...First of all I would like to congratulate my fellow classmates; and thank all the friends and family members that are here today. Hello my name is Fred Grant and I am very proud to be standing here as valedictorian. When I first started classes at ITT I was afraid I wasn’t even going to pass let alone be standing here today. It had been a long time since I sat in a class room (27 years). I thought I was too old to go back to school at 43 years old. But I was wrong. Coming to this school has been one of the most fulfilling decisions I have made in my life. When I joined the National Technical Honor Society, I don’t know who was more proud my daughter Amanda or me. These past 24 months have been tough. Especially for those of us with children who know it’s not easy to do our homework when our kids are trying to get our attention and tell us about something that they are excited about; Or our spouse or loved one feeling that we were not paying enough attention to them. As I stand up here today and all my hard work has paid off, I know my children and my family are so proud of me. As I am sure all of you are as proud of all your graduates standing up here today. I would like to thank you all for giving us the extra help, support and understanding we have needed to succeed these past 24 months. I would like to thank my instructors, for making my learning experience at this school a fun and exciting one. Even though at times it seemed like they asked the imposable of us, never the...
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...help that child.” Position Summary: The High School Graduation Coach will provide assistance to all high school students, individually and in groups, regarding high school graduation. This assistance will include but not be limited to analyzing data to identify students or subgroups with dropout risk factors; reviewing, implementing, and tracking the Peach State Pathway; identifying and removing barriers to graduation; and facilitating career pathways. FLSA Status: Exempt Supervisory Responsibilities: No Essential Functions and Responsibilities: * The Graduation Coach shall work to ensure smooth students’ transitions from the social services systems, juvenile detention and other high schools to Ervin Academy * High school Graduation Coaches will identify youth at-risk of repeating grades due to academic and/or psycho-social barriers * Connects students to intervention programs to prevent grade retention, course failure, and/or Georgia High School Graduation Test (GHSGT)/End of Course Test (EOCT) failure while ensuring a solid academic foundation that promotes the successful transition out of high school * Works with teachers and administrators to develop credit and alternative options and to adapt curriculum and differentiate instruction to meet the needs of the students; * Attends, participates in, and redelivers as appropriate all required High school Graduation Coach training provided by the Department of Education; *...
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...Standing before you on this day reminds me of my 8th grade graduation. I sat on the stage listening to three of my peers give beautiful speeches that had nothing to do with any of the feelings I felt. The speakers harped on the nostalgia of leaving a school they had been at for nine years; I had only been there for three. They spoke on how they would miss seeing the same faces everyday and that they feared the days ahead – however, I was excited. When I thought about the future I saw all the things waiting for me to come and try. I saw the new friends I would make, the papers I would write, the softball games I would win, the clubs and activities I would join, the boy who would be my first kiss, and the wonderful people I would meet who would inspire me more than I realized at the time. Graduation is a time to look at what the future has in store for each of us. It is a time to take a look at what path our lives are going to take once the caps and gowns are taken off and we are thrust into an unknown future. Changes next year will vary greatly for each of us, they will come in the form of new environments, lifestyles, and schedules. And these changes will bring an abundance of questions. Will I be happy? Will I fall in love? Will I have a family? Will I be happy five or ten years down the road? Will I make a difference? Will I make a difference in my community? In my country? In the world? El Cerrito High School graduates of 2010, we...
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...JON BON JOVI MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY Commencement Address May 16, 2001 Good afternoon… and congratulations to the graduating class of 2001. President Stafford, faculty, alumni, parents, family and friends. I’m humbled and honored to have been asked to give this commencement speech on this, one of the most special days of your life (so far.) I’ve had to think hard over the last several weeks about what information I could offer you that you might find useful in the years to come. Though the book of my life isn’t yet finished at 39 years old, I am a few chapters ahead so maybe there are a few lessons I can share. Right now I’ll bet there are a multitude of emotions running through you - from sheer joy to trepidation, from anxiety to anticipation. Don’t worry -- that’s normal. And it’s something you’ve faced before. When you went from kindergarten to elementary school and then from junior high to high school to college… it’s all been a series of NEW BEGINNINGS. Now, some of you have chosen to continue on with higher education, and others are jumping out into the “real world.” But YOUR schooling isn’t over. Treat the workplace as another school and learn all the lessons you can from it. Don’t be afraid to start from the bottom. Be humble and stay humble. No job is beneath you if you use it as a lesson. I may have been very successful in my music career – but when I started a film career, I was just another actor looking for work. My fame wasn’t a help –in...
