Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Feedback on 1st schlorship essay

For the D.R.E.A.M.S scholarship, we were suppose to write a creative essay on how community service and how we will develop a responsible moral society. my essay is a wee bit off subject but i was wondering if it was so amazing that maybe the people would just let it slide..... ^_^ . i also like to let you know this face is impossible to really make.

I was always confused on what I wanted to be. At the tender age of four, I was set on travelling the world as the new member of Mystery Inc. and I was positive no one could tell me otherwise, not even Scooby Doo himself. Sure enough I grew up and began to realize it is some things in this world that I would never be able to accomplish. It was not always because it was impossible, it was because I was told I would not be able to. This is not the typical story of someone telling me I would never become anything and I believed it for so long that I found myself believing it because I never believed them. I never once believed that someone can tell me that I was incompetent of something they never saw me do. I was borned and raised in a country where the motto dreams are always associated with the name. My name is Ashley and I believe dreams are what I'm going accomplish.
Barriers of all reasons are put in front of children all the time. As an infant, they are usually always told what they are not allowed to do first; Don't touch that, Don't walk away, Stop crying, and all the rules everyone can be familiar with. Society does need order but so many restrictions can leave the imagination of a child sterile. Inspiration should always be brightest in youth because their mind is fresh and not even aware of the cruelty that will face them longer on. We can not shield the young forever so we should enhance the good that society has to offer.
When I attended a school called Community Harvest Charter School, on every Friday they would have a minimum day schedule to allow for us to have a program that basically ran like a city hall. The school was divided into grade level and gender. My 7th grade class would split into two rooms and all the girls would sit in a group and express how the week went for them and what they will like to see improved. This was the way school drama was kept to none and a family environment was built in the school.
My plan is to create a family- orientated school campus that would be locally implemented in neighborhoods. The amount of students to each school would be limited because too many students in one school is one reason why teachers are not able to teach their students to the full potential and kids lack the proper needs needed. I would make this program effective for all school districts and by then our economy would not be so screwed that education would once again become a basic priority. The schools would not only be teaching education, but also moral values that would be with them for the rest of their lives. A built in mentorship will be integrated into schools. Young people will no longer have to be put down and told what they can not do.. Rather, they will be tactfully helped on how best to use their skills and train them to be all that they can be. When adults think back on the person that most encouraged them to be who they are now, it is usually a teacher. Teachers see their students nearly as much as they see their parents sometimes.
I did not meet that teacher until 9th grade. She was my beginning drama teacher and she changed my life. I used to be a shy lonely girl who read constantly to make it seem as if i was too busy to communicate with anyone near me. Through class activities and monologues, she broke me out of my habit of quietness into vibrant woman with a lot of personality to share. This program is so that everybody will be able to have their own Ms. Zucarro.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Senioritis: Continuation of my Freshmenitis, Sophmoritis, Junioritis

Although Senioritis is definitely a real condition in my mind, i do not believe it starts in 12th grade. Who would really wait until the easiest year to slack off? I surely started mine early in about 9th grade. on the low hush hush tip, i had a 1.3 GPA. The only classes i had was English, P.E., Health, ICS, Drama, Geometry, and French. the easiest classes which i may have ever took. but thinking about it, they were probably only easy because i was never there or never doing work. man i was a doo doo.



i feel like im getting off subject



oh yes senioritis. I dont know what they claim are the reasons behind senioritis but i think of it as a marathon. When you see the end coming, you either run towards it to be done with or slow down because you know it's only a little while to go.



Let's just say, im running toward the end but stopping at every checkpoint.