The school bell rang right at 3:35 PM dismissing all students home. As most students headed home, Anthony would stay after school working on homework, not wanting to leave school. This was due to “Home” being a place that was completely uncertain for Anthony. This became especially true towards the end of his senior year at Los Angeles Senior High School. His father suffered from alcoholism. This problem led to Anthony’s father being laid off and after selling everything they owned, Anthony’s family was kicked out of their small studio apartment in the MacArthur Park area of Los Angeles. At this point in life he and his family had found shelter inside the three doors of his mother’s mini van. As the last month of high school approached, Anthony found comfort and distraction from all his family’s problem’s in life through doing what he loved most, math and science related problems. This is just one life experience out of the many I went through growing up. I am Anthony. My full name is Gilbert Anthony Zepeda, and in science I found an outlet from being home and facing the hardshi...
“I always knew I wanted to be a teacher,” she stated. Her passion for helping children with special needs was developed at a later age. The reason why Chris decided to be a special education teacher was because of two twin boys in her grade who had special needs. Chris was only in kindergarten at the time, but she recalls that one of these boys did not get to go to school. The other boy, Jimmy, could come to school, but he would have to leave halfway through the school day. Chris was confused and upset about how Jimmy could not be at school and asked her mom about this. The reason why Jimmy and his brother were not at school was because there was no special education program. This moment, even though she was in kindergarten, shaped Chris’s plan for her
Destiny stayed in one the most dangerous neighborhoods in Detroit. A couple days couldn’t past, without seeing or hearing about a fight or killing. She feared walking home from school everyday. She was seventeen years old, a senior in high school, who could only read at an eighth grade level. Since her mom was never really around, she would have to stay home from school to look after her baby sister.
“The Sanctuary of School”, an essay by Lynda Barry, shows the troubles that she goes through as a child in elementary school and how she finds an escape. The author catches the reader’s attention by saying “I was 7 years old the first time I snuck out of the house in the dark” (Barry 721). It makes us want to keep reading to find out why she did it and where she will go. The story matters because she is telling about how she was neglected and unhappy in her home but finds a place of relief. “They were short on money and long on relatives” (Barry 721). Barry’s parents cared more about their finances than their children, forcing Barry and her brother give up their room to sleep on the couch. Barry writes about leaving early one morning to go
I walked up the long, stone stairs of Hidden Oaks Middle School. Middle school students were walking up the stairs alongside me and talking with each other. I joined this math club because I wanted to fit in and make new friends. We opened the doors and walked through the long hall filled with posters and works of students. We walked into Mrs. Janasky’s room. I sat down next to my sister and talked with her. The teacher handed us a piece of paper covered in math problems.
Entering the mind of Craig Gilner, a fifteen year old boy, who is living the life of any other, the story takes place in Manhattan at the public school he was attending where, Craig was doing exceptionally well and was at the top percent of his class. Coming freshman year he decided to apply to the Executive Pre-Professional High School. This took up about a year of his life to simply study for the exam that would allow him to attend. This test was the only thing he had in mind. At last when the took the exam he had achieved a perfect score. At the time this was a big accomplishment. Until school had started and slowly he realized that he was “smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.” That’s when it started. Homework was piling up and he
I stood at the end of the driveway with a bag of clothes and my little sisters by my side. My dad pulled up, we got in the truck, and we drove about 10 minutes until we got to his shop. This would seem like a normal day, but things were different this time. We weren 't at the shop to ride the four wheelers around or to play basketball in the garage or to mess with the pinball machines. There was a gloomy feel about everything around us. Even though I didn’t say anything, I knew things were changing.
Time passed and with it came disappointment. The city began to put up old school buildings to provide a “sense of home” or at least that is what we were told. Even though we were moving forward it seemed as though our quality of life had regressed. We went a year with no trace of Eli. Julia cried every hour of the day. Purpose, meaning, the point of life had been stolen along with Eli and I couldn't let it go.
