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etc. For each semester class you take in college, you earn three credits once you pass the class. GPA is calculated by dividing the total number of grade points by the total number of credits earned. So the question is: should students’ grades in school gym class affect their grade point average? A gym grade should NOT be included in calculating GPA. Gym is not an academic class. Gym is a physical education class. From my observation, under some teachers, students do nothing in gym class and still

the most leading chemists in American history. Early Life Percy Lavon Julian was born in Montgomery, Alabama on April 11, 1899. His grandparent was slaves. He went to school until the eighth grade because there were no high schools open to African-American students. He had to take high school-level classes in the evening at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana to get him up high-school level of his classmates. He graduated first

Francis Cunningham Finch Lee, was ill most of Harper’s life. While in elementary school, Lee became very close friends with a boy named Truman Persons (known by Truman Capote). Truman was different compared to boys his age so he was often picked on by other boys. Lee was just as tough as the boys, and she often stood up for Truman. While in high school, Lee’s interest in Literature grew. After graduating high school, she

To look at the typical life of a high school history teacher, one would think it slow, stressful, or dull, much like the subject they teach. History is often cited as the least interesting high school subject, associated with endless memorization and droning lectures about seemingly unimportant and long deceased men in starchy wigs. However, when it comes to Lincoln Gravatt, the AP European and US History teacher at Booker T. Washington Magnet High School, such a generalization could not be less

of music is also enjoyable. There are a lot of musicians from Alabama that I love to listen to on a daily basis. Reading a certain book gave me connection to Alabama literature when I was in junior high school. “To Kill a Mockingbird “was one novel that I read in my literature class in junior high school .The novel “To Kill a Mockingbird was one novel that was written by a novelist named Nelle Harper Lee. Lee was from a small town called Monroeville, AL The novel was inspired by the racist attitudes

take a lot for granted. In many parts of the world, even in the 21st century, women are not allowed to dress freely, speak freely, drive, vote, own a business, even go to school. Those that violate the tenets of the society in which they live can be killed for their lack of obedience. Still, like Rosa Parks on that bus in Montgomery, Alabama, there are women who are willing to stand up for the rights they do not yet have but know they deserve. Rabi Midala and her family lived in Nigeria. She was allowed

Harper Lee is a famous writer who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird and won the Pulitzer prize for this book. While Lee was in high school, she was interested in English literature. Lee did attend college after high school to focus on her English and writing (Biography.com). She hasn’t written that many books, but she surprisingly has won several awards. After she wrote To Kill a Mockingbird, she went kind of dormant. There has been many times Harper Lee has been in the spotlight. She was born on

the other non student athletes.It`s understood that they have very long nights and train for hours and hours a day just for sports, but they need to work just as hard if not harder on their studies.Student athlete`s can miss a practice because of school work , and education comes first no matter how good you are at the sport if you do not have the grades you do not play. but as an extra incentive to get players to class the universities pay other students to keep track of the athletes. If the student

What does a scholarship to The University of Texas Health Science Center School of Nursing mean to me? Well, it means just about everything. As a freshman in high school, I always dreamed of attending a world-renowned University. However, what I didn’t realize is that regardless the thousands of scholarship applications I applied to. I still did not have enough money to attend. After receiving my acceptance letters to some of the largest Universities in the state of Texas my world felt like it was

In the article “Pediatricians Say School Should Start Later For Teens’ Health” it states,“......a National Sleep Foundation poll found that 59 percent of middle schoolers and 87 percent of high schoolers are getting less than the recommended 8 ½ to 9 ½ hours of sleep a night.”(Shute 2). Many people say that school start time is affecting students’ health. However, schools should not start later because it’s too expensive, it would cause conflict with after school responsibilities, and there is some