Imagine that you survived the journey across the Atlantic and have been living in the New World for a month. Write a short journal entry documenting the imagined experience of their first month. Explain in detail the hardships you
encountered, and how you overcame those hardships.

Do not be ashamed if your family is poor, or is from a different culture, or has endured personal challenges, such as death, illness or disability.

There’s a strong chance that these very issues have helped shape and define who you are—in a positive way.

Sharing one of these personal challenges in this UC Essay Prompt 5 is your opportunity to showcase how you handled

Explanation:

Do not be ashamed if your family is poor, or is from a different culture, or has endured personal challenges, such as death, illness or disability.

There’s a strong chance that these very issues have helped shape and define who you are—in a positive way.

Sharing one of these personal challenges in this UC Essay Prompt 5 is your opportunity to showcase how you handled

1. Revolutionary and civil wars

Explanation:

Transcendentalism emerged in the 1820s and 1830s which was after the revolutionary war in the 1770s and before the civil war in the 1860s.