Gap year

Music has been an essential part and larger than expected role in my life since elementary school. It has given me many opportunities I could have never even dreamt of and has given me the ability to impact the lives of others. Music became a part of my life when I first started playing the viola at Luther Memorial School in the fifth grade. I continued playing throughout middle school and now attend Cleveland School of the Arts, where I have been able to perform countless times and have had…

Oryx and Crake, written by Margret Atwood is about a man named Snowman, once called Jimmy; who is living on a beach with a non-human species called Crakers. Crakers ask him many questions about life which causes Snowman’s anger toward Crake, who is their creator. Oryx is a female voice that results in Snowman’s hallucinations. This essay will demonstrate the non-human adaptation that Snowman evolves as he is isolated from mankind. Evidence shows Jimmy’s emotional connection to animals when…

The First Time I Got Bullied Tymir Vickers Have you ever been bullied before? Well I have this is how it all happened, it was my first day at John B Kelly Elementary school 8:00 2016 Philadelphia I was in fifth grade and it was my first day I was kind of shy until I met to people named Ciani Barkers and Nasai Gordon. They showed me around the school they told me about themselves and I told them about me. Me and my friends were walking down the hall with each other that’s when I heard…

fairly small, they’re probably between 1,200 to 2,800 square feet. I have a wide variety of people in my neighborhood. The neighbors across the street are a middle aged couple, I think the guy owns a plumbing company. My next door neighbor is a 30-40 year old single guy, who travels the globe. I’m not sure what his position is but I know he works for Chrysler. As mentioned above, I live in Rochester, MI. My larger community is filled with much entertainment, from shopping, to eating, parks,…

Knowledge of Students Varied Approaches to Learning: Students in the class are mostly social, auditory, and visual (spatial) learners. The students do well when the teacher goes through the book or lesson with the whole class. The students need a variety of examples and cues for comprehension. Writing examples on the board as well as prepared visuals put on the board help the visual learners. Group work and games help many of the students in the class understand the content. These students do…

story that is hard to put into words, because it makes no sense. How can someone be your friend from second grade until the first year of college, and then end? How is it possible? Why? I met Connor when I was in kindergarten, I was not in his class, but I knew of him because he rode my bus. We did not have a ton of interactions, but he was funny. It took a few years before I really figured out how funny he was. In second grade, we began to become really good friends. He was in my class for the…

Humanity’s insatiable quest for immortality, to escape the cold clutches of death, roots itself in our oldest tales. The mythical Fountain of Youth, first fabled by Herodotus’ writings in the 5th century BCE, and actively searched for by the Spanish explorer Ponce De León in the 16th century CE, idealizes our infatuation with cheating death. The opportunities generated by society’s incredible ameliorations of science and medicine yields a world ever-closer to achieving perpetual life. Fueled by…

the music ringing loudly in your ears. Sometimes, though, it’s too much. My whole life is a performance, always pushing me to be perfect in the suddenity of the moment. Don’t be fooled however, it’s a horrible show I always put on. When I was three years old, I was bouncing off the walls, digging in pots, being the problematic child. The only things that calmed me were singing and generally being worn out. That being said, when my mother took me to see a show at our local civic center, it…

The Glass Castle is a heartbreaking yet inspirational memoir written by Jeannette Walls. The book details the early years of her hectic life, from the western United States to Welch, West Virginia. Her memoir provokes disbelief and outrage, but all the stories within it actually happened. The book opens up with her first memory of being severely burned while cooking hot dogs at the age of three. The stories only get stranger from there. She was stashed in the back of a U-Haul, left to scavenge…

Back in middle school, I was a part of National Junior Honor Society (NJHS). We were the largest class to be inducted into NJHS. Being such a large class meant we would have to raise a lot of money if we expected to reach our goal. Our goal was to raise enough money for our trip to the Lead Conference at Washington, D.C. Only one NJHS chapter before us had raised enough money to go all the way to Washington, D.C. We were determined to reach that same goal, but things don't always go as planned.…