I Like Me Narrative

It’s Thursday, September 15 my supervisor Sherry Smith calls me into her office and tells me I have to go to Northwest Miami-Dade to evaluate a family of four. The first thing that comes into my mind is, “Oh great another Hispanic family.” She explains that there have been several domestic abuse complaints and they need me to be there by 6 o’clock today. I look at the time and it’s already 4:50 PM. Our office is in Fort Lauderdale; all I can think about is the traffic while making assumptions of the family. The last thing she ends with is, “Call me if you need me, I don’t want another melt-down.” In my last journal entry, I wrote about how I was in Northwest Miami-Dade and I had my third Hispanic family, but our values didn’t coincide even

Personal Narrative I never thought that I would be saving someone life from drowning. That was until my friends and I did help someone. Which was something that happened very fast.

One claimed to watch a building to burn completely down right in front of their eyes. Guests from the Dollywood resort were evacuated as flames approached the area, yet the property hasn't suffered any damage. Winds are now racing at 80 mph and debris have taken over the fresh air. Looking out into the distance, fire is everywhere we look. Roads are now closed and some people were left behind who are now kept in our shelters. According to the weather, it looks like we're getting the best news we've received so far; rain. Unfortunately, more wind is coming along the rain from eastern Tennessee, Southwest Virginia and Southwest North

"I'm going to pin him in 10 seconds, I'm going to pin him in 10 seconds," was ringing through my head, and that's also exactly what I told there coach. A little before there match he approached me and asked what weight I was wrestling I answered and the told

Not long ago, my parents received an endless amount of criticism, similar to the Walls’ family, for their decision to homeschool my siblings and me. Many “feared” for us, because according to them, there was no way we were going to learn effectively at home, what we could in a formal school. My mom tells me stories of how people she’d known expressed genuine concern over the idea of educating children in a different way than what is deemed “normal.” I do not blame these people for their concern, as they were raised in a society that emphasizes a single approach to learning. Although there were definitely times growing up when I wished to attend a brick and mortar school like “normal” people, after a certain age I genuinely appreciated my parent’s decision. Being home-schooled has taught me so much more than just the basic principles of education. I grew up being highly self-reliant due to my online school requiring students to be almost entirely responsible for keeping up with their work. Similar to college, I had a syllabus provided to me, and had no one other than myself to make sure I was on top of everything. This helped me to become a responsible and well-organized individual. I also gained a quality education, despite all of the fear and concern of those around me. I still have to answer the questions, “Why were you homeschooled?” and, “Didn’t you want to go to regular school?” more

Cost Benefit Analysis In recent years, the homeschooled population in Spotsylvania County Public Schools (SCPS) has continued to grow. Due to state regulations, the governing body of the division, the Spotsylvania County School Board (SCSB) developed a policy to address the procedures and protocols necessary to guide homeschooling options in the division: Policy LBD (2015) (See Appendix A). According to L. Binion, Guidance Director for SCPS, currently the division has 1,036 registered and 31 pending homeschooled students in grades K-12 (personal communication, November 13, 2015). Further, although the division has generally averaged 3-4 additional requests weekly, requests have skyrocketed to 1-2 per day for the past several weeks. The spike is likely connected to two recent negative events associated with the division—a thwarted mass shooting plan, and a case of severe hazing at a high school, (L. Binion, personal communication, November 19, 2015).

Alright Alright, It's memorial day and it is still 1000 degree with no end in sight. This may be the end of the world and we all cook to death... who knows. As I cannot convince any of my buddies to get out of there air conditioning safety bubbles, I sit inside too contemplating what to do. Being inside seemed to be the only option for myself and I wasn't too thrilled. It was time for dinner and as the food was cooking I looked at my phone to see my weather app and the snapchat weather people inform me that there was rain coming. As Zimmerman was just getting hit by rain, people south of me were running from tornados which actually seemed pretty entertaining and better than sitting inside bored.

There we we're just chilling in my military grade jet with my friends. We were sitting there playing games while circling an island, then you wouldn't believe me if i told you that we saw 20 military birds. They didn't see us until my friend sneezed they started shoot left and right. So we turned my jet into and military plane an we shoot and shoot.. We killed all of them except wan which we tortured too tell us where their base is until at his final moments he tells us an we get go searching for it. We find it an we go fast there are 50 more and we shoot and shoot until there all dead. Then we cooked them and ate them the entire way home.

When Winds Fight Back Look a TORNADO! There are 2 ef-5 tornados! The forecast today is that there are 2 ef-5 tornados and they are ripping things up we better get shelter. Ok i'm back with the weather and i am going to list some cause and effects for you while

The album had like a spaceship theme them. I was able to hear the voices and loud drums which was very interesting. There were skits tat logic wrote for the whole album that made the album more enthralling. Right from the beginning to the end of each song. Best album I've ever heard.. My mom came downstairs to cook some lunch for me, logic, and the guys.

Tyler gets me a job at the Gap stocking shelves. He says he gets me the job because it's time I made a difference in people's lives. Make consumers, employees, whoever, to question their roles as rusty clogs in the machine they're a part of. I've become his little project.

Why is it I'm always the one that gets hurt in my group of friends? Yes that is my legitimate question. Why is it I, Marna Lynne Davis, gets hurt because of something I do, or something that someone else does? I literally could be walking down the hallway, trip, fall flat on my face,and asked,"What did you trip over?"I'll give you a few seconds to think about this while you play Jeopardy music in your head. The answer is air. Don't even ask about me flying in a rolling chair and knocking over a drink. That was great. I'm a total clutz among other characters but if you want to know more about the girl who has straight A's yet manages to trip over air, loves music, is super sassy, moved plenty of times, has a unique character, and the reason

Not all things in life are certain. My mother and father leaving me with my aunt in Ghana was one example. They left for the U.S to find “a better life” than what was in their homeland. For me, life in Ghana was the best. I remember playing soccer in the afternoon sun, running from stray dogs, and eating fried plantains with beans for dinner. However, I didn’t see the looming threat of violence that was hidden beneath the surface of my fun life; I didn’t know danger was at my doorstep.

Hey everyone, I hope everyone is adjusting to the crazy weather lately. A lot of impressive events are going on at

Think of your favorite thing in the world to do. Something that defines you. Something that you can only experience from your eyes. For me it is soccer, and through that came a rite of passage that will be with me forever.