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Eagle Butte High School Essay

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As the second child of four, my grandmother Rita Murray grew up on a ranch twelve miles from the lilliputian town of Lantry. Back then, they did not have much, but what they had was enough for them. Growing up, my grandmother lived in the country and did not have many neighbors. Graduating from Eagle Butte High School in a class of just about seventy kids, my grandmother joked that she did not know all of the kids in her class. This was not due to the fact that there was an excessive amount of them, but rather that there was cliches even back then. Much like the cliches of our generation, my grandmother told me that there was the popular kids, jocks, nerds, and your outcasts. In her day my grandmother was in the band and cared about her schooling above everything else. My grandmother was and still is a preeminent woman. She was top of her class and was taught at a young age that education is important. As my grandparents have always told me, “The one possession that no one can ever take away from you is your education.”
To this day my grandmother recalls, education in her era as being distrait but tells me that the teachers were severely strict. However, she also …show more content…

As generations pass, children have become disrespectful not only towards their elders, but towards each other. Fortunately, my grandmother taught me at an extremely young age that respect is the greatest gift you can give someone. Of course, in her day respect was just something every child bestowed and knew was required of them. Without the technology we have today my grandmother along with the rest of her generation knew how to communicate with each other. In fact, she stated that they talked and visited with each other more than kids nowadays do. As a result, they were able to know each other on a more personal level and knew how to look each other in the eye to carry out a

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