...WA#4 Draft #4 High School Experience The teenage years are some of the most important stages in everyone’s life because that’s when we all start a new chapter in our lives, which is difficult and very interesting at the same time. The teen years are exciting because that’s when we begin to somehow take control of our lives by making our own decisions and making our own choices about what we’d like to do or how we want things to be according to where we are, and where we want to go in the future. When we enter the teenage years and we start going to high school, we feel more independent and want to do things our way, like changing the way we dress, act, hang out with friends, and the way we communicate with our family. I remember my teen years in high school, and how much fun I had, the things I learned, and how much I changed. I went to Hayward High, high school in Hayward California, a nice school in the Hayward hills (APP). I am proud to say that I loved being going to this high school because it has great teachers and helpful staff. My high school experience was, and forever will be a very exiting and magnificent stage in my life that I will never forget. One great thing that happened to me was being able to meet my best friend, Refugio. When I started going to high school, I didn’t know anyone because I went to a different high school from the rest of my middle school friends, so I was totally alone on the first day at the new school. I remember when I went to...
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...As I progress through this semester, I have begun to establish goals for myself to make the school year successful. By setting goals, I can turn a challenging semester into one that runs smoothly and feels less complicated. Although some goals have obstacles, I try my best to work hard and challenge myself. By challenging myself, I can conquer the goals I set. I have many goals, but some have more importance than others. My semester goals include making good grades, making new friends, and getting involved in extracurricular activities. My main goal this semester is to make good grades. Grades are definitely the most important factor in my life at school. I strive to do my best to retain as much information as possible. Grades determine many things, such as an average for a class or whether one can get into a certain college. Making good grades challenges me because some classes are more difficult than others. For example, I struggle with English and pre-calculus more than anything. I have to write many essays for English; therefore, I try to work on my writing skills so that I...
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...Sunnyside high school is just like every other high school, there are the popular kids, the nerdy kids, the jocks and the average kids. Everyone somehow seems to fit into one of these groups, everyone except for Sunnie Dryson. Sunnie is not like everyone else, she has a passion for making dolls. This makes her stand out among all the various groups and people at her school and causes everyone to push her away. Everyone thinks Sunnie is weird, all because making dolls is not something a typical seventeen year old teen does. Over the years she has made so many dolls that she has started a collection of over a hundred of them. Each and every doll is different in it’s own way and no two dolls can be grouped together. She loves making the dolls and she can not imagine stopping even though it is hindering her from having friends and being like every other high school girl. Sunnie has never once had a real friend until a boy named Joshua Assorted moved to her school two weeks ago. Sunnie and Joshua sit by each other in english class. The first day he came to school Sunnie noticed that there was something that stood out about him. Joshua was starting to become friends with Sunnie and she knew that once he found out about her...
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...From middle school to high school a lot of people experience immense changes in themselves. For me transitioning into high school was one of the biggest changes I have ever experienced. At first, this change was scary but once I realized the positive impact it would have on me personally, I was more open to the ideas. This change gave me many new skills and experiences that I could never have experienced in middle school. My move from middle school to high school has changed my personality, interests, and standards for academics. P1: Being placed in a new unfamiliar environment has made me more social and has improved my attitude towards life. My middle school years were the worst years of my life. This had to do with the fact that I switched...
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...Joe R.’s current substance abuse and mental perpetuates the presenting problem. The substance abuse interferes with his ability to do day to day activities such as going to school, making connection and developing into a healthy person. Substance abuse is known to inhibit the brain therefore stunting normal development in social and emotional areas. When he has a “hang over” he struggles with getting out of bed to go to school because he feels quite unwell. Joe’s depression furthermore affects areas in his life that can cause difficulties that perpetuate the problem, for example, feeling lethargic, tired and fatigued makes it difficult for Joe to get out of bed. The feelings of hopelessness and helplessness prevent him from see how school...
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...With my friends in school I did not have to go far to witness the five gestures which are emblems, illustrators, regulators, adaptors and affect displays. I just have to hang around with my friends in school and already, I can witness the different kind of gestures because most of my friends have so much energy that they move and express themselves a lot that it is very easy to detect their gestures. To be specific, we were in the campus in our favourite hang-out place: Student Lounge (Room 1132) chatting, fooling around and telling stories each other funny stories and if there is nothing new, tell recycled funny stories. We also do serious stuff such as teaching each other about school topics that one of us is struggling. The most obvious gesture that I witnessed is laughing which is an affect display of emotion motivated by fun. Laugh conveyed fun and happiness and familiarity with the person we are with which is why we laugh a lot when we are together. I can no longer count the times that my friends laugh since everybody was telling silly stories and making fun of each other. The second gesture I saw was a cross arm coming one of my female friends that we were making fun of. Again, this is an affective display of emotion but this time, it was motivated by disgust and being defensive because my friends were making fun of her. I only noticed this once followed by with her hands akimbo when she was about to asset her point. I only...
