ipl-logo

Personal Narrative: Best Buddies

400 Words2 Pages

One quote stuck with me as I entered high school: “Some will swim; most will sink.” This phrase came from the mouth of my History teacher Mr. Sanders. I was already petrified to take on such a transition. I was small, nervous, and unconfident. Mr. Sanders might not realize how much his words stuck with me, they made a misguided young man seek out the best that New Palestine High School had to offer.
A large aspect of high school life is extra-curricular activities. I knew that in order to succeed, I had to align myself with the most open-minded and friendly people in the building, and they were members of Best Buddies. Best Buddies is a club that focuses on forming meaningful friendships with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Show More
Related

  • What Is The Theme Of Callings By Patrick B. Reyes

    614 Words  | 3 Pages

    Reyes leaves his listeners focused on how the absence of love and uniqueness in the education system is deteriorating passion, tradition, self-confidence, and personality from the mindset of the future students who aren't privileged with a backbone support

    Read More

  • Made To Stick Chapter Summary

    1503 Words  | 7 Pages

    The book Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath analyzes the characteristics of a long-lasting idea and argues there are six elements that compose the idea. The book is intended for innovators, entrepreneurs, and educators. Emotional motivates the target audience to care about the central message and overcoming apathy (CITE) and Stories inspires the audience to act on the central message. bell hook’s chapter 14 Pedagogy and Political Commitment: a comment argues educators teaching education for domination should learn to teach education for liberation. Education for domination is based on the style of an authoritarian teaching radical ideology and oppressing other views (CITE).

    Read More

  • Personal Narrative: John Edgar Howard Elementary School

    677 Words  | 3 Pages

    With their help I left John Edgar Howard elementary school with a strong head on my shoulders, and the devotion to strive for more. I had to move to a different elementary school because John Edgar Howard Elementary ended up being closed, because of the rough neighborhood. I then, attended Bradbury Heights; a school that I didn’t know existed. I was never exposed to many different neighborhoods, or opportunities. I managed to graduate and proceed to middle school where I continued my athletic career of basketball, and outstanding academic profile.

    Read More

  • Rhetorical Analysis Of Michael Moore's Idiot Nation

    1530 Words  | 7 Pages

    "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." —Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004. In a society notorious for its oblivious politicians, questionable educational system, and money hungry big corporations, this senseless quote made by the forty-third president of the United States George W. Bush, is only one of the many incidents validating Moore’s claim that we as Americans lack sufficient articulation and education. If there could be a spokesperson for criticizing American politicians, the educational system, globalization, large corporations, the war in Iraq, and many other debatable issues, American author of “Idiot Nation”, Michael Moore would be the ideal candidate.

    Read More

  • College Admissions Essay: Living In Kings Mountain High School

    433 Words  | 2 Pages

    What we are taught and where we come from, makes up the majority of who we are and helps influence the decisions we perform in everyday society. Proudly, I’m from Kings Mountain, a modest place, as a result of living here it has impacted me in a variety of phenomenal ways, from the way I communicate to the way I act. Due to the fact of living in Kings Mountain, I have been introduced to a variety of opportunities, for example, my current school, Cleveland Early College High School. I have been accepted into outstanding programs that, in turn, has helped me to achieve my objectives and future plans. Although, I attend this tremendous school I tend to envision about how it would have been similar to attending a traditional high school, I was originally suppose to represent Kings Mountain High, but I decided that I wished to pursue something outside of what I considered I could reach.

    Read More

  • Rhetorical Analysis Of David Foster Wallace's Commencement Speech

    1196 Words  | 5 Pages

    In his commencement speech at Kenyon College in 2005, David Foster Wallace was tasked with the responsibility of imparting some wisdom onto the graduating class. Wallace’s message to a room of full soon-to-be college graduates at the precipice of the of their impending true adulthood, he offers them a message that cuts through the mess and concisely delivers a message that many would ironically overlook, which is for the students to realize that at times, imperative life lessons are not only the ones that they cannot conceive or believe, but the ones that are obvious but hard to acknowledge let alone discuss. The lesson in this is that no matter how instinctive that cynicism is, it is imperative that people must try to more honest and open

    Read More

  • Literary Devices In A Long Way Gone

    729 Words  | 3 Pages

    10332 Teenagers who are about to enter the real world need to find material that challenge or connect to them so they can understand life. In Ishmael Beah’s Memoir, A Long Way Gone, his memoir is not rigorous or relative enough to produce curriculum necessary for the SHS English IV department. Beah’s writing is easy to comprehend because the text does not give enough complexity for the students. Not to mention, Beah does not connect to a SHS Student because Beah was a child soldier from Africa, while most SHS students are from United States that have cognitive problems that stem from home.

