I am deeply honored with the opportunity to become a member of National Honors Society. As a student with a 4.3 grade point average‚ this has always been something I have looked forward to. My grades are my top priority. Classmates in school admire me and call me “smart”‚ I‚ in the other hand‚ do not think of myself as smart. To be more precise‚ I think of myself as a student that has taken the opportunities given and has used them wisely. I have gave every class my best‚ and have tried to do all
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Honor Systems In the generation that we live in today‚ many students feel the need to cheat in order to do good in their academics. Applying honor codes or systems in schools should continue to be placed because they are extremely useful. They should be kept because a student’s future is at stake. They force discipline‚ prevent cheating‚ and create a sense of honesty‚ to not only themselves but to their surroundings. Honor systems would force discipline to those who do not follow the rules. Students
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With My Father”‚ by Grace Paley‚ is written asa story within a story. The story is told by a reliable first person narrator. The Protagonist in the story is the narrator. While the gender of the narrator is never stated‚ the tone of the story leads me to believe it is a female. The other major character in the story is the narrator’s sick aging father‚ who seems to be on his death bed. Throughout the story‚ Paley plays on the story’s theme of different points of view. Paley shows us the father knows
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along to be a senior I have high expectations for myself. My three main goals for myself are to be on high honor roll‚ to be on varsity volleyball with a better attitude‚ and lastly be the first in my family in three generations to graduate from high school. Being on high honor roll for me would be really great because I have been on honor roll all my life but I have only been on high honor roll two or three times. With me only going to four classes it should not be to difficult to acquire a four
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Modern American honor is viewed as bravery‚ freedom and hard work. Honor has been expressed differently for years and years in different countries. Honor is defined as someone having high respect‚ courage and being selfless. Honor can also be viewed as someone sacrificing something or themselves; like our US soldiers. Nothing stays the same‚ and honor is no exception. History tells its own story from different perspectives of honor just from over time. For centuries‚ women weren’t able to leave
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How was Kunta Kinte’s father feeling about the birth of his son? What was unusual about the birthing process? Explain your answer Kunta Kinte’s father who was really excited about the birth of his son; however was interesting observed the unusual way that Kunta Kinte’s mother was giving birth. Maybe characteristic of their culture‚ Kunta Kinte’s mother was giving birth standing up; this may indicate that they used gravity as a way to make easier the process of labor. Is the Mandika village presented
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to be persistent in order to overcome any challenges that I face‚ like Honors Trigonometry. Math has been my best subject throughout school. However‚ in my first semester of Honors Trigonometry‚ I was repeatedly getting C’s on tests‚ which resulted in me earning a B first semester. When I considered dropping the class‚ I recalled what I had to do to get my axel back. Keeping that in mind‚ I decided to stick it through in Honors Trigonometry. I directed more of my time and energy on Trigonometry homework
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connected in one way or another. They can be brother and sister‚ mother and daughter‚ or in this case‚ father and son. In the Arthur Miller’s novel‚ Death of A Salesman‚ the interaction between Willy Loman and his sons‚ Happy and Biff‚ allows Miller to comment on father-son relationships and the conflicts that arise from them. During most father-son relationships‚ there are certain times where the father wants to become more of a "player" in his son’s life than his son believes is necessary. The reasons
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Fathers and Daughters in Shakespeare Fathers and Daughters in Tempest‚ Merchant of Venice‚ and Othello While there is an over arcing theme in these plays as to the subject of Father-Daughter relationships in which the mother is absent‚ even the most cursory inspection shows relevant differences in both the characters and their relationships to one another. That is not to say there follows no similarities. Let’s open with the relationship between Deceased Father/ Portia and Prospero/Miranda.
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relationships between the fathers and the sons (Elie and Chlomo‚ Rabbi Eliahou and his son‚ Meir and his father) they all have similarities and differences. They have similarities in their religion and situations. They all showed their love and hatred for each other in different ways. For their similarities they all have at least three things two things in common. They were all stuck in concentration camps‚ they’re all Jewish‚ and they all have the will to survive. Elie and his father help each other out
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