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...In the beginning of this year I thought I was prepared for the freshman classes that I had heard about. Walking into Newton North on the first day of school I thought that everyone would stay in their own friend groups, my best friend would stay my best friend, and nothing would change. I was wrong. Throughout this year I think I changed a lot and strayed from who I thought I was going to be. I was confident in the beginning of the year, but not just with myself but with my friend group and my classes. Though my confidence with my new friend group has stayed the same I've began to question myself and who I was and am. I compare myself to others and I tried to be like everyone else. I also realized how hard I had to push myself to keep the...
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...The Balance of School & Work During my junior year of high school I decided it was time to make my own money and begin to lean away from my parents. Although it is much easier to just ask for money, making my own taught me a lot more in the long run. I was forced to learn how to balance school work, social events, and work all at the same time. Having a job affected me in many positive ways. I learned what it was like to have an income of my own, I made many friends along the way, and I had to manage my time in order to stay on top of my studies. Taking on so many responsibilities at once and only being sixteen had its fair share of ups and downs, but when the weekly pay check came in it made it all worth it. Being a hostess at Texas Roadhouse was an ideal first job for someone like me. The paychecks were not much but the feeling of making money that I worked hard for was a feeling I had never experienced before. I was able to buy things I wanted and know that those items were 100% mine. My job taught me that making money is not always easy and made it me realize that when I asked my parents for money that it really did not just grow on trees. Without having my job in high school I believe I would have continued to rely on my parents for many of my wants. Making money was not the only thing I liked about having my job, along the way I made some really good friends. Working in a popular restaurant brought in people from many of the local high schools and colleges. As...
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...right decision for me. All of my friends committed to what school they were gonna attend pretty early, which was scaring me even more....
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...“PEER PRESSURE AS A CONTRIBUTING FACTORS IN THE CRIMINOLOGY STUDENT OF NATIONAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THEIR SCHOOL PERFORMANCE” THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION What is peer pressure? How does peer pressure affect on the school performance of the criminology student? There are such several factors that affect in their school performance. There are some programs on how to control and manage peer pressure. People grow older; people may be faced with some challenge decision. Some don’t have a clear right or wrong answer. Other decisions involve serious moral questions. Making decisions on own is hard enough, but when other people get involved and try to make pressure the people one way or another it can be even harder. People who are teenagers and adolescence, like classmates, are called peers. When they try to influence how the act, to get to do something, it’s called peer pressure. It’s something everyone has to deal with, even adults. Maybe others want to do it, and just don’t have to courage to do it and friends talk them into it. Peer pressure can be broken down into two areas, good peer pressure and bad peer pressure. Peer pressure was always thinking of it in bad terms. In terms of pressuring others into, smoking, do illegal drugs, drink alcohol, have promiscuous sex, engage in criminal and quasi-criminal, behavior, do violence, join gangs, and so on. Thinking of the many good ways that peer pressure can influence and neither...
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...faced in reservation grade school; I, on the other hand, faced minimum hardships since I went to private grade school. The rules of the private school I went to are based on the Bible, and this created a friendly Christian environment among the students, so bullying of any sort was scarce. Alexie faced constant bullying in the reservation schools he attended. My elementary school life was peaceful and violence was uncommon, whereas Alexie’s elementary school life was traumatizing for him, facing problems with bullying and racism. My elementary life is eventful and enjoyable. One vivid memory I had in my elementary years, specifically first grade, is vomiting every other day during school. This was not caused by bullying; it was caused by scheduling P.E right after lunch. Every lunch I would drink chocolate milk with my meal. After enduring a vigorous exercise in P.E, the entire grade would line up so they could go back to class and continue their learning. Before we would leave to go to class, that is when I would erupt my lunch onto the green carpet we ran on. One noticeable food item in my vomit was chocolate milk. After first grade, I had the desire to switch schools, not because I was tired of the school I was going to, but because I wanted to go to the public school my aunt taught at. Sadly, I was not able to go to that school, and I went to a different public school, one that was closer to home. After experiencing a couple months of the public school life, I wanted to return...
