Personal Narrative: The Four Pillars Of National Honor Society

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Scholarship, leadership, character, and service has shaped me to the person I am today. Today, I am involved in my community, top ten student, and a leader in my school. Although, this would have occurred without the four pillars of National Honor Society. As a child, I wanted to be a member of the National Honor Society but it was only a dream. Shortly after I had imagined myself as a member, my parents had passed away in a car accident. The accident changed my mentality of who I wanted to be. A young girl with hopes, dreams, and ambition to have a wonderful career was now a young girl that believe she couldn’t move forward without her parents. As my grieve went on, I had began to realize that I had to hold on my dreams. Scholarship had become

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