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The Ice Princess Extra Credit tiriyonna graves This move is about a 17 year old physics genius who works on her physics project for the summer so that she can go to harvard university . she decides to study the physics that was applied in competitive skating . so she would go by the rink and record the katers and the calculate the velocity and etc . As she studies she finds it would be easier if she tried doing the skating herself to find the answer.as she found the answers to how they went so…

When I think back on my years in middle school the difficult class was 8th grade social studies. It wasn’t difficult because I didn’t understand what we were learning, it was because of the teacher. Mr. Degroot was one of the most, if not the most, infuriating teachers I ever met. There are so many reasons why and I could go on for hours. He wasn’t even qualified to teach social studies! There were a lot of people involved. In fact, everyone in my grade who had to sit through his class. More…

I believed my life was over and that I would grow to be a lonely homo sapien. Getting taken out of high school is not how I wanted to leave Riverbend high school. I wanted to graduate with my friends I’d known since kindergarten. I thought my hopes and dreams could never be achieved because I wasn’t in regular public high school. I felt like my future plans to go to college and leave Virginia were ruined. Were they really? Or was this just the dramatic thoughts of a typical over exaggerating…

Social Justice Reflection #2 As I think more deeply about the student populations I serve as part of my fellowship, one of the things I have started to wonder more about is how student affinity groups may share different characteristics from the general student body. While I have been quick to assume that the general student body at Merrimack tends to come from more affluent backgrounds, I am starting to find that the same idea cannot be applied to commuter students and graduate students in…

In the three articles: Santa Sander, Students Falling for Sanders, and College Doesn’t Need to be Free. it discusses Senator Sanders and his plan towards free tuition. He feels that it is a good idea to offer this to in-state students for college. Some of the authors of the articles agree with the idea of free tuition. In two of the articles, it states that Senator Sanders had an idea to help the poor and middle-class college students to get free college tuition. The cost of college today is…

Introduction In Johnathan Kozol’s Savage Inequalities, one student named Jezebel recounted the time when she knew that her school was not equally funded as other schools, “they have that money goin’ to their schools. They have a nice clean school to go to. They have carpets on the floors and air-conditioned rooms and brand-new books. Their old books, when they’re done with them, they ship them here to us.” (Kozol, 2012, p. 210). Students like Jezebel are aware that their schools do not get as…

Pg.1-50: The main character, Ruth Anne McCabe, better known as Roo is a senior in high school and is ready to go to her dream college, Yale University. Roo has a younger sister named Tilly, she is a freshman in highschool and one day when she was at a museum doing research for a school project texted Roo to pick her up from the museum minutes before they were about to close. Roo was running a little late and Tilly was really impatient so she kept sending her lots of text messages telling her to…

Imagine, as an impressionable high school student, that your teachers do not care about your education or your well-being because of a label: “at-risk” or “unteachable”. This is an issue that many students have faced, and a few outstanding individual teachers have attempted to erase this label for the progression of these students’ lives. Freedom Writers, a movie that heavily involves this problem in education, is a 2007 movie directed by Richard LaGravenese and stars Hilary Swank, Scott Glenn,…

How Embarrassing! Because I am African, people have expected me to be less intelligent in school or in a professional environment. One day in college, I had anatomy class on a Monday morning by 9:30am. I will not forget that day in my life, because I had never been humiliated in class before until that day. My colleagues and I were to engage in a discussion about Cells, and our professor divided us into groups of six, where one person from each group had to present for 5 minutes, the part of…

School is an extraordinary journey that prepares us for life’s challenges in the future. I knew middle school wasn’t going to be filled with coloring activities and jigsaw puzzles like what I had experienced in elementary school. My junior high years were unexpectedly difficult. In order to reach my goals and be successful, I had to mentally prepare to be determined, focused and responsible. 6th grade began on August 10th; I felt nervous but confident. I expected my new classes to be a breeze…