Graduation Day Essay

difficult to truly appreciate the value of education. I will concede before anyone else that this gift is far too easy to be taken for granted. My attendance record is proof enough that waking up before the sun and slogging through convoluted homework day after day is often times, not the most enjoyable prospect. But the value of education far outweighs its situational…

but he always felt different from everyone else. Every day for him was a day closer to graduation, which is where he would part from what he described as the children of the corn. Attending Fredrick Douglass High School was exactly where he wanted to be, considering that it was the best tech high school in the city of Atlanta. One thing that he didn’t anticipate was sharing a class with loud, rude, disrespectful children. It was the last day of school and James was a senior, which meant today…

Is College Worth the Cost? At some point in the life of nearly every American there is a choice to be made about whether or not college is worth the time and money. More and more people are beginning to question if college really is worth the cost due to record levels of unemployment for college graduates. Personally, I believe that the amount of time and money spent on a college education is worth it and has great returns that are not only measured in monetary value. If people decide that…

me at all. This time, my parents were there, and I just knew this is not good. I was thinking maybe for once I will get suspended or even worse get expelled from school days before my high school graduation. It was an odd situation, and I did not know what to expect, especially knowing I got put out of my art class that same day. I looked at my parents, and they were smiling and my principal was trying to hold back a smile, too. Of course, my principal started off the same line he always use…

knew a man who lived to be 102 who had an amazing attitude towards life. He never seemed bothered by his old age and always smiled brightly across the room in my direction whenever I was with him. He told me something that I will never forget a few days before his death. He told me that even in his old age, he never stopped learning. I was young enough to hear the words he spoke to me, but far too young to comprehend what his words really meant. Now I am here in college, sitting through…

families who are lower. Many students in financial need must spend a portion of their time taking on part time jobs while studying, while other students must worry about the loans that they have collected and how they are going to pay it off after graduation. The government meets minimal needs to help students in financial need to help pay off their college tuition and that college costs are becoming a factor that pushes students away from a higher education. While the government currently does…

“I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the furthest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation”. This was said by one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the entire world, Steve Jobs himself on the morning of June 12th, 2005 right before his commencement speech at Stanford university. Steve Jobs gave the speech titled “Stay Hungry and Stay Foolish” to 25,000 students that day, and it turned out to be one of the most truly motivating speeches that is given in the most…

Members of the faculty, dignitaries, families, and friends, we—the 2017 graduates of Tustin High School—welcome you to this very exciting day. Graduation signifies not only the ending of a chapter, but a beginning of a new era in our lives. A new chance. A fresh start. There were times when we thought this day would never come, and times when we felt it was all moving a little too fast. For all of us, this last semester has been full of mixed emotions, a little anxiety, and lot of excitement…

Good evening and welcome to all the parents, relatives and friends who have made this day possible for the Thornapple Kellogg High School graduating class of 2006. I would also like to thank this year’s graduates for the honor and privilege of speaking at their commencement. To be a part of such an important night in your lives is indeed a very special moment for me. Graduation marks the end of one part of your life and the beginning of unlimited possibilities. This is the moment when you…

During Steve Jobs speech to the graduating students at Stanford Jobs uses a lot of examples throughout his lifetime and tries to relate as much as possible to the students through stories about his lifetime and how his companies came about. Jobs uses different forms of Ethos, Pathos, and also Logos in his speech to Stanford. The issue is does Jobs fit the criteria to actually be speaking to graduating students about life challenges and his college experience. Here I’m going to go over the rather…