Basic Life Objective: My main life objective is to simply just be happy. In addition, I want to be at peace with who I am, where I am, and what I'm doing. I also want to surround myself with beautiful people and things, create abundance and awareness with my art and photography, and travel the ...

Did you ever have the chance to do something you really wanted to do, but you just didn't have the guts? well I encountered something similar to that. It started when I was at thirteen , back in Junior high school. That was the awkward age when everyone was begging to mature and grow those...

Being cool what does it really mean? It means your peers respect you for who you are. Not for whom they want you to be. Before people were characterized because of there social standing. Cool kids where the ones were popular because they drank got high and were trouble makers. Nerds were the on...

I will forever remember the Sunday afternoon drives with my Dad when I was a child. It was during these Sunday jaunts that this extraordinary man introduced me to the wonderful and exciting world of music. When I close my eyes, I can still hear the sounds of musical icons such as Mozart, Beethove...

I see him standing their waiting for some food at the grill. He has a saunter about him that screams confidence. He gets his food and then finds a seat with some other ball players in the back of the grill. I have seen him around before on the basketball court and walking to and from class. He seems...

In Paulo Freire's essay "The Banking Concept of Education," he stresses the importance of problem-posing education rather than banking education. Problem-posing education is a structure of teaching and learning, where both teachers and students learn from each other through interactio...

Hi! My name is Karina Rosales I am 22 years old and I am a teen parent. I was 13 years old when I found out I was pregnant. At first I was in denial until a pregnancy test confirmed it. I could not believe what that pregnancy test said because I never planned to be pregnant or had even thought of. ...

Influence? Why is it that the people who influence us most, influence us in ways that are not easily noticeable? I came to America when I was 10 years old. At first if I had any trouble in school I had to go and ask one of my cousins, Bhoomi and Rima, who had been here for 6 years, or my u...

NOW AND THEN When we've got this composition for homework, I thought that this topic wasn't very interesting. But I was wrong. I phoned my grandparents in Bjelovar to ask them about the time when they were going to school...And it revealed that that had been a really interesting time.....

Are the values for a mainstream educated person and an Old Order Amish student the same? Do the mainstream culture and the people of the Trackton community hold the same expectations for their children when they complete school? From various readings we can answer this with a simple no, but we ...

Dear Governor ******, The Federal Government should have kids tried as adults. What happens to the teacher's families who are killed in school shootings? I feel that the federal government should change these laws for the following reasons. It filters out bad kids, helps keep them off the...

Innocence According to the dictionary innocence means that people do not know the bad thing of life or believe everything that you told. Children are innocence. They are living under their parents' protection so that they could not understand the bad thing of the real life. Things like so...

The Apathetic Bored Procrastinator My name is-------and I am a apathetic bored procrastinator. Some people say admitting you have problem is the first step to recovery. Well, I have a problem. School is easy, boring, and a waste of time. No teacher has ever challenged me. From the time I st...

Stereotypes in Clothing Different styles and brands of clothing can be linked to different groups or cliques of people. It seems that the stereotypes related to the groups or cliques, have become a stereotype of the clothing. Styles ranging from baggy...

The day I will never forget was happened last October 23,2001, when I was in junior high school in the Philippines. I can't believe I did these things, but all I knew was after this experience I was never going to do it again. As a student, I always follow through with my responsibilities like...

Childhood is one of the greatest times of our lives, just as Holden believes. Taking that road towards adolescence is a huge step in one's life. However, determining an exact time in which this jump is made is impossible since this process is a series of steps that lead you from one state to th...

It was Worth Waiting For................ Becoming apart of any group can always be complicated, especially in these times. In today's society people, especially teenagers, can be very cruel to one another. Every teenager in America wants to become apart of that one special group in high school and...