The Best Years

Introduction The Virgin Group Richard Branson has started his business as a recording studio in 1970 with Nik Powell. During 1970-1980 he expanded his business in to films, books, holidays, airship and hotels. During 1980-2000 the business has further expanded in to Bridle ware, car and mobiles. Currently the virgin group is enjoying 53 Million customers worldwide, 69,000 employees in 35 countries and 16.6 billion of Euro revenue per annum. 37 million people are following virgin through social…

I guess I forgot to take into consideration how crazy competitive I was when I wrote that. When I reached ninth grade, I struggled badly academically. My First semester I ended up with a low GPA, for what I was used to having. Fortunately, the next year I figured I out, for the next four semesters I had straight A’s. In ninth grade I was persuaded into going out for football. I was down to 200 pounds as my pill was helping me maintain my disease. I enjoyed football, and was fairly successful,…

an opportunity to learn from one another. Since I started at the college during 2013 (year 8) I have been blessed with seeing teachers and students helping one another to grow, inspire each other and become the best version of them self that they can be. As I witnessed this I knew that I wanted to inspire and help contribute to the growth of my fellow peers. I want to evoke others to strive for their personal best and I think it is through this desire that I became passionate to become a leader…

My name is Bryan Waddick, I am thirteen years old and have lived in Dubuque my whole life. I live with my mom, dad, two brothers and my dog. My family is very into sports, both of my brothers and I play hockey, baseball and lacrosse. I also play football and track here at Roosevelt. We are all very into technology and own a lot of it. All five of us own a phone, although my brothers have no data, texting or calling privileges, those phones are just for the games. I have 8 uncles and 6 aunts.…

Near the end of my sophomore year of high school, I took a leap of faith and applied to join a dental technologies class at Normandy High School. Like most students, I didn't know what I wanted to go to college for, but in our school’s cafeteria, there was a stand with “DENTAL” written across it. Just before this day, I watched “The Little Shop of Horrors,” and in this play, There’s a song about being a dentist. With that song fresh in my mind, and nothing to lose, I signed up. When I found out…

The Pastor cleared his throat. "Your father has gone to be with the Lord." Fifteen years ago, my dad received a kidney and pancreas transplant. It was a successful surgery. He was a juvenile diabetic, and for the first time since he was nine-years-old, he didn 't have to inject himself with insulin. It was a successful surgery. Two weeks later, on New Year 's day, my older sister and I were sitting in the family room waiting to go to our next door neighbor 's house. My dad had been throwing up…

for me to admit it, but I have to. A relationship between one of my best friends from my childhood is, at least as of right now, over. It’s strange really, how relationships come and go. How some seem to repel shortly after they are no longer absolutely needed, while others just stick. This is a story that is hard to put into words, because it makes no sense. How can someone be your friend from second grade until the first year of college, and then end? How is it possible? Why? I met Connor when…

Chapman. Cade talks A LOT which is so annoying. From my seat, I can hear him CLIPPING HIS NAILS. What the heck!! I find that gross to do in a classroom setting WITH STUDENTS in class. It makes me cringe. On top of the nasty class habits, he isn’t the best at explaining. He’ll just quickly talk about a topic, and if you didn’t understand that, too bad. We worked with integers, geometry, angles, proportions, and probabilities. The easiest to do was integers, but the most enjoyable was…

It was the year of 2011, I met this Girl named Lilly Dreyer.At the time we where in second grade, I am guessing she didn't like me,and really I did not like her at all. I was the new girl that year I was Starting end of September,switching Schools not always the easiest thing. My Second grade Teacher Ms.Dalhgren introduced me this very diverse group of girls. Right their in the middle there was Lilly. Unlike everyone else she did not smile at me or give me that new girl friendly welcome. I…

Raven-Symoné - Although she appeared on The Cosby Show, Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper, and a couple of movies throughout the 1990s, most people remember Raven-Symoné for her starring role in the Disney Channel classic That’s So Raven. While the show was mainly marketed towards young girls, boys were coaxed into watching it by Raven Baxter’s wit and sassy attitude, as well as her glamorous clothes and makeup, which set her aside from most other teen stars of the time. Raven-Symoné was so perfect in…