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For my Argument Text Analysis, I choose the essay “Girls getting fed up with school dress codes that treat them as distractions” by Maureen Downey. This essay is about how girls are required to wear certain things to school for the reason that certain things are “distracting”. How girls are kept from their education since they are sent home for the things they wear. The writer is trying to persuade the reader that girls shouldn’t be required to wear certain things because the boys can’t control…

motivation for why the teens act the way they do during school. In multiple teen movies, the cheerleader that bullies the nerds is often stressed at home, whether it’s because the parents are getting divorced or there is a large amount of pressure to be the prom queen just like their mother. The same goes for the dumb jock. In the teen movie She’s All That, Zack faces immense pressure from his dad to go to the Dartmouth, the Ivy League school he went to, while Zack doesn’t want to. Even the…

Wake up to eat, go back to sleep. That sounds very nice.” She missed out on a few proms, homecoming, and might miss her graduation. “I wouldn’t want it any other way...it’s worth it.” Chloe continues, “I don’t think i made many sacrifices myself but my parents have. If anything, i feel like they’ve given up so much for me and this is…

monster called anxiety. Anxiety feels as though you are drowning and are unable to swim to the surface become you are bound by the ankles with weights. It limited my ability to be a normal teenager, to hang out with my friends, and have fun at my senior prom, or even go out on a date. I was often the quiet girl in the back of the class or the wall flower at school functions. Rather than having a good time with my friends I was forced to play a dangerous game called anxiety, in which…

Last year I joint the link crew leadership program, which is a program that helps upcoming freshman with the obstacles they will be facing in high school in order for them to become successful. This program allowed use to use our leadership abilities to help make the freshman feel more comfortable in their new environment. We meet the entire freshman class at our school orientation day, few day before the school started. Where every upper classmans were assigned to a group of freshmans that they…

When i wasn't a senior, i heard seniors talk about how much they going to miss school and wish they done things differently throughout high school. Every day I had this enlightened moment where I say to myself “ that's not gonna be me i can't wait to become a senior it seems so easy”. But reality hit me once i reached senior year and also this thing called “senioritis” hit me.Senioritis is a symptom i prefer all upcoming seniors to prevent. Senioritis would make senior year much harder you will…

Best Friends I think what Laurie Halse Anderson is trying to say about best friends in Speak, is that your best friends won’t always be there for you and sometimes you have to fend for yourself. To begin with, every single one of Melinda’s friends hated her, and throughout the book she had to deal with Andy because of the party incident. Nobody asked her what was the problem, her friends weren't there for her when she was attacked. Even Melinda’s best friends hate her for calling the cops, and…

High school is a staple of American culture. Popular culture is littered with high school imagery: cheerleaders at the homecoming game, senior prom, and finally, graduation. It is a major time of growth for adolescents and serves as a stepping stone into the adult world, giving students the skills and experiences needed to be successful later in life. However our perception of high school and the ‘high school experience’ is rapidly changing as alternatives to traditional schooling appear. An…

What could go wrong as already gone wrong? It was two days before the senior prom and I received a call from a very raspy voiced lady, it was my mother. “Hello son”, she talked very slow with a slur in her voice. I could tell she was drunk, I wanted to hang up the phone. I could smell the blue can of Buzz light through the phone, and that’s when I asked “what now mom?” she replied “J’s tux shop has been shut down”. I hung up the phone that was it; my mom had one job to do and failed me again. At…

in but they can’t. Although our society values, self expression people often are forced to change themselves to fit in or they could be punished and later on harm other people. People often change not to stick out in certain crowds. The students in Prom Night in Mississippi have been trying not to stick out at school, but the topic of racism keeps coming up. These people have been racist to blacks during school because of what they have been growing up with and how…