His grades fell and then fell again. Most of his grades were ok but his English grade stayed bad. He started wrestling in 11th grade after finally telling himself that it doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks. He was beginning to realize how strong he was and came up with the game plan “if they not stronger then I am then they can’s slam me or get me in an uncomfortable position”. He would go into every match determined not to lose and would come out victor.
As I was reading excerpts from Emerson and Thoreau, I found myself agreeing with some of the clever statements they stated and some of the points they made, but I would not consider myself a Transcendentalist. I don’t think I could live life like they did. I would never be able to be away from people for 2 full years, but I could go away for a while, meaning a week or two, without a TV, a phone, or any electronics and to escape from society. That would be awesome to me. That is actually one of the main reasons I love camping—to get away.
Kids would make fun of me but I never gave up because in a situation like that, that’s the worst thing you could do because if you don’t keep trying you will never learn, everyone learns from their mistakes. I got here in the second grade. It took me about two years to learn English and three to read well. My first book was “Captain Underpants”. It was very easy and understandable to read because if I didn’t understand what some of
Majority admit doing assignments the night before the due date. Even if the assignment seems very minimal student’s still hold it off till thirty minutes before class starts. For example when a paper is due I find that I skip over all the planning and outlining and just begin with no framework. In the end I turn in something that I am not very confident about and the results are almost predictable. If I would invest the time needed to organize I would have received a better grade.
Mary, you know that I had a boring life before we got together and you have opened my eyes to so many things that I never knew existed. Mary: I love that you feel free and that you are open to try new things, I am just worried that you are going too far. Counselor: Elmer, do you know what event Mary feels may be too much? Elmer: I do not know if it was the first thing that upset her, but after our little disagreement a few weeks ago at the resort is when she started seeing you. Counselor: Mary, is that the first event that upset you?
My ninth grade was pretty cool until the last week of school I let my mouth get the best of me and said some things that I really should’ve not said and because I did I earned the next semester at the alternative school. When school started back I was very sad because I had to go to the “bad” school with all the “bad” kids and I was very nervous. Once I got there it was pretty cool and I really enjoyed it because the classes were smaller and you got more one on one help. My grades went up and my mom decided that I should spend the rest of the year there, which really messed me up because they did not offer any elective classes only the basics . My eleventh grade year was also a disaster because of the struggle of passing my biology state test and I was really distracted and just wanted to go back to the alternative school but my mom and the principle would not send me back.
I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.'' ( Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man 11) The narrator certainly profited from behaving that way since he got the chance to go to college in the end: ''On my graduation day I delivered an oration in which I showed that humility was the secret, indeed, the very essence of progress.''
It’s funny what happens when everything changes so fast; one forgets about who really cares about them and who’s been there for them since day one. I made that mistake and was with new people every weekend. While it’s nothing I regret, it’s something I wish I had managed differently, and I felt bad about how I had treated my friends. When I apologized to them they forgave me, but it was never the same when I was with them. Going through this experience taught me to never take anything for granted because when everything is given to somebody at the same time, it’s easy to forget who’s
Through the years I have learned what I am good at and what I don’t excel in. But it took a lot of searching to find my niche I have never excelled in athletics, but in the arts I can’t be outdone by anyone that is my place in the theater I know that I try my very hardest to perform and entertain at my best. I have only let myself down one time in theater and that was probably the worst failure that has ever happened to me, my parents were still proud of me but I was not proud of myself at
A champion will fail once in awhile. A contender will fail too but always try to become a champion no matter what. i agree with donatelli, because if you have no goals in your life, you have nothing to strive for and you don’t want it bad enough. My own experiences of when I wanted to be a contender is when i wanted to dance. Ever since i was little i always wanted to be a choreographer - but i will never get there unless i try and when i do it will make me happy and make me work harder than one.