As a recent high school graduated listened and read those commencement speech, I have been thinking about my future how is going to be, and it was like start a new chapter of life in a clean page. The commencement speech gives a lot of advice of how future is going to happen and how hard life I have to go through. During the commencement speech class of 2014, the principal got me thinking about my future, and it was like there is either emotion of sadness nor happiness. The sadness things are I’m
The Paths of Independence In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. closed his famous “I Have a Dream” speech with the lines, “Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!” Each year thousands of American high school seniors express the same sentiment as they graduate. However, many high school graduates have a choice to make shortly after graduation; attend college or join the workforce. These two paths offer their own advantages and disadvantages, but they both share a common
for me to look at my reflection in the mirror this morning. It took thirty seconds to put on my maroon, polyester graduation gown, hood and hat. Thirty seconds to hang the variety of colorful chords, stolls, and medals around my neck that displayed my achievements throughout high school. Thirty seconds for me to realize that today, I am graduating high school. As the traditional graduation song that we had all be waiting to hear, Pomp and Circumstance, started to play, the nervous energy began to rise
Just as Christmas is popular in the winter, Graduation is what has everyone buzzing like bees in the spring. We as students from Westside High School, class of 2013 were filled with joy, anxiety, and fear. In less than three months, we will all begin a new journey in our lives whether it be college, working full time, or even taking a gap year to travel or missionary work. High school played a big role in everyones lives. This is where we discovered ourselves, our true friends and experienced
At some point of our lives, we all go through a journey of self-discovery. Our identity is formed by various interactions with our parents and other groups we are a part of. Imagine a young African American high school graduate immerging on the journey of self-discovery in a time marked by racial prejudice. “Battle Royal” depicts race inequality through both the physical and identity struggles of the main character; the story suggests that even though racial equality is almost a utopia at that time
very common for a high school student to decide if they are going to college or not. A college education is a great opportunity to form your own future by offering freedom to plan your own course and help you learn new skills. We are raised to believe that one needs to get a college education to succeed in life. “The New Liberal Arts” is written by Sanford J. Ungar, who examines the significance of a college education. Novelist David Foster Wallace wrote the “Commencement speech”, where he recognizes
melting pot of undercover ideas. The whole plot of the story can be described in Jung’s Heroic Journey model. There are five different states to the journey. The first stage is the departure, here the hero is called to action. In Invisible Man, the narrator starts out by recounting his high school graduation where he gave a strong speech on the keys to be success despite certain drawbacks. His speech was so well-liked he was offered to give it to the leading white citizens in the community. He accepts
speaking English was absolutely absent in my eighteen years of life, one day the life-changing experience came to me. When I was fifteen-years-old, the summer of 1998, I came to America for the very first time for the home stay program through my high school. The three weeks I spent in Snohomish have brought me a wonderful encounter with my American family. John, Margo and Jennifer Turner have truly become my second family away from home. Despite the fact that I was a stranger from Japan, the Turner
The past two years has been a crazy roller-coaster ride for me. To have seen and been to places that I can only dream of. I should be kissing the ground with every last step that I took to cherish memories,and moments like these.Every school year I listen to teachers telling students "Where do you see yourself 10 years from now or the near future " and the first answer that would pop out blasting through my mind communicating with the pen in my hand to write down on the paper staring back at me
and admired dearly by her two parents Kate Adams Keller and Captain Arthur H. Keller (Lawlor 2001). Helen was a healthy baby, full of life and excitement. Nineteen month old Helen 's life took a complete spin when she became sick with an abnormally high fever (Feeney