Arguments

Arguments

Fighting with your sisters is not a fun thing. I hate fighting with my sisters because I consider them as my best friends. When you are mad at your best friends or they are mad at you, it becomes actually kind of sad. The good thing about fighting with my sisters other than friends at school is you are kind of forced to be around them a lot so the fighting doesn’t last long. Usually it gets over with in a couple hours or so. But with friends I could hold a grudge with them for days.

I recently was in a fight with my younger sister. We usually fight just because we both think we are right She is the baby in the family so she has received what she has wanted ever since she was born. It is still occurring and my parents need to stop because she is going to continue being a little brat if they don’t.

I hate when people in general argue or fight because life is so short and you never know what could happen. I understand that there will be fights and arguments once and awhile but try to keep them at a minimum because you never know what could happen to the person you just argued with.

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"Crime is Pride"

“Crime is Pride”

In the excerpt from Antigone, Sophocles the writer shows a clear message that all people should follow. His moral in the excerpt applies to life every since it began. I really enjoy this excerpt because people can deal with this every day.

When he wrote “all men make mistakes” (line 1), he was telling the readers that everyone in the world today isn’t perfect. Everyone is going to make multiple mistakes in their lifetime. This phrase catches my eyes because it makes people realize that they aren’t the only people in the world that make mistakes, everyone does.

In line 2 when Sophocles uses the phrase “good man” it puts emphasis on if you make a mistake, a good person would try to fix it and deal with what outcome it produced. When someone realizes what they did wrong, they need to make sure they take accountable for it and do something about it.

After you figure out you know you did something wrong, an action needs to be taken. It’s one thing knowing you did something wrong and not doing anything about it than knowing you did something wrong and fixing the problem. A good man would know what they did wrong but also fix the problem.

From my own experience I am a teenager in high school and I have made mistakes that I regret. But I would consider myself a “good man” and that I “yield” my mistakes. I know what I did was wrong and I try to fix and do whatever I can to get things back to normal.

I have seen many people in my high school career do something to an extreme they know they shouldn’t have done. Some of those people fix what they did and some do not. The people who do fix what happened are considered as good people and more successful. People who don’t do much about the problem they caused have not been successful.

The phrase “The only Crime is pride” (line 5) I think is very confusing. This could mean a lot of different things. To some people this could mean that making a crime gives the person a sense of pride. To me that is not what it means.

We have all been told to take pride in our country and to have pride, I believe it means in some way to be proud. I think that the phrase used in line 5 is saying that the crime you make needs to have pride put into how you resolve it. The more pride you have in resolving the problem, the less the mistake seems.

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Decisions...Decisions

Decisions...Decisions

                Choosing a college is the next huge step in my life. I have started taking visits to colleges this past summer. I would really recommend visiting colleges in the summer going into your junior year and the spring of your junior year. It is annoying to visit a college in the summer because all of the students at the college are at home, but it is also the easiest time to set up a visit. That is a downfall of visiting a college in the summer because then you aren’t able to see what the campus is like when students are there.

                I have visited four colleges total including William Jewel, Rockhurst, Upper Iowa, and Cornell. I really enjoyed Rockhurst, Upper Iowa, and Cornell. Rockhurst is in Kansas City, Upper Iowa is in Fayette, and Cornell is in Mount Vernon. If I were to attend one of these schools, I would play either basketball or volleyball there. Playing a sport in college can really help bring down the cost of the school if you are wanting to attend a Division one or two college but if you attend a Division three college they are not allowed to give you sport scholarships.

                I most recently have visited Cornell, which was yesterday. I really enjoyed the coaches at that school and what their attentions are for me playing for their program. Also I liked the small classroom sizes and class schedule. They only take one course at a time for three and a half weeks. This caught my eye for a good thing and a bad thing. I think it would be nice because only having to focus on one class would be awesome, especially when playing a sport. The bad thing about taking one course at a time is if you fail the first test, it is hard to get your grade up because you only have eighteen days to do so.

            Also another good thing about the small class sizes is if you want to ask your teacher questions, you are more than welcome to do so. The professor will know everyone in the classroom by name. It isn’t like a huge university, where there are three hundred plus students in a class and the professor doesn’t even know who their students are. The average class size at Cornell is about seventeen students. The maximum number of students in a class would be twenty-five.

            I am a student that wants to be able to go up to the teacher after class and ask questions or ask for help. I wouldn’t be able to do that at a big university like Iowa. This is something huge for students to think about when deciding where to go. Many teenagers say they are going to go to University of Iowa or Iowa State but they haven’t even gone on other college visits. That is really stupid because there are so many great colleges out there in the United States.

            I would extremely recommend visiting colleges if you are a current sophomore or junior. The more colleges you visit, the more variety you will have to choose. It is better to go on more than one visit to see what is out there then just go on one visit and pick that one. Everyone get your butts off the couch and go explore! It is the next big step in your life…

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