High-rise

The reasons for teenagers to go to college in today’s times range from partying to fulfilling their childhood dreams. In between those types are students that are willing to learn and ready to better their education in order to fulfill their dreams. The students, who take their college career seriously, number one; have a much better range of reason as to why they are there and are willing to work harder to reach their goals. With the job market the way it is today, companies are demanding much…

qualifications that can assist with one’s acceptance into a post secondary education such as: recommendations, resumes, writing samples, parental legacies and interviews (Hayes, 2012, p. 34). For example, Hayes investigates the process Hunter College High School utilizes to objectively test…

offended by a statement involving key issues relating to the world that we live in. Since everyone is more sensitive than a teenage girl who is experimenting with her first relationship, people are beginning to hold back what they truly feel. In high school, everyone is usually friends or is caught up spreading as much drama as possible, but they are young kids who do not know any better. College on the other hand is slightly different. I believe that college campuses must remain free…

gaps between students of different ethnic backgrounds (Wells et al, 2004). Although desegregation was an explicitly required action following more recent rises of meritocracy, the law has failed in a more abstract way: being unsuccessful in social policies, such as attitudes towards ethnic minorities in public schools (Wells et al, 2004). The high school that I attended…

fishing with my five siblings. I also enjoyed playing football and boxing but, most importantly, I believe I showed an early love for writing. CC: How did you get into writing when you were younger? EH: I think I was born a journalist. When I was in high school, I worked on the school newspaper, Trapeze, and the yearbook, Tabula. I mostly wrote about sports, but I tried to broaden my interests. I always kept notes of my thoughts and observations, too. Then, after I decided not to go to…

As a high school student, Google became my way of life. Growing up in a technological world, I am used working with a variety of technological devices and software. To begin with, in elementary school I would have an hour of class dedicated to the teaching of how to use a computer to my advantage. Eventually in middle school I upgraded to a class that focused on my speed of typing and how to manufacture presentations, line charts, bar charts, videos, and other skills involving technology. As a…

valid object for academic study? Apprehension around studying popular culture can be attributed to an understanding of popular culture as meaning ‘low culture’, and therefore having little worthiness of study. However, the conceptual division between high and low culture, is now understood to be of no relevance to aesthetic worth, but more to political and social distinctions. Remove the word popular from the question, and the consideration of studying all culture is made, there is little to be…

Varsity, no Freshman teams. During the final day of volleyball tryouts we had a "conditioning day" where we would rotate through stations with a different exercise routine at each and one station was a coaches meeting. These were my first tryout of high school and they were extremely stressful, not only because I wanted to prove myself to my coaches but also because the training was so difficult. We had two-a-days for 10 days including Saturdays and at the end of each practice we did a drill…

without help, it will carry on like a disease. Most people use cutting as a way to say what they feel inside without the words. The practice of cutting has always been done in secrecy. Cutting has been become more relevant in middle school through high school years. Self harm has become a joke. Some people say it is for attention, or if you cut, that means you want to commit suicide. These are not the same thing. “Social media and television has drawn attention to cutting in the eyes of 9-14…

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 allowing themselves or their children to rise in class. This all sounds terrible, and many think life, does not work like this anymore, the truth however is that many people still are stuck in the class systems, there just not as rigid. There are many more opportunities available to people…