When I sat down to do this assignment, I thought that I"d have it done in no time. ... As I sat at the computer and thought about it, I realized that it was extremely hard for me to explain my reasons behind this choice. ... (Prevention Using Student Help) for all four years of high school. ... I have a cousin in high school that I constantly help with homework when he needs it. ... For the simple reasons of: loving children, feeling I can help a student to grasp new things, and the desire to make a difference in my students" lives. ...

• Word Count: 541
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Walking into a school filled with 1,200 other student, I couldn't help but feel insignificant. ... I sat with friends all from the same middle school. ... So I turned to my favorite teacher for help at which seemed at the time one of the most desperate acts of getting my essay done at the last minute. ... In return I would help her by occasionally teaching lower level classes demos, and helping around the class. ... Mrs Marcus as predicted agreed to help me. ...

• Word Count: 1531
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Because the essay took him all night to write, he had no time left for another essay. ... Baker's teacher helped him change the way he felt towards English, and mine helped me to change my personality and to see things in a different way. ... Wiseburn help me academically, but also outside of academics. ... I recall that one morning I got to school early and sat down to eat breakfast in the cafeteria. ... She is an important figure in my life that helped shape who I am today. ...

• Word Count: 1603
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

As I sat on the couch in my living room on September 11th 2001, and watched the second plane fly into the World Trade Center building, I was struck by a profound sense of wrongness. ... Two years later as I began to work on this essay for my University of Washington English class, I remembered this puzzling feeling. ... I remembered then, in Patricia Limerick's essay " The Empire of Innocence", Limerick had claimed "humans live in a world in which mental reality does not have to submit to narrow tests of accuracy"(417). ... Richard Rodriguez, author of the essay "The Achievement of Desi...

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Studying the arts can help students develop coordination and even spawn creativity. ... One of the studies performed concluded that students involved/experienced in music performance scored 53 points higher on the verbal portion on the SAT and 39 points higher on the math portion than students that are not involved/experienced in the arts (The Dana Foundation, 2008). ... For example, Brice notes that those students who participate in the arts for at least three hours on three days each week through at least one full year are": (Ford & McMahon, 2011) 4 times more likely to be recognized for a...

• Word Count: 994
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate