Hundred Schools of Thought

the two of us to be together so I stayed on the normal track for elementary school. The first time I ever noticed he and I were different was that same year; he had a computer game that taught sight words that my dad would make him complete a level a night. After a couple minutes he would get upset and begin to cry because he didn’t know the answers, so I would whisper each one into his ear. Throughout elementary school I taught him the reading and writing skills that he would struggle with,…

summer to complete 500 hours of community service with WellSpan Health by the time I graduated high school. This summer, through hard-work, dedication, and many early mornings and late nights at the hospital, I reached this amazing goal. Each summer, I easily completed the hundred-hour requirement, but in order to reach my goal, I had to complete two hundred hours in this fourth and final year. Two hundred hours over ten weeks meant that I spent an…

goes by you are slowly getting closer and closer to Rome, Italy, or where ever you want to go. The best part, is that you don’t have to drive. Driverless cars can give you all of that as well as preventing great anger. But best of all, they save hundreds of people's families’ being torn apart. To keep all cars on the road, we use Driverless cars. People won’t be able to get distracted by phones, children, or other drivers. With you not needing to be attentive to the road, you can respond to…

and clean, cook, and take care of the children if they had any. During the early nineteen hundreds, most families stuck to traditional gender roles. Meaning that the men would do the more "laborious" work and women would do the things that i mentioned before. During this time period we also see an increase of female students studying in colleges and universities. Women were also expected to drop out of school when they gave birth to their first child. Most of them would have to be single in…

Cooney, wanted to be on that list of heros. When readers met Mitty Blake, he was sixteen year old living in New York City who cared about nothing but music, his school work was never done nor did he even know what it was. Mitty Blake was writing a report on viruses and touched scabs from an epidemic. Mitty Blake met many people while he thought he had Smallpox and could have spread it everywhere through his travels. When the CDC, FBI and terrorists targeting New York found out about this…

the cover of an Admissions booklet. “Shabazz remembered seeing a cover shot of students at a football game. But he’d never been to a football game” said Prichep when interviewing Shabazz. The article focuses on whether or not this action taken by hundred of colleges, not only this…

equal" took place in 1896 known as the Plessy vs Ferguson act. The Plessy V. Ferguson did not make it to where blacks and whites had all the same rights, but at the time, they thought that it was a good decision. Little did they know, less than a hundred years later would we be trying to integrate white and black schools. It came from an incident in 1892 in which african american train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a Jim Crow train car, breaking a law in Louisiana. Plessy's lawyer…

Wisconsin Menominee Native Americans saw the lights as torches that were used by benevolent giants when they would spear fish at night. The fishermen in northern Sweden took the lights as a good luck sign, believing they were reflecting on large schools of herring in nearby fishing locations. If you whistled at the aurora, some natives believed that it would sweep down and carry you away. When you clapped your hands, however, it would cause the lights to recede, which would keep you safe. In…

started my sixth grade year like any other eleven year old did. New school year. New classes, faces, and teachers. I was always that quiet, shy, person. I had good grades, perfect attendance, and an average social life. For the first weeks of school, I had already gotten used to my classes, as well as making new friends.…

DECA State Competition. I come from a small high school in Indiana, and we take about forty students to the state competition. One of our largest competitors at state is a high school that brings around five hundred kids each year. With numbers like these, they have classes at their high school specifically for DECA preparation. It's on us, students in Mount Vernon, to prepare ourselves for the tasks that lie before us in DECA. This past year I thought myself to be extremely prepared. I had…