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    High school is the ultimate word that is combined with so many emotions. The feeling of frustration when failing a test, to the giddy feeling of a first kiss is all combined in the struggle of a teenager's high school life. One book that has summoned up these specific events is the book SPEAK. This book has touched various topics that showcase the life of a teenager, named Melinda Sordino. She is shown as the main character, as well as the narrator of the novel who was revealed as a rape victim…

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    They say that high school is about opening doors, exploring your opportunities and expanding your horizons, so as an optimistic freshman, terrified of joining a new school and hoping to find a place where I would belong, I joined the most obvious, extremely popular activity: water polo. Me, the girl who has not participated in organized sports since my soccer team in second grade. Me, the girl who had not been in a pool since I was pronounced a “Guppy” at the Y when I was seven years old. Me,…

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    No risk it, no biscuit, you can’t live scared. These words describe who I am as a student, employee, and a person. In freshmen year of high school, I was shy, intimidated, and awkward; there was nothing I wanted more than to fit in with the crowd and be known through following the “cool kids.” It turns out that it is easier said than done. Fitting in with the cool kids is something that looks a lot easier than it is. I tried everything, making jokes, listening to different music; even changing…

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    second-year student in high school made me wise as a person. I wasn't nervous anymore from freshman year. I began to find my comfort zone with opening my locker and walking through the long three-story building hallway. I was able to find my way easily through the crowd of students in the hallway. I felt better knowing I had a little more advantage over the freshmen and eighth graders. Although many students weren't excited about the eighth grades coming into the high school including me.…

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    and the calling within me to give back in any and all ways possible. However, this did not come without having hit rock bottom. In college I felt very much that I was going through the motions: get good grades, make my parents proud, go to graduate school, and maintain scholarships--- all of this combined led me to a series of bad decisions but ultimately have put my life in the most beautiful place to date. I was in and out of an abusive relationship---I began to work as a crisis advocate at a…

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    on me and shaped the person who I am today is “Quiet Strength” by Tony Dungy. I have read this book multiple times throughout my life, the first time being when I was 13 and my mother suggested I read the book as I was selected captain of my middle school basketball team. Every time I read this book, I take a new perspective on life and take away a new quote that I try to apply to my life. One quote that stuck with me from my most recent read through, which occurred in fall of 2015, is: “It’s…

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    my life. This lesson centers around my sports career in cheerleading and how I learned to weed out people I can’t trust. I had fallen in love with cheerleading. I loved learning new routines and performing stunts. Unfortunately, junior year in high school was my last year competing. I had made the varsity competitive cheer team, so ecstatic to perform with people who would influence me to work harder. I quickly came to realization that the team I had joined didn’t care about anything but…

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    My Michigan Hero

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    Michigan hero Dylan Quick was a high school dropout. He dropped out at 16 and went back at 18 while and in those two years he, had a full time job. While he was going back to school he had a full time job at McDonalds and they did not pay him so he quit and was just going to school. He alway told me to stay in school and get a good education and go to college and a good job. Whenever i'm falling behind in school I always think of what he did. He went back to school and got his diploma…

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    Throughout the first three years of my high school career, I participated in varsity cheerleading. when I joined the team as a freshman, I felt very young and inexperienced, for I was constantly surrounded by older girls. However, as the year progressed, being able to watch and learn from them aided greatly in my personal development. They taught me responsibility, leadership, how to interact with a diverse group of people, and many other important life skills. With each passing year, I found…

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    receive my diploma, as I reminisce over my past years in school, I tried to do the best I could in every subject, what I failed to do was to ask questions, engage myself with my counselors (advisers) and to do my research on the classes I needed to acquire my diploma. This was the first stepping stone to further my long term goals in my career path. When I realized my situation, I knew my move to Florida was a big mistake. I was attending a school in Massachusetts named Science and Technology;…

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