what people see me as. I am often labelled as a textbook "popular kid". I don’t particularly appreciate this categorization, because along with this title comes prejudice adjectives such as "jerk", or "idiot", and that is the appropriate side of things. This brings me to describe the real story behind who I truly am beyond the surface. I was born in Slemani, Iraq, where my parents developed a vision. This vision consisted of a better life, not only for themselves but especially for me. Although the
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Materials 6 Volt Battery 60 Grams of Soil 500 mL Beaker 2 Copper Wires (20 inches with plastic insulated) Safety Gloves Procedure 1. Place 60grams of soil in the 500mL beaker. 2. Add 500mL of water in the soil and stir till completely mixed. 3. Let the soil set for 10min. 4. Get the two of wires and connect it to the battery and get the other two ends and place in soil.( Mark one wire negative and one positive) 5. Leave the wires in the slurry of soil for 15 min (make
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Its amazing how much he had to go through in order to learn and write while we have it simple and don't want to. Look at all the things that he had to do, while we have more than enough things, in order to learn to read and write. Exposition and astonishment are found in "Learning to Read and Write." Douglass has some expositional areas in his essay that if you pay attention to all the things that he has gone through, you would be able to put it together. Throughout the essay, Douglass explains how
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Supreme Court ordered desegregation of schools. The decision struck a Chicago newspaper as a "second emancipation proclamation." The Supreme Court’s implementation order of 1955, designed to hasten compliance, ordered desegregation of schools "with all deliberate speed," but compliance was slow. When the governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, tried to block the enrollment of nine black students into Little Rock High School in 1957, television showed the entire nation the confrontation between National
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procrastination and teachers always appreciate students who turn their work in on time. Students should not procrastinate because it is hard to make up multiple assignments when you have other homework to worry about. Usually students will end up turning it in late or not turning it in at all and that could hurt your grade point average. Another piece of advice for freshman is to join clubs or any organizations that you can. I am not involved in many clubs and colleges love people who are in clubs
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my name defines me perfectly because I am very compassionate, but I have a problem with telling people no, so many individuals tend to take advantage of my kindness which results to me giving more and receiving less which than leads to me being without certain essentials because I was putting someone before myself. Furthermore, I have a magnetic personality, but one of my flaws is sensitivity which always escalates into me getting frustrated about minor things or either leads to me taking things personally
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district where I graduated from in 2009. After graduating I moved to Jonesboro in August 2009 to attend Arkansas State University to major in Education. I have decided to take classes online at EACC because they are cheaper and online is helpful with me be a new mom trying to juggle school, work and of course taking care of a new born. I work at Tj Maxx at the customer service desk; I have been employed there since October 2010. I have recently signed up for sub teach. I have work other jobs such as
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1809 Edgar Poe born in Boston to actors David and Eliza Poe, 19 January | 1809 Abraham Lincoln born Alfred Tennyson born JAMES MADISON President (1809–17) 1810 Frédéric Chopin born P. T. Barnum born | 1811 Eliza Poe, on theatrical tour, dies in Richmond, 8 December Edgar is taken in by John and Frances Allan | 1811 Richmond Theater burns; Gilbert Hunt, a slave, saves a dozen lives, 26 December Harriet Beecher Stowe born1812 War of 1812 (1812–15) Charles Dickens
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All About Me Brooke Mullins Psychology 1301-A, Spring 2013 Rachael McCormick February 3, 2013 All About Me There have been many people who have passed through my life that molded me into the person I am. My parents played a significant role in making me, me. Family can either help you get up on your feet or knock you down. My family is the reason that I am where I am today. They believed in me and never discouraged me from reaching for my dreams. One of the most influential people in my
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All About Me Date and location of birth & Parents/guardians and siblings I came into this world on November 20, 2002 in Sierra Vista, Arizona. I was born to Lafonda Riley and Samuel Riley. My older brother’s (who is currently 18 years old) name is William Tackie and my younger brother’s (who is currently 5 years old) name is Kenneth Bryant. My soon to be stepmother’s name is Erikkion (er-re-key-on) Evans. Schools attended I have attended many schools over the years of my primary education, so far