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...My fellow students, we only arrived here four short years ago, and now it's already time to leave. How did it all go so fast? It seems like only yesterday that we were awkward little freshmen fighting with the locks on our lockers, trying to figure out where our next class was, and looking generally clueless to all the upper classmen. Now we are the upperclassmen, the seniors who stand here ready to graduate and move forward in the world. Yet at this moment, we can't help looking back. How do we measure the time we've spent in high school? In the beginning, we measured it in class periods, counting down the day to eventual freedom. As the days and weeks passed, we measured it in semesters, and later in years as we moved from being those clueless freshmen, to becoming sophisticated sophomores who thought they had it all figured out. By the time we reached our junior year, we were confident that we were prepared to take over for the graduating seniors, and we couldn't wait to "rule the school." And now here we stand. Sadly our reign is over, and it's up to the next class to step into our shoes and take over. I know that as I look out at all of you, I will measure my time here in a much different way. I will measure it in all the friendships I've enjoyed these last four years. Some were casual and others were BFF’s, but I'll remember each one fondly, as I'm sure you all will, too. And when many of our high school memories begin to fade, that's how we'll ultimately measure the...
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...Isaiah Paolo Atienza Lee’s Graduation Speech I thought that the commencement speech I recently gave before the University of the Philippines’ College of Science graduates (excerpted here last week) was pretty good, but it was the student response given by Isaiah Paolo Lee (BS Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, summa cum laude) — known to his friends and teachers as “Pao” — that blew my socks off. (Pao acknowledges that his sister Jillian helped him along with the speech — hurray for sisters!) I later emailed Pao to say that it was the best student speech I’d ever heard, and asked him for a copy to share with my readers, so here it is, and I hope this goes viral: My name is Isaiah Paolo Atienza Lee, and I am not your valedictorian. I am not the best, I am not the brightest, and I am here speaking to you right now because all the other summas backed out. I’m somehow supposed to talk to you about honor and excellence, so let me start with my story. When I was in first year, I almost got kicked out because of Chem 16. I wasn’t even bad at the class. I just had a habit of scribbling on my forearm during exams, which was—in hindsight, understandably — interpreted as cheating. After an unchecked exam and a lot of stress, I ended up with a diagnosis of Asperger’s syndrome. On the whole, it was a less than ideal way to get psychological support and an 1.00 in Chem 16, but I didn’t fail the class, I didn’t get dismissed from UP, and I didn’t jump off a bridge. I could have, but...
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...If you would have asked me five years ago where I would be now, I never would have imagined I would be graduating baking and pastry school, embarking on my career as a pastry chef, and launching my own cake decorating business. I first began college as a premed student in Northern Kentucky. Four majors later I found out about the Baking and Pastry program at the Art Institute and I realized baking did not have to be just a hobby. The program helped me recognize that I could have a career in a field that I have an immense love and passion for. I began the program in October of 2009, eager to learn all that I could about my new field of study. I was anxious to acquire the techniques that I watched everyday on the Food Network and excited to one day create the masterpieces that these Chefs have done. My first cake in my introduction to baking class was simply decorated with a vine of pumpkins. Through the classes offered in the Baking and Pastry program, the instructors helped expand my knowledge and skills. During my second quarter at the Art Institute I was able to make a primitive fire place scene out of bread and as Easter Bunny with a basket make completely of sugar. Each class was specific to techniques used to create exquisite showpieces and cake creations. After my third quarter in the program, I had experience making many classic European tortes and made a box completely out of chocolate. My fourth and final quarter was my favorite of my Baking and Pastry college career...
