Issue Paper/Final Paper

During my years here at Roosevelt high school I have learned so much and gained so much knowledge. All my classes that I took were some of the most amazing classes ever. The teachers that I had were all so amazing too. I am so proud to say that I will be graduation May 22, 2011 from Roosevelt High School. I took 7 classes last semester and this semester also. I decided to have a full schedule just because I wanted to learn more and gain the respect from my teachers. I wanted to show them that I wasn’t lazy and that I had the will and power to do my work and have in myself.

          I have learned a lot in Ms. Gottner’s class. Her class that I took was American Literature. I have to say that that class was hard for me. I was not the best student and didn’t know as much as the others kids that were in my class. My piers were a lot smarter than me and could do way better then what I could do. I learned that in every class you have to do your work. In American Literature I found out the hard way. I admit most of the time I didn’t turn my work in. I worked on it at home for homework, but I never turned it in until the last minute. That was a really bad thing to do, because I fell behind in my work, to where I thought that I was a complete failure and that I was going nowhere in life. I just wanted to give up; I didn’t want to do my work at all in her class. Then I later came to realize that having her class and doing the work made me a better reader and a better writer all together. Having her class was not as bad as I thought it was going to be. I learned so much from her and thankful that I got to have her as my American Literature teacher.

          My second class was Life skills with Mr. Yost. Man oh man where do I even begin with this teacher. Mr. Yost has been one of the teachers that always looked out for my and helped me with my grades and everything else he taught me. I learned how to do taxes in his class, and let me tell you knowing how to do that can really help you when you get older. I am pretty good at doing taxes now, thanks to Mr. Yost. He would always tell me that I can do better if I just handed in my work on time. I was really bad at handing my work in on time. He would always make sure that I was doing my work, and that I understood everything that he was talking about in his class at the time. He made me a letter of recommendation, that when I asked him he had no idea what to say. I asked him because he is one of my favorite teachers, that taught me a lot and very proud that I took his class.

          My third class would be Chem-com. My teacher was Mr. Black. Everybody hated him for some reason. I never hated him, but at some points I disliked him. There is a big difference in the word hate. Hate is a strong word. I learned a lot about brain chemistry from him. He was a good teacher. We also got to try different kinds of fruit smoothies from his class, that we blended ourselves. That was a really fun experience and I will always remember that sweet tasting juicing that we did as a class. Mr. Black was a really nice teacher and I can say that he taught me all that I know about brain chemistry today, and I could talk about it instead of just pulling it off. I enjoyed his class very much. I wish we could have learned different things, because sometimes I felt that we just learned the same things over and over again. I felt like I wasn’t learning anything new, but we later did learn something new and exciting.

          My next class was Expository Writing with Mrs. Boresen. I don’t even know where to start. She is funny and beautiful, and I look up to her. She gives the most amazing speeches that I ever hear in my entire life time. I learned so much from being in her class. Things that I never knew in her class, she taught me how to improve in my writing and how to be better in the future. She always made me laugh when I was having my bad days. She helped me write my papers and revise them. She is so funny and I am going to miss her so much.

          My 5^th class is Speech, also with Mrs. Boresen. This class has got to be one of my favorite classes ever. So many people told me about her class and that we had to talk in front of the class, and give speeches. When I heard that I wanted to drop out the minute I could. I am so scared of public speaking. I decided not to drop her class and to see how things would go. At first I was nervous and didn’t know what to expect, but then my friends told me that I had nothing to worry about. She is a nice teacher and will help you with your public speaking ability. So I gave it a shot and went for it. After awhile I got used to her class and I started to love it. Speech now became one of my favorite classes. After doing Toastmasters I never wanted to leave her class. Toastmasters were one of the funniest and exciting things I have ever done. At my old school we never got that chance to even have a speech class. Coming into this school gave me a lot of options that I never knew could happen. I most definitely recommend taking her class, not only will you have an experience of a life time, but you will have so much fun. 

