Essay

“I want you to know that I studied for hours last night, and with help from my mom, I’m ready to retake the test.” She talked to me for a while,and answered some of the other questions I had. When the bell rang, she handed me my test retake. This time, I knew, without a doubt, I could ace the test, and I

Slinky wasn’t truly being a good student but he did listen and not blurt out unlike everyone else. The most disrespectful thing Slinky did was try to solve his Rubik’s Cube. Joy wondered if everyone would be a great gleeful group of students if they had to do Rubik’s cubes but then they wouldn’t do their work. She decided she could figure an even better way to make this cast less rude. Anyway, although it may not be obvious, this was one of the class’s best behaved mornings. Normally someone would have gotten hurt by now. Joy was proud of herself she got the class to behave, well, ish. Even though she spent her whole life dealing with Disgust and Anger but even she had to admit, being happy the entire time was difficult. Joy had the thought of asking Bing Bong to be her assistant. Then, she realized he faded away. Joy was sad for as long as a streak of lightning. She realized that she could ask someone else to be her assistant. This called for a trip to

Jane was doing so well during the first half of her semester of 8th grade year that her parents decided to let her skip the rest of the semester to being 9th grade. Upon entering the 9th grade, Jane was shy and conservative. Not knowing what to expect. Her first hour teacher name was Mr. Russ. He was in his late 50’s, teaching English. He was very old-fashioned and stuck in old ways of teaching. He was very discreet and you could tell when he didn’t like you. When he first met Jane, he didn’t like her just based on her personality, and bubbliness. He instantly shut her down. One month into Mr., Russ

“And my grades got better when I started working the last few months of school. I knew I had to focus on school work because my time was limited.”

I’m trying to help find Jillian as well. I just need to talk to a friend again.

    It's June, and another graduating class is hoping, among other things, to achieve high grades. Of course, "high" is a subjective target. Originally a "C" meant average; today however, the expectations and pressures to give and receive "A's" and "B's" takes its toll on teachers and students alike. This nullifies the value of the traditional grading scale and creates a host of entirely new problems. The widespread occurrence of grade inflation seriously affects the credibility of secondary and post-secondary education in America.

"On the last 3 tests you got a 1," Mrs. Hand exclaimed empathetically, " Do you want to stay after and make them up tomorrow?"

While reading the story "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, I found that I had a surprising amount of anger towards the character named Dee, or as she prefers Wangero. The anger that was instilled in me was caused by numerous comments and actions that occurred throughout reading the short story. I feel she was selfish, uneducated and unappreciative of her past and that the way she carried herself was ridiculous. Right from the beginning of my readings you are introduced to a character named Dee, before you ever get the opportunity to warm up to her character, she shows a very selfish characteristic and that trait is repeatedly brought out in the

President Trump has promised billions of dollars to Texas to help with the flooding from Harvey, but lately the Republican part of the House of Representatives has been asking Donald Trump over and over again to cut money off of the project and use it for the border wall. The House has been asking for about 876 million dollars to be cut from the project. But Donald Trump said that he would make Mexico pay for the wall, so no matter what happens, Donald Trump might not be in a good place.

"Okay class, as I was saying, you have 40 minutes to complete your final quiz." The class groaned as Mr. Southam walked around passing out the quiz. "Mr. Lark you do not have to take this quiz if you do not want to, but you might as well try to complete it."

“Okay Lyndsay, today we are going to get it done. You will spend two hours on subject A, and the rest of the day running down practical’s. No cell phone, no computer, just work!”

“Why would you give me an F on the paper in school?” Hazell asks with a little more fire.

One day at school, Marta is on her way to gym class and realizes she forgot her gym shorts under her desk. She goes back to her classroom to retrieve the shorts and overhears a conversation happening between two of her teachers. She thinks to herself that she should not be listening, but doesn’t move. She overhears one of her teachers speaking saying, “ I refuse to do it! I don’t care who her father is, her grades don’t even begin to compare to Martha’s. I won’t lie or falsify records” (Salinas 68). In that moment, Marta kept her tears in but barely made it through the rest of the day. She was shocked. She felt as though she was betrayed by some of her

The things I carry range in weight and size: the AP binders and textbooks in my book bag, the chapstick I carry in the front zipper pocket of my purse, the bulging homework folder in the front of my binder, the tiny flash drive that contains my whole high school career, the weight of two dead caregivers and my dad’s addiction, the stress all this puts onto a fragile teenage mind. (asyndeton) For somebody who is only 115 pounds, I sure seem to have a lot of strength. All these chips on my shoulder, and somehow I’m still alive.

I started off by Googling the phrase “psychology of competition” and did not have any luck finding websites that I felt would be useful for my topic. As a result, I decided to use the school’s database and found many specific articles, none of which was related to the generic topic of the psychology of competition. For articles written as journals only, I had 17,780 results. To find a better article that will fit my topic, I revised what I put in the search bar to “intrinsic motivation to compete” and this was very helpful to my search. It narrowed down the psychology journal articles down to 11,944 results. The study I found was called “Social Motivation: Social Motivations Differentiated at Each Point in the Life Cycle