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...Back to School Back to School Going back to school was a decision that took me a long time to make. Going back to school meant I will have to change my way of leaving and find a way to manage my family and work. Making my children proud of me was the biggest motivation to go back to school. Deciding to go back to school took a long time to decide which the right collage to attend was. I needed to look for a college that worked around my schedule and did not required me to go every day and still manage to go full time. When I heard about colleges that required attending only once a week and the rest of the time was online courses. Another thing that I had to look into was my financial situation. The military helped me facilitate my decision by helping me pay for my education. Researching colleges was harder than I thought. Every school I looked into was good some required more from me and did not worked with my scheduled. Once I conducted researched on University of Phoenix, I discovered that University of Phoenix was the best I found because it worked around my schedule. Many of my friends attend or attended University of Phoenix and were very successful. Seeing my friends have success motivated me to go back to school and attend University of Phoenix. Going back to school requires me to make time away from my family and friends. Working...
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...I didn’t always like going to school in the morning; in fact, I used to hate going to school. I always found it boring, useless, and a waste of time. I always asked my self, “when will I ever need to do/use this outside of this classroom?” The process of getting up early, getting ready and then sitting at school for seven hours a day Monday through Friday didn’t appeal to me one bit. Little by little, I had unknowingly programmed myself into thinking that it was such a burden to go, that I eventually didn’t even want to go at all. Sometimes, I wouldn’t even set my alarm for the next day. Partly, because I wasn’t fond of the idea of having to stay put, seated for a majority of the day cooped up inside, and partly because I didn’t like how early I would have to wake up. I found myself getting into trouble with school, getting behind in my classes, forming a bad attendance record, and my teachers/classmates noticing my poor habits: I had been late so often that I had become truant throughout the year and my first hour class actually had to be switched to a study hall. This had gone on for nearly both of my freshman and sophomore years of high school. At the time, though, doing poorly in school and getting into all of that trouble, unfortunately didn’t bother me. To be quite frank, I really didn’t mind one way or the next whether I passed or failed. I was more caught up with making new friends and making any impression at all (whether it was good or bad) than putting effort into...
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...Decision Making Process Charlotte D. Stephens MGT/230 Management Theory and Practice May 7, 2013 Synnamon Taylor Decision Making Process Starting college at a later part in my life was not an easy decision. I question my family member, and friends. Their feedback was it never too late. I always heard this phrase, so I set my goals to believe, have faith. The best decision I made was believing that I could be successful going back to college. My family is very supportive, helpful and encouraging. My friends are supportive, and helping out when I exhausted myself. They are always encouraging rest and relaxation are the successful key. The choice to pursue advanced education is a very much personal one. My choice was centered going on a multiple motives. I want to raise my education, and I want to improve myself and my lifecycle. Registering in school was the beginning of a road of self-discovery. I feel a profound requirement to achieve a well acceptant of the individual I am. I truthfully trust that this path I am on will direct me to further, and countless things. The other half of my inspiration comes from inside. I am inspired by the point that I want to create a change, not just a living. Fatefully, I am also very much driven by a need for monetary constancy. I would to wake up daily knowing that I am financially able to take care of myself now, and in the future. I will be able to have enough money to afford education, nutrition, housing, and apparel for my...
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...Making Friends The process of making a friend is a very unique one. It depends on the person one is trying to become friends with, it depends on one's gender, it depends on one's age, but most importantly it depends one's personality. Every individual is different and how they make friends differs just as greatly. The way I make friends depends heavily on my personality. As an introverted person, I tend to first meet potential friends through what I call forced association. After the initial meeting, I evaluate them and determine whether or not I think they should be my friend. Bonding, specifically male bonding, follows and acceptance is the final stage. Before I can delve into the sometimes mysterious process of becoming friends with someone, I have to divulge some personal information. I am a great believer in personality typing: the theory that a great majority of people fall into one personality type or another. A complete analysis of my personality is not within the scope of this essay, but suffice it to say that I am very introverted. This does not mean I am anti-social, it merely means that new and non-routine interaction with others taxes my energy. The process of making a new friend is by definition a new and non-routine interaction, therefore it is quite difficult for me to initiate the process. This is where the concept of forced interaction comes in. By forced interaction, I mean a situation where another person and I are placed in an environment where we have no...
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