In the fall of 2014, I decided to run for class president. The decision was rather spontaneous. Throughout the previous school year I had taken no blank towards my class’s government. I had no interest in it, nor had I any knowledge of how to be a successful class president. None the less, I saw it as an opportunity to be a leader, and a opportunity to help my class and my classmates, for I knew what they wanted. In my mind, this would be a simple task. All one would have to do, is raise funds and
"How did that happen?" I thought to myself. This had to have been planned out previously by someone. This event was the Student Government elections held last year, my sophomore year. I had big plans. I wanted to be the Junior Class president. Being Junior Class president is a big responsibility due to prom, concessions and other fund raisers, but I wanted the position anyway. I knew I could handle it. My mom gave me a great idea for a theme that I would carry throughout my posters, my speech and
Specific Purpose Statement: To persuade my audience that I should be the next class President The 16th president Abraham Lincoln once said "Character is like a tree and reputation is like a Shadow. The shadow is what we think of it, the tree is the real thing." I feel like Public School #23 has a character
were required to run for a leadership position, from president to class representative. When senior year came, I knew I wanted to run for a competitive and very important position. And that’s exactly what happened, I decided to run for senior class president, but I never expected such an outcome. The day came when we had to announce the position we were running for. I went up to the teacher's desk, and wrote my name under the senior class president list. When I found out my opponents, I started to
I would guess being class President won’t set me apart from many applicants yet the reason I became president sets me apart from most. I entered my current school as a sophomore and found most people were indifferent about others yet appeared content. However, as I looked closely, I realized many of my peers were simply going through the motions without feeling connected to our school or anyone really. That is when I remembered how I felt every time I had to start over. I thought about my past experiences
was on the Student Council where I helped organize and plan events for the high school. I have been the class president for the past three years. As the class president I have organized fundraisers, planned prom, made decisions about our class trip to New York, been in charge of concessions (to raise money), and have began making decisions and decorating for graduation. Being the class president has come with the stress of constantly being busy and making hard decisions, but I would not change it
I would like to run for Junior Class President because I want to be a leader in Thornton High School. To me, being a leader doesn't mean telling people what to do and when to do it, it means setting a good example for my peers and being helpful to other people. In my years in Boy Scouts, I have held many leadership positions which have allowed me to gain a good understanding of a group’s direction and what motivates them to get there. Some of the important attributes I have that make me a good leader
you are class president. One day, you and your best friend since kindergarten have a huge fight, so as revenge, he releases one of your deepest, darkest secrets out into the world. The secret passes on all around and soon the whole school knows. Now it is too late to try and fix this because dark secrets are hard to forget. Ultimately, this causes all your peers to look at you in a different and bad way resulting in your reputation being ruined. You probably won’t be voted for class president ever again
President AJ Andrew Jackson was born in 1767, and grew up in the border of North and South Carolina. He attended frontier schools and acquired the reputation of being fiery-tempered and willing to fight all comers. He also learned to read, and he was often called on by the community to read aloud the news from the Philadelphia papers. In 1775, with the beginning of the American Revolution, Andrew Jackson, then only 13 years old became an orderly and messenger. He took part in the Battle of
this to the attention of the head of the Washington Post, he is prepared to run with the story and assigns Woodward and Carl Bernstein to it. Their findings of this break-in paved a path that lead to the White House, where it was soon learned that President Richard M. Nixon of the USA, was involved and resigned after Woodward and Bernstein’s findings. Conversely, my two significant instances are, Woodward and Bernstein’s actions on their process of contacting the sources that were involved because they
Purpose of the Queen To some of you here and certainly to some members of the general public it appears as if the queen serves no other pupose than that of a glorified tourist attraction. She appears as a lady of leisure, living in a castle, waited on by servants, gallivanting around the world all at the expense of the taxpayer. With this image being constantly re-enforced by the tabloids, it's
time and did not want a war while he was president. JFK was more than likely not the person who wrote this speech, because presidents usually have somebody else who does that kind of stuff. Although he might have helped out and gave whomever wrote this some idea of what the speech should say. JFK however was the one who gave the speech. Because every new president who get elected should give an inaugural address. I have not actually been to any presidents inaugural addresses, mostly because I am
The Watergate Scandal and the Resignation of President Richard Nixon The Watergate Scandal and crisis that rocked the United States began on the early morning of June 17, 1972 with a small-scale burglary and it ended August 9, 1974 with the resignation of Republican President Richard Milhous Nixon. At approximately 2:30 in the morning of June 17, 1972, five burglars were discovered inside the Democratic National Headquarters in the Watergate office building in Washington DC. The burglars, who
The Day of the Jackal takes place in post World War II in France. The Jackal is a professional assassin, whose name is not revealed, who is hired by a French terrorist group to kill Charles de Gualle, the President of France. This terrorist group has had several failed attacks on the President, and the Jackal is their last hope. The mood the author sets is exceptionally suspenseful. When Rodin, the leader of the terrorist group hears of the failed attacks, the reader can feel his frustration
Back in 2015, she was awarded the presidential Medal Of Freedom by the president Barack Obama. The presidential Medal of freedom is an award by the president of the United States and is along with the comparable congressional gold metal. She also wrote books such as Cooper, Irene (2007). Oprah Winfrey.Viking. Mair, George (2001(. Oprah
Most people voting would prefer a taller president than a shorter one. Additionally according to Murray and Schmitz (2011), “Further research shows that all pairs of major-party U.S presidential nominees have held a significant height advantages over the typical male citizen” (p. 1216). These presidents were well respected and had a major impact on the United States. The presidents had a significant impact on their role of leadership, which transit into having
Sophocles' Antigone – Comparing the Symbolic Alignment Utilized by Creon and President George Bush ... he who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building. - The Prince by Machiavelli Sophocles addresses this very problem in his play Antigone by the methods Creon uses to rule Thebes. Creon begins ruling Thebes in a very difficult time and circumstance. The polis has
Is the American government trustworthy? Edward Joseph Snowden (2013) released to the United States press* selected information about the surveillance of ordinary citizens by the U.S.A.’s National Security Agency (N.S.A.), and its interconnection to phone and social media companies. The motion picture Citizenfour (2014), shows the original taping of those revelations. Snowden said that some people do nothing about this tracking because they have nothing to hide. He claims that this inverts the model
The book I chose to read for this assignment was All the President's Men, by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. The book was about the biographical accounts of two Washington Post reporters and of how their investigative journalism played a major role in solving one of the largest political scandals in American history. Me being a history buff was happy that the book was on the list of selective readings that we could choose for this assignment and before even reading a page was most certain that
going off the path, or shooting an unintended animal. Also, whoever did could get a penalty and have to pay at least another ten thousand dollars. I know that the election that had just taken place before the journey fell in Eckles favor. The president whom he had wanted to win the election actually did. Afterward, though,