Crank: High Voltage

My first years going to an American school were very challenging because I didn’t know how to speak English. Everything else was different too; the school, the classrooms, the students, the rules, the food, just everything. It was a totally new culture I had to adapt to in order to fit in with the rest. Diana Drake emphasizes, “If an Anglo teacher is unaware that children growing up in different cultures may learn different values and may learn to attach different meanings to particular…

Throughout my high school days I had always seen myself as the girl that would go into college as soon as I graduated. That was how I was raised to think that right as you graduate the only proper thing to do is to enroll in college and spent the next four years of my life working hard to start my life. Sounds enticing right?. As my young nieve self I didn’t know any better, and simply listened to the words of my father “Work hard now so you don’t have to later”. With those words doing laps in…

Hardwork. Dedication. No reward One of these doesn’t seem to connect with the others. If you are a working hard and dedicated to what you do, shouldn’t you receive a reward. That thought goes through the heads of college athletes, everyday. They live this story, putting in hard work and time into playing for their school, yet they receive nothing. All these athletes play for the organization known as the National Collegiate Athletic Association or the NCAA for short. The NCAA is a…

within their scope. As a school nurse there is not leaders or management to look over the school nurse. They are the ones in charge of the students’ health care needs. They are to ensure the care given to the students’. At Batesville Junior and Senior High Schools, the secretaries assist the school nurse. They are trained to give medication in the absence of the school nurse. The school nurse carries the responsibility to ensure that the secretaries are capable of providing such care.the…

Everyday mandatory-attendance laws force more and more unmotivated Americans to go to school, even though they do not wish to be there. This fact is one of many reasons why standardized test scores are so low, which means American education is in trouble. We could resolve this situation by eliminating compulsory-attendance laws and let only motivated students attend school. This won 't end public education. In opposition to ordinary conviction, lawmakers instituted obligatory participation…

Being bullied changes you as a person. Sometimes this is a bad change, sometimes it is a good change. After being bullied, I feel as if I have changed for the better. After being bullied you learn valuable things about people. Looking back on the event, I can see why my bully did it. Everybody wants attention, everybody wants to feel needed, and everybody wants to feel included. Some people just find a bad way to get it; any attention is still attention whether it is negative or positive. Before…

the cause of the education system breakdown? Most students can agree that the education system is not what it used to be. I can still remember when my teacher was able to discuss multiple subjects at the same time. As of today, students that graduate high school find it very difficult to graduate College. Since the “No Child Left behind Act” students are facing many obstacles in order to become College ready students. Therefore the current education system is causing major problems with students…

“Summer Reading Essay: Prompt 1“ In Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, a teenage girl, Melinda, is starting out her freshmen year in high school but unlike everyone else, she has no friends at the beginning of the school. Melinda does not have any friends at the beginning because Melinda called the cops at the back to school year party and everyone was busted. Melinda is deemed the outcast at school. No one asks Melinda what happened at the back to school party and Melinda is terrorized at school…

spent in mill villages but that wasn 't uncommon for the time. "Everybody was raised in mill villages,” according to him. He attended Montaview Middle School, and moved up to Parker High School. When asked about his school experiences, my grandma started…

10 class everyday, and two hours of night self-study class. Chinese student need get up 6 am or 7 am and finish their class at 9:40 pm, and they need go to school 6 days every week, so Chinese students have the little free time. Between the junior high school and senior middle school, Chinese students experience in their lives second time important exam, which will determine what level senior middle school they will enter. In the senior middle school, Chinese students will become more hard,…