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Jonathan Acosta
Currently attending Arizona State University in pursuit of my Bachelor's degree, majoring in History Secondary Education. My main goal is to be able to teach U.S. History in high schools and possibly continue on the path to teach post-secondary education.

Biography
Born in Toronto, Canada on April 1st 1997. Before I turned one year of age my family moved to Florida in the United States. By the time I turned five family moved again to Phoenix Arizona and I have continued living there for the past 15 years. I have two parents a mother and father. Both of my parents met and married in the country of Peru. I have one older brother and no other siblings. I attended Kyrene de los Cerritos Elementary School, Kyrene Altadeña Middle School, and graduated from Desert Vista High School. I earned his Associate in Arts Degree from Chandler Gilbert Community College before transferring to Arizona State University. I am very fond of my older brother, growing up together we enjoy many of the same things. My favorite artist duo is Daft Punk. My favorite show is Mobile Suit Gundam. I practiced marital arts for five years. I enjoys watching all kinds of films like action, suspense, historical, comedy, and science fiction. I enjoys listening to all kinds of music, basically anything that makes my feet want to move. I like this one music group known as Caravan Palace, they create music known as electro swing, bringing back that swing feel from the 1920s with a modern touch. Every time I hear their songs I just move my feet as fast as I can. I grew up liking what my brother liked, he watched anime on tv airing on a Cartoon Network program known as Toonami. He would watch all kinds of show which would lead to me discovering all kinds of shows I never even expected to find. My passion for many things always comes from a small experiences then goes onward to new discoveries providing me with endless amount of knowledge that just makes fell ecstatic. My parents put me into many physical programs when I was a child in order to get me to find a sport I really liked, sadly I never really liked any of them, sports such as soccer, swimming, basketball, martial arts, and football. When I say "I never really liked them" I mean I didn't have that drive to commit to any of these sports. I love to swim, but I don't like the idea of competing with others in something that is meant to relax me. Competition is a big thing people pay attention to, most don't care about anything else other than accomplishments. I love shooting three pointers, I love soccer, I love martial arts, but there is no way I will do these things for people who think of these sports as some sort of sick game of seeing who is the best. When I was a freshman in Desert Vista High School I joined the football team for the season, I loved practice, but when a game up I was nervous, over the little things. My position was linemen, I had this idea that if the other linemen against me charged at me I could break my fingers by ramming into them. Not to mention the helmets we were using were not meant to be used in actual competition so I really didn't want a concussion. I really like martial arts for the sole purpose of self-defense, I want to learn all kinds of defense and offense techniques, I find it important that just in case it is best to know how to defend myself and protest others by using my entire body. Most importantly I love learning about history, I see the connections the past has to the present and how patterns pop up which lead to actions being repeated. The saying "History repeats itself" has knew meaning in my eyes. One example is the tyranny of the mob, what I believe is true democracy, the majority in all of history eventually becomes a power house that dictates governments into forcing the minority to obey. On a small scale is in the late 1700s when British rule set their tax acts on the 13 colonies, there were cases where groups of people claiming they were patriots, but were just looking for someone to let off some steam, certain individuals were tarred and feathered by some of these acts of patriotism just because they did not fully agree with these groups ideologies. I see the same today by some groups who believe they are solely in the right and act violently because they believe it so. From learning about past events and seeing the same thing in the present I truly believe everyone must make these connections for if we don't I fear these repetitions will continue indefinitely.