Avid

One day, I will look back to when I was a sophomore in high school. After high school, I will remember my first day of high school as a freshman. I’ll think about all the memories I created in high school. I will remember when my freshman year was the easiest year and when sophomore year came by, I realized that school was getting more difficult. Every year, is a new year to learn new things. During high school, I will learn the most valuable lessons in life. I will discover my true self and…

Looking back into my past has made me think about the exciting and difficult moments I had in my life with my family. There was not one dull moment even though life was rough growing up. Growing up financially was inconvenient, even though my mother did not have to deal with racial problems at work similar to the racial segregation the immigrants dealt with in the readings we were assigned in class. However, if my mother did deal with racial segregation for work, we would definitely be on the…

introduced to the works of Locke and Newton during a period of time spent in England. Locke and Newton proceeded to have great impact on Voltaire’s works. Voltaire’s avid support for monarchy and hate for organized religion led him to write one of the most influential satire pieces of the time Candide (1759). Voltaire became an avid voice of the Enlightenment through his vast amounts of witty and sarcastic works that supported reason over myth and intolerance. Voltaire pointed out the problems…

early experience with reading and books, and how it shaped her into the author and reader she is today. One of them being her visits to the library, and her encounters with the intimidating Mrs.Calloway (the librarian). The second being her mother, an avid book lover who inspired her. Through the use of language and details, Welty characterizes Mrs.Calloway, her mother, and herself and how she became the person she is today. Welty characterizes Mrs.Calloway as strict and authoritative, in…

secure their server. The data breach exposed many flaws of the company as well other damaging information about the company’s plans. Along with the embarrassment of the hack, the company would now find themselves in danger of serious economic damages. Avid Life Media, which owned the site, was now at risk for lost profits, loss of optioned opportunities, and lawsuits. With the technological advancements in apps and websites, it is now easier than ever to meet up with people. The hack shined…

Listening to books on long car rides influenced my literacy. I had never been really an avid reader. Audiobooks helped me to visualize the story because I was able to understand other people’s accents and their emotion in their voice. Audiobooks also have background noises which helped me insert myself in the story as if I was a character in it also. Before every trip, my mom would bring my older brother and me to the library to pick out what books we would want to listen to on the car ride.…

opportunity, studies and receives good grades; and the other student slacks off and puts forth no effort into the material. The avid student becomes involved in the school and community, getting a part time job and saving the proceeds for post secondary. The lesser student continues to be uninterested in the opportunities available to them and goes on without bettering themselves. The avid student, goes on the pay for and graduate from their local community college and get a respectable, well…

Eliot explores a myriad of interpretations of the meaning of logos in the Four Quartets through Einstein’s theory of Relativity, by examining it through the bending of space and time, ultimately using this lens to arrive at the conclusion of the Incarnation. This curvature of spacetime opened the doors to the reality of a new method of understanding the world: non-Euclidean Geometry. Non-Euclidean Geometry differs from several key postulates of traditional Euclidean Geometry. These reworked…

Ivanhoe tells the classic story of knights, fierce battles, and beautiful royalty, ideally placed in the medieval times of England. Wilfred of Ivanhoe, a young knight under King Richard the Lionheart, strives to be with his lover, Lady Rowena. Their discouraged relationship forms amidst the tense, and very real, rivalries between the Normans and Saxons, and the Christians and Jews. The novel describes the years after the Third Crusade in the perspective of many contrasting characters, creating…

my first period class. It was my new class of AVID that I was going to spend with for the next four years in high school. I didn’t know what to expect when I first came in. Who was going to be our teacher? Who are the students? Is the work in this class going to be similar to how AVID was in middle school? My questions were answered quite shortly after school started. My teacher was Mr. Castro, most of the students were from Russell’s and Rancho’s AVID students, and the work was going to be…