National Junior Honor Society

Oscar’s Life Obstacles and Outcomes. Oscar Eduardo Padron is currently a freshman student at Our Lady of the Lake University, he is majoring in Biology with a minor in Psychology. Oscar was born in October 22nd of 1998, is the youngest child in a family of 3, born in McAllen, Texas and by only 3 weeks of age he was taken back to Reynosa, Mexico where all his family resided. He started his education in Mexico at only 2 years and was able to graduate from high school at the age of 17. Oscar…

Highway 281 and State Highway 107 in the south-central part of the county. The townsite was named after Dennis B. Chapin, another of its promoters. Chapin 's involvement in a homicide caused a change of name in 1911 to Edinburg, in honor of the birthplace in Scotland of John Young. The town grew slowly to some 800 inhabitants by 1915 and remained unincorporated until 1919. During its early years, it served a ranching community, but the arrival of irrigation in 1915 initiated an agricultural…

send money to our family. Her responsibility and loyalty to them is as strong as it was when she was a young child. According to McGoldrick et al. (2005) “The most significant value Latinos share is the importance given to family unity, welfare and honor” (p. 162). During our time in Tegucigalpa we were able to visit our family every few months and contact them on a consistent basis. Living in the city gave her new ideals of advancement and desires for a more prosperous life. One of the initial…

From the moment parents begin to think about having a child, they are already thinking about what the baby will be like. Will the baby be a boy or girl? Will he be an all-star football player? Or will she become a missionary? The child, like most of us, will spend most of his/her childhood trying to figure out what their calling will be and who they will become. That is how I lived my life. I kept searching for answers. I wanted God to tell me where I would have to go, where I would belong,…

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and we were prepared to begin filming. The jury at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival created a new "Supporting Actor" award in his honor due to the widespread praise for his performance. After this part, Jackson appeared in the thrillers Patriot Games and Juice and cameoed in the comedy Strictly Business. Following that, he appeared in two more comedies: Amos & Andrew and National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1, the former of which was his breakthrough performance. In the 1993 film Jurassic Park, Jackson…

Neither Dale Carnegie nor the publishers, Simon and Schuster, anticipated more than this modest sale. To their amazement, the book became an overnight sensation, and edition after edition rolled off the presses to keep up with the increasing public demand. Now to Win Friends and InfEuence People took its place in publishing history as one of the all-time international best-sellers. It touched a nerve and filled a human need that was more than a faddish phenomenon of post-Depression days, as…

Even before Claussen began pushing his architectural vision, others were busy designing the inner workings of the plant. Jan Knau, an engineer, was only 27 when he was asked to come up with a flexible assembly line for the factory. Knau, then just a junior associate, contacted BMW’s top 15 assembly engineers. He invited them to a two-day workshop at a BMW retreat near the Austrian Alps. After a series of marathon sessions that included discussions of every facet of the ideal assembly line, Knau…

"Well, use your head, son," he said, smiling. Which really meant, "That's all I'm going to tell you," or "I don't know the answer, so don't embarrass me." A Partnership Is Formed The next morning, I told my best friend, Mike, what my dad had said. As best I could tell, Mike and I were the only poor kids in this school. Mike was like me in that he was in this school by a twist of fate. Someone had drawn a jog in the line for the school district, and we wound up in school with the rich kids. We…