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Big Deal Pretty Good
1,915 wordsI think part of the problem is that I was perfect once. It only lasted for about five minutes, but I guess I'm supposed to be grateful it ever happened or something. Actually, I think it kind of messed me up. Maybe because I was too young or something. I guess perfect usually happens when you " re young, though. You just don't see old people being perfect much. Or maybe they " re perfect a lot of the Have you ever noticed the most important things happen when we " re too young to understand that...
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Censored Ing National Institute
2,139 wordsDrug use among teenagers seems to be on the rise. Marijuana is almost commonplace among kids my age. Many of my friends have tried, or are involved with drugs and I never could understand why. I chose this topic in order to try and get a sense of why people do it, or why it is on the rise among teens. Just like smoking cigarettes, it seems obvious that the effects of drugs are going to be bad and maybe even addicting. So, why would anyone want to get involved with them? Why would they want to pu...
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Locker Room Middle School
1,272 wordsMy Ascent into 8 th Grade Stardom It was very hard moving to a new town in the summer of 1994. This event meant having to attend a new middle school and reestablish myself in a new environment. Even though I had moved about every two years of my entire life, that did not make this time any easier. I still had to make new friends and ground myself all over again. Middle School, like most other middle schools, had an "in" crowd. At Crossroads, it was mainly the football players. After I started sc...
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Turning Point Five Percent
450 wordsI lived on a farm in southern Indiana for seven years. This static way of life changed drastically and abruptly two years ago when my family moved to the suburbs of Indianapolis, thirteenth largest city in the country. During the summer months of 1983, I spent my time adjusting to city life. Moving from the farmhouse into an apartment was just one adjustment I had to make. Another was the proximity of stores, restaurants, and cinemas. "Down on the farm, " the closest movie house was 20 miles awa...
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Older Girls High School Life
495 wordsMy brother who experienced a very difficult period of his life taught me to never give up. His fight to change makes him my hero. My brother was diagnosed with severe clinical depression early in high school. Medication and doctors did little and he was eventually institutionalized. He ended up watching his friends graduate from high school while he failed. He moved out and spent the next two years trying to piece back his life. Finally, In my sophomore year, he returned to high school as a seni...
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Personal Experience Five Years
1,290 wordsA personal experience seems like such a simple concept to many. In actuality, it is complex, compound, and can be described as development through life. A personal experience is only a first hand account through the eyes, and emotions of only one person and their journey. I have a story to tell that has taken a colossal role in developing the person that I have become in my social life, family life, and also my academic ventures. Through reading the essay Indians: Textualism, Morality, and the P...
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Standardized Testing In The School System
1,559 wordsStandardized Testing in the School System At all levels, from pre-school to four-year colleges and universities, US public education is dominated by a win-lose competitive model, established and supported through standardized testing system. While this model has been relatively successful in educating and training most Americans to function in the type of economic environment that has prevailed since the Second World War, it has almost completely failed to develop a citizenry that can participat...
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Teacher Didn T
2,708 wordsBefore I started high school, elementary school teachers told me that no one cared about you at the high school. It was a different world and you had to do everything on your own. As I started my first semester, I was working with A? s and B? s, and great conduct. I learned a lot though. It was true; most teachers really didn? t care about their students and followed a lesson plan that had been in repetitive use since the 70? s. But that wasn? t a problem. I like looking at things from all persp...
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Wait Till Dont Remember
3,802 wordsI think part of the problem is that I was perfect once. It only lasted for about five minutes, but I guess Im supposed to be grateful it ever happened or something. Actually, I think it kind of messed me up. Maybe because I was too young or something. I guess perfect usually happens when youre young, though. You just dont see old people being perfect much. Or maybe theyre perfect a lot of the time, just nobody notices. Have you ever noticed the most important things happen when were too young to...
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Didn T Simple Words
2,468 wordsNarrative About My Decision I? m about to take you into my own little world where I am king, where my regard for other human existence is futile to say the least. A world where time stands still and the use of words is hard. I don? t know how I? m about to do this because I remember in action not standard vocabulary. It must be kept in mind that this was a difficult time period of life, with my grandmother being sick and my girlfriend trying to pressure me into many things including marriage. Mo...
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