. Nagao(my music teacher in high school)
9. My friends who have been studying abroad with me in recent years.

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1. Public library near my house
2. Tutoring center I went to as a child for 2 years
3. Another tutoring center I went to as a child for 3 years
4. Another tutoring center I went to as a child for 6 months
5. My mom
6. My youngest aunt on my dad’s side
7. My cousins

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dad (always giving me books and reading to me)

reading contests at my library

becoming obsessed with reading

my 4th grade teacher mrs taylor

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1. childhood books- my ultimate favorite is "The Flower Girl"

2. my high school counselor- Mrs.Brathwaite who supported me and was like a therapist.

3. Elementary Book fairs

4. my journal's

5. cleaning houses- The house owners that I would go clean houses at were teachers and I would see how unique a teacher's lifestyle is. which basically influenced me to want to be a teacher/and improve my writing/reading and do something for myself because my brothers didn't choose to college.

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1. My dad (who is working on writing a book)
2. National Charity League
3. Magic Tree House series
4. My local library
5. My 10th grade english teacher
6. My peers at my mom's home daycare

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1. My mother: encouraged me to read in my free time.
2. Elementary school librarian: allowed me to work with her in the library
3. PBS kids
4. Elementary school "Reading Night"
5. Book fairs in elementary
6. Book series: Dork Diaries, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Geronimo Stilton, Dear Dumb Diary)

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1. My parents
2. My Elementary School, Middle School, High school
3. UC Davis
4. Mrs. Gresham who taught me grammar
5. My local library
6. Word Girl
7.  Barney
8. Mrs. Curry who made me write many many essays

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1) my mom who always talked about how much she loved reading
2) The book fair at Bright Horizons Preschool
3) Social Media because there is always different articles that I am interested in
4) My grandpa for helping me pay for college
5) My coaches who valued literacy
6)people I have met and worked with that did not have the privilege to learn how to read and write as a child
7) My sister

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1. My grandmother who would give me books written in Punjabi (my native language) when I was a child.

2. Kumon

3. My classical Indian dance teacher who taught me how to write dance rhythm notations.

4. Piano lessons with my neighbor

5. Varsity Tutors (gave me a lot of advice on writing college essays)

6. Sesame Street

7. Journaling

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- My parents whom have been with me every step of the way.

SPECIFICALLY:
- My dad, a mechanical/project engineering in the Saudi Aramco Oil Company who inspired me to take his path.

- My mother, a woman with the kindest and purest heart that teaches me morals and kindness.

- Mr. Roger, my physics teacher who taught me the laws of physics thoroughly in order to pursue engineering as a major.

- 'A Thousand Splendid Suns,' a novel that taught me the importance and value of a woman.

- Angelina Jolie, a protagonist that fueled my inspiration to helping others.

-Piano lessons in Florence, Italy with Mrs. Francesca

- Mrs. Orlecek (my English teacher growing up whom made me fall in love with literature, by reading us famous work pieces).

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•TV shows and movies. ( Sesame Street, Disney +, Harry Potter movies)
•One local central bookstore.
• My parents. (I got almost all of my books from them)
•Mrs. Jenna Mercatili (high school)
•Mrs. Jeni Brown (Her English class is just one of my absolute favorites from first grade until now)
•Wyoming Seminary College Prep School (This institution made me learn so much, and all courses it provided were meaningful to me)
•Shakespeare (I was obsessed with Shakespeare’s plays during my years in high school by reading Romeo and Juliet, Othello and Macbeth!)

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1. My mom, dad, and sister
2. City librarian
3. My Godmother
4. Caillou
5. Catechism
6. Blues Clues
7. AR points
8. UC Davis
9. My fourth-grade teacher always gave me books to read outside of class
10. AP Research and Seminar

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My literary sponsors include:
- Japanese Haikous
- Poetry (A get to write whatever I want and it does not have to rhyme)
- ASB Director (Gave me the idea to write down my thoughts and how to write them)
- Mother (Always encouraged me to read books and keep the childhood ones)

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1. My cousin, who is the best writer I know.

2. Mr. Collins, the best writing instructor I  ever had.

3. Using my biliteracy to translate things for my grandparents.

4. Greek Mythology

5. The SF Public Library system