The musical I did my review on was \"West Side Story\" by Jerome Robbins. I saw this play at the Woodland High School with my family. We went to see it because my older brother, Nick, was in it. Thinking about the overall production, I liked that it was about two gangs fighting over their \"turf...

Math is one of the basic sciences of life; it can be said that is the most basic science, the first thing a person learns, apart from reading and writing, is how to add and subtract. I like mathematics because every time I solve a math problem it becomes an important challenge to me, a c...

WHY I WANT TO BE A BAND OFFICER I've seen the faces; I've heard the voices of band members who have almost completely given up on band. Every year the number of faces grow larger. It's depressing for someone who loves music to sit and watch their band become one of...

Schools today aren\'t in the best condition. There is teasing, violence, discrimination, cliques, and poverty. There is much to say about how having mandatory school uniforms will help these problems. My question is, will uniforms help these problems enough to dismiss the hurt that they would caus...

Can't Judge a Book by its Cover There I was standing outside my new school waiting for the bell to ring. When it finally rang; I strolled up staircase and entered my new school for the first time. My mind was whirling with reflections of anxieties so much that I couldn't think straight. W...

Did We Land On The Moon? Was July 20th, 1969, the biggest hoax ever pulled? Some people believe that the United States and no one else has ever landed on the moon. While this may seem hard to believe, an astounding number of people believe that it was all a big hoax. After taking a poll of ...

First off, let me just say, that getting pregnant in high school just isn't a good idea. Probably most people agree on that. Clear enough, a accidental baby is the worst thing that can happen, but what if a girl really wanted a child of her own? The common result in giving birth at a young a...

The event I am about to talk about is an event that has changed my life in many ways. Everyone goes through changes and majority of people have had the opportunity and privilege to experience the changes that come with graduation. I would have to say this is the one thing that has had a great imp...

9/11: One Year Later It has been one year since the attack on the World Trade Center, but it seems like it only happened yesterday. They say you'll never forget where you were when you first heard the news. I was in my first period class at Donna High School. There were about ten minut...

I've been thinking about joining the Marines for the last three years, and now that I'm graduating from high school in three months I plan on going through with it. I want to join the Marines because of the opportunity to go around the world and the chance that I might find myself doing something I ...

It is sometimes easier to go along with what the majority of your peers are doing, but is it always right? This question is one I find myself asking over and over. High school is a place where young girls idolize the senior girls and the way they do their hair, young boys want to be the coolest ath...

Thinking old and being young. To be young means to be adventurous, willing to learn, and determined. To be old means to be knowledgeable, a teacher, persistent and settled into in a certain way . So to think old and be young means to have so many responsibilities and life errors, events have m...

Doing Time by Rob Thomas is an unusual piece of adolescent literature that may be too controversial to study in a classroom. It is unusual in the way that each paragraph is its own story-line about a different student's experiences during community service hours. At first it is ha...

Debate Over Testing A test is a measurement of skill, knowledge, intelligence, or aptitude of a person. Tests are used when applying for a job, getting into High School, or even just for fun. At McDonald's you have to take a test then write an essay saying why you think you should get the jo...

Talk about irony. Our assignment was to read and annotate Griffin's piece on her case of writers block and then to write about one of our own cases of writers block that we encountered during high school. I had no problem with the reading and annotating portion of the assignment. However, thus wa...

Personal Goals Sitting here thinking about personal goals that one sets for themselves to move toward achievement in life has really left me numb to the feeling of small nominal accomplishments. One rarely thinks about how to arrange words on a paper to reflect what they actually deem viable infor...

Why do teens start smoking? I recently read a statistic that was the biggest reality check I have received in a long time. The statistic read "90% of smokers begin smoking before they are 21 years old." When one gives this statistic some thought that would mean that almost eve...

Many people in this world have trouble speaking in front of an audience. Some people hate it because they get nervous about saying the wrong thing or looking like an idiot. These are some of the problems I encounter when I speak in front of a group. This is why taking an oral communication class ...

Intercultural CommunicationIn chapter 11, Intercultural communication I found that many instances in my life related to the stereotypes and prejudice section.After reading the paragraphs on stereotypes. I couldn't help but think back to my high school days. Sadly I stereotyped people just as much ...

Intercultural CommunicationIn chapter 11, Intercultural communication I found that many instances in my life related to the stereotypes and prejudice section.After reading the paragraphs on stereotypes. I couldn't help but think back to my high school days. Sadly I stereotyped people just as much ...

School year of 2002-2003 was one if not the most significant experience in my so called life. It was the point of my life where I almost had to choose between life and death. I was in my third year of high school. And nevertheless my youth, I undergone through it. I had remarkably finished and pa...

Throughout high schools all across the country, there are multitudes of different attitudes towards the completion of every night homework. From dedication to absolute apathy, these viewpoints run amuck in the minds of teenagers everywhere. Every youngster has a different idea concerning his homew...

Shattering Glass by Gail Giles is a very suspenseful and disturbing look at what it takes to be popular. In Chapter one, it starts off by saying "I guess, really, we each hated him for a different reason, but we didn't realize it until the day we killed him." It gets right to the poin...

Who am I?During all of high school, I seemed as if I were hiding behind a mask. When I was at home I was a totally different person. At school I was trying to be a person who could fit in, but the more I tried the more it didn't seem to work. Everywhere I went I would censor what I said depending on...

Too Much Homework at Providence Needless to say Providence on average assigns the most homework in CMS. Reasonable speaking how much homework should a high school student have? One hour\'s worth, two? Or none at all? Granted we as students need some work outside of the classroom to reinforce what we...