minutes’ drive from my aunt’s home. Nine years ago‚ two students in Columbine High School killed twelve students and a teacher before committing suicide there. Even today‚ many people regard it as a nightmare and don’t want to talk about it. Unfortunately‚ this tragedy is not alone‚ and during the last two decades‚ numerous school shootings have happened around the whole nation‚ and hundreds of people have died during the school massacres. Why do so many tragedies happen one after another? We couldn’t
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Compare and Contrast Essay High School vs College Having a good education is the key to becoming successful in life. It is a proven fact. This achievement requires not only graduating from high school‚ but also from college. Moving from high school to college may be an exciting transition‚ but it is also a very difficult one. It is a challenge that the student will struggle with and eventually adjust to over time. Although there are many differences between high school and college‚ one should
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compare essay October 28‚ 2008 High school vs. College A major part in someone’s life is going away to college and can be a frightening time for some people. Some say that college and high school are very common; I have found them to be very different in many ways. I enjoy college more than I did high school. I have more control over my education in college. I noticed that freedom‚ the amount of work‚ and responsibilities have changed since I’ve been in college. The freedom of a high school
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Samquinten Lyons Ms. Wanning Eng 101 Compare/Contrast Essay 10 July 2013 High School vs. College After completing high school‚ some students believe that college is a place where one will be able to get some rest; take classes that interest them. Enjoy their freedom of becoming a young adult‚ only to find that college requires a lot of self-discipline. While as high school give us more direction and it more lianeant. College on the other hand requires us to do everything on our own and complete
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A fad that teens tend to pick up especially in high school is drugs and alcohol. Teens sometimes feel that there is so much pressure to succeed and have a perfect GPA that some turn to drugs and alcohol to help relieve some of the weight. As teens drugs‚ cigarettes‚ and alcohol seem to be an easy way to relieve pressure. In high school‚ teens are forced to have good grades. Good grades require hours of homework‚ project‚ and essays. Not to add the many hours of studying. This pressure becomes a
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Memoir Coming into high school ready to have the time of my life was a little over rated. I was 14 turning 15 and was not interested in much and now needing to have an answer to those inevitable questions What college are you going too? or What career are you planning to pursue? All of these questions put an immense weight in my shoulders and the only thing on my mind back then was whether or not I will be able to afford the latest Call Of Duty title. Up to that point I had not thought of what I
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Recently there is news recording that people pay more attention to teenage health problems recently years. With the research‚ teenagers in high school cannot be concentration in class and a lot of chronic disease due to the early school time has been found. The source of these problems looks like the class time start too early for students. The main idea for school is to let students learn more but have class early is not compatible with that. It would not benefit for their health and study. Although
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Teens everywhere think about drinking‚ but they usually don’t think about the consequences. In fact‚ one out of 10 children ages 12 and 13 uses alcohol at least once a month. In a single year‚ 522 children under age 14 were arrested for driving while intoxicated‚ (113 of them were under 10 years old). 70 percent of all teenagers drink alcohol. 60 percent of all teen deaths in car accidents are alcohol-related. To most people‚ these numbers are just statistics. And most teens never think of
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School is Killing Kids!!! School is killing our nation wide students and kids. Stop the madness and change the start times. High school start times should be pushed back because it causes less car crashes‚ improve test scores‚ also decreases the risk of cellular damage. STOP risking kids and teens lives. Pushing back the start times reduces the dangers of car crashes. According to The teen who woke up her school without the right amount of sleep teens bodies won’t function the same. Which proves
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70s hanging out high in High School Okay my freshman to senior years in school‚ hell I barely remember High School. I was not a dumb kid just board with school. I never could wait until the end of the day when school let out maybe because I enjoyed smoking weed more. A lot of times I would cut class‚ depending on what class it was. I knew I could pass the class even if I wasn’t there 100 % of the time so towards the latter part of the school day I would slip right on out of school to hang out.
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