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but for me I do not truly think I am the way everyone else may view me. People see me as a person that may have a lot of attitude, be rude, hate everyone, and never want to be at school either. For me this is not the case. I love coming to school and have since I was little. I love being around my friends even if we are not doing anything. I may actually have an attitude but I really care about what is coming out of my mouth when, before and after I say it. I feel so bad for so many people all the time
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like this that always make me feel so calm for a change. Its those days where the November chill hangs in the air and water droplets rhythmically tap the window pane. Some can find the rain to be almost a bit depressing, but not me. Rain just means there is a rainbow afterwards. I was looking over some photos from our family album. It had been about two years since my grandfather passed away. He was such a kind man and hilarious too. That is what I remember best about him. Sadly, I remember the
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looks at me different now. Most of my family is very disappointed in me and expect better and always try to talk to me about it. My family feels that i am ruining my life by using marijuana and want me to stop because they are scared and think i might end up dropping out of high-school, or that i might decide not to go to college or university. The impact my use has had on my friends is not as big as my family but it has still had an impact. Some of my friends have stopped talking to me cause of
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business core class, then transferred put to be put into Avid. Though I wanted to take AP classes, they didn’t let me to go into the class because something about the class being full and I didn’t meet the deadline. I thought that I lost a chance to help benefit for future reasons. I had this long conversation with my mom about taking these classes which my counselor informed me with. They gave me an option to either taking a computer science class, a biomedical class, or this business class. Though with
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and rainy day and all I wanted to do was sleep before the night’s festivities. I was pretty excited for the day ahead of me because it was the fourth and I love going to watch firework with all my friends and family. I just knew it was going to be a good day. So there I was cleaning my room like my mom had asked, then all the sudden I get a call from my friend Riley. I thought she was just calling to see what I was getting into that night, but I was wrong. She called me to tell me that one of my close
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I had multiples scenarios in my head of what it was going to be moving here from Peru but it never crossed my mind it was going to turn the way it did. My dad called me to let me know he bought me a two-way ticket, if I didn’t like it i could just go back but i would be wasting probably the best opportunity I was going to have in my life;; I had just 3 weeks before it was my time to leave, leave my family, my
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have been several occurrences that I feel need to be addressed. It has been hard for me to say these things, but I feel that I’m doing the right thing by writing this letter. The first thing that I want to address is the petty cash situation. On Wednesday the 30th of October, I had asked Kim if there was any cash for me to go buy milk for the center due to the fact that I was completely out for the week. She told me that there was not any petty cash. I then asked her what I was supposed to do since
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seconds left. I heard the many screams of the crowd. Some telling me to shoot, pass, or drive. My coach was yelling out a play on the sideline. All of these voices were running through my mind. My team and I tried to run the play my coach wanted, but we were unsuccessful. I looked at the clock again and saw 6… 5… 4… I quickly dribbled by the screen, and I had an open 3. I took a quick glance at the clock and saw 3… 2… 1… “Hey all Day, I saw your game yesterday”, Ben shouted across the gym as I entered
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Mad World Define yourself for me, give me a simple exert about you. To be honest that is an understatement, how can one write about that in which they don’t know, for me to give you a simple five page paragraph about me would be doing myself an injustice not only because I think I deserve and have a lot more than that of which could fit in five paragraphs but because in all honesty, I’m learning more and more about myself each and every day. Yes we all have a surface in which has led and molded
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are hugging me and telling me that it's okay to cry but I know deep down inside, it’s all my fault. It was raining on the way home. We buried Doodle right next to the scarlet ibis we found. My parents disagreed at first but I knew he would’ve wanted it. When we entered the house we ate our dinner in silence, all of knew what we were thinking about. I am 12 years old and I killed my own brother. I couldn’t take not telling my
