The Bad Girls Club

good, but also the driving force in what makes me awful. Anxiety makes me make honor roll, but it stops me from taking on challenges. What if I get a bad grade? Anxiety gives me drive to be the student who raises their hand when they know the answer, but it doesn’t let me ask a question. What if people think I’m dumb? Anxiety makes me join a new club every year, but it doesn’t let me get close with people. What if they say no when I try to make plans? Without anxiety, my grades wouldn’t be…

I joined the soccer team, girl scouts, orchestra, volleyball, choir, show choir, and JOOI club. Even with the added pressures through my school career, I still managed to keep the good grades and be the good kid my parents wanted me to be. It seemed to my parents that the pressure never bothered me, though that…

like me. Furthermore, I began to skip school with my friends three to four times a week. Thus, I got two suspension, but I continued to hang and skip school with them. Hanging with these girls provided me protection, kept other students from messing with me, and made other students perceive of me as being a tough girl too. In addition, this new perception of me in a tough school made me feel confident and bolder This is an example of operational conditioning. “Operational conditioning is a type…

to experience the challenges of navigating in between two worlds, her Mexican and Anglo-American cultures. Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago, Illinois December 20, 1954 to Alfredo Cisneros de Moral and Elvira Cordero Anguiano. She was the only girl, in a family of six brothers. Her family migrated from Mexico City to Chicago often due to her father’s longing for his homeland. Cisneros found herself, in the early years disoriented and lonesome, which gave way to discover her voice. Her…

face–I began to cry. Such a sad, ugly girl! I made high-pitched noises like a crazed animal, trying to scratch out the face in the mirror" (pg.384) It’s a horrifying picture to image that she hates herself because she is simply not good enough for her mother the way she…

daily triumphs and shortcomings. Over the course of the series, the audience watched as the jock, the outcast, party girl, and the nerd become the best of friends despite their vastly different upbringings and personalities. Nathan, the jock, struggled with meeting the expectations of his authoritarian parents. Peyton, the outcast, had an over-loving, permissive father. Brooke, the girl known for throwing parties, had uninvolved parents who were never home. Haley, the studious student, came home…

When the narrator, Anne Greves, first meets Serey, the Cambodian man who will remain the object of her desire and unflinching love for decades to come, she is a 16-year-old high school student in Montreal who frequents smoky blues clubs in the company of older girls. Serey, a math student five years her senior and the long-haired,…

Once upon a time, in the year 2013, on the island of Oahu, there was a student who was going to start the beginning of 7th grade in Waipahu Intermediate School. That student was a boy named Jarren Calizo. In Elementary, Jarren was a very determined academic student who always strived for ME (meets exceeds) grades, the elementary version of an A, and ended up achieving perfect grades every time. He worked independently a lot of times and helped confused classmates. During the summer of 2013,…

room, I came across one person who not only smiled about the situation, but also laughed while everyone was in such misery. In my head, the only words I could literally think of was “who is this girl?!” We awkwardly made eye contact and she smiled at me, and it was brightest yet most genuine smile I…

being deaf was bad, that sign language was going to make him stupid and incapable of ever being normal, and that he was weird. Being a teenager is hard enough, being different makes it worse, but being deaf with a lack of communication with people had…