Community service‚ work done without pay‚ is becoming increasingly familiar to high school students nation-wide. Schools are encouraging student to participate in communities that contribute so much to their public education. However‚ requiring 100 hours of community service is asking too much of students and should be reduced to 50 hours. Students already have their hands full among homework‚ clubs‚ sports‚ and their actual lives. Because the work may not be volunteering if it is required‚ then
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Fremont the School of Nightmares Jonathan Kozol’s “Fremont High School” describes the tragedies of Fremont High and how the staff and students are affected. Kozol shows Fremont High School a school in LA. He explains the squalor conditions both staff and students have to put up with. He discusses everything from the student count to bathrooms all with supporting details and first-hand accounts. He presents Fremont as a failure of the highest degree for a place of education. He shows the inequality
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“The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian” (PTI) is a novel written by Sherman Alexie. The novel follows a Native-American teenage boy named Arnold who lives on a reservation that has to suffer through the troubles of being the only Indian teenager in an all white school at Reardan. The challenges that confronted him when he started at Reardan seemed menacing‚ but through his personal spirit and courage he was able to achieve success at the school. Some of Arnold’s successes include his triumph
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My High School Years We all have nice memories of when we attended high school. Memories that will never be forgotten. For most of us it has been a while since high school and it is all a blur. We all remember a lot of things‚ especially things that the school did and we didn’t approve of. Something that would annoy us‚ but we wouldn’t be able to do anything about it. The majority of us‚ I’m sure‚ don’t like the way the school handled the schedule‚ the food we had for lunch‚ or the teachers
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Life after High School In recent discussions of "are too many people going to college" A controversial issue has been whether or not students decide to go to college on their own or are they programmed to do so. "More people should be going to college‚ not fewer"(and I agree).“Universities are not intended to teach the knowledge require to fit man for some special mode of gaining their livelihood‚”. According to John Stuart Mill universities do not teach children to make money‚ instead they are
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applying for a job that you didn’t major in? 11. During college‚ how did you spend your summer vacations? 12. What did you learn from your internship? 13. Did you do any internships? 14. If you could learn something such as a new skill‚ what would it be? 1. What extracurricular activities were you involved in? "What extracurricular activities were you involved in?" If you don’t have any work experience‚ then a company wants to know what extra activities you did in school to see if you are
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Once you are a senior in high school‚ there comes a point where the glorified “disease” senioritis comes into the picture. Senioritis is the lack of care people give for school work and grades when one becomes a senior in high school. It’s basically just procrastination to the fullest effect. Some people claim that the disease started back in freshman year‚ but in reality those people are just really lazy. I believe that people get senioritis when they feel that they don’t need to keep on learning
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walking out of their parents homes and falling flat on their faces. Living at home after high school is a very good idea. Now‚ let’s think about it. There are a couple of reasons why this would benefit teenagers. The first is saving money. The second is to learn more about paying bills. Finally teenagers can receive help picking out an apartment or house after college. Once high school graduation is over it is time to go to college. What better way to save money than to stay at home with mom and dad
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A high school diploma is the basis for which much of society is based. Education is knowledge gain. Education gives us the knowledge of the world around us. It develops in us a perspective of looking at life. It helps us build opinions and have points of view on everything in life. People debate over the subject of whether education is the only thing in life. Education is important as it teaches us the right behavior‚ the good manners thus making us civilized. It teaches us how to lead our lives
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20th‚ 1999 America’s deadliest school shooting had just ended with the suicide of its two gunmen. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold had just murdered twelve students‚ one teacher‚ and injured twenty-one since they began their shooting spree forty minutes earlier in the city of Littleton‚ Colorado. The media coverage of the Columbine High School massacre made this event have a tremendous impact on the people of the United States‚ inducing fear of all outcasts in schools‚ and creating an insatiable thirst
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