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Margolis Due: 10/11/12 What is better than being ten years old and being in the 5th grade? You’re the oldest in your school, all of the younger kids look up to you as a role model and you just feel like you’re on the top of the world. Well that’s how I felt when I was in the 5th grade. Almost being in junior high I thought I knew everything and no one could stop me. Until of course something got sent in the mail to my parents. That something was a letter stating that I failed my vision testing
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Tom laid there on the floor of an abandoned RV park. It was a dark and cloudy night and the RVs created dancing shadows, in the fluorescent moonlight. There was not a hesitating gap, when the killer thought about was he was about to do but instead the killer held the knife at a 45-degree angle and in one abrupt swoop the killer drove the knife into Tom's lungs, blood came rushing out of every orifice in Tom's body. He heard the crackling of his ribs as the knife dug
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since the third grade told me that she was gay. She was so nervous about my reaction; terrified I would react horribly, be afraid or maybe even not want to be friends anymore. I will never understand what it is like to tell someone that you are gay; I will never have to anticipate their reaction, praying that it isn’t a negative one and that this stranger can have some respect for who I am. When Marie told me, at first I didn’t know what to say. I sat there, thinking about what words were going to
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to me. My hero is the person that gave birth to me. My hero is my mother. I chose my mom as my hero because to me that is what she is and more. My mom is literally the backbone in the family. She takes care of everything in the family and around the house. Before I began to drive my mom would take me everywhere. My mother like many others has been to the moon and back just to help me. She is such a kind person, she gives me advice about anything, she is always helping me convince my dad about anything
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The Best of Me Now – Emily Richardson 1. After high school I plan on taking the right steps towards finding my career. My career goals are to be happy in whatever career I choose because at the moment I am still not sure what I would like to do although I have chosen paths for various careers. I will achieve them by following through with my plans and not giving up. I want to achieve these particular goals because they are important to me, they are important for my future. My Individual Pathway Plan
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1101 Section 031 Narrative Essay 11.15.13 Definitely Unexpected I saw him coming towards me with this white light behind him. There were gold specks beaming off of his body. All I could do was smile. He was so angelic. Watching him was so peaceful and serene. My life felt complete. I started reaching for him. I was just about to grab him when… The siren sound that my 7:45 alarm clock made woke me in an instant. I was panting and I felt sweat break out over my forehead. ‘Enough dreaming,’ I
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Slamming the door behind me, I storm into my room and throw myself angrily onto my bed. Lifting the mattress, I shove my hand deep under and search for my journal. In one swift movement, my little leather journal is in hand and a pen in the other. Then, I begin to write. I write about how annoying it was for mom to “accidentally” throw away my essay paper because she thought it was clutter. I describe about how dumb it was for her to not even think to glance down and realize that it was a 50 point
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to build a bong with all the girls, not just the ones that are at my school, but also the girls from different schools. Coming to college has been a difficult transition, something that I thought would have been easy. I am the oldest in my family and not being there for them this past year and a half has been the hardest thing I have ever done. Being part of the Cygnets has helped with the transition of being at college and away from my family. I am able to talk with them about my problems and my feelings
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your mind I know you think I don’t try. You wanted me to play piano I did but really didn’t take it serious. You really wanted me to try hard and not give up and that’s like most of me. Since you came to U.S in part to give us more options, but I know how it feels when a daughter doesn’t take full advantage of the opportunities available. But now I really know why you pressured me and tell me what to do and what not to do, this is all done just for me to have a better future and achieve something. I
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neither male nor female, but someone stuck in the middle, that could all change in a heartbeat. I barely know this girl, but I somehow don't want to see on her face that expression that everyone seems to gain when they see me, not after she's been so friendly and understanding thus far. I'm rambling, through, putting off the inevitable. Matty is watching me expectantly, waiting for my answer. I wish I could just say nothing at all. "I don't really feel well, no," I lie - sort of, because that situation
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