High School Essays Samples That Help You Write Better, Faster & with Gusto

Introduction

Benefits of Participating in School Sports Activities
Reasons for Dropout of High Schools
Consequences of High School Dropouts
Literature Review
Sports Help Students Develop A Connection with School
Limitations of the Current Research
Increasing Sports Budget Cut
Conclusion
Work Cited
Introduction
The term 'dropping out' refers to the act of quitting a school, college or university. In the USA, dropping out of high school refers to the act of a student quitting school before graduation or avoiding to enter a college or university for higher studies (Hemelt and Marcotte 2013). It cannot always be ascertained whether a student has Continue reading...

-The purpose of this speech is to inform you about my high school graduation ceremony. It was one of the most exciting moments of my life.

The central purpose

-The central argument is that high school presents an opportunity for self –discovery and development that is often ignored by students.

Introduction

- The reality finally dawns on the podium when you are about to receive your high school diploma. At this point, you realize all those opportunities you missed and how it is important to pass your exams.

Greetings

Good evening friends and family members. It has been years since I left high school. Continue reading...

My research question is: What correlation is there, if any, between high school drop-out rates and participation in high school sports? My interest in said research question stems from my personal observation that high school drop outs tend to be participants in different high school sports sponsored by high schools. I understand that being an athlete in high school sports takes a lot of time from studying. The physical demands of being an athlete, in general, tend to preclude one from fully focusing on other activities – in this case, fulfilling different kinds of academic requirements. Thus, I inferred that Continue reading...

Introduction and Background

A high school for behaviorally challenged students may possibly be assaulted by a lone shooter. Unfortunately, the scenario of one or two individuals attacking a student body is not as rare today as in years previously. In 2012, a lone shooter fatally shot twenty children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School (infoplease.com). Two shooters at Columbine High School massacred twelve students and one teacher. In the last ten years, 468 adults and students have been killed in schools through shootings and other violent acts (Candisky, 2013). The Columbine attack changed the concept of school safety in the Continue reading...

Foremost, the workload college students deal with is significantly larger than that which secondary school students have to complete. In college, each course has an instructor who is at liberty to issue any amount of tests and assignments before the final exam to ensure his or her students grasp given concepts. Consequently, based on the number of courses an individual takes on campus each semester, students can have multiple assignments to finish and many more examinations to take. On that note, one assumes that college professors do not discuss the classes they teach, or the assignments they issue, and Continue reading...

Nostalgia can be a powerful memory. If we smell a distinct scent, or see the right sequence of events, suddenly our whole bodies might be tingling with memory. We are transported to a time before. Whether the memory is good, bad, happy, sad, simplistic, or complicated, we seldom have control over when our brains decide to cloud our thoughts in such a powerful recollection. While I have several triggers that ignite a sense of nostalgia with me, one in particular is a smell. The smell of stale pizza and Gatorade always reminds me of the time I spent in Continue reading...

April Harbright

Essay #2
Letter from February 3rd, 2015 written by Jeff Stonehill of Seattle in The Seattle Times
“Language Programs: Important to Learn at a Young Age.”
Seattle area public schools are much maligned these days as they try to do more things for a more varied student body with less funding than they need.
It was a treat to read Sarah Stuteville’s column about the Vietnamese language immersion program [“Vietnamese taught at school with community in mind,” Local News, Jan. 29]. Brain science has shown that children can learn two or even three languages easily up until about Continue reading...

Books

Hymel, S., et al. (1996) Academic failure and school dropout: The influence of peers. Social motivation: New York: Cambridge University Press
Weis, L., et al., (1989). Dropouts from schools: Issues, Dilemmas and Solutions. New York: SUNNY Press.
Borden, L. M., et al (2001). The influence of extracurricular activities and peer influence on substance use. Adolescent & Family Health, 2, 12-19.
Bush, J. M., (2003). The Effect of Extracurricular Activities on School Dropout. Paper 16,

Illinois Wesleyan University

Cairns, R. B., Cairns, B. D., & Neckerman, H. J. (1989). Early school dropout: Configurations and determinants. Child Development, 60, 1437-1452.
Camp, W. (1990). Participation in student Continue reading...

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According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, between one in five and one in three high school students in America have used drugs or alcohol (“Drug Facts: High School and Youth Trends,” 2014). Many of these children have their first exposure to drugs while they are at school (“Drug Facts: High School and Youth Trends”). It should be a priority of school administrators to make each campus a drug-free environment, and that is why teachers should have the right to search students for drugs on school grounds.
There are those who would argue that searching students Continue reading...

There has been growing debate among members of the public on the reason for the growing disparity in income and wages in the U.S. While some say that Americans have just generally become lazier, hence earn less, others have blamed the policies enforced by successive regimes. The proposition that the increase in inequality is because of an increased dependency culture and a general increase in laziness of Americans is inconsistent with Autor’s argument. Autor feels that most of the present inequality is because of disparities in education. Poverty is not a result of absence of work ethic among Continue reading...

Current Issue in Education

Introduction
Education is one important aspect that the government should put emphasis on. Good quality education should be provided to the citizens of a country in order to produce people who will be an asset to rather than a liability. Producing citizens who are efficient, competent, and productive makes a country progressive as well. In this regard, the best place to mold the citizens of a country is in schools. Schools prepare its graduates so that they may become globally competitive in the real world.

Initial Educational Reforms

No Child Left Behind Act
Additional Budget for Education
Another reform implemented by President Continue reading...

Reflection Paper

I have spent most of this time trying to familiarize myself with the college environment. I spent quite some time walking around the college to familiarize myself with new people, new buildings, new streets in college, and other facilities such playground, library, and chapel. I met new people from different background, gender, age, and race and tried to make friends with those that we have some common interests. In the second week, we started attending classes though we never did any serious work. During that week, we spent most the lessons familiarizing ourselves with professors for different subjects. They Continue reading...

Abstract

Life is a process undergone by human beings. Life has various stages which an individual undergoes. That is, from childhood, adolescences stage, early adulthood to late adulthood stages. All this stages of life have got distinguishable characteristics in regard to behavioral change. This paper, therefore, is about an interview I conducted with regard to life stages. The person interviewed was Tonny, a grocery owner who had grown his market across Illinois at the age of 21.

Interview

Tonny William an energetic young man who established his life at an early age of 21 was born on October 1994 in Ohio Continue reading...

The diversity of students in classrooms today is an important factor that schools and educators should take into consideration when developing curricula, policies, and teaching strategies in order to ensure that each and every student will get the maximum learning that they can. The need to understand and affirm their cultural and linguistic background needs to be understood in order to determine their learning needs that would, in return, help educators adopt and develop teaching strategies that would address their learning needs and encourage student achievement. Students who come from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds have different ways of Continue reading...

The breaking away is a 1979 American comedy film that follows a group of teenagers who had just graduated from high school. The male characters are Dennis Christopher, Daniel Stern, Dennis Quaid, Barbara Barrie, Paul Dooley, and Jackie Haley. The film was captured around the Bloomington and the University. The movie has received a lot of positive reviews regarding its originality among other categories such as the best comedy of 1979. The movie is filled with good family, friend and life moments, this paper will provide an analysis based on these aspects.
The film stares with the characters clearing Continue reading...

My community is my senior high school’s basketball team which is not only an interest community but as well a solidarity community. It is a community in the sense that it encompasses students in my school and formulates a working team that has set objectives (Govier 70). To start with, my basketball team is a placed-based since the team mates are bound together by the aspect of being schoolmates. Therefore, through the time we spend together at school has merged us to form a community that has an integral role of joining us together at school.
The team Continue reading...

Trade and vocational education and careers have long been ignored in America's race for a better after-high school education, primarily college education. Recent enrollments and inclinations show, however, an increasing number of students are opting for vocational education. Given how more job and career opportunities are being rolled out as more and more baby boomers are retiring, high school graduates are considering careers in trade as promising employment prospects. Therefore, more high school graduates are receiving vocational training in order to join a workforce which requires more highly skilled workers. According to some experts, investing in vocational education and Continue reading...

Article Summary

In the chapter “The Waltz Sociability: Intimacy, Dislocation, and Friendship in a Quebec High School”, the author investigates the effects of the short-term relationships at a critical period of life-adolescence and its effect. The author particularly observes and investigates the phenomena of friendships in the Western culture, its implications of the issues of intimacy, and the reasons for short term friendships.
Before trying to analyze the topic further, the author gives a short retrospective of the understanding of friendship through the eyes of other sociologists and psychologists. As cited by the author, Pane sees the friendship as a “sociological Continue reading...

Cognitive Behavior practice theories are categories of related theories, which have been derived from, clinical experiences (Bateman, 2001). These methods reflect the role of both cognitive and behavioral approaches to helping and understanding human beings. They follow a basic principle that human behaviors are not consequences of experiences but rather a result of how these experiences are perceived (Lockman, 2001). The literature review section that follows attempt to explain the social environment, and the human behavior as well as giving an overview of the practice theory and its central assumptions. Using the provided case study I will use the Continue reading...

In the quest for higher education, ethical issues are bound to arise. These vary from state to state, country to country, and designing important strategies to curbing unethical practices is the best solution. This paper examines two articles closely; one by Priya Natarajan and the other by Richard D. Kahlenberg. In sequence, the following items will be the focus of the essay; ethical issues highlighted in each including the alternative actions suggested by the authors to resolving each, decisions of other outside contributors, and evaluation of the final position of this paper. The assumptions made, and the consequences of Continue reading...