To my immediate friends and family, I was known as the quiet, shy, and intellectual girl who often had a bright smile on her face, who loved cracking jokes and sharing stories. ... Worries about whether rumors were being spread, whether people hated me, or whether the few acts of kindness I did receive were genuine or just cruel jokes constantly tormented my mind. ...
The dream of every kid in junior high school is to be popular. There are only a handful of kids that aren't worried about popularity the "nerds." That's what my problem was in junior high school, instead of being a part of the crowd I wanted to lead it. In which I failed to lead any crowd, just simp...
Senior year started out like my junior, only about three or four guys that kept working hard throughout the season and everyone else just thought it was funny and a big joke. Junior year equaled a bad year for basketball. 0-21 is nothing to be proud of or nothing to be joking about. ...
All Joking Aside: An Introduction to Curtis C My name is Curtis C and I am originally from St. Louis, MO. I have lived in Arkansas since I was eight years old as a transplant when my father was assigned to work here with the Union Pacific Railroad. I might as well explain the title I used f...
Wilt Chamberlain I did my African American report on Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain. Wilt Chamberlain was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on August 21, 1936. He was born with ten brothers and sisters, and had two great parents who loved them all. His father was a welder in a shipyard. Later on, ...
An anonymous author wrote this book because this book is a real young girl's diary. The theme of this book is reality. It talks about a young girl named Alice who moved to a new state and started high school. She meets a friend in her new school but when she goes away for the summer all bad things b...
I've always laughed at the jokes people post about each other. ... What may be sent as a joke, may not be received as one, and indeed the distance that technology allows in communication means the sender may not see the impact of the message on the receiver because there is less opportunity for either party to resolve any misunderstanding or to feel empathy....
In class, since students know each other (most of the times since the 1st grade) there are a lot of jokes and humor during class, but only when appropriate. ... Later on when I become more fluent with English, I could understand the jokes, but I wouldn't laugh at them. ...
When told of this assignment I had no clue where to begin. I didn't know what I wanted to write about or even what the topic was. I than called a friend from class, which really didn't help me cause he didn't know either what to write about. Than it hit me as I was watching Will Ferrell from Satur...
My Best Friend I can recall at time when I have had a preconception of an individual based on limited interaction, lack of knowledge, and stereotypes portrayed by the media. Upon meeting my current best friend, Camille, who is of Jamaican descent, I really thought that she would embody negative rep...
The adolescent that I chose to interview goes to high school in Atlanta, Georgia and attends a high school in the same school system that I attended. She is a sixteen-year-old 10th grader at Maynard Jackson High School. Throughout most of the interview, I got plenty of the answers that I expected. ...
Everyone have seen them, the girls with blue short skirts and cute tops, well they are members of the Drill Team and part of the Marching band of the school. The Drill Team spends long hours practicing their various routines. The team performs at Back to School night as well as every football ga...
I spent more than half of my life in school, and I had a lot of teachers. Some of them were really good teachers and I will remember them for all my life. However, some of them I didn't like so much and they were my nightmare. Based on my experience, qualities of good teacher is to have knowledge ab...
My suggestions for ways my school could do a better job in preventing future student problems are being serious about what they say, a lot of staff wonder why students take them as a joke, we do this because they never keep their word about discipline. ...
Why do they think that uniforms are the right thing for school? What makes them so wonderful that many schools lately have implemented a uniform policy? In my school they were a joke, no body took them seriously. They were just something else to try to bend the rules about. One girl would wear ...
It's like the last week of my junior year in college before our summer break. Now usually when its summer time I don't do much at all my first two years of school I went back home and basically did nothing hung around some old friends but for the most I didn't do much. But this year my cousin Dezara...
Did you ever have the chance to do something you really wanted to do, but you just didn't have the nerves? Well I encountered something similar to that. It started when I was thirteen, back in Junior high school. That was the awkward age when everyone was beginning to mature and grow those awful bum...
Ever since I was in sixth grade, I knew I wanted to be an educator. When people would ask what grade I wanted to teach, I would never know what to answer. I love children, no matter the age. Watching them problem solve and watching them find their own ways has always been interesting. From sixth gra...
Since the mid 60's affirmative action has had a place in American society. Some people believe that it is not necessary in today's society. Others believe the abolition of affirmative would lead to segregation at colleges and universities. There are many arguments that support both sides of the s...
I"d like to you tell that I"m definitely not for this proposition at all! Sure they have some good reasons for this, but they are definitely outweighed by the bad. The selling of candy and pop in schools does generate a lot of income, and if you look at it in Harlem's scenario we definitely need ...
"Introduction: Ways of Reading" After reading the introduction of "Ways of Reading" for the first time, an immediate sense of confusion struck. Thus, when contemplating the passage and reading it for a second time, the fog became clear. The introduction to the book "Ways of Reading" is unique in ...
That time is finally here. That time and the moment when the world stands still and you're stuck. Everyone around you, your heart, your breathing; everything just stops. You realize that all your years of tests fails, passes, honor rolls, parent/teacher conferences, etc. have paid off for this one m...
From what I remembered, the lush green of paddy field from the north part of Malaysia is where I was born. When I was young, my family was poor and we lived in a small house in Kedah. Kedah is known as countryside with the largest rice production in Malaysia. During the paddy season my mom always br...
