Extracurricular activity

me to assume the role of leader in many group projects, which I actually enjoy doing. Helping others and working with other people to achieve a set goal is something that I genuinely enjoy. Swimming- If I had to pick the most influential extracurricular activity in terms of developing my leadership skills, it would be swimming. Swimming takes up about half of my life during the school year because it is a full time commitment, being on the swim team as well…

While lying in my bed, I heard footsteps thunder down the stairs, followed by shouts from my stepmother, “you had those three stupid kids with her, but you won’t even have one with me!” That night not even my tears could put me to sleep. I cried beneath my pillow, trying to drown out the yelling. After hours of fighting, I heard glass shatter on the floor, and my dad finally say that she needed to leave. A string of profanity followed as she stomped away. To this day, I can’t sleep at my…

Something that I heard from lots of college representatives and current college students that I knew was that extra curricular activities looks good to colleges. I knew that I had the sports aspect of extracurricular activities because I played baseball and basketball throughout my high school career but extra clubs and activities outside sports were lacking in my case. After friends and family endlessly bugged me for weeks on end about the importance of being more involved, I…

“Gee the whole crowd’s together again. I could cry.” That’s one of the final lines, spoken by the character Frenchy, in the musical “Grease.” The characters Jan and Sandy respond before the teens in the story about young love and fast cars sing a verse of the song “We Go Together” as they dance their way off the stage. When Jamie Valentine, Alec Hutchison, Jenna Blount, Alex Denton and the rest of the cast perform that scene Sunday afternoon, we hope it marks the rebirth of musicals at Jay…

from the questionnaire, students are spending significant amounts of time participating in extracurricular activities. Students are spending more time participating in arts, which includes band, orchestra, and fine arts and sports offered at middle school level like football, basketball, track and field, and swim. A substantial amount of students spent zero hours participating in extracurricular activities, seen in Figures 3 and 4. Figures 3 and 4 also demonstrate that the scores for students…

college. Also, when I’m older, I will want to volunteer somewhere like an animal shelter. It will help my community and I would get to be with amazing animals. To accomplish this last goal I will continue to learn about animals and do extracurricular activities to help animals. Currently, my family and I donate blankets each year to the Nebraska Humane Society for the…

Should School Be Extended Longer? With a regular school day varying from 7-8 hours, Students are stressed from all the homework they are receiving. Adding more hours of school will not only make them more stressed, but also exhausted. Many people have different points of view on the length of the school day in America. Some people think that the school day should be extended to help improve tests scores throughout the country, but others think the school day is fine the way it is. An extended…

state code 279.19A, Extracurricular Contracts. This code is quite lengthy but very necessary to the hiring and firing of coaches. Hiring procedures are quite simple, the school district in a “good faith…

A Typical Teenager In my opinion, being a teenager is the hardest part of your life. The majority of people don't like them or understand them. Being a teenager is the hardest part of your life because you’re confused and you don't know what you want to do with your life. This is made even worse by older people who think all of them are crazy, loud, annoying, or argumentative. This becomes apparent in J.D Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye”. In the novel, the narrator Holden Caulfield, is…

Analyses of Community Violence in Adolescents Introduction People think that crime, violence only happens or is related to gangs of inner cities, but violence could happen anywhere, for example in a family house, in crowded cities and rural cities. Every child in the United States faces elevated rates of exposure to violence over the years in their community. Children that are more at risk are the ones with families with low income, being non-white, and living in family violence. Therefore,…