RJ Palacio’s realistic fiction novel Wonder demonstrates the reasons why Summer sits with August and how her motives for being with him change. Specifically, feeling bad, having fun, and liking the same activities as him. Primarily, a boy named August started going to school for the first time in September. This was very hard because August has a malady Treacher-Collins syndrome.…
In seventh grade, I was a seventh grade representative and in eighth grade I was president of my school. I knew I had to start off small, so that I could achieve greater heights. In high school, freshmen and sophomore year I was class secretary, junior year I was co-class president, and now I am Senior Class President. I learned from my student government career that it starts off with just a small step to fall deeply in love with something that I spent most of my life with. Student government taught me to take risks by initiating change at school because it starts with me.…
Four- Wheeling Living in the country was boring. It only became bearable when with another friend. What could you do when you’re both bored? What could two guys do with only one four-wheeler? What about finding another seemingly abandoned one?…
The purpose of myself becoming Sophomore Class President, was not the title neither was it for the popularity, it was for my class. It was my desire to…
In Recent news it has finally been reported that Joe Biden is running for president. However, in other recent news it is said he isn't running for president. In this article, Dana Milbank implies that nobody honestly knows what vice president, Joe Biden, is going to do. It is said from his close friends that he will but other friends say he will not run.…
"The only thing keeping you from your goal is the *bleep* story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.” I had been playing the clarinet since fifth grade. I thought I was a very proficient musician and I was the best clarinetist ever. My confidence in my playing was very high.…
I was drowning out the world with the music playing through my phone, twirling the headphone cord around my finger. My hand brushed across the paper as I erased some pencil markings. I observed the text on the brightly lit screen of my chromebook, searching for the answers to the questions on my homework. I stared at the screen with a look of confusion on my face. Little did I know that the next few moments would put my hard work to some use.…
“The only time you should ever look back is to see how far you've come. ”- Unknown. Excellence is my drive and endeavor in life. Looking back to an incident that transpired, it affected the way I perceived my education.…
For as long as I can remember, going to Texas A&M Colleges Station to become a Veterinarian has been my dream and goal. Having always enjoyed working with animals, small and large, I knew getting working experience would help me to achieve this lifelong goal of mine; I began to volunteer at a Veterinary clinic. It was very exciting working in an environment that I loved, and after a year of on the job learning the doctor hired me as a part-time employee. As time passed and I became closer to my co-workers, realizing not all of them shared the same beliefs or experiences as me. It was difficult at first to learn how to sustain my beliefs while respecting theirs, but I stayed strong and still have the same perspectives and feelings I began with.…
Next year I would like to be the Senior Class President because. This past year I was in ASB for the first time ever as the Junior Class Vice President and I enjoyed every minute of it. However, throughout the year I realized that next year I want to do a more difficult job, which has lead me to go one step higher by running for the Senior Class President. I personally work really well with other people, I have been on a soccer team since I was in the 6th grade…
The most fulfilling experience for me at my high school was becoming involved in the Big Brother-Little Brother Program for incoming students. What led me to join this organization was the positive experience I had with my “big brother” as an underclassman. Though I did not originally know a single student in my grade, my big brother helped me adjust to my new school and allowed for me to become an involved member of my high school community. At the end of junior year, I wanted to give back by assisting an incoming student in starting his high school career. I entered the program and was assigned my “little brother”.…
Isaiah Edwards Freshman Skills Ms.Wilson Growing up in Trenton, New Jersey, a predominantly black community where violence is promoted towards one another. As you live, you get used to talking a certain way while you adapt to the lifestyle of people you think are your Idols. Believe it or not, this is the way you live, this is the way you perceive things.…
Before even entering high school, I made a decision that would ruin the next few years. Looking back, I had no idea it would have impacted me as much as it did, but even now I still wouldn’t have changed that decision. Everything that came after that decision, no matter how difficult, shaped me into who I am today, and I was able to meet some pretty amazing people and do a few things only a handful of people can say they’ve done. In elementary school, I was in the S.C.O.P.E. (Spotsylvania County Program of Enrichment) program, my county’s way of separating out students who they considered gifted and a distraction in the classroom.…
Everyone alive has a blueprint and this is mine. But first it is important to understand it is not always about where we start or where we end, it’s about the journey. How did you get from point A to B.? How did we grow, how did we change, was it for the better or for the worst. Did you really change and become a new person or do you just say you did?…
experience impacted me. As I ran around town desperately searching for help- money that is, I was concluding quickly there would not be any help from local bankers. I finally gave in and went and asked a “friend” of mine for $800.00. I hope it doesn’t embarrass my family in anyway. I just have to make a solid point.…