In every dance performance are company had I excelled and was pushed to the front, in doing that, I became big-headed and thought I was the best and that no one could tell me anything. My head got so big that I would hurt new members that came into the team. I would make fun of the new members and when they would ask for help I would blow them off. Being a team player at this point of my life I was unaware of the meaning and didn’t think twice about finding out and really didn’t care. In high school, I had a worse experience in not being a team player.
At the age of 14 I entered high school. This time in an individual’s life is usually quite gruesome and brutal and either can make or break a person. I had to learn to adjust to a new environment and find my place in this secret society of high school. My fears of not fitting in this new environment I had to utilize self concept and self esteem to be able to cope with the changes and the social world before drowning in my own fear. As I overcame the sense of fear my self esteem boosted me up and motivation through self efficacy allowed my high school years to be abundantly full of joy and great experiences.
Kids want to go outside past ten, disobey their parents, and lots of talks about drugs. In my middle school life, I have seen fights, kids cursing at teachers, and lots of suspensions. Maybe these were caused by puberty or stress, but it was a bad experience. I’m not saying I was a goody-goody because I wasn’t, but there were lots of kids far worse off than I was. Social hierarchy, a term lots of you may know because of World History, began in middle according to me.
This way, when my religion began to wane at times I never once felt like that meant I could just be a bad person. Those two parts of my life were always kept completely separate so that if someday if I abandoned religion wholesale, I would not abandon who they expected me to
The worst thing she passed was when she got raped. Melinda survived being bullied throughout her 9th grade School year, and then became popular; Bullying does not only happen in this novel, but can happen in the real life, as what happened to the kid in The Everest School last year. He was kicked out of the school because of the bullying situation, and it was the end of his life. Melinda’s situation with bullying was different but it was worst because she was the one being
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a very important story for every high schooler to read. Although it does a little more then slightly hint at the racism in that time period, it also teaches readers. It shows racism in such a horrible light, that nobody could revert to such a thing. Our past isn’t always the nicest thing to look upon, but it’s still there. The difference is what we do in the future, and this novel teaches us that everyone is equal and shall be treated as
Similar to Sedaris’ situation, I have also experienced disappointment when commitments were suddenly shattered and I have been forced to cope with the irreparable change in my relationship with an unreliable person. In my freshman year of high school, I was thrilled that my best friend, Kate, and I would be finally attending the same school. We had been best friends since kindergarten and were inseparable. She knew all my secrets and I knew hers. Soon after the school year began, I found out how much a person can change and how this change can affect your future friendship with
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.''
The shock of seeing the people who should have a good future being sucked in to the vicious cycle of reservation life is close to unbearable, but it is the norm in this area. And, the fact that nobody strives to defeat the embarrassingly to correct stereotypes of Native Americans makes me pity; very few people try to obtain academic achievement instead of working at the casino, drowning in drunk, and raising a clan of children that will mimic the calamitous ways of their parents. I know some teenagers Native Americans close to my age have all gotten drunk and high, and most have been sent to jail or treatment centers. They do not know a few words of the Ojibwe language beyond simple commands, and numbers that have been repeated throughout the reservation since they were young. For Native Americans age 15-24, the alcohol related death rate is seventeen time higher than the national average.
High school itself is surrounded with the pressure of getting good grades for a future education and also the pressures of drugs, alcohol, boys, sports and adult influence. “The National Scholastic Journal took a poll of a group of one hundred students at random, “In today’s generation high school students believe the pressure they face has switched from peer pressure to pressure based of off social media” (Baur, 2013). Teenagers are hardly given a break & the media seems to add on to the pressures. A teenager’s biggest fear is to be considered an outcast. The media states in order for you to fit in you have to be thin.