Eleventh grade

In seventh grade, I tripped in the dead middle of the stage in front of my entire class on the way to receive an academic award. Mortified, I held it together, threw up a peace sign to the speechless crowd, shook my principals hand, and exited stage, laughing (nervously... but still). In eighth grade, I squeezed my mom’s hand through every appointment after she’d been diagnosed with breast cancer, never allowing myself to fall apart. In ninth grade, the girl that sat next to me in Spanish was…

After two years of my high school career washed away due to poor decisions. It was being placed in advanced classes that drove me to the success I deserved. Some of these poor decisions were not even my own No, it was the so-called professional standing in front of me who ravaged the little hope left inside me. Year after year all we talked about was slavery and the holocaust and I was sick and tired of hearing the same depressing things. It became so boring that I would fall asleep in the…

is attached to the test packet with all of my identification information, and it read “W” for White. I was confused when I saw it because I was more than white. I did not start appreciating my culture until I took my first Spanish class in eighth grade. I was scared to take the class because I was neither fluent in the language nor did I know how to write any words. All my knowledge was from overhearing my mother speak with our family and from visiting Puerto Rico multiple times, but I was not…

It seems like the stories of immigrants and their children suggest that at first children reject their parents’ culture and ideas as archaic and non-applicable in the new world, but later in life these children start to see the importance of their past roots and where they came from. They find a way to both assimilate and accomplish American ideals, while still not rejecting their history. In my own life I find this extreme applicable. The three books which I have cited all relate to the many…

Haydon Nix Professor Matuszewski English 101 7 March 2017 The SAT The SAT is a test of student’s academic skills, used for admission to United States colleges. The SAT tests a student’s knowledge of reading, writing, and math, subjects that are taught every day in high school classrooms. Most students take the SAT during their junior or senior year of high school, and almost all colleges and universities use the SAT to make admission decisions. The idea behind this test is to…

life, I would have defined religion, as said by James Martineau, as “the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.” I defined it as this because third through tenth grade, I attended a Christian school. I learned plenty about the religion Christianity. I had chapel at least one a week, and I was required to take at least one Bible studies class every year, such as theology. All of our class revolved around…

hearing about Mr. Long was in my eighth grade Louisiana history class. As a class, we were talking about his a few of his laws. We also talked about his Share Our Wealth speech. I just remember going over his life timeline, and seeing, in forty- two years, Huey had done some much. The reason I chose Huey Pierce Long Jr. as the topic of my research project was because of his impact on Louisiana. After taking a liking to getting to know Mr. Long is the eighth grade while taking Louisiana History.…

or school. Right after school I would go straight to basketball and right when basketball would end I would go home and do my homework. I did not know what to do to balance everything out, my grades were never bad but they weren’t what I wanted them to be. But when I got my concussion from basketball my grades started to plummet due to the fact that I was missing a lot of school. But because of my teacher Mrs. Krenz and my doctor at the time, they gave me the skills to work with…

school. She drew pretty one while I somehow managed to turn mine into Squidward from SpongeBob SquarePants. When I asked her how she drew them so perfectly, she merely shrugged and said that she became good when she entered third grade. From then, I waited for the third grade to come. In Korea, there is a tradition of eating a bowl of rice cake soup on New Year 's Day and it was said that eating a bowl paralleled becoming older. Therefore, being the hasty kid I was, I decided to eat five bowls…

This paper will compare the similarities as well as differences of two narratives. It will talk about the institution of segregation and the practice of using Jim Crow laws in the society. I will be using narratives from two different states so that you can how things may have been different in another region. The Jim Crow laws were a set of laws set the state and local authorities enforcing the segregation of races in the Southern United States. Segregation is the act of someone or something…