Essays Tagged: "junior high school"

Jesse Owens

rm in the city of Danville Alabama, underhis real name, James Cleveland Owens. He went to Fairmount Junior High School. Thenhewent on to high school where he was a track athlete and there his high poi ... h school he attended Ohio State University (OSU).Charles Riley taught him after he first saw him in junior high. He was a excellenttrack runner in high school, one of the best in the world. Like menti ...

(3 pages) 42 0 4.0 Mar/1995

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

high school life

tice thetechniques students were using to pass classes. It was something I didn't see while I wasin junior high school. Students were cheating on almost all the tests. They would bringlittle print-out ...

(3 pages) 163 1 3.7 Mar/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

An essay on computer communications

nd its meaning. Yet whenMrs. Rubin made the announcement about the new club she was starting at the junior high school, it triggered something inmy mind.Two weeks later, during the last month of my ei ...

(4 pages) 119 0 3.7 Apr/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

What is the Government doing for public schools and more?

ith so many schools in the United States today. I know this from experience due to the fact that my junior high school was poorly funded. The lack of funding affected my education by lack of teachers, ...

(1 pages) 90 2 3.3 Nov/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

The Field Trip Gone Bad

The Field Trip Gone BadA memorable experience that took place in my earlier life was when I was in Junior High School. For our class field trip our teacher took us to the State House, which turned in ...

(2 pages) 48 0 3.0 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Gay couples should not be able to get married and adopt a child.

Elementary school and junior high school are the times in a child's life where he or she would get made fun of most. There ... many time periods in a child's life, that child experiences many words of ridicule. Elementary and junior high school are the times when these children start and become harsher. If a child comes from ...

(2 pages) 69 1 2.1 Aug/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Homosexuality

The court case of Tinker Vs. Des Moines.

hools in Des Moines, Iowa. Petitioner Mary Beth Tinker, John's sister, was a 13-year-old student in junior high school.In December 1965, a group of adults and students in Des Moines held a meeting at ...

(2 pages) 33 0 0.0 Aug/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

This essay is called " why are nerds unpopular" and i discuss this topic and my expierences with nerds in my essay ^^

When we were in junior high school, my friend Rich and I made a map of the school lunch tables according to populari ... em for being smart, and nothing they could do could make them popular. I wish. If the other kids in junior high school envied me, they did a great job of concealing it. And in any case, if being smart ... out any conscious malice, merely because of the shape of the situation.For me the worst stretch was junior high, when kid culture was new and harsh, and the specialization that would later gradually s ...

(12 pages) 100 3 4.9 Feb/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Critisism Report on Irvin Faust

on August 29th, 1959.In the years of 1949 to 1953 Irvin taught the subject of writing at Manhattan Junior High School. He later on became a guidance counselor at Lynbrook High School from 1956-1960. ...

(3 pages) 13 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Education In Japan

ooling generally begins before grade one in preschool and is free and compulsory for elementary and junior high school (grades 1 through 9). More than 99 percent of elementary school-aged children att ... 9). More than 99 percent of elementary school-aged children attend school. Most students who finish junior high school continue on to senior high school (grades 10 through 12) about 95precent. Approxi ...

(2 pages) 130 3 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

The Increasing Role of English and the Learning of Other Languages

classes offered at primary school and high school, such as Luong Dinh Cua Primary School, Collette Junior High School, Le Hong Phong Senior High School. These classes are supported from France, there ...

(3 pages) 55 0 4.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Science Essays

Beauty issues

ads of how they are supposed to act and look. Soon they are introduced to a new environment, Junior High school. For girls it seems to be hell on earth from all hormones running wild. Never kno ...

(2 pages) 29 0 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Pay It Forward - A Biblical Comparison

es just that. This movie tells the story of a social studies teacher who gives an assignment to his junior high school class to think of an idea to change the world for the better, and then put it int ...

(7 pages) 104 4 5.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

This essay is about a football player and his experience of chaning from high school to college.

Changing from junior high school to high school was a scaryexperience at first. I didnâ ®t really know w ... dnâ ®t really know what to expect. I thought andknew it was going to be a lot harder than junior high school. I hadfriends that made this transition with me, but I knew I was going to meetmo ... year in high school was the hardest. Iwasnâ ®t used to doing a lot of homework because in junior high school Igot it all done in class. The students were a lot different and moremature. Ther ...

(2 pages) 35 0 3.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies

DUKE ELLINGTON

he dedicated himself to keyboard technique. By his mid-teens, Duke (the nickname came from a snooty junior high school friend who liked to give his pals titles) was hanging out at Frank Holliday's poo ...

(10 pages) 95 0 4.8 Jul/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies

The Trouble With History

r ones from the nineteen-seventies; the examples show how the changes in content and perspective of junior high school history books affect the student's view of the country and it's annals. The messa ...

(4 pages) 62 0 5.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

The Lovely Bones Summary

y of her family's life from heaven. On a cold and dark December day Susie was walking home from her junior high school and decided to take a shortcut through a cornfield that led right into her develo ...

(3 pages) 33 0 3.6 Sep/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

"The Making of a Slut" by Naomi Wolf's

active.Wolf recalls from her past a girl named Dinah who at one point was a good friend of hers in junior high school until they went their separate paths. The reason for the friendship breakup was t ...

(2 pages) 50 0 3.0 Feb/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Japanese INternment camps

-Congressman John Rankin, Congressional Record, February 19th, 1942. If you look through a junior high school history book you find many chapters on World War 2 and how America came in and "s ...

(5 pages) 46 0 5.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Why Nerds are unpopular.

When we were in junior high school, my friend Rich and I made a map of the school lunch tables according to populari ... em for being smart, and nothing they could do could make them popular. I wish. If the other kids in junior high school envied me, they did a great job of concealing it. And in any case, if being smart ... out any conscious malice, merely because of the shape of the situation.For me the worst stretch was junior high, when kid culture was new and harsh, and the specialization that would later gradually s ...

(22 pages) 31 0 5.0 Oct/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters