During high school, I switched schools. My school had its own way of doing things, as did the new school I moved to. One of which was the side of the stairs and hallways it was acceptable to walk on. At my previous school the norm (a rule or guideline regarding what kinds of behavior are acceptable within a culture) was to walk on the left, but at my new school everyone walked on the right. I learned this the hard way when I started walking up the stairs on the left side. I was violating a folkway…
there were an event that changed my life completely was moving to USA. It was something that I was always dreaming about but never thought it will come true. Even though my father came to USA through my uncle’s sponsor. I heard that USA was land of fortunate because it has better education, social benefits and freedom for both religion and politics. I knew i will have a better life by getting good job if i could succeed on getting a good degree. When I came here I changed my life style tremendously…
How my life changed in one day: Some of the worse things that can ever happen, end up saving your life and making you grow into the person you are today. It all started when I was in John Ehret high school; I was a typical eighteen year old senior skipping school on the weekdays and partying on the weekends. I was dating a boy named Todd that I thought would do anything for me and loved me just as much as I loved him. We did everything and went everywhere together; we hung out at his house a…
Who I Am During the beginning of high school, I was in a situation in which life is very difficult to live. The one experience that made me mature significantly is when my mother was too sick. We can’t be able to spare the medical cost for my mother because the medical cost back in Malaysia was too expensive for us. Moreover, my father had an accident where he was not capable to work at all. I have a younger brother who was still in a middle school. The only option that I can see is to quit my school…
The high school I graduated from was West Ranch High School in Santa Clarita California. The representative for my school district was Scott Wilk. A recent bill Scott Wilk voted on was called AB882 which was wrote up on February 26, 2015 (1).The bill works to alleviate the long term costs of technology in schools by limiting the life span of bonds able to be taken out by schools. Alongside AB882 came prop 39 which changed corporate income tax and took the money from that tax and used it to fund the…
From the very moment I procrastinated, I knew that the only result ahead was a failure. When attending a school you are always told to plan ahead of time by being organized. However, I always preferred handling my academic work at a snail 's pace. Simply said, I procrastinated leaving everything to the last minute. For some people, being under pressure they tend to produce better results, but on the contrary that is never always the case. Through my personal experiences this didn 't necessarily happen…
and how quickly I improved. By the time I reached middle school, I began to identify myself as a jock. I played for the school basketball team and spent almost every day practicing. Sometime around sixth grade, I had to do a project about my heritage and from that point on I became very interested in my own culture. I am half Mexican and half European which creates a very interesting mix of cultures. My mom’s family came from France, Scotland and Germany and settled in Mississippi, Tennessee and…
The journey through high school was awkward and uncomfortable for the most part. It took a lot of time and effort to be comfortable with the people around me and myself. Aspects of high school changed me for the better. Four long years with students unlike myself pushed me to become me. The memories I made through the halls of BHS, will be remembered as the best times of my life (as of now). As I entered ninth grade the feeling of anxiety was overwhelming. All of the older students rushing through…
pertaining to the various writing experiences throughout my life, I have realized how much I have learned and still need to learn or be mindful of. Although I entered the workforce after high school and did not continue to enhance my writing skills in an educational setting, I continued to acquire a multitude of skills in the workplace. I acknowledge that throughout the years my ability to recall what I had learned in high school was lacking in my writing. Needless to say, the necessity to participate…
decisions that we make. When I reflect and think about myself I realized that I have come a long way in my short 22 years of life for someone whose life has not changed extremely drastically in any sense. For the very first half of my life, everything was very steady. That was until I went into high school where my life changed in many different ways because I decided to go through different paths that I would never have expected to turn on to. Through self-reflection now I am almost glad that they occurred…