Paul Rudd

I believe that I fully embody the four qualities of scholarship, leadership, service, and character that are necessary to be qualified as a member of the National Honor Society. I feel that one of my strongest qualities of these four is scholarship. I feel that this is one of my strongest qualities because I love to learn and help others grow in their learning. I have maintained a 3.94 GPA throughout my past 5 semesters at this school and I have participated in many AP and Honors classes such as: AP Biology, AP Human Geography, Honors Algebra, Honors Chemistry, Honors Pre-Calculus, and Honors Geometry amongst others. I love helping others excel in their learning too as my friends will ask me for help with school as well as me being a source of help for my younger brothers. I am a very hard worker when it comes to school and my studies, as I am very good at taking on the workload of my extra curricular activities and utilizing my time carefully to suit my needs in school. For these various reasons, I feel that I exemplify scholarship in numerous ways. Another quality that I feel that I exemplify very well is leadership. For me, leadership is very important, as you need leaders to help spread knowledge and be good role models for younger kids. One of the most influential leadership opportunities that I got was this past summer I was able to ref basketball games for Lourdes’ 5 on 5 program and lead some of the basketball camps. This was very influential to me as I…

Introspectively examining my strengths I identified some of my personal strengths to be dependability, flexibility, and being a role model to others. Being dependable is one of my strengths as I pride myself on making sure I am there for everyone whenever they need me. My flexibility ties in hand with this, as I am always willing to modify my schedule in order to help others at moments notice. Finally, being a role model to others has always been a priority of mine, as a Learning Assistant for…

A swarm of bees took flight in my stomach. Although the roar of the crowd was audible from backstage, I moved around attempting to hear the fulfilling clank of the beads that attached to my cornrow braids. I felt skeptical about everything around me as this was more than ever I dreamed of in the twenty-five years of my life. I mustered the courage to peer behind the curtains only to find multitudinous copies of my book being held by people whom I’d never met before. The same words of “The fear…

research that supports several biblical claims which have been focus of controversy. More than ten scholars were interviewed throughout the series. (Anglican Media Sydney). One of his most important contributions to the Australian society was in 2007, when John Dickson co-founded The Centre for Public Christianity (CPX), a non-for-profit organization media company which seeks to promote ‘the public understanding of the Christian faith by engaging mainstream media and the general public with high…

“A Republic is the last step in our journey of departure from our colonial origins. And it cannot be achieved as a truly significant step ─ a moment of re-funding ─ unless it also represents the end of the colonial experience for Aboriginal people.” (2004, p.20-21) This argument is at the heart of Mark McKenna’s book “This Country a Reconciled republic? “, that was published in 2004, only a few years after the failure of both the 1999 republic referendum and the reconciliation movement. This…

It can be argued that most news outlets identified the ALP as weak in terms of its border protection policies thus laid out a narrative to attack the Rudd/Gillard Government. In response, the ALP shifted its asylum seeker policies closer to the Liberal/Nationals position on immigration, following the same deterrence-focused measures and policies and a reintroduction of third country offshore processing (Phillips, 2014). This also meant that the ALP effectively dispirited many of its core…

only trusted by a third of our population and is dominated by an organisational structure, which is trusted by half as many people can endure? And how can politicians ask the public to trust them when they cannot even trust each other themselves? The entire system is a mess, which is both destructive and contradictory. Prime ministers of Australia have been taking every opportunity to backstab each other at every turn. When Julia Gillard took the decision to double-cross Kevin Rudd half Labor…

On 13 February 2008, the Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, delivered his apology to the Stolen Generations on behalf of the parliament. This is considered as an important point in current Australian history as it revise the past which would influence the relations between Australian groups in present and future. (Nobles, 2008).In order to understand how he tried to create an imagined community in his speech, I will analyse the apology on two faces: rhetoric and content. Firstly, I will point…

between the Hutu and Tutsi still isn 't resolved. The new Tutsi government in charge claims to desire “peace” and “prosperity”, but their actions and this constant mistrust toward the remaining Hutu population proves the government desires more of an oppression than peace between the two groups. President Kagame may have restored the minimal peace and ended the genocide, but the Genocide Encyclopedia describes that “President Kagame has been criticized for trampling on freedoms, building up an…

Saint Augustine was born is 354 in a North Africa province part of the Roman Empire. Growing up in the Roman Empire was a major influence on his work. He is well known for his theological teaching on Christianity and developed much of its doctrine. Augustine wrote on political philosophy as well and developed his own ideas on what the ideal state is. Augustine believes that government is an act of God and its function is to allow people to live good lives. The state is a part of God's…