The Hours Reflection

In When We Fight, We Win by Greg Jobin-Leeds it says that “comparison can block compassion both for others and for ourselves.” I agree with such statement; I think that listening is a skill you learn throughout time. One can pretend to listen without really getting anything out of the conversation that one is having with that other person. In the Compassionate Listening workshop, I got to do it with Rachel Kurland and I sit and listened to her talking about the moment her friend treason her. I tried to understand her plight, why would she not cut that friendship off, I understood she loved her friend, however, I could not resist bringing my biases to our conversation. I asked myself, why is Rachel, such a good, loving, and smart person,

Why is it that so many kids decide that ditching school on a fairly consistent basis and/or not caring at all about their grades is the right thing to do? What could possibly be more important than school at such an age? You're a fool to tell me that getting high, going to a mall, getting trashed or any other alternative is better than going to school. You're a fool to tell me that the sole point of going to school is to see and gossip about other people with your friends. An education is the gateway to future success. The kids who don't care about school (all too many) are living for the moment, and not thinking about the long run. Instead of channeling their energies into studying, they instead take the easy way out and have fun. Who wants an incompetent oaf for President?

I believe that education is not a luxury, but a need in this country. Some students in my high school viewed school as “something to do” (or not to do). It seemed to me they didn’t have a willingness to conform to society’s rules and instead rebelled which more than likely led them on a path of destruction. However, I honestly cannot place blame on just the students in relation to expectations. Urban area schools and students tend to have fewer resources which may give students a sense of hopelessness or an illusion behind

The average age that a person has kids is around the age of twenty-nine (Bates). So not only does one have to balance bills, focus on a career, they could also have to take care of a life. To be fully prepared to enter the real world, an individual must basicly have there life planned out as soon as highschool. It is very hard to put these heavy choices on a kid as young as thirteen years of age. A decision a person makes on what they do affects them for the rest of their life, so why make a decision that is so heavily weighed, be even allowed to be chosen by someone so juvenile. Many teens are worried about gossip, relationships, sports, and social status. College is just something a highschool thinks of usually around junior year, or early senior year, even senior year where a high school student makes their decision about what colleges to apply to, or accept to get into; they are also distracted with SAT’s, ACT’s, Friday night lights, grades, and school dances like prom or cotillion. Being sidetracked by all these factors and many more a logical decision can not be made without taking even more time to not just double check a decision, but triple check, or four times or more. An individual can never be too sure about

The irritating, influential, and overwhelming documentary was directed by Ava DuVernay (Samito, 2015). While the documentary shakes the audience, it challenges their concepts regarding race intersection, mass incarceration in the U.S. and justice. It is a subject matter that sounds less cinematic. It has been increasingly difficult to separate Ava DuVernay filmmaking from her activism (Gray, Palmiotti, Archer & Guzman, 2007). The 13th is a timely movie just as Black Lives Matter protest and the presidential election that was imminent.

As many can attribute, growing up as a child happens vary fast for both the parents and children. Schooling especially happens the same way. Just twelve quick years of schooling and their off for college. But for some students they continue without further schooling. Causing them to find less quality jobs. Most enter their last year of high school and are not prepared for what they want to do after they graduate. Parents have their ideas for their children but the student themselves, they have no idea what they're gonna do for college. But some students my wait and put together a last minute idea for college. But it’s quite obvious that maybe some students should think about further schooling sooner, so he or she is prepared. Some parents on the other hand believe that preparing them too soon may burn the student out on wanting to go to college.

After only seventeen years of living, students are sat down and told that they need to figure out what they are going to do for the rest of their lives. If they are lucky they will not be one of the many kids who falls through the cracks of the American education system. School has become far too stressful for the average teenager. Students now a days are finding school more and more difficult due to learning disabilities, over pilling amounts of homework and tests, and large classroom sizes.

As a high school student in 2016, school is a very stressful and important thing. I love education and learning, but school seems to be pushing students away from that. I personally am passionate about American history and politics and I want to study and interpret important pieces of American history such as the Constitution and help the world somehow with that, but I have to instead spend hours on quadratic equations and memorizing every step as to how the cell divides. School is extremely important. If it weren’t for school, then I wouldn’t have found this passion of mine. I was in 8th grade US History class when I did, and it has changed the path I am taking in life. But I think

Education is taken for granted many times by students all over the world. Many don’t really know about how much other kids wish they had the same opportunities that we have. All over the world students face different obstacles just to get to school. Very often we take for granted to fact that we can either walk, drive, or ride the bus to school. Students don’t really think about school being a privilege to be able to attend, some students think about it being more of a punishment, instead of thinking of all the opportunities they will have in the future with an education.

As children we were always told that it's vital that we get good grades in primary school and continue on to college and get high scores there too. This was supposed to lead our adult lives to a better plane and permit us to be happier in our lives. However, few individuals simply aren't cut out for the education that they try to achieve.

The ten hours shadowing experience is to broaden the insights regarding different administrative and instructional levels.

I was the President of the COOP (Community Outreach and Opportunity Programs) Upward Bound Interact Club and we were sponsored by Rotary Club of Playa Venice Sunrise with the main objective being to assist our community as much as possible. After raising over $500 dollars in a marshmallow roses fundraiser, we

Students may not like going to school but, it is for the best. By going to school students can get an education and get a job or go to college and

During the era of the Holocaust, racial tension grew; Jewish people were persecuted and forced to go to concentration camps. Discrimination against the Jewish became a problem throughout Europe. There were other groups that were also mistreated, for instance: disabled people and slavic people. The novel, Night, written by Elie Wiesel is based on true events as experienced through the personal lense of the author.

For a long time I knew that I was suppose to be, act, and think purely. I didn’t think of it that much when I was younger, but as I began to grow up and I entered high school; I started to realize that not everybody was brought up to think that. I’ve had several conversations with friends where all they seem to do is question my belief in purity. They’ve told me so many things like, “why do you need to stay pure?”, “are you really gonna wait till marriage”, “that’s so dumb”, “no one even does that anymore”... blah blah blah and I can go on forever. But the truth is that I never had a response. All I could think of is to say, “ Well I’m catholic… so yea…” I never had a legitament reason. I never knew what to say back and I even began to question myself. “Why do I need to stay ‘pure’ or wait for marriage?” “Is it really that important?” “ Wouldn’t God want me to have a little fun?” Well it wasn’t until I lived this retreat and began teaming on it that I realized the meaning behind purity and I finally found not only one, but several reasons to stay pure. I decided to put my thoughts on paper and share a few of them with you.