Hempstead High

Currently, I am a senior at Waimea High School, who is very eager to graduate. I have attended Waimea High School since I was a freshman. Last school year, I ended the year with a GPA of 3.8. I hoped for a 4.0 but fell a little short. I also received an award for academic excellence. I was on the girls varsity softball team for two years, but decided to take a year off and focus on school more. I am also in the National Spanish Honor Society. If I could do my high school year all over again,…

members that show how bullying is so common in schools. Based upon the website and a source named PACER, nearly 1 in 3 students report being bullied during their school year. With this being said, 6% of high school students in the United States report being bullied in the past year and 14.8% of high school…

analytical essay assignment that was meant to be completed within a week. According to my professor’s syllabus, the assignment was predictable. I knew one day this essay would be a challenge for me to face with. I despised reading poems throughout my high school years. Yet, was it a possibility for me to actually adore reading poems? On a cloudy Saturday afternoon, I decided to wake up later than usual. My friendly, vociferous cat usually awakens me early as possible to feed chunks of tuna,…

system, along with politician, have dictated what should and should not be taught in the school system but it time for those ideas to change. This would be done for the betterment of our children. Comprehensive sex education must be taught in junior high school. The students need to be educated on the changes that their bodies are going through and why those changes occur. This knowledge would help them to make the right decisions and learn the consequences of hasty actions. The school can lay…

and from what I hear from my peers, a pretty decent one as I have been at for going on 13 years now. My journey to where I am now was definitely not without extreme effort and sacrifice. I would have loved it my story went more like the focused high school student who graduates and immediately goes on to an institution of higher learning, gets her BSN degree after just four years,…

cheat off of them you are not only putting yourself in a very bad situation, but you are also putting everybody else who was involved in tough situation regardless of whether or not they actually participated in the act of cheating. My junior year of high school I was taking a math class with a lot of my friends so we never paid attention. When it came time to do the final a friend and I decided that we were going to evenly split up the study guide and then copy off of each other the next day.…

result got better grades than I had before. Set goals and do not give up on them, they encourage you to improve yourself. Also, I also cannot stress enough how important it is to take risks. Please take risks while you still have years ahead for you in high school, not peer pressured ones, but the risks that improve yourself as a person. These experiences will be part of you and will help shape your personality since those risks you take never leave you. A risk I took was joining my school’s…

Drawing the Line between Classes Class systems have been around for ages. During the olden days people would have the job their parents had. Even if they had other dreams or aspirations they were forced to have the job their parents had. Other countries and cultures had a similar class system in which people could do whatever job they wanted as long as the job stayed in the class there parents came from. Occasionally people would do something honorable or worthy of a great reward, such as…

I have always been a believer of doing something and doing it right. Even if I have to do it a certain way, I make sure that it is done the right way and satisfies everyone involved with it. I believe that everyone should be the same not just in one specific thing but in their life as well. If you want be have a career that you like then you really have the do all the process to get that career the right way. In Christopher Caldwell 's essay, “What a College Education Buys”, he talks about the…

Kenneth Jay Sissom was born on January 25th 1931 in Bedford Tennessee. He was born into a farm family that all together had 10 kids. They lived in a four bedroom house with two beds to a room and the “comfort zone” or the toilet was located outside and they had no water bill. Each of the children had their own daily chores to get done to go about their way of life at that time. “The work of the children worked mainly for their own parents on the home farm. On the contrary, it is a highly…