College Essays
”A man gotta have a code” -Omar from The Wire At my high school we study Tupac, mostly at different schools the sophmores learn about How to kill a mocking bird and Romeo & Juliet. Some poeple feel that he’s controversial but I feel that we can learn sonething from Tupac’s life. For example he’s […]
It has always bothered me that the bookstores at school are always so disorganized and so crowded all the time. They are always full of people shouting out what they want and pushing others to be able to order. In my opinion, the bookstores are way too small compared to the people that want to […]
How could technology ruin some people’s life when all it has done is given people relationships, help them meet friends, and even given some people relationships? Some people manifest that technology has damaged social skills, it has shut some off the world and life, and that it ruins their relationships and are no longer able […]
Tupac grew up in a rough area. He hung around the wrong crowd, his mom was addicted to drugs, He even sold drugs and was part of violent activity but he turned his life around by educating others, he became very religious, and helped create organizations to help people in his community. Some people think […]
As I begin my applications for University and the necessary scholarships associated with these courses and accommodation, I notice that the questions are exactly what I expect them to be: What extra-curriculars do you do? How have you made a difference in your community? How have you overcome difficulty? What are your hobbies? These are […]
What is the goal of education? Many Americans believe that the goal of education is to teach America’s youth a variety of critical thinking skills that will ideally enable them to achieve success and become contributing members of society. To evaluate what students gather from their learning experience, America’s educational system employs the use of […]
The dictionary definition of a break, “a brief rest, as from work”. At my school, spring break is about to begin, that “brief rest” from all the schoolwork I have done. If only that were the case. In reality, spring break, and all school breaks in general, have become an excuse for teachers to assign […]
Ah, summer. Swimming pools and beaches and fun-in-the-sun. Carefree, happy, content. Spending June and July and August in the shade–Oh no! School’s starting soon! We all know what it’s like to dread having to go back to school in the fall, but what if there was another option? Here, I’m talking about homeschooling. While homeschooling […]
Honors students are defined by idealists as “students with above-average intelligence, and a sincere love of knowledge and learning in all subjects.” Other common misconceptions are that honors students never procrastinate or complain about the assignments they’ve been given. Well, that’s a pretty little picture. Now, to REAL honors students, someone who falls under these […]
Summer break, finally! Now school is over and kids have all summer to be free from grades and homework. That is unless a child attends a year-round school! Children across the country are losing their summer break causing schools to lose money from being open all year. Year round schools have no positive influences on […]
Although we stretch from sea to shining sea, the United States has not quite achieved perfection.It is not difficult to see that we have a problem in our country. Although the U.S. has come very far in its few years of existence, there are still miniscule places in which we fall short. Self defense? There […]
When schools are faced with problems such as a lack of money and budget cuts, it is often the school’s art and music programs that are eliminated from the curriculum. Art and music play an extremely significant role in the lives of many students and it is wrong to take away something that is so […]
People will always tell you “what happens in school won’t matter in the future.” But just think: what if that wasn’t always the case? What if people in school can truly impact someone’s views? Well, that’s what happened when one young girl inspired and motivated students all around her middle school to stand up for […]
Congratulations, you’ve made it through eight seemingly-unimportant years of elementary school and middle school. The days of recess and class Christmas parties are over and now you’re ready to move on to the big leagues: high school. Now you can look forward to making new friends, joining fun clubs and activities, and making sports teams. […]
What if there was a way to get your work done with no effort or any work at all would you do it? School systems today are so lenient in their rules, causing cheating, copying to be frequently used. Many people would take advantage of copying someone else’s work whenever given the chance. Not realizing […]
There are many ways to write a good essay, paper, or article. Writing is suggestive, meaning it can be interpreted in many ways, and the way that I am about to teach you is not the only way to writing, nor is it the best way to right; however, it still is an effective way […]
Why do we allow ourselves to live in a world with criminals, why are children that are allowed to corrupt our society over and over again, why do we send them somewhere that doesn’t help them help us? There is a continuous argument about trying children as adults, and that argument could last forever until […]
Should Students Have Open Campus Lunch Periods? Should students have open campus lunch periods? What that means is students could be able to go anywhere they would want to go. Some middle schools and high schools let them go. I think that they should because it gives them a break of school. The first argument […]
Who is Tupac? What was Tupac really like? Tupac was a very intelligent person. His intelligence comes from his mom and a tough childhood. Tupac and his family moved around a lot, he was born in New York, then moved to Baltimore, then moved again to Oakland. As a child Tupac and his family was […]
Bennie is sitting at his desk, bored and depressed… once again. He is staring at the clock in front of him, waiting for it to move. He had a pile of homework in front of him but he wasn’t willing to do them. Too useless, too much he thought. If only there wasn’t any homework, […]
“You know, if you play your cards right, you can go so far in life” We are sitting in class and playing cards. Today’s game of choice is B. S, fairly simple. All you have to do is call someone’s bluff when they lie about the cards they have. “I have two aces” “B.S!” Den […]
For four years during high school, we learn the principles of science and math. How to solve for x in a polynomial equation. But as a volunteer engineer for a manufacturing factory during my sophomore year, I found that the typical high school curriculum is just not enough to prepare students for the real world. […]
Do you sometimes wish that life would just stop? I’ve always dreamed of owning a magical remote control that can start and stop the flow of time, like that guy in the movie “Click.” (Now, I’ve never actually seen the movie, so I can’t say if that turned out well for him.) Maybe it’s just […]
What if you could have your whole backpack at the touch of you fingertips? In the first month of the Apple iPads release a whooping 25 million were sold! People all over the world use iPads for all sorts of different things: business, games, media, etc, but one of their finest qualities is the ability […]
Treat everyone the same. Don’t judge people on the way they look or where they came from. Isn’t that what we have been taught our whole lives? So why are colleges using affirmative action to “level the playing field” for minorities? Martin Luther King Jr. preached repeatedly for the equality of races and the extinction […]
Free Daycares for Teen Mothers In the United States, thousands of teens will become pregnant. In a recent study, it has been shown that 34% of teens have at least one pregnancy before they turn 20. Because there are so many new teen mothers, many high schools across the nation have decided to create free […]
For the past few weeks, today being August 11, the talk throughout, well, practically everywhere for teens has been school. Especially incoming freshmen such as myself have been buzzing with excitement, anxiety, and nerves. A new era of our lives is about to begin and it is most definitely one that will mold who we […]
“The police PTSD paradox is created by… the fact that we all know that stress can disable or incapacitate us on the job but when that happens to one of our own we defy logic and begin to shun them. Some agencies even do their best to throw those cops away because they feel like […]
Kids all around the world have to deal with this constant problem every day. Homework. Homework, and lots of it. After a seven hour day of a hard, long, and stressful day of doing all of this school work, you have to come home and do even more of it! I thought the point of […]
In America it is an everyday occurrence to wear your own clothes to school. It is something you take for granted. Little do you know there are people like myself for whom this is the dream. I am the average British school girl- forced into uniform since the age of 4. Let me tell you […]
