I had no hope and that took a toile on my life. First, I started cutting class at school. After, I started getting in a lot of trouble with my friend. If I had hope, maybe those things would have never happened to me. In the article, Mr. Lopper says hope and optimism are slightly different.
When the check came, and Mama put the money down on the house, he said to her bitterly, intending to cause as much pain as possible, “So you butchered up a dream of mine—you—who always talking ‘bout your children’s dreams...”(95) Yes, he was upset, but there’s a limit to what you can do and say before it turns intentional. He gave up on his dreams, much like Beneatha did later on, and because of that, he lost his conviction. He didn’t go to work for 3 days, instead took Willy Harris’ car and drove off places, and went to the Green Hat and got drunk, for three days. Almost lost his job, putting his family into deeper trouble than it already was. “Ain’t that a sad, ain’t that cryin’ sad,”(104) was his only comment.
All the effort that you, your teammates, and your coaches have put in is immediately worthless. One of the most important goals in any athlete’s eyes has just perished. 20 years down the line you’ll be sitting in your living room watching the game and you’ll think to yourself, was it worth it? You probably haven’t even once talked to the runner you helped that day. Did he really need your attention?
Attendance will be taken at each class and will be used for student monitoring. You should treat class like your job; if you miss work you call your supervisor. If you will be absent for more than one class then you should call or e-mail me. I drop the lowest quiz. If you are going to miss a quiz, have a legitimate reason, and can make the quiz up in the testing center before the next class, then contact me before the end of the class by email or voicemail.
If I would invest the time needed to organize I would have received a better grade. English has never been my forte in high school; I failed one whole semester because I was infected with senioritis. My mentality was that I didn’t HAVE to do anything because graduation was just around the corner, but boy was I wrong. This set of mentality pushed me back in my senior year and it prohibited me from enjoying my last year as my friends were living it up at all the parties while I was home finishing up my online class as a result of my failure. Online classes required self determination and a lot time.
Walking off the bus nervous and excited about what was to come. Real sports, challenging classes and the different teachers i was going to have. All my classes were advanced placement and the people around me were not familiar faces since all incoming sixth graders came from different elementary's in the area. I felt alone for the very first time in my life. I tried to keep focus but my solitude was starting to become unbearable.
Without those papers I would be lost trying to recall what happened. Going through my papers I found I wasn’t very good at reading. At least that’s what I thought at first. I was reading my teachers comments and they all basically stated that I needed to concentrate and I would be fine. The first paper I came across was the results of a pre-reading composite test from kindergarten.
I was always told that I would be the type of person to drop out of high school and never amount to anything in life. I used all of those negative thoughts as a motivation to prove everybody wrong. Once I set my mind to something I will not stop until I have completed my task. I am very serious when it comes to school and my education. I know that I will benefit the most from this program because I come from an underprivileged family; who will not be able to send me to college.
I received my progress report that day, and I was not proud of the Cs and Ds on my grades at all, even more not proud of the things I did afterwards. So this is what happened. Not wanting to see the disappointed looks on my parents’ face and wanting to get the brand new Nokia phone, which would be given to me as a reward if I did well, really badly, I decided to lie to my parents about my grade. But they would not simply believe in the nervous murmuring of mine if I told them verbally, so I needed proof. Being very proficient with computer I quickly came up with a way to fabricate the proof.
According to Ruggiero (2012), “It means getting information others overlook by searching in ways and places that never occur to the uncreative.” (p.138). These three subjects have fortified my creative thinking skills. My critical thinking has changed significantly since day one of this course. I have noticed the positive changes in my thinking and how in turn it has brought positive actions and solutions to problems and issues. I had placed myself as a challenged thinker at stage two in the beginning of the course because I wanted to be fair with myself.