Graduation

and experience to help us in our selections. If more counselors were able to help students decide on which college to go to, depending on each of their personalities, then college would be a great experience for everyone and there would be more graduation rates because everyone would be…

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…

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…

Being That James was one of smartest kids in his school, he never felt like he fit in much. He was never considered unpopular or lame 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…

In 1993, academy award winning actors Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington starred in the movie, Philadelphia, the first major motion picture to address the issue of HIV/AIDS (Howard, 2015). One intent of this movie was to highlight homophobia, the irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals ("Homophobia", 2016), in addition to highlighting the Nation's baseless fear of those infected with HIV/AIDS. These fears were fueled by a lack of education regarding…

supposed to join it readily. By the end of high school I just want to still be a person that smiles at others in the hallway, and I want those smiles to be real. That’s really the only personal goal. Oh! I also want to give a commencement speech at graduation, I already have it half written. Next cross country season I plan to train harder and take better care of myself. If someone has to consciously make social goals, um, I guess that’s ok. I’ll settle with simply trying to be a friendly person…

at all. It’s time for a change and in fact FCAT is a part of that. The main effect of FCAT is the dropout rate starting to rise which makes it impossible for most kids to graduate, get good grades, attend college, and also cause embarrassment. Graduation play’s a huge role in most children’s lives, but sometimes it’s hard to reach that goal when it’s hard for the kid’s to focus. Most kids drop out of school not because they want to or they’re forced to, they do it because they feel as if…

On the 11th of May in 2013, George Saunders, an English professor, delivered a commencement speech that challenged human thinking. Saunders was the author of the New York Times best seller "Tenth of December", and a professor at Syracuse University in New York. He delivered a commencement speech to the graduating class of 2013, as well as their families, friends, and the board of directors at Syracuse. The ten-minute speech addressed his biggest regret; "failure of kindness". Saunders first…

“Is a College Degree Worth It In The Long Run For Employment?” In high school, we are told to go to college after graduating from high school to get a better paying job and more job opportunities. Back in the 1990’s, a person with a high school degree could get employed easily and a college degree didn’t matter at all if you were to apply mostly anywhere. Today, in order to get a job that pays well you need a college degree because most jobs require you to have a college degree. Also you will…

The Road to Success. Education is the most important tool in today’s society. Life without education is like a phone without internet or wifi. Students today take education as if there prepare to go to college. Anaheim students are more focus on their phone or what’s going on in a social media site. Now students are dropping out or not graduating from Anaheim High School like their test scores. How is it if the district keeps giving Anaheim students the essential requirements for students to…