College Essays
In this day and age, technology is taking over everything we do. Paying bills, reading books, etc. are all being taken over by electronics and education is not far behind. Education reform may not be a hot topic currently in political debates, but with the rapid change in technology, it will be in the next […]
As of now I am a 9th grader. I am described as and very outgoing, ambitious, and high expectation havingyoung lady and also a leader. My gpa is a 3.9-4.0 but next year my gpa would be a 4.0-5.0 or higher. I am a straight “A” student who someday wishes to be an National Honor […]
My phone is my life and I can’t live without it and I already lost it before and if I lose it, it’s like losing part of my life for my phone. I love my phone like if it was part of me and I don’t know what I would do if it goes missing. […]
Raising me as a third culture kid or TCK is one of the greatest gifts my parents have ever given me. Third culture kids are defined as children raised in a culture other than either of their parents’. My father is German and my mother is American but I was born in Malaysia and moved […]
Any college-bound senior in high school will tell you that junior year of high school is the most stressful. Why you may ask? Well, besides the stress to date, do laundry without mom, and that sudden drop in one’s metabolism rate, a junior in high school has to deal with those ominous SATS, better known […]
Competition to get into college isn’t a new thing. For decades, students have been engaged in a battle to reach the top of their class. The major determining factor in this race is students’ GPAs. Lately, though, taking challenging courses in school just doesn’t cut it. Florida students are lucky enough to have other resources, […]
High school is defiantly a time I am very looking forward to because I have been thinking of high school since I was in thee 6the grade because that is more when my family started to discuss it. I discussed it more because my brother was in high school and would tell me all about […]
Imagine, being dizzy after your head was dunked several times into a disgusting, germ infested toilet by a random kid you never seen in your life. The first thing you would do is tell the principle right. Wrong! What are you going to say? A kid with khaki pants and plaid shirt did it. That […]
No one should ban junk food in schools because of various reasons. The board of education could ban junk food but kids and parents can object. Banning junk food is like taking away kids rights to be themselves. Some kids might be allergic to the foods the school serves. Even though it is a rule, […]
In the United States, college students who received a student loan owed an average of $26,000. Because of this dire situation, students must avoid receiving any type of student loan to avoid a debt that cannot be paid. A student must know the definition of Economics, Finance and Money. What is Economics? It is the […]
A uniform is more than the clothing one attires themselves in. A persons uniform is their identity. Too many people put on the popular uniform and parade around in it like it is their own. People are judged for their uniform, so who would want to be honest about theirs? Be careful of the labels […]
Controversy over the creation theories, Intelligent Design, and Evolution has been around for years. There is reason to believe both theories, but no one can be sure which one is true. So how do we teach them in public schools? The teachers need to teach the facts, and the fact is there is no proof […]
Seaworld has stated that that they rescue injured or endangered sea mammals to rehabilitate them and then keep them to further study them and conserve them. If that is truly the case they should not be taking these animals and utilizing them for entertainment purposes. I do not think that orcas should be exhibited in […]
Today, in this day and age, you would think the United States public school system would be mastered. After years and years of learning from the past and schools around the world, America should not still be considered a country of educationally backward idiots. However, we still are. Why is that, people wonder? It’s not […]
Their are many different aspects of teaching. Someone can teach you how to do something whether its learning math, how to drive, or even cooking. The most inspirational teachers, are the ones that teach a more important aspect of life. For Mrs. McClure, it came natural. Cleburne High School is one of the many schools […]
Dream is something that you want but most people fail to achieve it. Not literally a dream, by dream I mean like goals. Most people fail to achieve it because they’re not committed to it a.k. a being lazy. My dream has many different routes to get to it. My route is to retire from […]
The International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma is a highly prestigious, respected program of study for high school students that are in average seventeen years old, but required to think like twenty-year-olds. Of course, the amount of advantages that this program brings is close to limitless, since the IB is designed almost flawlessly to keep the students […]
I has been so sure of 18 years of my life, I knew exactly where to go, who I would see, what I would be. I had been so sure. But I had taken all of it for granted, I had thought those times would last forever. I wish they would, because the unknown is […]
Uniforms have been the primal subjects of de-bate in schools for many years now. But why are they debated? What are the costs associated with them? And do they really help the education sys-tem? Over the past decade the issue on whether schools should have uni-forms has come up many times. In fact, President Bill […]
What sort of things have you heard about homeschoolers? Might it be one (or more) of these? 1. They are hermits or something 2. They only are able to socialize with siblings 3. They don’t know how to dress 4. They are just…weird 5. They have no life whatsoever. 6. They are Mormons or religious […]
“Life is what we do and not what we are” – the above statement is quite true for everyone. This quote means that it is not position that matters, rather it’s the action which matters the most. Life is something which we make out of. And this is the real art of living. Life is […]
DOWN WITH AUTHORITY FIGURES! Tired of all the pointless rules and guidelines that we have to follow in school like serious how is having different colored hair like pink purple etc distracting . If you looked in the past our parents and maybe even our grandparents did wild things with how they dressed , yet […]
A few minutes before my bus’s arrival, I am still trying to decide what to wear. Many thoughts race through my head. Will they tease me because of my clothes? What will others think? Is this against the school dress code? It would be so much easier if we had school uniforms! Besides saving time […]
Grazing my fingertips across the underside of the desk, my finger ceases its movement when it comes upon an unwelcome barrier. I have recently retired my pencil so that it lays in rest beside my completed test sheet, and in an instance of boredom and lack of silent activities to take part in while others […]
Success is based on how well an individual performs and their work ethic. A person cannot expect to be successful in life if he/she will not put in the work and determination. That’s why procrastination can be a deadly virtue to have. The main idea of procrastination is to put off work until the last […]
As an 8the grade student, I have bought lunch too many times to count because it was easy and convenient. Yet, I never theought about what I was eating until I took up running and began to focus more and more on my eating habits. It was then that I realized just how bad thee […]
Students think of winter break as a time to relax, hang out with friends, enjoy their family time, and be away from school. Most students don’t think of winter break as a time to study for finals. With Arrowhead’s current finals schedule they are on the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd of January. Since the material […]
Who Needs Clean Clothes Anyway? I ran down the stairs of my dorm building at Arizona State University, slinging my laundry bag over my shoulder and taking the steps two at a time. My phone, which I had since regretted putting at full volume, blasted out the familiar guitar solo to “Carry on Wayward Son” […]
It’s all over the news: kids are spending a lot of time on homework. And, according to some, it’s way too much. With the current emphasis on high-stakes testing, educators are trying to do more with less, which can result in an overabundance of schoolwork outside of school. Some critics say there is no evidence […]
If I had a chance to change one thing about myself it would be my self-confidence. A quote by anonymous source claims, “Self-confidence gives you the freedom to make mistakes and cope with failure without feeling that your world has come to an end or that you are a worthless person.” I seem to have […]
