of my Junior year. Junior year is considered the most significant year of high school; the classes are more challenging and students are drowning in significant tests that determine their future. My junior year was also difficult, but less because of the academic challenges and more because it was filled with personal tragedies and failure. It was an ordinary school day in May of my Sophomore…
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Junior year reflective Essay Over the past year as a junior in high school, it has changed me personally in a tremendously extraordinary positive way. It has influenced me to be more responsible and more organized this whole year. Being responsible has helped me in sports, work and definitely with my academics. As well, organization has helped me be more flexible with everything around me, making life easier. Responsibility has helped me in so many ways, like being more on time for football practice…
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it is presented due to selective attention, this study will include a visual stimulus of which, while engaged in a different activity, the subjects must accurately recall its characteristics. The subjects are divided into two groups, seniors and juniors. The different activity will be another “fake memory experiment” in which the subjects are asked to memorize numbers appearing on the screen for a brief moment of time. Meanwhile, the visual stimulus in the “real experiment”, a volunteer from Mr.…
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and Composition during my Junior year. Being a higher-level course, this class challenged me as a reader, a writer, and a thinker. While we read similar novels to other students around the country, such as The Great Gatsby, Othello, and In The Time of the Butterflies, the way my instructor taught us to apply the readings and lessons to everyday life seemed out-of-the-ordinary. AP English Literature and Composition is so much more than “the English class I took Junior year,” the class was my stepping…
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Introduction For my research paper I have decided to research the career of an artist. This career interests me because I love art and meeting people with the same appreciation for art as I do. According to the Career Cluster survey and the Basic Skills survey, I would do well in a writing career or a career based upon the arts; it is true that I love art and writing which would make the results of the survey understandable. The career of an artist matches up with my survey results because being…
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Social Problems Research Paper: The NFL Concussion Issue Junior Seau was nothing less than a remarkable human being in San Diego. Being from San Diego, we saw first hand how one individual could forever change a community. The San Diego Chargers President, Dean Spanos, describes Seau as “...An icon in our community. He transcended the game. He wasn’t just a football player, he was so much more.” The 5th of 6th children Seau was born in San Diego in 1969. Junior graduated from Oceanside High School…
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conducted a study by using a word association task to assess the relativity racial terms and positive and negative words. For example, racial terms like black and white, and positive or negative words like friendly, mean, lazy, or dumb. To conduct the research effectively, Gaertner & McLaughlin paired a variety of words together, which were shown on a computer screen. The participants in their study had to decide in a timely fashion if the words that were paired were real words or not real words. For…
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dismissed, or belittled. Every race in the United States have felt the cold and of poverty to some degree, many more so than others unfortunately. One of the highest impoverished races in the United States, are Native Americans, after conducting thorough research it is evident that poverty is highly distinct on Junior’s reservation in Sherman Alexie’s “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” because of a poor economy, substance abuse, and domestic abuse. In “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time…
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Problem Child 2 Purpose Statement This paper will be a case application assignment that analyzes a character from a movie called Problem Child 2 (Universal Pictures, 1991). This movie is a sequel that was out in theatres in 1991. The movie stars actor John Ritter who plays a father that adopts the problem child from an orphanage then later moves to another city so that they are able to start life over. The problem child in this movie is played is played by Michael Oliver who stars in the previous…
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Explore a variety of viable health career options I have explored many career options during my three years of being in the HEART Academy. In my 10th grade research paper, I talked about being a registered nurse. When I had researched more about this profession I became more interested in it. Goal # 2 Gain practical experience in the community health care system In the summer of my Junior year, I was given the opportunity to internship at the Redlands Community Hospital. I chose to be in the nursing…
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