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...Graduation by Maya Angelou Summary In Maya Angelou’s essay Graduation, the author describes all of the emotions & experiences she has approaching, & during her middle school graduation in the 1930s at the segregated school Lafayette County Training School in Stamps, Arkansas. Pre-Graduation Students prepare to graduate from both the grammar & high schools in Stamps, Arkansas. While some families order new outfits for themselves & their children, Angelou wears a yellow pique dress like the majority of other eighth grade girls. Angelou feels a sense of excitement & anticipation, which lifts her spirits, as she says, “I had taken to smiling more often, & my jaws hurt from the unaccustomed activity.” Graduation Day The students file into their seats, singing the National Anthem & reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. However, straying from the usual assembly routine, they do not follow with the “Negro National Anthem,” the song “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” by James Weldon Johnson & J. Rosamond Johnson. This exemption gives Angelou an idea of how the rest of the ceremony will go. The principal welcomes & leads the group in a prayer with the Baptist priest, & introduces the guest speaker, white state representative Edward Donleavy. He gives a very uninspiring speech as he tells of the improvements set for the white high school’s sciences, arts & Training School’s sports facilities. Other than sports, Donleavy spoke very little of...
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...Senior Year Struggle for Graduation My senior year and my last days in high school had arrive at University High School. Struggles started to heat up when I knew I had to pass all my classes and especially FCAT. I knew I wasn’t worried about passing my class because I was open-minded for doing everything I needed to do for school. The struggle I’m going to talk bout in this essay is about my struggle of FCAT and how I accomplished it and what I went through after knowing I failed it. It all started just because I transfer schools. Let me tell you how it all started. When FCAT came in October and I couldn’t take it because I had transfer to University High. I knew I had lost my chance of passing the most important part to get my diploma, I was scared and depress about it. I knew there was other ways to replace FCAT and get my degree, but I didn’t wanted to do that. Then, March came and it was my last chance to get a passing score on the most stressful test I ever take, FCAT. Knowing this day was coming I got terrified. Having help from my favorite reading teacher in high school, Mrs. Hartman. She really helped get through everything I felt when I found out I wasn’t to move on with my career goal. When Scores came in from March FCAT and the teacher told me I didn’t pass I started crying and I got really upset. Then I knew I had to take a stand and find another solution about what I can do to pass my FCAT. So I went to my Guidance Counselor and I asked her what other...
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...Good evening, fellow classmates and heninger staff. We are here tonight to honor the 8th graders from Heninger Elementary K-8 who have worked really hard to make their parents proud. You may not know me, but I’m Mireya Hernandez and I’ve attended Heninger since 2nd grade. In my time here I’ve learn how to communicate and not to let others put me down. My fellow classmates and I are here tonight at our 8th grade promotion from Heninger. We are the graduating class of 2018. During my years at Heninger I have learn to appreciate the little things and the opportunities that the school gives you I also learned that every teacher is different but they all want you to succeed in life and not to go the wrong path. One of my best memories is that I...
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...Speech Analysis Paper Oprah Winfrey Stanford University Graduation 2008 This speech was about three lessons that Oprah Winfrey has come across in her professional and personal life. She talked about striving to be yourself and not anyone else and how you can grasp failure and turn it around by embracing it and finding the solution, and lastly how happiness comes when you give back to others. Her first lesson was about striving to be your own self; she talked about in the beginning of her professional career when she had a job in Baltimore as a news anchor. She was constantly holding Barbara Walters as the image she wanted to be in her career and wanted to be like. So she was always trying to talk like Barbara, look like Barbara and act like Barbara… And she kept getting it wrong. She felt the need to be spontaneous and more of herself when she would read some of the headings…. Especially upsetting headings with disasters involved. So she would sometimes not pre-read any of headings until she was live so it would come across more realistic. She once covered a story of a horrible fire and afterwards ran to the scene and helped the fire victims by providing blankets. She never lost her empathy. She ran into some barriers during this job that ultimately helped her find her true purpose in life. The first barrier was that her boss let her know that they did not like the way she looked, and that they wanted to give her a new name that they thought would be more “friendly” and...
