Salutatorian

country and possessed minimal knowledge about its social norms. Consequently, I was bullied, and labeled. Due to this, my family and I moved to Galveston, Texas, where my grandmother resided. Here I excelled, particularly in math, and graduated salutatorian of my middle school. In my seventh and eighth grade years I became the Texas State Champion for Chess and the Science Olympiad, in which students compete in events pertaining to the different sciences. We then moved to Denver, where I now…

It had been a while since I had been in New York City. I forgot the fast-paced world, the capricious j-walking, the unique styles, everything really. Even though i grew up in the area, it seemed so distant, as if it molded around itself and evolved into a world that could not be identified. Upon being accepted into an Urban Case Studies summer program from Columbia University, I packed my luggage, boarded on the plane from SAN to JFK Airport. What i experienced during my month in New York City…

Teachers push you to do your best so you can have a head start on college. In our school, it's not about who you are, but where you go and what you do with your life. The positions for valedictorian and salutatorian are fought for in every class. Our town focuses on the understanding and education of each student so that we push ourselves to our full potential. I remember as I kid pushing myself to do better, and being able to raise my grades from b’s to…

Storytelling can teach people how to understand others. People get inspired by other life story because people don’t have same personality and life story. Life lesson is more than any education that we get from school. It is important to ask share others personal narratives because every person has their own life story that he/she pass through. Dave Isay is interview people about their life experience or what they feel about themselves. Its fundamental to ask others to understand better. Isay…

generation Chinese American who came from Taiwan. She has one younger brother. Both of her parents are working in education sector and are inactive in community affairs. She has excellent achievement during her high school. For example, she was salutatorian of her class, and a National Merit finalist. Jessica was graduated from Cornell with B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science. She met her husband here, who was her fellow graduate student. After she…

The high school I attended was called Eastern Hills High School and was located in Fort Worth Texas. The area primarily contained students of middle and lower class. As far as race, about eighty percent of students were African American, ten percent were Hispanic, five percent were white, and the other five percent consisted of mixed races. Administration at my high school primarily consisted of women as they represented eighty percent of the staff. However, from high school, I also saw that the…

Alabama. She grew up in Pass Christian, Mississippi. She was the youngest out of all four of the kids in her family. She is the daughter to a airmen pilot. As a student in the classroom she was very successful/ She graduated high school as the salutatorian of her class. She ended up going to college and getting a journalism scholarship to Southern Louisiana University. With that scholarship finished college and graduated Southeastern Louisiana University with a degree in communications. She was…

The Effects of Racism on Childhood Development In today’s society when the topic of “racism” is brought up, many people say, “That was so long ago”, but is that necessarily true? Are people still treated differently and unfairly just because of the color of their skin? Are they sometimes exposed to lower chances of succeeding? Unfortunately, the answers to all of these questions are yes. Children today are all given an opportunity and access to certain resources, but they are not all given an…

Reflection The interview process was not entirely new to me in some senses but there were still many hurdles to overcome. We had an interview project for Japanese last semester in which I had to interview my other grandma about her fathers experience in war. The grandmother I interviewed for this project lives in Ewa beach however, so getting to her house would be much more difficult. We did the interview via face time. We then had to figure out a way to record the actual interview. I ended up…

Driggs serves approximately 100 clients with over $22 million in assets. Ben’s 401(k) practice serves approximately thirty clients with over $71 million in retirement assets. Ben graduated with his Bachelor's degree from the University of Utah as Salutatorian with Phi Beta Kappa honors. He then went on to The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, the oldest most distinguished graduate school of international relations in the country, where he earned his Master’s degree in…