Teenagers of the twentieth century face the same problems that they did in the nineteenth century, but now these obstacles seem to have become more complicated. Suicide statistics in the United States among teens have skyrocketed over the past years by many contributions from our society. Many say t...

Throughout high schools all across the country, there are multitudes of different attitudes towards the completion of every night homework. From dedication to absolute apathy, these viewpoints run amuck in the minds of teenagers everywhere. Every youngster has a different idea concerning his homew...

Communications. I could barely spell the word, much less comprehend its meaning. Yet when Mrs. Rubin made the announcement about the new club she was starting at the junior high school, it triggered something in my mind. Two weeks later, during the last month of my eighth grade year, I figured it...

Jon Pitts February 18, 2001 Poem Evaluation A Lesson to Learn The poem "THE Ex-Basketball Player" written by John Updike is a study into the life of a guy named Flick, who has grown up to pump gasoline at Berth's Garage. Flick's high school days were filled with success as a...

Jessica Lizzio My cousin Christopher was 16 years old when he died. Christopher had been fighting the disease known as AIDS throughout his life, and I didn't know. I had always known when I was young that Christopher was sick in some way. His right hand was malformed and he had to rece...

1. Common a. Belonging equally to or shared equally by two or more; joint b. Having no special designation, status, or rank Antonym: uncommon Synonym: surface a. When it comes to wining, Pensacola high school is the most common team wining all their games, and that's why they go to the f...

Standardize testing, portfolios, high quality teachers are some of the new things that have been introduced to the public in the last couple years. The reason why new terms have been introduced to teacher's nation wide when President George Bush thought he would be helping our nation by instati...

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...

When you hear the word college, what do you think of? Most would say parties, fun, hard work, or something within the lines of these thoughts. Although I was excited to realize that I was coming into college, I never realized the problems I would stumble upon when finally attending. Within just t...

When a student walks through the halls of a high school, they see light filled walls lined with lockers. Recently, these blank walls have given way to for-profit advertisements in cash-starved schools. Driven by the need to pay outside pensions, Americans are now debating whether ads should be place...

The three qualities I have chosen are Athletic, Smart, and Serious. Athleticism comes from my Mothers side of the family. Intelligence comes from both sides of the family, and being serious comes from my Father's side of the family. As you can see the three qualities listed above are of which ar...

Ah, Graduation, a meaningful word. Graduation - a ceremony at which degrees are conferred. That¡s the definition for the word Graduation. But this word means more than a ceremony for me. It means changes in my life, to reach a higher stage of my life, the time to become a new person, the time to g...

Almost all high school students, smart or stupid, active or non-active, will be divided into one of three categories: Stupids, those that never study and nearly always fail, Nerds, those that study continuously and always have a perfect grade, and Smarties, those that study a lot and always get a...