Personal Narrative: Edinboro Elementary School

On April 08, 2016, I arrived to my designated school, Cypress Point Elementary School. Upon my arrival to Cypress Point Elementary School, I went to the main office of the school to see the assistant principal, Mrs. Dewitt. She could not make it to school on time, due to her having car troubles. The secretary told me she would notify her that I arrived and to set me. As I waited for Mrs. Dewitt, I noticed quite a few students having to call home due to violating the school dress code. Mainly it was more girls violating the dress code than boys. I am assuming from what I saw, the children only wore clothes that they saw the adults wore, or whatever their parents picked out for them. During this time, I noticed a little Asian or Hispanic boy being brought to school but he was supposed to be at home due to suspension. The secretary asked him “Why are you at school?” This young man told the secretary that his mother brought him to school. The secretary informed him that he needs to call his mother so that she

“Since the 1950s, popular music has been widely criticized for contributing to a variety of problematic behaviors among adolescents” (Brown). The new styles of music was important and often blamed for causing teen rebellion, as the songs of this era were considered inappropriate and the main cause of teens’ negative behavior; such as constant drinking and the abusing of alcohol use, drug use, and the act of being extremely violent toward one another. Famous musical artist such as Elvis Presley and the Beatles were usually associated with this rebellion. The Parents Music Resource Center blamed music for teen behavior, and eventually had parental advisory labels put on certain music packaging. It impacted the conflict as a whole because the music and artists

Since the being of time people have been making and listening to music. Music has been considered the best way to express ourselves. The Bible even talks about how music was used to praise God. Music has been used for all type of things ranging from to getting a girl to notice guy, trying to get over a broken heart, or maybe losing a love one. Now society says that music has become too violent and sexually oriented. Many people have different point of view on this topic some people feel that there should be some type of censorship, while other feel censorship is against the first amendment, and others feel that parents should be responsible for what their children listen to. The question that comes to mind is should

I have always been in love with the game of softball. I love all the competition and the thought of working at it brings joy to my heart. I could always go to the field to get my mind off things and just focus. But in May of 2015 my life changed and I had a whole new mind set on everything.

Prompt: Some students have a background, identity, interest, or talent that is so meaningful they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story.

It just made things easier for the bullies and things worse for me. Louis and I remained in Wildcats East. I was afraid and sometimes I never wanted to go back. I thought the bullying would have stopped. Now that I am not in school anymore, I feel safer, not threatened or bullied by anyone much anymore. Pretty sad I tell you how school life had to turn out the way it did.

It was 7:00 in the morning when we arrived at the Johnston City High School. Once everyone arrived at the high school, we got on the bus and headed off to Benton. As we stepped foot on the bus, we all sat there quietly, nervous about the results of this game. This was the game that determined whether or not we went on to state. Coach Simon and Coach Shane gave us one of their what we like to call "before the game warm-up talks". We were all nervous of course, but we were all determined to win this game. We had been looking forwards to winning regionals and going to state the whole season and that day was the day that we gave us the opportunity to go to state. After the thirty minute bus ride, we finally got to Benton and once we got there,

For two years I begrudgingly walked into Fuller Middle School, sometimes staying home because I had a ‘headache,’ my home, as well as other places I was always resentful, pissed off, quick tempered, and just downright rude. I was a typical middle schooler going through family changes. I wore band tees and ripped skinny jeans to every event my mother would let me--including to school, I constantly violated dress coded until I found my way around authority and the policy, listened to heavy metal, colored my eyeliner on until I looked like a panda, and generally tried to make myself appear unapproachable. That’s when my mom began dating the man who I would eventually call my first lifeline.

Beginning my elementary school career, I attended Indianapolis Public Schools. When I entered school, Kindergarten was only half days, and we were working on materials such as, learning our alphabet and counting to 100. The workload was a far cry from the addition, subtraction, early reading skills, and science that my daughter is learning in kindergarten this year. Following the first grade I left the Indianapolis Public School System and entered into a new school system. Embarking on second grade we started working on the skills that would help us read proficiently. I was absolutely struggling, but I was also so distrustful that I didn’t dare to say anything to my teacher. Thankfully, even without me saying anything to her, my teacher noticed

B. If parents are truly concerned about the impact of music their child listens to they will refuse to buy the music for their children.

the use of music written and performed by a specific artist should be protected, but legal jargon sent after a child enjoyed music playing in background enough to dance is ridiculos. The mother of the dancing toddler was show casing her son not the music, she was not making claims the music was hers, and wasn't attempting to make a profit. I did notice the video of the child dancing did not run long enough to play the entire song. I reasearched the youtube copyright fair use and its third factor of determination says borrowing small bits is more likely to be considered fair use, and unless the "heart" of the work was used there is no major infraction. This was meant to reach a sympatheic as well as a neutral audience. I believe this would be an example of ethos. The presenter had facts, other examples of music used in other videos to support the unecessary request by youtube to take the toddler video down. I am sure it did not take much persuasion to turn a neutral audience member to one who was sympathetic.

I am talking long term here; this is a problem that will continue to expand unless a terminating action is taken to prevent it. Again I propose banning it. This solution is stronger, more permanent, and less problematic. Banning Christian music will make sure that even if children do not listen to their parents, they will not be infected by the plague of

“It’s not the labels kids look for, it’s the music. Independent research shows kids put limited weight on lyrics in deciding which music they like, caring more about rhythm and melody. The warning label alone isn’t enough incentive.” (http://www.riaa.org/Parents-Advisory-4.cfm).

Throughout the years, Music has always played an influential part on our social behavior. I personally believe that the Music we listen to everyday, the lyrics we hear are favorite artist sing or rap has a key part into how we conduct ourselves. Why should we oppose censorship when corporations pay thousands of dollars to create a murder scene and mayhem in a music video and release it to the public and it usually dominates the TV screen, when works of art can be seen as a direct insult to people's' religious beliefs, threatening to the public and when much sexually explicit material can be seen as degrading to women. The freedom of speech amendment gave artist the right to express themselves in their music is greatly affecting our youth, and really any person who is mentally

On the other hand, although music can sometimes be offensive it is also detrimental to young fans. Parents have aversion to music for its violent and sexual lyrics they also argue that their children shouldn’t be listening to such substandard music. Teens who listens to the music maybe influenced by to do unacceptable thing and wrongly matter but they also have choices so if parents think it’s the music they’re wrong because everyone has