My First Girl Scout Essay

It was a chilly morning on January 28, 1986 when Lori Bockhorst went to school at Londonderry High School. On what would normally be an ordinary day in the life of the students, something exciting was about to occur. This day was a special day, because the space shuttle was expected to be launched. Though launches were still rare, Lori had seen them before, and they had always fascinated her. This time, however, was different. On the crew would be a teacher from Concord, New Hampshire; a city a few miles down from where Lori lived. The teacher, Christa McAuliffe, had won a nationwide contest over 11,000 other teachers that granted her the right to this amazing experience. She would be teaching lessons to her students from space, a feat never before achieved. (History.com Staff) After undergoing months of training, she would be the first ordinary citizen that had gone into space. Everyone was excited with the fact that normal people like them were doing the seemingly impossible. Many of the

All across America, young men join together in a special organization called the Boy Scouts of America. Scouts from 1st grade to seniors in high school work toward a common goal: growing up into a functional, mature citizen and leader of the United States. I joined this great organization in 2006 as a Wolf Cub Scout and rose through the ranks to get into Boy Scouts in 2010. I didn’t know what to expect from such a widely popular, military-like group. Will I get pushed to my limit? How much can Scouts impact me? Is Cub Scouts like what others say?

In Harper Lee’s novel, “To Kill A Mocking Bird” we see that maturation of some of the characters is clearly evident, particularly Scouts. We see this by the way she acts in front of Miss Maudie, Calpurnia and Mrs. Alexandra Finch.

A system is a set of interrelated parts. Systems theory assumes that a system must be understood as a whole, rather than in component parts. It is a way of looking at the world where all the objects are interrelated with one another. Many family systems are addressed in the movie Little Miss Sunshine.

No matter what happened during the school year I would always come back to camp and be able to spend time with the girls that went from friends to family over the nine years that I had known them. This last year was the last time I would ever get to do activities, earn merits or even swim a mile. During my last two weeks at CLH I knew this but it did not sink in until it was my last time to hike up to Church Mountain as a camper. On the way up my eyes started to sting and I reached over and grabbed my friend Riata’s hand. I looked over at her and saw that she was crying too. Once I realized she was I looked around and witnessed my entire cabin start to break down and come to understand, this was our last year, our last chance to do anything a camper could do. It was during this time that I truly came to appreciate everything camp has taught me and the great friends that I made along the way.

Discuss the key aspects of Early Years child development in the contexts of providing support an appropriate child care setting

This year’s family vacation was one for the books. With my aunt living in Tennessee, we do not get together as often as we would like so my family decided to go to Nashville, Tennessee. When we started our trip, it was 6 a.m. and it was nothing short of fun and laughter along the way. Never having been to Tennessee before, I figured I’d enjoy the eight-hour ride of sight-seeing and laughter with my family. When we were a few miles into the trip, the mountains of Georgia were breathtaking. While I was enjoying the scenery, another thing that I found enjoyable about this trip was the conversation that I had with my family. We went on talking about life in general, all the struggles, and childhood memories that we had. We even talked about years

Little Miss Sunshine directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, is about a family whose cross country journey to the Little Miss Sunshine child beauty pageant teaches them, and the viewer, that real life is about relationships and that these are more important than simplistic notions of winning or losing. Richard Hoover is the character who most exemplifies this message as he eventually recognises that his family and life cannot be defined by his ‘Refuse to Lose’ motivational programme.

It was the first day of school for many in Maycomb, including myself. I had just moved from a college in Winston Country. Almost 30 years have past since that day in Maycomb when I first saw the school I was to be teaching at. The classroom smelt stale after being closed up for the whole summer, as I met my students who I would teach for the next year. The one child I remember most had a trail of dirty footprints leading to his desk. The little horror looked like he was straight from the pig pen.

When children grow up, there are always people they need in there life to help them be mature. There is family members, friends, idols, and teachers. In to kill a Mockingbird, it shows racism, courage, family status. This novel is told by from a maturing girl’s perspective named scout. Her challenges of seeing racism and the side of depression in this world,which she experienced in a little town, Maycomb. There are many characters that help scout throughout her experience all of this and realizing things that go on in this world. Three main characters that help scout come of age are Atticus Finch, Jem, and friends around.