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...1. When is the Graduation Rehearsal? Rehearsal will be held on Thursday June 7, at the WA State Trade and Convention Center in Seattle, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. School buses will leave the MIHS bus loading zone on 92nd Ave SE by 9:30 a.m.sharp [following the senior breakfast] to take you to the rehearsal. Buses will return to school by 1:00. EVERYONE WILL RIDE THE BUS TO AND FROM COMMENCEMENT REHEARSAL. In order to prevent embarrassment to yourself and to your class, you must be familiar with your role in the commencement ceremony. IF YOU DO NOT ATTEND THE REHEARSAL YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN COMMENCEMENT. Please wear usual school clothing to the rehearsal. At rehearsal the commencement ceremony will be explained and you will slowly "walk through" it [more than once] in its entirety. This will be your only chance to learn your role in the program. DO NOT BRING CAPS AND GOWNS TO REHEARSAL. Use of alcohol or any controlled substance will not be tolerated, and anyone violating this policy will be dealt with as follows: • You shall be taken from the immediate area, your parents will be contacted and requested to come and pick you up. • Those not participating in the commencement rehearsal shall not be allowed to participate in the commencement ceremony that night. 2. Where is the Ceremony? How do we get there? Where can we park? The Washington State Convention & Trade Center is located in downtown Seattle with the main entrance on the corner...
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...INTRODUCTION In this fast growing generation, students study hard to finished their degree and deserve to live the life they dreamed, They are expecting that life will be easier after earning a degree as they open a door for a new chapter of life after graduation. In the year 2008 according to POEA, minimum wage of salary was hard to come and graduates who want to go abroad but they can not immediately qualify for employment overseas due to lack of the necessary experience required by foreign employers. This 2013, Hospitality Industry encourage students to be a part of them as they face the economy with their growing and developing industry modernized lodging establishments and newly ways of serving customers are the stepping stone of the said industry. And as one of the major contributor of the 5 star Hotel Manila in Alabang believes that the “Time is ripe for a tourism booms in the Philippines.” Hoteliers promotes Philippines as the number one Hospitality Industry country and there’s no doubt by that through their performance showed through out this year. Company urged students to be skillful and knowledgeable as they enter in a world of Hospitality Industry. Hospitality environments are very dynamic and no matter what area appeals to you, opportunities are waiting for you to fill them. Students are expected...
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...translated into several languages including his native Ilokano. He has been involved with the international cultural organizations, notably International P.E.N., the world association of poets, playwrights, essayists and novelists whose Philippine Center he founded in 1958. F. Sionil José, the Philippines' most widely translated author, is known best for his epic work, the Rosales saga - five novels encompassing a hundred years of Philippine history - a vivid documentary of Filipino life. In 1980, Sionil José received the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts. In 2001, Sionil José was named National Artist for Literature. In 2004, Sionil José received the Pablo Neruda Centennial Award. GRADUATION by F. Sionil Jose I always knew that someday after I finished high school, I’d go to Manila and to college. I had looked ahead to thegrand adventure with eagerness but when it finally came, my leaving Rosales filled me with a nameless dread and a great,swelling unhappiness that clogged my chest. I couldn’t be sure now. Maybe it was friendship, huge and granite-like, or just plain sympathy. I couldn’t be sureanymore; maybe I really fell in love when I was sixteen. Her name was Teresita. She was a proud, stubborn girl with many fixed ideas and she even admonished me: “Justbecause you gave will be accepted.” It was until after...
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...Jewel James English 12 January 12, 2016 Final Project Graduation has been a teenagers’ dream to achieve throughout their academic life in School. However, many obstacles tend to prevent these teenagers from graduating. Why? Well This is because of the unequal fairness that teachers provide to the students. Therefore, I think That graduation from high schools should depend on students’ marks based on standardized Exams. I would explain the reasons through the analysis of students’ life of bias treatment from Teachers, and the different standards of teachers based on their degree of knowledge. We can all acknowledge that all teachers are humans; all humans contain feelings inside them whether it is positive or negative. But yet, these feelings tend to disrupt the equality of the teachers. Knowing this, we could see that teachers can be bias at times depending on the circumstances. Sexism and racism are usually the main issue between teachers and students. Some teachers tend to like their own sex or their opposite sex based on their own belief and needs. They may think that their own sex is a lot better than the other or that the opposite sex is a lot more attracting than your own sex. These factors affect a teacher’s ability to distinguish between their own feelings or to judge the ability of a student rather than their sex. Racism is also another main issue between teachers and students. Some teacher may tend to have a strong belief in a type of religion...
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