    Read More

  • The Glass Castle

    1146 Words  | 5 Pages

    Students these days are shielded from real world issues. There is a misconception that young people are fragile, so reality is sugar coated. The truth is, life can be a test for survival. Jeannette Walls knows this all too well. Walls experienced a far-from-normal childhood with far-from-normal parents.

    Read More

  • Personal Narrative: Social Imagination

    1017 Words  | 5 Pages

    Over the last fifteen years, I have grown mentally and socially. I credit my growth to my ability to analyze and understand the world for what it is. Social imagination is the use of information to understand the world and ourselves for who we are. Possessing the quality of mind that can develop reason and the capacity to shift perspectives are the basis of social imagination (Mills 2000). As I mentioned in reflection one, I came to realize that my way of thinking is what helped me overcome living a poor lifestyle.

    Read More

  • Personal Narrative: My Brother Of My Life

    769 Words  | 4 Pages

    10 miles. 20 minutes. That is the distance and time it takes to drive a car, at the speed limit, from my house to St. Vincent – St. Mary High School. More importantly, it is the time and distance my brother Griffin Spinner and I drive to school each day.

    Read More

  • Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle

    1145 Words  | 5 Pages

    Students these days are shielded from real world issues. There is a misconception that young people are fragile so reality is sugar coated. The truth is life can be a test for survival. Jeannette Walls knows this all too well. Walls experienced a far-from-normal childhood with far-from-normal parents.

    Read More

  • Summary Of High School Training Ground By Malcolm London

    300 Words  | 2 Pages

    The poem "High School Training Grounds" by Malcolm London talks about how the highschool system is irresponsible in how it prepares students to meet certain expectations that are not necessary or useful in the real world. In the line "Oceans of adolescents come here to receive lessons, but never learn to swim", London uses a metaphor comparing school to oceans to show how students learn a plethora of material but are unable or not taught how to apply it to life outside education. The poem is supported by the way he words things to explain how the school system worries only on success, and not so much on actual learning and real world important teachings. Furthermore, people are just operating objects of a system, and older students are forced

    Read More

  • Personal Narrative: The Cheat Sheet

    1319 Words  | 6 Pages

    Every Moment Counts I hug her knowing that this will be our last. Tears are streaming uncontrollably down my cheeks, staining her shirt. I'm not ready to say goodbye. I don't understand why this is happening. Out all of the 7.28 billion people in the world, why did it have to be her?

    Read More

  • Martin Luther King Education Analysis

    749 Words  | 3 Pages

    The diversity of student backgrounds, abilities and learning styles makes each person unique in the way he or she reacts to information. The intersection of diverse student backgrounds and active learning needs a comfortable, positive environment in which to take root. Dr. King continues by explaining, “Education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.” From back then to today’s society, kids are failing because they lack those morals that they need to succeed.

    Read More

  • Memorable Moment In High School

    770 Words  | 4 Pages

    Surviving in High School “The journey doesn’t start at the beginning, begins at the end.” School is one of the most memorable moments you will experience in your life, are those moments when you find a second family in your life called “classmates”, they start being strangers to classmates, classmates to friends and friends to brothers and sisters, you spent every single day of your life for more or less 2 years of your life that you start to know them more than anybody. I study in Colegio De La Salle in Panama City, Panama. My years in De La Salle are priceless, because it’s the place where I grew up as a student and the most importan as an Human being. During my time in De La Salle I found “Ma Squad” that’s how we call our group back in Panama, where we experience and pass so many things together.

    Read More

More about Personal Narrative: Best Buddies

Open Document