The Courage to Grow Scholarship, is believed to be created to help students realize their college dreams. Going to college takes a lot of courage and determination even when it would be much easier to just quit and not do anything with your life. Being a recipient of the Courage to Grow Scholarship will be very essential in the help of achieving my long-term goal of becoming a middle level social studies teacher. The funds from this scholarship will be a backbone in furthering one’s education at…
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The reason that I believe I should be awarded this scholarship lies within the title of the scholarship itself: "Courage To Grow". This title speaks to me. I come from a very small and very uneducated town in Tennessee. My high school experience wasn't exactly the best. I had no drive, and nobody pushing me, to ever attend college. I can't blame all of that on my town alone, I was the one allowing myself to follow what seemed to be the easiest path. Thankfully, my parents convinced me to give college…
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While the National Honor Society contains four pillars of character, scholarship, leadership, and service, I feel I best exemplify scholarship. Committing and dedicating myself to my education has been an important aspect of my life. Although there has been adversity along the way, through the hard work and sacrifice, I was able to overcome it. For example, in elementary, a few selected students were put in a cohort advanced math program and I wasn’t one of them, but I was encouraged by a teacher…
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Antonin Scalia once said, “Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ and have the courage to suffer the sophisticated world” (The 11 most memorable Scalia quotes). In 1986, Ronald Reagan appointed Scalia to the Supreme Court. Although he passed away on the thirteenth of February 2016, I would have been elated to have lunch with Antonin Scalia while he was still living. Scalia was a man that had no shame of himself; he assertively expressed his opinions and beliefs…
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so far. For most, this was a completely unexplored language, and now each of the students can carry basic conversation. As a student, however, I’m truly in awe. I have made huge progress within the past few years, and collecting the leadership and courage to tackle such a task would be unheard of, even a year ago. My life leading up to my senior year of high school was a nightmare. My father was short-tempered, compulsively dishonest, and habitually abusive. Nearly every day there would be some horrific…
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Paying College Athletes Many Colleges today benefit from their college athletes. College athletics grow and continues to bring in large amount of financial benefits to the college. This topic is very sticky and brings up a lot of debate concerning student athletes being paid to play. A lot of individuals believe that the scholarships that student athletes receive for their education should be enough. College athletes bring in a lot of money to there college. Student athletes should receive some…
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over individuals who displayed lives that were full of adventure, tragic obstacles, life lessons, and a series of life accomplishments. In our last video, “Conversations with Charlie Swartz”, we were exposed to a man’s life that showed us extreme courage, motivation, and determination. Charlie is a man who lived a life of great and beneficial longevity. Charlie Swartz is 95 years old in his documentary. He also lived as a Jewish man who grew up working for everything that he received and he did not…
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though there were students who caused a lot of trouble, they did not distract me from my goal of completing all my work. Once I got home, I started to cry as I finally realized that a huge weight had come off my back after five years. I grew the courage to to talk about my past thinking others would have laughed at me when in reality I impacted those who didn’t know what to do in situations like how I did. I grew a strong bond with those around me which were part of the International Baccalaureate…
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The novel “Coming of age in Mississippi by Anne Moody” was very informative explaining Anne’s first-hand thoughts and memories of struggle growing up in a racist society and fighting the difficulties followed by it. Her family structure ends up breaking apart with mistreatment done by her uncle and the infidelity done by her father. Throughout the novel it explains her hardships, starting from her childhood till the civil rights movement and the relations she has between other civil rights activists…
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Anne of Green Gables: Personality and Destiny Abstract Anne of Green Gables is the first long novel of famous Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery, published in 1908. Its publication lightened the spirit of Canadians of that age, giving a place to Canadian native literature in the literary world. Current studies on Anne’s personality is mainly about Anne’s lunacy, mercuriality, narcissist, rebellion,precocity, imagination,love for nature and life. These personalities are considered fixed…
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