Essay On The Perks Of Being A Wallflower

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In Junior year this also helped me recognize perspectives with the Psycho- Analysis paper on one the book I enjoyed, The Perks of Being A Wallflower. This paper made me realize how some children with psychological issues deal with everyday life and how they manage it while other can not handle all that pressure and their own lifes. The paper helped me recognize perspectives by viewing how blessful my life really is compared to the teens and children that are psychologically damaged. The few teens that have to deal with this burden and for most of the cases, this is what holds them back in life , causing them to not reach their full potential. This makes me feel blessed but sad to know that some people have to resort in hurting themselves to receive satisfaction. …show more content…

While driving to school on my last first day I sat there saying “finally i'm a senior”. I started to get a little sad knowing this was my last year here then into the real world I go. Knowing that I'm not going to have teachers who care about how I'm doing in class or my mom pushing me to do my homework. It's just one more year until I'm off to college, that's one more year until I start making my own decisions and its kind of scary. The first semester went by so fast that I didn't even realize we were already at the 20 week finishing up . When my report card came in late December I was actually very pleased with what I got since Coach Cory helped me out and how Mr.Shoji spent hours with me at In N Out waiting for me to finish my research paper for Ms.Burnett. I was pretty confident since I had the support from my coaches since I needed to make grades in order to play basketball. I opened up my report card to a 2.27 I was pretty proud of myself since I dedicated the time and effort. This helped me grow as a student because now I know putting the time in effort into these stressful things I can accomplish what needs to be

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