While auditing courses for her own education and interest a professor realized that the students were relating to her as if she was a student. She was behaving as a student, asking questions, going regularly to class and doing the required readings and in turn the other students began sharing insights, gossip and opinions she would never hear as a professor. Rebekah Nathan (pseudonym assumed by the author, Cathy Small, for purposes of the book) recognized that “even after my fiftieth birthday, I could still be a student, and treated by other students as, more or less, a peer”(Nathan, 2005, para. 71). She decided use her sabbatical to study campus life through a student’s viewpoint, instead of the professor-student perspective.

In “Girl Scout’s project provides hope through hoops,” author Bill Plaschke argues that this half of a basketball court that Girl Scout, Claire Dundee, constructed outside of a Door of Hope apartment complex for women and their children who have been left homeless due to domestic violence is the reason for the kids who live there to have hope and something to look forward to every day. According to him, this basketball court is the kid’s private refuge, a place where they can go after school or on weekends and just let loose and bond with one another. Plaschke makes his first point by mentioning how these kids that live in this apartment complex really weren’t allowed outside before due to security reasons and not having a safe and reliable

Barry couldn't believe that it was morning already, he went to sleep at 1 a.m because he stayed up binge watching his favorite show.“Barry wake up, it's 7:30!” Diana yelled as she rushed into her son's room. “Mom! Why didn't you wake me up earlier?, it's the first day of school!” was what came out Barry’s mouth although he knew that it was his fault like always. Barry stared at his alarm clock, which was completely silent, no noise or numbers reflecting off the screen to let Barry know that it was time to get ready for his first day of middle school. The day brightened considerably, the shadows were stretching in the opposite direction from what Barry had seen yesterday in his first day in New York. His father, Daniel, and Diana rush into the car since it was Daniel’s first day as well, at his new job in the famous World Trade Center. "Ready for your big day today champ?”, Barry didn't answer because of the memories that rushed through his brain of all his friends, teachers, and his grandpa.

I talked my older daughter, who was twenty-five at the time, into joining me in this pursuit. Within weeks, we were “signed up” and ready to go. We anxiously awaited the beginning of our first class which would begin in January of 2015. We sailed through Spring 1 and Spring 2 and are in the process of finishing up Summer 1 and Summer 2. We anticipate walking the state next May of 2016. My mother will not be there to see me but her sister will be and she will place my mother’s photo in a seat of honor and memory for me. I wish I could have given my mother her greatest desire for me while she was still living but I know that somehow she will “know” that her daughter AND her granddaughter finally achieved what she had always wanted for

One way that America is ensuring a future for space exploration is the reinforcement of math and science in schools. The Challenger gave even more students hope for a promising future by offering scholarships in McAuliffe’s and the crew’s names. Even some schools are being created and named in honor of the fallen crew, especially McAuliffe. This is because her mission was to get people to want to learn, which she expressed as she made her journey to The Challenger. McAuliffe Regional Charter Public Middle School in Framing, Massachusetts annually celebrates her life by having students research the many aspects of space. Many schools around the world teach this subject. However, this school takes a different approach. Instead of sitting through the lectures of their teachers, students investigate the subjects with experts, work at labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, video chat with researchers in Japan, and interview many specialists. There is also more focus on science, mathematics, engineering, and technologies (STEM) at elementary schools such as McAuliffe elementary (Simpson). This reinforcement is not only important to the future of the space program, but it also allows many girls to have the freedom to learn without prejudice. Van Roekel, a former teacher, explains how the timing of this integration was so critical for the developing youth by stating, “ When you think of the time, that’s when we really started real efforts to knock down stereotypes that math and science were for boys and not girls.” (Heitin). If girls had not felt comfortable learning about math and science then, where would America be today? So many discoveries are made every single day by women that our world may be completely different today if they were not encouraged at an early