Lincoln High School

Recently on September 29, 2017 at a high school football game between Life Waxahachie and Lincoln of Dallas ISD. Members of the Lincoln football Team (Tigers) took a knee during the national anthem. Many players took a “knee or linked arms in a statement of unity defending their right to protest”. This relates to groupthink. Those who…

November of 2009. He began his Olympic 2016 season with the Hopman Cup into the Auckland Open all the way to Rio. Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, Sock started his career in tennis early. In the fall of 2003, Sock made national headlines for topping the United States Tennis Association’s “12-and-under” boys national standing list. Not only was he the first tennis player in Lincoln to win a national championship, he won four of them. Following his victories at the age of 12, he moved to…

Walt Whitman, both influencing him to become a poet. In 1920, Langston graduated from high school and went through the year following with his dad in Mexico. During this time in Mexico, Hughes was profoundly commended when The Negro Speaks of…

in school, or a job, in their marriage, and maybe eat better for a healthier life. I think some motives for me would be to do better in college, so I don 't get behind on my assignments, and things of that nature. In addition, getting married, and having a job are a few other motives of mine. I am a huge family person, and I love hearing other people 's stories of how they met their significant other, which then gets me excited for my future of being married hopefully. Next, we start school at…

Elizabeth’s shirt is school-sponsored speech under the Hazelwood standard. To determine whether an activity is school-sponsored the following factors are assessed: whether or not the class was part of the school’s curriculum, whether or not the student receives a grade on the assignment, and who has the final say over the classroom material. Hazelwood Sch. Dist., 484 U.S. at 268. Furthermore, few activities could be classified more significantly, in terms of school-sponsored speech, than those…

performance-management consulting company, it is shown that American’s approval of public schools has never been higher than 45% since 1988. The most recent poll in 2012 shows that approval of schools has reached its lowest point yet at 29%. Among all the publications against public schools, John Taylor Gatto’s “Against School” stands out as a call for an incredibly drastic change. “Against School” argues that the American school system is so distorted it needs to be completely abandoned. Gatto…

public school (go Riverton Hawks!). I have always taken my education seriously. It’s important to me. I hold myself to a very high standards. However, school has been a challenge for me. I have a working memory learning disability and I am dyslexic. I had to learn in grade school how to become my own advocate and how to teach myself. Since, then I have thrived and gotten myself to where I am now. It took a lot of hard work. I am very proud of this fact. I graduated from Riverton High School in…

and a factory worker who goes out in the morning and come back at late night. My father is a carpenter who provides most of the family expenditures. Same as other parents, my parents always advise me to work hard in school so that someday I can find a white collar job with high salary. Despite it 's for my own goods, I know I 'm not the type of person who can endure the mental exhaustion of being trapped in a small, stuffy cubicle to deal with boring paperwork. I 'm the person who wants to…

friends, it’s all about soccer. Watching the game, hearing the sounds of fans it’s all about soccer. In our school, ACAMIS is held in our school every 2 years and is a very big deal for DAIS since our school is the host of the tournament. Soccer players practice for about 3 months before the ACAMIS tournament. When I was in middle school, my brother was in high school and he played for our school and that year we were the host of the tournament. My brother was a key player in our squad and the…

Struggles are problems that we face in life but at the end we of these struggles we have bright outcomes. My struggles are not what you might think I have but we don’t all know what others go through. When I was born, both my parents had high hopes for their first child. We lived in a two-bedroom apartment with two of my uncles, some of my dad’s friends. They had no privacy people sleeping in the living room everyone knew when someone did something, My parents and I had one of the rooms since…