College Essays
FCA’s TYPE 3, FCA 1: Effective and interesting opening and closing. TYPE 3, FCA 2: Details coherently organized and developed using 3 or more methods of elaboration. TYPE 3, FCA 3: Uses a variety of sentence structures and openings (5 or more times). Recently, I have come to the realization of the importance of a […]
America has an abundance of serious needs. Most of them are the material needs of individual people. However, the intangible needs are just as great. I believe that some of America’s greatest needs are for kindness and compassion, two qualities that much of America sorely lacks. In order to have a chance to meet America’s […]
My art teacher always says, ” There is no such thing as a mistake, only a chance for a new opportunity.” When I first heard her say this, I couldn’t have disagreed more. My sketch was a mess. My effort at shading looked more like grey aliens than shadows and like my project, I was […]
Here are question that I want you to think about before you read this article. How would you feel if you were in high school and can only read 2nd grade level? You feel very sad and all the time that you have to cry you to sleep because I did the past 10 year […]
Learning is like technology; if you do not continue to reinvent and update it students will fall behind. This means that the way schools teach needs to change, starting with a flipped classroom. A flipped classroom is an education technique where students learn the material outside the classroom through a video or reading and do […]
Ever since I was a little girl I have been asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” How am I supposed to answer this question? So many variables are affecting our future that it is almost impossible to answer said question. Our generation has been put in one of the worst […]
On a family camping outing at the age of three years old, I was diagnosed with type one diabetes. It was a tough transition at first and I had to start going to a lot more doctors appointments. Each month I would switch off between seeing my endocrinologist, Dr. Elisabeth Quinn, and my diabetes nurse, […]
Every day I wake up to go to school and I have to change my clothes but I feel too tired to change. If we didn’t have uniform things would be less hard. When kids get home kids just what to relaxes but they can’t when there wherein a uniform When I wear a uniform […]
In my sophomore year of high school, one of my classmates passed away in a tragic car accident. On the day after the accident, his friends planned for everyone to wear white, in memory of him. Most of us did, and it really showed our unity: our school came together as a family. However, those […]
High school, 4 years that have a big impact on your life. These are the years that are engraved in your head forever. This is where most of our grades get lower each week, and our parents believe we don’t have a single care in the world. Here is the place where people say it’s […]
Here are my reasons to why cell phones should not be allowed in school. Here are 3 of the main reasons why. Some may argue that phones should be allowed in schools,but me and others(including teachers) may object.The three main reasons are: they are distractions,suffering grades,and lost focus. Without further adieu,here are my 3 reasons […]
Schools around the country ban gum, but recent studies may help once again give gum a good name. Research has concluded that gum chewing has many health benefits and contributes to a positive learning environment. Given this, bringing gum back into schools should be a no-brainer. Gum chewing has been proven to increase concentration in […]
Nowadays video games are the way most kids spend their free time. No matter if it is a fighting game, a racing game, or a sport game, kids love them. So why not use that for educational purposes. Video games can be very useful as a learning tool at school. Lessons at school can be […]
Often, adults criticize youth, calling us silly and immature and naive. “Kids these days,” they remark with an eye-roll and a scoff. Yet at the same time, when I was as young as six years old, my family members would ask me that dreaded question, “What do you want to do when you grow up?” […]
School lunches should be improved upon as this year the selections and options that are offered are not appetizing. The lunch program has changed so much between last year and this year. The school lunches are such a big deal to many students that they would also agree with me that the food needs to […]
My dream is to go to the army because I’ve wanted to be in the military ever since I saw the greatness in the united states army on Youtube on a young lady and I hoped to one day be a part of it , I want to be the first one of the family […]
CTE courses are Career and Technical Education courses. They’re the classes like home ec, teen living, apparel, carpentry, automotive, etc. Different schools have different things or they go by different names. For example: teen living. In my middle school it went by “Home Ec”, but in my early high school career it went by teen […]
A couple years ago, if you asked me which I liked better “to read on the Kindle or actual books”, I would have answered “actual books” and quickly followed my answer up with the common argument against replacing natural reading with an electronic simulation. As my fellow student at my high school, Natalie R., put […]
Well I am a junior this year and you know what my family has decided that means…… ….. .Its time to pick what I am to go to college for, Without asking me.. What do i want you ask. I want to Act, direct, and Write. But when i said that to my family they […]
There should be school uniforms because there is violence: there is gangs at school that can create fights, violence, etc. There is bullies around the hallways hanging out, so they can fish someone to pick on. People won’t be safe anywhere they go around the school, no matter what. People will be ending up looking […]
God. Who is God? Is God male or female? Is his/her name God or is it something else? How many Gods are there? All of these questions, but nobody to answer them. Who knows for sure if there even is a God? All of this mystery and still so much love, trust, and hope for […]
I ask myself a lot of questions. I ask myself what I’m going to wear every day, I ask myself what to do when I’m bored. But today I ask myself a different question. I ask myself the question most teenage high school students ask themselves. How have I changed and progressed throughout the year. […]
Imagine yourself being a senior in high school and you have just received your admissions letter from the college of your dreams. As you start to open the letter you remember all the late nights and stressful weekends you’ve put into this college. The letter opens and you read those dreadful words that everybody wishes […]
I am sure this aplies for every school, but have you ever noticed what happens when a teacher leaves the classroom? Is it A: everyone sits and reads untill he returns. B: nothing at all happens or C: the classs starts acting like animals. The answer was C,and if your class does A or B […]
Students hold their breaths and their pencils, trapped behind old desks in a gigantic room, for four hours in absolute silence, with the feeling that their lives depend on this one test. A very stressful, expensive, time-consuming test: the SAT. While this monster test comes as a burden on the privileged student, for other students, […]
For many years, our grading system has been based on letters and numbers, A’s being excellent, and B’s being good – or that’s at least how the educational systems views it. For the past few years, we have seen the effect that grades have on students. Sometimes, just gettingB’s and C’s can cause students to […]
It all started from walking into an English classroom my sophomore year at John Dickinson high school. The classroom had posters of Greek mythology, Shakespeare, every major sports team logo in Pittsburgh with magazine and newspaper articles with those teams from the Steelers, Pirates, Penguins, and Panthers. From there I realized how much he was […]
Summer is the time where most students ditch their books and put their brains away, including me. For this summer, I read the book In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. I read the book in pieces which made it hard for me to understand and appreciate its true literary merit. The valuable time that I […]
Adults and kids will argue about issues about who is right but do adults really have the authority to talk down to the kids and make them smaller than they really are? Even though kids are right some times adults do not agree and they try to make us seem smaller and themselves bigger than […]
I don’t think kids should get in trouble for tardiness. Its retarded. If you’re standing in the door way when the bell rings and count you tardy. Then that’s not even reasonable. You’re at the teachers classroom, and the last time I checked, the door was a part of the classroom that they want you […]
