Spanish National Honor Society

communities there are only three main languages spoken in Peru. These are Spanish, which obviously came when the Spanish conquest, Quechua, which is derived from the Native people of Peru, and Aymara, which is a language derived from an Indian tribe near Lake Titicaca. The main religion of Peru, that is very evident in everyday life and in festivals, is Roman Catholic. Which also arrived, alongside the Spanish language, in 1532 when the Spanish conquered Peru and its many…

With bewildered eyes and a puzzled mind, I sat quietly in my chair. “Jenny, what is y-intercept?” the teacher asked. Although I knew the exact answer, I kept silent and bowed my head, my uncontrollable shyness barricading me to speak in public. Students all stared at me directly with the chaos of expressions, and my face blushed and burned instantly. I was most embarrassed since the whole class had witnessed my dilemma. That is who I was, evading every challenge because of diffidence. As the…

I have a very wide variety of interests in and outside of the school setting. I have a passion for volleyball making that my most tremendous interest and has made me the person I am today. I have learned many valuable core ethics during my six years of volleyball like teachable spirit, accountability, and competitiveness. In addition, I relish partaking in the fine arts provided by our institute. Currently I am taking Art 5 and participate in competitions annually since I was a freshman. In a…

waiting for to pursue my dreams would never come, I had to be my own motivation. I motivated myself to chase my dreams by taking time out of my day to attend tutoring, join AVID (Advanced Via Individual Determination), along with joining National Honors Society in order to help myself excel in school and reach my goals. I finished middle school and soon after, I had high school in my sights. When applying to high school, I had my sights set on one, high school and that was Health Sciences High.…

Mestizaje is a Spanish term that is acknowledged when the individual is interrelated of mixed descendant and also related to miscegenation. There are a variety of different societal attitudes towards Mestizaje and Miscegenation. Furthermore, scholars who studied racial and gender formations have affirmed that people who embodied multiracial descent disrupt, “the social projects which create and reproduce structures of domination based on essentialist categories of race that have existed since…

Women are becoming more competitive in the workforce each year. Venezuela is experiencing the change of the role of women in society. In Venezuela most people are Catholic, with some Jewish and Anglican. Religion is not a sensitive topic in Venezuela and all religions are respected. There used to be many social classes in Venezuela but now the gap between poor and rich widened…

High schools around the World High schools in the United States have more opportunities compared to countries outside the United States. The opportunities in the United States are plentiful due to the exceptional teaching skills and second chances that the professor contains. I have first hand experience with this structure of teaching, and it has helped me tremendously. On the other hand, some countries don’t give second chances to the students that put their effort into trying their hardest.…

enable him or her to walk across the stage and grab a diploma. Take the case of Rosemary, a typical senioritis sufferer who began her senior year with a 3.9 GPA. By the end of the year, she wasn’t even eligible to graduate as a member of the National Honor Society because she no longer possessed the requisite 3.6 GPA which members must have. Rosemary wasn’t even taking classes as hard as the ones she took her junior year; she simply stopped doing her work. Some…

Noah Webster, the publisher of the first American dictionary, is cited by James Harbeck of BBC news as having said in his 1791 Dissertations on the English Language, ‘“As an independent nation, our honor requires us to have a system of our own, in language as well as government”’. Noah Webster, writing at the time of the political unrest between the English-speaking nations, provides modern interpreters with a primary insight to the linguistic motives…

to provide for my financial needs so that I have not had to get a full time job. My parents have always said that school was my job, and I have always worked hard to make sure that I do the absolute best I can in school. In high school I took all honors and AP classes, as well as participating in multiple clubs and after school activities, and now in my first year of college I am already a junior with credits and I am working hard to try to graduate in two and a half years. Although I have not…