Sara Rimer For Girls It's Be Yourself Summary

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In Sara Rimer’s article ‘For Girls, It’s Be Yourself, and Be Perfect, Too’, she stated “girls by the dozen who are high achieving, ambitions, and confident,” Esther Mobley comes from a high working class neighborhood, where teachers and parents encourage students to bring home an A's; however my high school I went to the rebellious high school called John F. Kennedy where teachers simply assists students who might be interested in learning the material and students only cared on receiving a passing grade.
The Newton North high school advises their students by providing them vast programs and Advance Placement courses to achieve an A’s in order to step into a top-notch named school, whereas in “rebel high” there were two types of classes; the
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I don’t remember much what I have learned in class, beside on doing worksheets and copying the answers from the school books. The only reputations I have with the teachers were my family name “The Villaseñor,” even though I may be a math genius as my twin sister Maria, nor as smart as my prodigal brother Lucian; however I’m a protégé student when it comes to biology, chemistry and …show more content…
Apocalypica lyrics mention “Just don't deny it, don't try to fight this, and deal with it, and that's just part of it.” I tried my best in high school with a learning disability; don’t care what the other student thinks of, giving negative comments. In addition to Jim Eat World lyrics “It just takes some time, little girl, you're in the middle of the ride, everything will be just fine, everything will be all right, hey, you know they’re all the same, you know you’re doing better on your own, so don’t buy in, live right now, just be yourself, it doesn’t matter if that’s good enough for some else.” I ender the ride to graduate from high school; I passed all my classes, spend time with my gaming buddies and tried not hang out with the wrong crowd that will stop me from

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