The Seventh Seal

person. Since middle school, I have tried out different trends with all different types of people. In sixth grade, I was a Twilight obsessed gothic girl who hated the world. That did not last very long as that was not who I was meant to be. Then seventh grade rolled around and I became very bubbly and very mean. I would give into the peer pressure of my friends and bully whoever they did not like. This phase ended near the end of eighth grade and this is when I began to discover my true self. I…

intermediate level of middle school orchestra (AJO) and I became section leader in both school orchestra and AJO the following year. In seventh grade I was slightly more organized, but primarily disorganized, and I often procrastinated. Academically I didn’t feel like there was a huge difference between sixth and seventh grade, but socially I felt a lot had changed. In seventh grade a lot of people started gossiping about others…

An Outsider “I wish you could see all the pain and emotion that is built up inside me.” My school and social life was very different in elementary school than how it is now. Back to kindergarten all throughout elementary and a bit of 6th grade, I was in so much emotional pain. I wasn’t happy with my appearance or body, I would always put myself down, had zero confidence in myself and hated who I was. There was a point where I believed everyone who left me out, and made fun of me. I believed…

Mrs. Anderson was my teacher for three years in middle school. Two at Central, and my last at Forest Park. She was my choir teacher. When I met her she was a taller, very pale, and a round lady. She was post pregnancy and was a regular gym goer to lose her baby weight. She wore glasses and her blonde hair was long enough for her to sit on. She was a very kind and timid woman, but when it was time to work, she meant business. Mrs. Anderson and I didn’t have a great start. I was sort of a problem…

Dad was, and man oh man was he hard to beat. Whether it was one on one, two on one or just plain old horse Dad sure beat us all. But that was all part of the fun, trying to beat Dad. And trying to beat Dad I ended up breaking my arm that ended my seventh grade volleyball season quite quickly. It was two on one. I was trying to defend the hoop behind me and to be honest was failing quite badly. No matter, I was focused on the getting the ball. Being the typical uncoordinated thirteen year old…

8th Grade Graduation Speech To our most esteemed teachers, principals, parents, and graduates, a pleasant morning/midday/whatever time I might be presenting this speech on. To provide something lots of people can relate to, including me, middle school was a great adventure, which happened to have taught us many things. Perseverance, friendships, and lessons learned. These three things popped up over and over again in my head as I was writing this speech. Before we started the drafting process,…

Seventh grade, my second year now at what I thought to be the worst school in the world. On back to school night I met a man who would change my perspective on life completely, that man being Brandon Lilly. Henry Adams once said “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” At a mere five-foot four he appeared to be a kid minus the burly lumberjack beard that he possessed. I remember being skeptical at first because I had never had a male teacher before. All of my…

something remarkable. There was a time in my life where I realized something significant and life changing. It was when i was truly comfortable in my hijab. It was the summer of 2014 that made me change who i wanted to be. The previous year, I was in seventh grade and it was my first year wearing my hijab. I was terribly nervous and didn't know what others were going to…

Canadian Seal Hunt played a prominent role in exposing the cruelty involved in fashion industry production. The photo, taken in 1969 by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, was a catalyst that provoked outrage and boycotts of fur products in Canada. The group joined forces with a wide spectrum of animal welfare groups in order to protest the unregulated slaughter of baby seals by Newfoundland and Labrador fishermen. The image in question depicts a seal hunter wielding a club to a baby seal…

leopard seal, are incredible creatures that possess traits of survival and adaptability. Their widespread residency throughout the Antarctic and some parts north of that area combined with their diversified eating habits, places them as a marine mammal with high potential to survive environmental changes. This essay connects an understanding of the population and foraging ecology of Hydrurga leptonyx with their future existence in relation to the threat of climate change. Currently, leopard…