Who Do You Think You Are

Alex David Persuasive Speech Do you think kids should get participation awards for something they aren’t really good at? Kids shouldn’t be given awards that they don’t deserve, there should only be one winner and one winner only, instead of everyone winning wins. My reasons for thinking this are: people who think they are good at something tend to do the same thing, people who think they are good at something don’t try to get better because they think they are good already, and the real…

e Meaning of Life Do you get up in the morning because you have to or is it because you want to? Life, the simplest word that has so much meaning to someone. Does anything even matter? In chapter ten of “What does it all mean?” Nagel says that in two-hundred years, nothing will really matters. Even if you write a book, the world will collapse and it is like nothing ever happened. For example, this essay, what is truly the point of writing this essay? If in two hundred years it won’t mean…

action? I think fear drives action by motivating you to get over your fear and do whatever you want. What is fear, I think fear is when you are afraid to do something that you would like to do. When fear comes across someone, they do things to get away from their fear. There are many reasons why people have fear. People do different things to get away from their fear. Maybe sometimes people don’t want to face their fear so they just fear whatever they are afraid of. Than their are people who…

questions I had for Senior Composition. Thankfully she did, so I asked her the ten questions that had to do with the things that influenced her, but also how she influenced me. My first question was”What/who influenced you to be who you are today, and how did that do so?” In which she replied with “ My mom, she taught me to be loving and caring towards others, and find a place in my heart to help those who are in need.”To be honest I wasn’t surprised with her answer because, My grandmother has…

be known more. The focus should be on the end goal and not on a person. Having humility in the consensus organizing allows more effort to be put into what matters, the completion of the goal. What competencies do you think you need to be an effective consensus organizer? Why? I think that I would need to be diverse. Even though I am just working with communities it is important that I still know how to be diverse. Understand different cultures and not making fundamental attribution errors…

much about filling you up with knowledge but as it quote teaching you how to think.” (D. Foster Wallace) David foster Wallace says that our default setting is thinking that we are the center of the universe. Agreeing with these point of view does not necessarily make me think that I am the center of the universe but I can honestly say that we all think that we are the center of the universe rather we want to admit or not. How could someone teach us how to think? I for one do not know. “The…

year since you left to go fight the bad guys, but mommy says you are safe now in heaven! We ate your favorite meal tonight! I ate it all up, even though I don’t like carrots. I learned how to swim this summer! I can open my eyes underwater! It’s been 5 years now daddy. I’m in the 5th grade. Math is hard but I like computers. Mommy lets me sleep in your T-shirts. I think it still smells like you. I don’t need to sleep with the light on anymore. I try not to cry but it still hurts! I miss you.…

than many people expect. I say this because I found that people who is coming for their first time shows up with dress clothes because when you think of court you think of suits and business attire.…

¨If your always trying to be normal, you can never know how amazing you can be¨ Maya Angelou. Do you think kids in middle school should have social media? Social media causes a lot of problems with kids in middle school. I think kids shouldn't have social media in middle school. Kids in middle school shouldn't have social media so they can post things and other people can share there stuff to other people and they can do mean thing with it. In the text it states, ¨One day eight months later,…

people care about what others think about them, while others maybe their self around anyone and not even care about what others think. In the quote, written by Geisel, “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” This quote tells us to be who we are no matter what. If we take a closer look at the quote then we can see what it is also telling us. If we are around people and they do not like who you really are then their not…