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Debating has been an activity that is not widely known in high school due to a lack of popularity. Maybe it’s because no one can understand what the debaters are saying in their given amount of time. Everything is said so quickly in such a small amount of time (two minutes) that it is hard to understand the point. Spread, or speed-reading, is a style that is commonly used in high school debates around the country. Watching debate that adheres to this practice will likely bore a mainstream…

Most teenagers would probably tell you that the beginning of their adulthood was marked by having to do laundry for the first time, or being able to drive alone, or perhaps no longer sitting at the children's table at family events. But for me, it happened this past summer, when I made the very difficult decision that I would not return to Coleman Country Day Camp. To those who were not fortunate enough to have grown up at summer camp, this might not seem like such a big decision to make. But…

High school sport synthesis The position I stand with when it comes to supporting sports or not in SUHSD is that I think that we should support sports. The source that led me to believe that sports are good towards academics is Daniel H. Bowen and Collin Hitt’s article High-School Sports Aren’t Killing Academics. They state that there's evidence that sports provide success in academics rather than just focusing on sports with lower grades. As for Amanda Ripley’s text The Case Against High…

In the short essay “Fish Cheeks”, Amy Tan tells us a story about how when she was younger she was embarrassed by her culture when her mother invited the minister’s family, which included the boy she was in love with, over for her Chinese Christmas Eve dinner. After the dinner she realized she had nothing to be embarrassed about because her culture is who she is. Which isn't something you can change. When I was younger I too was embarrassed by something I couldn't change. Since I was 10 years…

On the other hand, according to a paper by Adam Ozimek, an economist, many argue that the four year degree is not always worth it for certain majors. A recent study “found eleven schools where the degrees had a 20 year net return of -$30,000 or worse compared to just graduating high school” (Ozimek). Ozimek insists that certain majors, in the end, do not financially give back the amount that was lost in going to college to obtain those majors. I think Ozimek is mistaken because he overlooks the…

In the article “College is a waste of Time and Money”, Caroline Bird states the reasons why High School graduates attend college and how college is not worth it. Caroline Bird says college students attend college not because they want to go, they attend because college is a pleasant place and because they want parents and taxpayers to support them. According to an estimate by professors and administrators, no more than 25 percent of the students are turned on by the classwork, for the rest it is…

a few of biggest issue college students face today are actually time management , at which most people think they have under control in high school . High school and college is a whole different new environment . Nobody will babysit you or constantly remind you on what assignment is due . Thats one of the biggest issues college students have. Making your school your school work your priority before the fun or even work sometimes if you have a job. In college you have to do things ahead of time…

Everyone in life is faced with obstacles to overcome. however, not all of these obstacles are so easy to overcome and sometimes we fail to overcome them and get disappointed at this failure. Well that is pretty much my life in a nutshell. I have been faced with so many obstacles in my life yet I am so young. These disappointments keep getting to me and make me loose my moral in life. However, the most disappointing situation I have been in was most recently. In my country, Kenya, Exams are…

Get to school early and there no parking, You end up having to park in the back of the parking lot. This is a big problem that Seminole State College,Sanford Lake Mary campus has. If you do not have an eight am class you will be parking in timbuktu. Seminole State needs to have better parking options to the buildings so you do not walk a mile to get to your class. Each year the number of students enrolling to Seminole State increases but the number of parking spots stays the same .There are many…

A universal theme for me moving from Texas to California is overcoming. I was 8 years old when my family moved, and had to overcome knowing no one, a new school, and being out of my comfort zone. At this age you tend to start making good friends, all hang out in groups, and be less adventurous. My parents kept saying, “Find people who like the same things as you, and everything else will be easy”. The next week I did just that. I found a group of guys playing football and said that I was new…