          My 6^th hour class would be Reading with Mrs. Kittle. I must say that was my least favorite class. I hated reading. I was never good at understanding books after I read them. I have no idea why, but I was really bad at it. The teacher was really nice though. She was funny and always made me smile. My best friend was in that class with me so it made the class a little better. I hate reading but I did it anyways. I read about 4 to 5 books in her class and outside of her class. I knew how to do book talks, something that I didn’t know how to do before I came into her class. If you love to read then take her class, but if you’re like me and don’t feel like reading everyday for an hour then don’t take her class, because if you do your never going to get good grades and you’re going to fail her class I guarantee it. I am glad that I took her class, because I learned a lot from her, and I also got to know her quite well.

          Finally my last class of the day is Show Choir with Ms. Adkisson. This has to be my all time favorite class ever. My number one choice in classes, because I got to really express who I am. Show choir is a class where you get to sing and dance. I love to dance. I have been dancing since I was a little girl, and still want to dance when I get older. I love to sing as well. I am not very good at it, but I have been practicing while singing in show choir and performing at my concerts or at state. Ms. Adkisson is the sweetest teacher ever. She helped me overcome my fears in singing, something that I thought I couldn’t do. I learned notes and how to sing out and how to make my voice sound more mature instead of all girly. I had some of the most amazing talented students in that class that I became really close with. Another one of my best friends was in that class as well. She even helped me become a better singer, she helped me with a lot, and having her in that class made me feel special, and I was the only senior in that class, so that also made me feel really special as well. I have made some amazing friends from other schools, and now from this experience I can say that I am a little bit more confident when I sing, then how I used to be. I know for a fact that I can dance, but the singing part needs a little more work. When doing Mini Camp for the kids that were also an experience because I got to teach dances to little kids, that was so adorable. I even made some friends from the elementary schools. It was an experience of a life time. I will never forget this.

          I want to thank Mrs. Nava, without her I probably couldn’t have done any of this. She believed in me when no one else did, she helped me with all my homework that needed to be done. She is like a second mom to me. I love her and I am very thankful to have her in my life.

          I will always remember all my teachers and all the students that I became very close too. I am going to miss Roosevelt High School so much, and will always have the best experiences here at Roosevelt High School.

Option 2

During my senior year in Mrs. Boresen’s class I have learned a lot from her. I learned things that I never knew could exist. I admit that during her class I thought that I wasn’t going to like it, and I thought that she was a mean teacher. When I really got to know her she was one of the coolest teachers I know. She was like a second mother to me. Coming into her class I expected that we were going to be writing a lot, and of course we did. I never liked writing. I thought I was really bad, and thought that when ever I wrote any essays or speeches, I thought they were really bad. I always got scared for her to read my papers. Even though I was scared for her to read my papers, I knew that she was the only one that could help me with my papers, and helped with them to make more sense.

I never had Mrs. Boresen as a teacher, but when I had her for the first time she was really nice and really funny. She got along with all her students very well. We never saw her get mad at anybody or yell at anybody. She was the nicest teacher I ever had. After awhile I got used to her. Got used to her grading and her humor, everything made sense to me in the long run. I loved having her as a teacher. So when I came into this class I expected it to be hard and not easy at all. I thought she was going to be the kind of teacher that wasn’t going to help some girl who didn’t know how to write a good paper. Being in her class made me happy, and made me successful. I have faith in myself and will always push forward to accomplish in everything that I do.

While being in her class I learned to write better and I also learned that life is tough when you don’t get your work done. You can fall behind and falling behind can be really hard for you to catch up. I learned how to be a better writer in my essays. When I was younger I didn’t know how to write a good essay. Coming into her class she showed me how to be successful and how to make my essays better, and she even helped me improve in my writing. In her class we also learned how to write essays for colleges that we wanted to go to. I never knew that she would actually help us with your college essays. I thought that college essays were papers that you had to write on your own. She helped us with a lot and I am very thankful for that, because without her help I would probably still be struggling to write good papers. I wasn’t a very smart student. Mrs. Boresen made me feel smart about myself. She also taught us that you need to have faith in your writing, and you can’t doubt yourself in what you do. We did so many writing exercises that actually helped me in become a better writer. We did transformers papers that helped us with things to get an A on our papers. Also 3 things to actually get a grade on this paper and the skills we need to learn to be successful for the paper we were writing. When I did these transformers papers it helped me with what I need to do better and how I need to use my time wisely. It gave us information on how we did on our last writing assignment. The grade that we got, and what three things challenged us as a writer, things that we needed to fix by our next assignment. We also need to turn in our work on time and good work time in class.  We also write what things that we are now good at because of this writing assignment, our past assignments or our recent ones. Being in this class helped me a lot in everything that I do and write. I know can say that I may be a better writer when I grow up. I will have a better writing style. For the students that come into Mrs. Boresen’s  class you need to know that you will have an assignment that may be a little tough for some or easy for others in the long run, it will help you.