Theodor Kaluza, Patricia Utsler, Austin Corts, Oskar Klein, Alfred Nobel, Charles Darwin; the astute observer may perceive that these names are similar in multiple aspects, in that each name is associated with the quality of appreciation for science, knowledge, and more, but something may also escape the eye: two of the names above cannot be traced back to any significant scientific contribution, those names being Austin Corts and Patricia Utsler. However, they can be traced back to me, myself, and I, and his parent, or rather my parent. Furthermore, just as their names bear similarities and differences with respect to other names mentioned and each other, the people that they belong to harbor even more. Both my parent and I share an appreciation
The water droplets roll down my forehead as I lay in my bed looking at the water damaged ceiling. At twelve years old I slept in a one window attic in a tattered bed, under a leaky roof. I do not have any family nor friends to speak of and no real optimism for the future. School was my only outlet yet it was also beginning to be the root of my humiliation and embarrassment. Leaving school today with tears in my eyes and my teacher’s voice ringing in my head all I could ponder was this can’t be my life. Yet something my teacher said struck me as odd; she said “what we experience as a child helps to mold who we will eventually become”. I truly could not fathom at that age what kind of comfort she believed I would take from that.
“Bye son, remember to do good in school okay?,” my mom smiled. Because of that smile, I am still able to hang in there and go to school, I guess. Today is December 2nd, 2005. The winter in California is a little warm, but the wind can make the weather change in an instant. As I walk to school, I see two my classmates driving on their bikes. “Hey bastard, how it’s going?.” I don’t say anything back. I couldn 't say anything back. I just keep on walking and pretending I didn’t hear anything. Just by hearing those words, I can feel the coldness go down my spine, and it is not because of winter. From that moment, I know this is going to be long and depressing day.
The life of a Culinologist is ever changing, much like the constant bevy of trends. I may not be a pro in my field… yet, but I’ve concluded that much. It takes a great deal of work to do what we do, but I couldn’t think of a better way to spend my life. Why? Some people might ask? It’s because in my own way I’m helping the world by simply doing what I love to do. It may not be perfect, though most things in life aren’t, but that’s what makes it so exciting.
...resence of my parents upstairs, despite the brain scrambling heat of the sauna, I suddenly felt homesick, and realized I yearned to be in my basement. The pitted feeling in my stomach grew stronger as I realized it is not the basement of my childhood that I miss, it is the basement of my fraternity house where Kegs littered the floors like toys and pledges were hazed like the violent was games my youth. I found another cycle came to a close, and I found myself separated from what I had once known. The basement used to be my sanctuary, the place I could dream in. Standing just outside a basement no longer mine while still profusely sweating from the sauna, a crisp late August breeze gently cooled my body. I deeply inhaled the last moments of summer knowing full well that fleeting changes that often accompany seasonal transition were no longer of any concern to me.
It is my extreme privilege that I have been given an opportunity to express about myself in my very own context. The very fortunate thing ever happened to me was that I had a very good early education which helped me a lot in the following time i.e., during and after my schooling. As I grew up also did my interests, at first Mathematics was the only topic which always dominated my interests but later on my interests made a shift on to the field of sciences mainly Physical Sciences with the introduction of many interesting topics in it. That was the time since which the inception of my interest in the field of sciences begun. Learning had become the key part of my life since then.
"One day, about a year ago, I was helping my mom clean the attic. I came across a box full of short stories.That's when Mom told me that she and Dad use to write short stories all the time. They tried to make money from their writings, but they couldn't. When I was born, Mom gave up writing and landed a full-time job. But Dad continued to write, while working part time. Mom kept bugging Dad to quit writing and to get a real job, but he refused. By the time I was two years old, Mom kicked Dad out."
It was the second semester of fourth grade year. My parents had recently bought a new house in a nice quite neighborhood. I was ecstatic I always wanted to move to a new house. I was tired of my old home since I had already explored every corner, nook, and cranny. The moment I realized I would have to leave my old friends behind was one of the most devastating moments of my life. I didn’t want to switch schools and make new friends. Yet at the same time was an interesting new experience.