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    Drop Out Cesar is a student at Hacienda Middle School in the Los Angeles School District. He lives with his mother and little brother in a small garage that was divided into sleeping spaces and a makeshift kitchen. His mother only speaks Spanish and works long hours at a minimum wage job. During Cesar’s sixth and seventh grade years of middle school the school noticed his grades starting to drop. This was a result of Cesar coming home after school and immediately helping his uncle work at a…

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    Coming out of high school is one thing , but coming out of college is a whole new experience. Going to college after graduating high school is the best option for me. I want to better myself and my future. I want to be able to say I’m the first in my family to go to college. I want to be proud of myself knowing that i accomplished something big. Something not a lot of people can accomplish-going to college and graduating. I want my future to be brighter than the sun, to be able to breathe…

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    the first of the Canadian Residential Schools were opened. The schools were opened with the primary intention to civilize Indigenous children as well as convert them to Christianity. The Canadian government thought of the residential schools as a way to assimilate Aboriginals into Canadian society. Aboriginal children ages 4-16 were taken from their communities, homes, and families and relocated to these schools. Although some children traveled to these schools with relatives such as siblings…

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    she experienced racial equality during her childhood. She had to learn a separate classroom reserved for blacks; school supplies are not adequate for the white students. While white students are taking the bus to school, the blacks students including Rose Park had to walk to school. In 1929, while in the 11th grade, as her mother and her grandmother was ill, she had to leave school to care for her mother and her grandmother. She never returned to her studies. Instead, Rose Park got a job at a…

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    is also interested in attending college to motivate them and show them that it is possible. Besides these reasons college will also leave anyone with many benefits, such as having a better chance to find a job than someone who just has their high school diploma. These are just a few reasons on why I have decided to spend four years of my life in college.…

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    Alfred E. Smith Career and Technical Education High School is located at 333 East 151Street, in the Melrose neighborhood of the South Bronx. Smith is a limited unscreened, 9-12 grade high school where students earn a CTE- diploma (Regents Certified Diploma) that prepares them for jobs in the automotive and recently graphic arts industry. They can go directly to work in the field upon graduation. The four-story school takes up the entire radius of one city block. Although at one point it housed…

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    Great Accomplishment

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    the action of doing something extremely successful. That’s how I see it in my eyes. I have many great accomplishments, but the one that stands out the most is when I graduated high school. May twenty-seventh of two thousand and seventeen. That was the day any teenager would dream of. I graduated from Spalding High School with honors and the third best in my class. The more I think about it the more I realize it wasn’t the graduating that made it great. It was seeing how proud my family was of…

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    Rites Of Passage

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    been very many memorable rites of passage moments in my life, the one that does stick out is the completion of high school. Prior to the last semester of my senior year, I moved to Austin, Texas to live with my aunt. With it being too late to enroll at one of the local high schools, I complete the last of my credits online. I knew I wouldn't get to walk across a stage and collect my diploma like all of my friends back home, nor would I get to celebrate with them, which, at the time, was…

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    consider today’s College as not necessary and don’t even worth the cost. What makes the difference between expectation and reality so huge? In today’s society, more college students are into debt, and more news about successful people, who are only high-school-educated, appears. Some media trying to send the U.S. message: College is useless and costly, you can success even without a college degree; nonetheless, does that means college…

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    My Aunt Research Paper

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    Stockton, Texas. She attended Fort Stockton High School and then went to college at Sul Ross University. She wanted to be an Art Teacher but she could not afford the supplies that were required for the major. She then decided to major in Physical Education and minor in United States History. She started her career as a Physical Education Teacher and cheerleading coach for San Felipe High School in…

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