Hundred Schools of Thought

to. Accordingly, when I reached grade twelve, I felt that I was living my dream. I received grades my parents couldn't complain about; I was on sports teams; I spent hundreds of hours with my cadet program; I even read at the school masses despite myself not being a devout Catholic. I considered my finest accomplishment in high school to be that I was friends with the "popular kids". I had essentially climbed up the…

avoided my high school friend’s attentions. I had just transferred from a full year at Augustana College and the last thing I wanted to face was the“you transferred?” confrontation. A confrontation which runs a little like this: a friend from town notices you left your four-year college to go to your local community college. You explain that you needed time to figure out career options, but their smile and quiet response screams, “you were a complete party animal, who probably flunked school…

others before attempting suicide these signs include: depressed mood, substance abuse, decreased activity, decreased attention, isolation, or being anti-social. Only half of Americans receive treatment for depression this including suicidal thoughts. Schools are not equipped to handle suicide prevention and depression in teenagers and therefore need to establish better…

One week. Seven days. Six nights. One hundred sixty-eight hours. This was the amount of time I was supposed to spend in the middle of the dense forestry of Algonquin Park, with only a map, a compass, and nine other girls. As I rode the bus to the drop off point, I felt none of the excitement and giddiness everyone else seemed to be feeling. I had no desire to sing songs or play the alphabet game. The only thought occupying my distressed brain was the absolute terror that I had grown accustomed…

The book I read is called The Scarlet Letter. The author of this book is Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Scarlet Letter has two hundred and seventy two book pages. Also one other cool fact that you may not know is that is has eighty four thousand three hundred and twenty words in it. It took me about 3 months to read the whole entire book. I was actually going to read it in my tenth grade year but I didn’t want to read that much then haha. What I learned from The Scarlet Letter is they were very…

motivated to excel both academically and personally through my passion with numbers. In my following years of school, I continued to excel in math and enjoy it. During my freshman year of high school, I was in a class called Personal Finance and part of the class included a project where we competed to see who could make the most amount of money off of buying and selling stocks. We were given one hundred thousand virtual dollars to invest within our simulator accounts. I was so excited…

In the opening of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, Capote describes a small desolate ghost-town that doesn’t even register on the map by the name of Holcomb, Kansas. This sounds like a place I would not want to visit. Capote conveys his thoughts about Holcomb through the use of imagery and selection of detail. In the text, “hard blue skies and desert-clear air” describes to the reader an image of what the countryside appeared as. “The streets, unnamed, unshaded, unpaved, turn from the thickest…

because it was my fault. I’m pretty sure a high number of high school students went through the same thing or are going through the same obstacle I did. The obstacle that I had to go through was raising my grades before the first semester ended with limited time. People who have been through the same thing know how hard it is, I struggled a lot. The obstacle I faced fit into my definition of an obstacle because getting low grades, in school, and getting more than adequate is something difficult…

even if you are standing alone” Sophie Scholl and some of her fellow resistance members had risked their life to distribute leaflets. By risking their life like that people were inspired by her bravery and courage to spread her story and also name schools after her. Sophie was executed for treason on Germany because of the leaflets she took part in delivering. February 18, 1943 Sophie, her brother, and their friends decided to take it to the next level. They left piles of leaflets by every…

I think that one of the challenges was the fact that they had no money. This is a challenge because almost the entire family has to work sunrise to sunset. In the story it says, “Papa then took out a pencil and began to figure out how much we earned our first day. He wrote down the numbers, crossed some out, wrote down some more. ‘Quince’ (Fifteen), he murmured.”(This quote is in the second to last paragraph on page 3) This shows that from working from sunrise to sunset 3 people only made a…