Jasmine Santos Mrs. Shafer IU English 19 December 2011 Community Service as a Graduation Requirement A wise person once said‚ “If you light a lamp for someone else‚ it will also brighten your path.” This particular quote has helped me realize that not enough teenagers are helping their community become a more desirable place to live. Implementing community service into the senior project outline as a requirement would ultimately benefit the students and the community. Not only will the students
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Welcome to Lebanon high school “ Welcome to Lebanon High school “ . Emily Gipson‚ a 16-year-old ‚ made the 5 minute‚ 38 second video titled "Welcome to Lebanon High School‚" which was recorded inside a Lebanon High classroom. The video passed 600‚000 views‚ just over a week after it was posted Jan. 22. Gipson begins the video saying: “Welcome to Lebanon High School. Where I walk down blank hallways every day. Where students walk down blank hallways every day." The video comes after
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Alice Walker who wrote “The Welcome Table” had issues of race and gender that was the center of her literary work and her social activism. She participated in civil rights demonstrations. (Clugston 2010). This short story has a theme of life and death. It shows the plot of the story‚ the point of view and has symbolism used to show the death of the old woman and what the church members thought of her as a black woman. (Clugston‚ 2010‚ Section 7.1 and 7.2) Later in the story‚ she is walking
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and in the visual‚ “Graduation Day”‚ both depict the common theme that people should embrace their culture and heritage. In “Nombres”‚ the theme can be seen when Julia’s mother states‚ “You know what (Julia’s) friend Shakespeare said‚ ‘A rose by any other name would smell as sweet’‚” (Alvarez Pg. 1). This shows that Julia’s mother doesn’t want her to be ashamed of where she comes from‚ and that she should embrace her name. This theme is also evident in the visual‚” Graduation Day”. The fact that
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“Frost Point‚ welcome home.” This is what I hear every year for a month. Growing up as an army brat my family moved around a lot. This was the same for my uncle and cousins. It took years for either of our families to find a forever home. During this early time in my life there was only one place that never changed. Frost Point. My grandmother‚ aunts‚ uncles‚ cousins and parents gather with their 12 children to Rideau Ferry‚ Ontario‚ Canada every summer for a month. Every few years my home would
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It was a cool spring day in 2008 and 4th grade had been going swell. I’d been sitting in class for last couple hours worrying about my vocab quiz‚ which always seemed to elude me. All the kids around me had giant smiles on their faces life was good for us. Today’s lunch was pizza and maybe a salad. After sitting at our desks we headed down stairs to eat at lunch and enjoy ourselves. The teachers around us seemed exacerbated‚ tired a partial look of sadness every once and a while‚ these emotions broke
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Eighth grade graduation is a small milestone in your life‚ but a milestone none the less. Last year I graduated with all of my friends that I’ve had from the very beginning. After graduation we had an after graduation party. We went bowling at Western Bowl in Amarillo‚ I learned that I’m not gonna become a professional bowler anytime soon! After bowling we went to IHOP at like 1:00 a.m.‚ because who doesn’t love breakfast food in the middle of the night? Imagine this‚ a group of eighth graders
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next 4 years. Nothing but to study hard and get a good academic performance. My university life will be so boring without joining a club so I’ll find one that suits me most. Maybe I can fall in love with someone in these 4 years haha :X After my graduation I’ll go seeking for a job. There are countless jobs and professions in this world. Among those‚ how am I going to choose the right one? A job that fits my talents‚ characters and natures. I do hope that I can work in a big international bank and
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it feels to reach this milestone in life. When I reached this point of my life I was full of a sense pride‚ relief‚ and accomplishment. I knew that I had just officially joined something much bigger than myself. The memory of my basic training graduation ceremony will forever be burned into my memory. The date was December 7th‚ 2012. This day was one of the toughest I had to endure. This day started early in the morning when we woke up and began packing up our gear from our field exercise. The
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much in hope and expectation.” Many times in life we end disappointed to the point we see no hope in tomorrow and often view ourselves as failures. Disappointments are tools that God made for us to lead us to our path and make us who we are today. “Graduation” by “ Maya Angelou” teaches us a story of life and how it can be disappointing at times‚ Angelou uses a diploma as a sign of victory and success but her feeling does not last that long. Maya used in her article many writing strategies to make it
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