T’yanna is a real team player and always has the best interests of her fellow classmates. She has served as an active member in the AVID program. The acronym AVID stands for Advancement Via Individual Determination and T’yanna is the essence of what the program is all about! She is confident in
Map 1 – Help you stay in charge of your life, whether you are up or down. You will discover how to tap the cycle of change for designing the rest of your life, to use change as a major resource for your future life designs. (Life Launch pg. 48) After reading Map 1, I found this map is like an ongoing cycle. Like most, my life is always changing and things do not always work out as planned.
But I want to point one girl out that has left a huge impact on my life. Kenzie. You have been my number one supporter, a best friend, and a teammate. After every game I could not wait to get a text from you telling me what I did well and how much you loved me. I don’t think you understand how much you have mentally helped me this year.
From the moment a student begins school, there will be a parent or form of parent, to watch over and make sure to receive a good education. Some parents tend to be more harsh and brutal to confirm that than others. Throughout the book, Robbins includes a very fascinating individual, AP Frank. Having an Asian parent, AP Frank had to endure constant pressure and great amount of obedience. Robbins brought in AP Frank to show direct information concerning parental brutality and the effects of a student’s high school life “ Like AP Frank, Asian- American students in the United States often speak of relentless pressure and expectations
Reflections of US/101 Amy Kelley US/101 Professor Eric Wright Reflections of US/101 When I think back over this class I have received a greater knowledge base on several different things but out of all of them there are a few that really stuck with me and will drive me to seek more information and ideas. The few that have made the most impact are time and stress management, integrity and ethics, and goal settings. When I think about time and stress management I find that I have always fallen short because I have always tried to do everything and there are a time when that is just not possible. After taking this class I can see how my stress level has been high and have found a few ways to reduce my stress as well as find time
I have to do research in my current professional life and I feel that as I am not a master of these skills, I improve every day. I can utilize not only the physical written word effectively when obtaining information I can effectively navigate online resources as well. I feel that North Central University so far has given me valuable information with regards to these skills. I look forward to using them going forward in my future classes. I am a lifelong learner so I will never say I have a mastery of any skill as there is always something new to be learned, or changes made to existing skills.
The NEA has great influences on Congress, state senators, and the Supreme Court, along with representatives lobbying for court verdicts on state and federal programs. With the NEA’s help, we have developed an expensive, broad educational structure, however we still have thousands of students graduating who cannot spell, read well, write an essay, demonstrate basic math skills, demonstrate basic knowledge of American history, and so on. For an organization, that “accomplishes” so much, there are way too many children graduating from school who do not have the basic educational needs to obtain a job. The NEA stresses the importance of getting support and federal aid to improve the schools and education, but there is no improvement. Our education system has developed a curriculum that teaches no moral values, biblical lessons, or enough basic educational necessities for that matter.
The classes were harder, teachers more strict and being mixed in with some of the bigger kids changed my view of school. I will admit I goofed around a little too much during freshman and sophomore year not realizing the importance of my grades until junior and senior year, when suddenly everything became focused on colleges and universities and SATs and ACTs and applications and just complete overload and stress on my mind. Realizing that I screwed up I decided to get act together, but unfortunately I realized all this a little too late. I believe the one experience that changed my view on the importance of education all together was my job. At the age of 16, I was hired at Cinemark 14 Boynton Beach as a concessionist.
Older people always tell me they would re-do there high school years over again, but not me. Graduation day had to be the best day of my life, finally my senior year was over. I could finally get away from the horrible memories I had and start over. I couldn’t believe I made it through Brennan High School. A lot of people always think Brennan High School is for bad kids, kids that get kicked out of school that might be true for a few but most of us were there for emotional problems.
And, I too, had to face several obstacles along the way. Education has always been an important aspect of my life. When I came to United States about three and half years ago, I almost lost hope of that most important aspect of life. Financial hardships, language problems and being unable to find a helper in middle school weakened me a lot. Sometimes, I used to cry after coming back home from school because I did not know what the homework meant.