Welcome parents, administrators, and classmates to the eighth grade promotion. After surviving through three years of essays, assignments, and tests, we finally graduated. Everyone here has accomplished so much in the past few years. For me, I was able to wake up early roughly 540 times. If I have learned one thing during my time at MJS, it is that I’m not a morning person. Waking up early was presumably the most challenging part of middle school, and in September, I will be forced to wake up even earlier. Nevertheless, I will the find motivation to do so. An unknown individual once said, “Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goals… that will enable you to attain the success you seek.” The anonymous author is certainly correct; commitment leads to success. With perseverance and hard work, one will ultimately be rewarded with the satisfaction of succeeding. Hard work is a ship in an ocean of challenges. A sailor must utilize a lighthouse to guide them on a safe path to the shore; just as one uses motivation to help them strive for their goal. Furthermore, it takes determination to get through this sea of trials. In 6th grade, we definitely showed a sense of determination. We were insistent on learning the ropes of middle school. However, we first had to learn everyone’s names; a nearly impossible task considering we barely knew anyone. On the first day, we were all on edge; we just went through the motions
I was about to face my greatest challenge in my new life. How to fit in with people in middle school. Arriving in America was already hard to adjust, what more can it be with my school life. It was in August when my school started. I was already nervous, and I haven’t even step foot from this mysterious school that I’m about to spend 2 years of my life.
In today's society, most people desire success. They want to attend a respected college, earn exceptional grades, get a wonderful job, and make a lot of money. However, the road to success starts before all of those accomplishments can happen. This journey begins in the classroom. In the classroom, over 25% of all high-school students fall asleep one or more times a week (Mayer-Hohdahl 1). Why does this happen? Schools have sleepy students because of their early start times. "Starting high school early is probably one of the worst things you can do as far as timing the day, as far as adolescents being alert or ready" (Wooley 2). This is a serious problem in high schools all across the nation. Students are tired, and teachers are
On September 1, 2012, I walked into my fifth grade teacher’s classroom for the first time in my life. Mrs.Cullen was standing in the front of the door with open arms ready to welcome her new fifth grade students. As I made my way to my desk and sat down next to Charlie Schutt and Quin Timmerman, I got the feeling that middle school would be a time of talking to some of my best friends and cruising through classes. As the school year progressed, and classroom seats changed, my thought of how Middle school would be changed as well. On the first day Mrs.Cullen explained our schedule, Homework detentions, and demerits. After about fifty questions, she sent us off to our first class, and the first step of our Middle School journey. The fifth grade
I am sure that everyone of you have heard about aliens and UFOs. Indeed, we all have heard about the famous case of aliens and UFOs in Roswell, New Mexico. Most people might be interested in the topic of aliens, but I know that the majority of you just think of it as rumours and the existence of them are impossible. Therefore, I am standing here in front all of you to make you change your perspective. I am strongly confident that I have found the evidence of their real existence to convince all of you.
Trump nomination has me eating crow. There's a lot of things I can easily point out to that might of cause Hillary chance of winning. But the damn Electrola College is a complete BS. Al Gore lost to President Bush in 2000 with the popular vote, the same way Hillary lost to Trump. Essentially every vote doesn't count. That's completely asinine! Democrats lost the House, Senate, White House and apparently the Supreme Court. Yup! we are in herd of trouble.........
From the Star-Spangled Banner, to the bald eagle, the US flag, and the White House, these are all symbols of America. Each one has its own special meaning, representing our country and its people. The Declaration of Independence was one of our first successful fights for our rights and freedom. Over the years our country has made many great accomplishments that we are so proud of. Of all the things that symbolizes our country, what do they mean to you?
Hello everybody. I'm going to show you some pictures and I want you to think about the first emotion that comes to mind. Now I'm sure these pictures made you feel sad, negative, depressed, pity,and a lot of other negative emotions. Now i'm going to show you another set of pictures and I want you to do same thing as you did with the last pictures. These pictures have been voted on and determined that these are the happiest pictures on the internet. Why you may ask? Because genetically we are all wired to like cute things such as babies or cute animals. We can use this genetic wiring to our advantage, just looking at these pictures improves your efficiency, your short-term happiness, and caught your attention better than just looking at a picture of a carrot or say one of zak’s many selfies. (Martinez-Conde). Now that i've got you attention I want you to raise your hand if you ever been taught what causes happiness, the benefits being happy has, or how to become happier.. The fact that *if everyone raises their hand pivot to something else* almost no one in this room has been taught these things is insane to me. This is telling of the ideas that we have as a society concerning happiness. What I'm trying to say is that as a culture we need to redefine happiness as something that needs to be constantly worked towards and is not something easily attainable. I'm going to start off with with talking about the problem we have with happiness. Next we're going to talk about what effects are caused by being unhappy and finally we're going to talk about ways you can become happier.
Most everyone has been on a sports team, or has a concept of what happens before a game in higher age athletics. Perhaps you don’t have any concept of either, but just really enjoy listening to others speak to help you feel motivated to do something. That was my exact genre, motivational speeches, specifically in athletics. These two are different in their own ways, but their message is always the same. What exactly makes a motivational speech so emotionally changing? Is there any kind of rhyme or reason to how they are words are spoken or is it just a natural talent of the speaker to be truly motivational?
(I have talked about early detection, but what if it is too late? What if you are already a victim?)
The first year, the time to prove myself had arrived. Classes, rooms, teachers, and some students were unfamiliar. Eventually, minutes melted into hours, hours to days, and days to weeks. It didn’t take long before my schedule was routine, something of second nature. Humor and happiness were found in the form of my advisory family, where school was transformed into something more than going through the same motions of day to day activity. By the closing point of sixth grade, I was having a hard time letting go of what I’d adapted to. “What’s wrong?” my dad asked when I was getting into the car after being picked up early on the last day. I explained how distressed I was that my first year of middle school exceeded my expectations, and that it had to come to an end. Although his outlook viewed my reason for sorrow as trivial, I didn’t.
I believe in always being hard working in everything I do even if it’s small. To always make sure you put your best effort forward and not give up even when you fail. I strive every day to be a good example to my children and not to let little things get in the way. Even if the bills pile up and people are telling me I can’t do it. I believe if I’m hard working that through my struggles in life anything is possible as long as I work hard to achieve it. Talent may get me to the door but hard work will keep me there.
Middle school was the start for the many challenging years yet to come. Extremely quickly, I
Thirty people travel to Cartagena, Colombia to compete in brutal challenges each week and see who can win the ultimate challenge at the end. The host TJ Lavin tells the competitors that they are playing for three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, but what the players don’t know is that the host TJ is also playing a dirty game and the real prize money will be one million dollars. He is not going to tell the competitors until later in the game, because he wants to see who will do whatever it takes as well as see who has the heart to win The Challenge.
POSITIVE THINKING IS A MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL ATTITUDE THAT FOCUSES ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE AND EXPECTS POSTIVE RESULTS.
As a baker, I love to make all of the different types of deliciously smelling bread, such as rye, wheat, brioche, and sourdough. Each has a different recipe, flour ratio, cook time, and density, however all are connected with one thing. Yeast, which brings rise to the bread. Yeast to flour is ambition to success. Rising to success requires adding and taking away ambition to create a perfect balance. While, ambition is thought of as being the main cause of the downfalls of many people as well as the corruption of their morals, however overall ambition has positively affected most individuals, driving them to achieve their goals and exploding great results when used in moderation.