Which middle school year was your favorite at Minnetonka Middle School? It’s hard choice between 8th and 6th, but this 8th grade year was better. The first year of middle school was effortless but enjoyable. On the other hand, my last year here was proposed to display your accomplishments and become ready for high school. The entire 8th grade has improved every month. The first few months of school were tedious, because they were long-lasting months filled with exams, essays and projects. As the year progressed, I made new connections with other people and I had become used to the tests and projects that had seemed difficult at first. The song Getting Better, written by Paul Mccartney and John Lennon, was a very optimistic song that could illustrate my year chronologically. …show more content…
“I used to get mad at my school {No, I can't complain}” (Mccartney-Lennon). For example: I would get frustrated if I didn’t have enough time to finish an important assignment and still have free time. Besides, it could have just been my wrong doing of not planning my time correctly. Anyways, the side exclamation of “No I can’t complain” (Mccartney-Lennon) is similar to my present mindset of not letting myself complain too often. When McCartney says this in his song, he has two parts of himself, saying opposing things and it's as if he is arguing in a way. Finally, as the school year progressed I tried to complain less and less, and now I just take deep breaths and a break if I genuinely need
In this example Lennon plays with our sympathy, telling stories of how Roberto was one of two hundred prisoners that were trying to get accepted into the college program that only seats twenty three. He ends with a quote from his mother “How you think is how you act”(Lennon 3). This saying by his mother, is comparing the inmates attitudes going into jail and how if educated how they can change when coming out. In this argument by John J. Lennon he uses a variety of pathos, logos and ethos writing methods in order to try and persuade the readers to agree with adding more college courses for inmates. Although the argument is very well written Lennon’s use of egos, pathos and logos are lacking. Which in turn allows the readers to not be persuaded towards his goal of increasing the amount of classes offered in
Now Mrs. Trotter is my favorite but that’s beside the point... I loved school and I met all of my friends. This was truly the year that started my life. This was the year that I learned math, reading, science, social studies, and all of these subjects. School was something that I looked forward to and I loved learning all sorts of things and then when I got home, bragging to my parents about how smart I was. I had a habit of writing everything I heard or said on the air with my fingers… My teacher said it was a great habit to have , but my sister thought different. Overall, this was one of the best years of my life and I loved
To understand Lennon’s attempt at displaying his raw emotions through this song, one must also understand the influence behind Lennon’s decision. Bob Dylan influenced all of the Beatles in a significant way in their early Beatlemania years: Dylan introduced the Beatles to marijuana, mistaking “I can’t hide” for “I get high” in “She Loves You”. While the Beatles experimented with several energy drugs, they had not yet used marijuana, and they soon discovered that it bestowed the group with the ability to relax and escape from the stress of dealing with Beatlemania. After ...
8th grade, 8th grade from the opening day to the signing of the yearbooks. This is the year of memories, goodbyes, and regrets. 8th grade and I’m still realizing that there are people in the world that would die to go to a school like this. A school where every body knows everyone’s name, respects everyone, and where violence and fighting are about as common as the Yankees missing the playoffs. When I’m done with my homework and go to bed, as the days of 8th grade wind down, summer will come and go, and I will find myself in one of those giant, scary places called high school.
Constant failure can cause someone to ask: “why am I even trying?” and “what the point if I can’t do it perfectly?”. Teresa Borchard writes about her losing sight of a path in front of her in her article "Good Perfectionism versus Bad Perfectionism", where she talking about getting caught in an OCD loop stating: “I have trouble letting go of the decision I made last week, or a mistake I made six years ago, or something in the future that I’m preparing for” (Borchard). Gawain experiences the same kinds of set-backs during the poem, often veering off the path in front of him because of his constant want for perfection. Even when he accomplishes a goal, he feels as though he doesn’t actually deserve any positive reinforcement because he wasn’t perfect with every step of the way. For example, Gawain states "I am greatly honoured, though I am not in fact such a man as you speak of, to deserve such respect as you have just described I am completely unworthy, I know very well” (Sir Gawain… 1241-1244). Rejecting encouraging feed-back as well as getting caught up in the small imperfections of something positive are both results of striving for complete perfection. It is easy to “forget that as humans we’re part of nature, as well. As such, we would benefit if we came into acceptance of the natural flow of life, which by the way,
On October 29th Saturday, I participated in a volunteer opportunity with the democratic campaign. The office had more than 20 people, some of them were making phone calls. I received a package with a map, a list of people’s name, address, and other basic information about the person. My duty was knocking those people’s doors and ask them “who are you going to vote?” “Do you have any things that you want to say about the society?” I do not have a car so they assigned me to the place which is located in walking distance from Beloit College. A married couple who were at the office offered me a ride to Campus. Both of them are in their 50’s. They told me that they have a friend who is now teaching at a university in Tokyo, Japan. The lady also had been to Japan in 1980 as a student. Her husband did not talk much.
This iconic song has many different styles of rhetoric in it, including the style of Pathos. The beginning of this song starts
My Ridgeview Middle School is thinking about making the school hours longer. I completely disagree about this because I believe it's a little too hard any ways with the time, but now there's upgrading the time and making harder on everyone else.If the schools are making the hours longer then sometimes people need to just stick with what they got and be thankful for what they have because it might be over soon.
Throughout my high school experience, I've been able to obtain knowledge that I can use to better my life. Some of the classes I've taken have been a blessing in disguise. For example, I never expected to learn as much as I did about writing and literature by just simply reading. Many of my teachers have pushed me to my limits and inspired me to think differently from my peers. In general my best English experience was reading "MacBeth" by William Shakespeare in Mr. Elwell's class, where I also realized I had many English skills to improve on.
In my time at Haddonfield Memorial High School I have choose to take some of the hardest classes and pack the most into each year. With six to seven classes and very few study halls or electives, my days are filled with academically challenging class after class. I always come home in the spring after picking schedules with the excitement that I have picked the hardest classes and have one of the most rigorous schedules. For some this may seem daunting, and at times it can be, but I also love learning, and because I have taken every class I can and pushed my self there are so many interesting things I would have never learned if I haven't done that.
This year I started school at sandburg middle school. On the first day before calss began I
I had a good year in first grade. I became the best artist in the class. I started getting better at English. My first word was “bathroom.” I made two friends Michelle Sherman and Karen Calle. After that I started feeling better and actually liking this school. Everything felt better and worked out great!
No matter what will happen I will forget. As time keeps running and running and I keep growing older and older, memories of the past won't become important and I will start to forget many events that happened in the past. Although I will never be able to remember all of my time in middle school there is a way for me to remember at least the summary of my three years of middle school by choosing a representing song, a theme song. The theme song I chose to represent my eighth grade year was “Feel Good Inc.” written and sung by the Gorillaz. I chose this song as one of the lyric lines accurately represents the amount of complaints we gave out, the emotions represented in the song are almost an exact representation of my emotions during eighth grade, and because the repetitive beat signifies how I felt eighth grade was.
The warden said, "Hey, buddy, don't you be no square. If you can't find a partner use a wooden chair." Here, Elvis’ lyrics were saying there is no reason to be sad. He was implying, you don't always get what you want, but you should appreciate what you have.
It was the second semester of fourth grade year. My parents had recently bought a new house in a nice quite neighborhood. I was ecstatic I always wanted to move to a new house. I was tired of my old home since I had already explored every corner, nook, and cranny. The moment I realized I would have to leave my old friends behind was one of the most devastating moments of my life. I didn’t want to switch schools and make new friends. Yet at the same time was an interesting new experience.