The one assignment that I remember the most was The Secret. We watched a movie in Mrs. Boresen’s class that helped us with ourselves and with everything around us. We watched the movie “The Secret” what the movie was about is happiness and everything that you need to do to be happy, and not to be so mean, and to succeed in life. During my time in Expository writing I learned too many things to be happy after watching the movie. You may think that the movie is dumb or whatever, but if you really watch it, you will learn a lot of things to be happy.  While watching the movie “The Secret” there was many people that talked during the movie, and gave the audience advice in being happy, and being nice to others. How to care about others, and not to be selfish in everything you do.  One quote that really was brought to my attention was by Dr. Joe Vitale. His quote stated “I have bad feelings, and I have good feelings” I this quote I can say that he is right. Everybody has good feelings and bad feelings at the same time. No matter if you’re in bad mood or in a good mood, you seem to always have a bad feeling about something or a good feeling. I know the reason he picked this quote was because he has to be one of those people who have good days and who also have bad days. His quote makes a lot of sense to me.  I know that it will make a lot of sense to the people who read his quotes.

Another quote that was interesting to me was a quote by James. His quote was “Don’t delay, don’t second doubt”. His quote was awesome because I always second doubt everything that I do. I never have faith in myself or in anything that I do. I always second doubt myself and can never be happy if I doubt myself. Attract everything you acquire. You will need to know these quotes because they will help you do well in her class. After watching the movie and reading the quotes that some of these people were talking about it made me realize a lot in my writing and in my life in general.

Another quote would be by Bob Doyle. His quote stated “I get bad vibes, good emotions, gratitude, love, joy, and when I feel down my emotions change” I must say that this is one of my favorite quotes. It makes so much sense.  Everybody in life feels love at some point in there life, they also feel joy and happiness in life also. When people feel down there emotions do change. They don’t feel the same; they feel like they want to be alone. When I feel down I want to be by myself. Sometimes I want to talk to my mom or to my best friends about everything that is happening in my life, the reason why I am sad.

I learned so much in her class, and I do recommend taking her class because you can learn a lot from her. Her help is so great that you feel like a student that nothing can bring you down. Anybody can try but no matter what they do they will never bring you down. You also learn a lot form watching the movie “The Secret”

Cover Letter

501 Charlotte St.

Johnstown, CO 80534

March 18, 2011

Mr. Albert

Market General

546 Lane Drive

Greeley, CO 80364

Dear Mr. Albert

I am very interested in discussing the cashier position at Maui Wowi Hawaiian Coffee and Smoothie as advertized in the Greeley Tribune.   As a student at Roosevelt High School, I completed a word processing class that provides me with excellent computer skills.  I was also involved in Show Choir for 2 years. I have gained many skills that will assist me as I learn the specifics of working in your particular area.

I worked at Odell’s Super Market. The skills that I have are: I worked as a cashier, provided information over the phone, provided professional service to clients , worked many hours throughout the day, and I am bilingual. I have gained a broad background of life. I do enjoy working with people. I learned to be a leader and explain things to my fellow co-workers.  I won’t give up until they all know the material and understand it.

In addition to my employment, I also continue to volunteer for community service. I helped clean houses and mow lawns around my neighborhood. I picked weeds for my neighbor’s garden, and would take their dogs on walks. I have performed in a show for the little kids at Letford.  It was the most rewarding experience at this point in my life. I love children, and watching them enjoys life and our show.

