The Butterfly Effect Essay

Accomplishments in my life have really given me a new understanding for myself and others and allowed for personal growth. One accomplishment has provoked this growth: being inducted into the National Honor Society. The society helps me to think differently about other people and learn of ways I could become a better person. This experience has shown me the importance of hard work, never giving up, social interaction, and helping others.

Because of the people I chose to surround myself around, I found myself wanting to go into the field of engineering. My friends knew I had a passion for math and they suggested engineering as an occupation I should look into. As of result of that, I found myself getting into more hands-on projects in my last two years of high school, as well as taking an engineering focused course in high school to try it out. I fell in love with the career path and since then, I aspire to become an

Being chosen to be a candidate for a membership for the National Honor Society is such an honor to me. It shows that I have worked hard in all aspects of my life to show leadership, success, excellence and service, despite the many challenges I have faced along the way. It also proves to myself that I have worked hard to maintain my grades in ninth, tenth, and some of eleventh grade while maintaining a part time job, and volunteering at a barn in my hometown.

There are people who on the outside are not sociable, because these people are shy. However, there is a difference between shyness and introversion. Shy people often avoid many things because they are nervous or they criticize themselves for speaking up. Introverts, however, will not be nervous or criticize themselves. Both shyness and being introverted are acceptable traits. It only becomes a problem when a person has a social anxiety disorder that significantly interferes with a person’s life. We want and need people to be the quiet thinkers who can go off by themselves come up with an idea and bring it back to a

Throughout my high school career, I chose to challenge myself in the classroom. Rather than taking the basic route to earning a high school diploma, I chose to seek an even high honor of obtaining the honor's diploma. Throughout my years, I was told by various people that the honor's diploma was unnecessary, colleges won't care about it, and that it's just for bragging rights. Although some of these statements may be true, I didn't let the negativity get in the way of my goal. I was set on working towards and honor's diploma and no one was going to stop me.

I have worked hard for many years to get where I am today. I have made the honor roll all four years of high school, am a member of the National Honor Society, and have done much volunteer work as well as participated in extracurricular activities. I will be a first generation college student, and as such, I will be the first in my family with the means and the will to attend an institution of higher learning. I am very excited to have the opportunity to be successful in my life. My family looks upon my accomplishments with pride, as do I.

Passing the AP exam brought pride to myself and to my parents. My parents have always expected great things from me, and to be able to please them is delightful. While it can be stressful to have my parents expect so much, I understand where they are coming from. Since they were only able to attend grade school,

An award that I consider a great accomplishment is receiving and earning a spot on the Honor Roll. I pride myself on the dedication and effort I put into my school work and grades. I always try to do the best I can to ensure I understand and truly know the material I am given. I strive to make all of the work I do in school up to above average standards. My education is my number one priority and I aim to always have worthy work and grades.

As a young child in elementary school, I was very shy and anxious about everything. As I continued to grow older, I started to grow out of my introverted nature with the help of my friends, teachers, and family. In fact, I started to go in the opposite direction and became more outgoing. This trend continued into middle school as I decided to try to run for student council, thinking that it would help me grow and become more popular. After I won a narrow election and began my work in the council, I realized that it would drastically change my life.

I cannot count the numerous times when I was playfully mocked for being alone or not talking at a large gathering. There would always be someone who suddenly approaches me, yells “you gotta be more social!”, and drags me to an unfamiliar group of people and forces me to talk to them about something. Each uncomfortable moment like that lowered my self-esteem because I always criticized myself for being a mix of too shy and too introverted. I told myself the same thing others did: I had to be more social.

I am proud that I got my black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Getting my belt wasn't easy. It was definitely a stuggle but I'm proud of the years I spent devoting my time into getting my black belt. I am proud that I got straight A's this year. Throughout the year my grades were pretty good but they were always A's and B+'s but I really wanted to get straight A's. Finally I ended up getting what I wanted which I was very proud of. Another thing I'm proud of is trying volleyball last year. Throughout my entire school career I had been playing soccer. Last year I decided to try something new, volleyball. I am really glad I tried volleyball because it has become my favorite sport. My future vision for myself is to be a pediatrician. I'd want to be a pediatrician

I was also a very shy person in school, so I did not try to socialize outside of my friend group. I was very content to stay within those friends, which is now something I wish I could change. I am not sure how much I could change my current bias if I had been more outgoing, but

At one point earlier in the year while in the car for reasons now forgotten, I happened to notice a small butterfly that had become lodged beneath a windshield wiper. The car was moving fairly quickly at the time, and so the turbulence generated against the surface of the windshield by this motion began to gradually tear the insect apart while I looked on out of boredom. At this point, I could easily develop this piece into some sort of lament for the tragic death of this beautiful, innocent creature that would be just barely poetic enough to earn a passable grade and escape any blatant criticism; however, that would be rather misleading as, to be blunt, I am nearly incapable of giving less of a shit about the death

It is an internal struggle that I go through that is not apparent to others. People tend to see me as a confident outgoing individual, and I am, to some extent

The summaries do not add anything to the paper and could (should) have been skipped. Given the thesis of the paper, I would have liked to have seen a discussion of the male / female conflict, and a more detailed discussion of the individual / society conflict. The two women's struggles "to find their own sense of individuality" are, after all, attempts to free themselves from the expectations of their husbands and of the societies in which they live. Such an exploration might have led the writer to some conclusions about the major differences in the two novels. (Note that the conclusion basically summarizes similarities.) The writer of the paper might well have come to conclusions different than