After graduation I hope to become successful. I am very committed to this goal as is evident by my records of academic accomplishments and community service.  I look forward to sitting down and discussing this position with you.  I am very eager to be a part of your team. Please contact me at (720)364-4423.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,

Nereida Machado

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Hope essay

Hope

There are many people in the world that live life to the fullest. Some people have different meaning of the word Hope. Keep your head up when life gets tough, don’t give up. I love to live life with the word hope, because I hope for better days to come my way, and I know at the end of the day everything is going to be ok.

The definition of “Hope” is the feeling that what is wanted can be hard or that events will turn out for the best. The verb meaning of this word is; to look forward to with desire and reasonable confidence. The verb form used with an object is to believe, desire, and to trust. Many people have different explanations or definitions of the word “Hope”. Some people also look at the for there life story. Hope evolves and explains how they live with hope. My life sometimes revolves around the word of Hope. I have been through so much in my life over the past 19 years of my life. And example of the word hope is a real life story.

When I was a little girl my grandpa was very sick and had to spend a lot of time is the doctor’s office. He didn’t know why he was getting sick so much, because in the mornings he would feel fine, but when it came close to his bed time he would feel really sick, and he would even throw up at night. My family lived with my grandpa because we knew he wasn’t feeling good, so that’s why we wanted to watch over him all the time. My mom felt that we should get home schooled because when my mom was working, she wanted to have us at home so we could watch over him. She didn’t want my grandpa to be left alone, because at some point in his sickness he could barley walk and we had to help him a lot. We all knew that this would affect the whole family in some way, because we wouldn’t be able to do the things we did before, and that scared his grandkids.   His sickness didn’t really hit him as much, but when I turned 13 his sickness started getting worse and worse. I felt that now that my grandpa was sick that he wouldn’t be able to be there for me when I grow up. I wanted my grandpa with me when I graduate high school, go to college, graduate from college, get married, and have kids. My grandpa was my best friend and we would always hope and pray that we would be together for the rest of our lives, but we all know that he wasn’t going to live that long, and that made me feel really bad, and depressed, because I wasn’t going to have my best friend around to watch me succeed in life. Weeks passed and passed when he then had to go to the hospital about 3 or 4 times a week. After knowing that, we knew this was serious. A few months passed and he had a heart attack while he was working on his farm. We rushed him to the hospital. The doctors told us the news of the heart attack, and even told us why he has been getting really sick lately. He had diabetes. We didn’t know he had diabetes. This was all very horrible new for the whole family.

Weeks and months passed by and he was still in the hospital. Or whole family members realized that he wasn’t going to be out soon, so some of his family stayed at the hospital. They had that whole side for his family because he had a lot of family members, but not all of them could be there. The experience of staying in the hospital was not good. The food was gross, but at night I would hope and pray that my grandpa would be ok, and that he would be able to come home soon, too be with his family. Later, he had got very sick, to where he was on his death bed. The doctors didn’t let the family members see him because his condition was fatal. The doctors then told us that they have to amputate his leg. We all started to crying because we knew this would be the last time we would be able too see my grandpa again. He only had a couple weeks to live, that all of his grandchildren wrote him letters, and poems. I wrote a poem about praying and hoping. This poem meant a lot to me because every night and day I would pray so much and would hope that my grandpa would be ok. We all wished that my grandpa didn’t have to go through this.  Most of the grandkids couldn’t read them out loud to him because they all started crying, because they couldn’t stand to see him on his death bed. A month later we got the news that he was talking and opening his eyes. We all hoped and prayed that he would be alright, and that’s when the word hope came out to me. Hope can get you in life and get you where you want to be in life.

Even though we hoped and prayed for him every day, it didn’t help as much as we wanted it too. He later passed away two weeks later. The thing that surprised the whole family and me was that the doctors told him and our family that he only had a couple weeks to live. He ended up living for about a month and a couple weeks longer.  We believed in the word hope, and if you do too it can bring you joy in life in any way you want it too.