Generation Why
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- Monday, April 4, 2011
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Sports: Stripping, hooking — and rugby
I know how to strip, and my friend is a hooker. I guarantee that it's not what you're thinking. We play rugby. Not many people know how to play rugby or even know what it is. I just started playing this year and it already has changed my life.
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Looking for writers, photographers
Generation Why is looking for writing and photography from high school students in the five-county Record-Eagle coverage area. Generation Why is printed on the first Monday of the month during the school year. If you are in the ninth through 12th grade and have an essay, article or photographs to share, please send it. Many students published in Generation Why have been able to use it to enhance college applications.
Continued ... - Monday, March 7, 2011
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Being deaf must be a gift from God
I was born deaf and got hearing aids when I was about 2&½ years old. What each person is, is God's gift to them. I thank God for the gift he gave me and I will always know that he is always there for me.
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Helping in clinic is yucky, rewarding
I live in a veterinarian's office; my mom is the vet. I'm called on to help with surgery, in this case delivering puppies. Mom makes the incision and immediately heavy, flowing green mucus pours out onto my arm before oozing to the floor.
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Teachers make difference in your future
The TBAISD Career-Tech-Center (CTC) is a great place to begin looking seriously at your future career. I attend the Construction Trades program. Attending CTC has given me a "jump start" on the real world. I have not only gained some technical skills, but have also learned some very important soft skills, involving work ethic and team work.
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Looking for writers, photographers
Generation Why is looking for writing and photography from high school students in the five-county Record-Eagle coverage area.
Continued ... - Monday, February 7, 2011
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Gaining trust, teaching take time
When I walk into the barn, the door makes a loud rattle as its rollers run across the track. My eyes adjust — I see a silhouette standing 15 hands tall covered in 2 inches of brown fuzz. Bunny whinnies loudly. Anything that moves, makes a noise or touches her terrifies her.
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Montessori students create, play, amaze
Ding! It's time for lunch. Wait! Why isn't anyone leaving? Oh, that's right: At the private Montessori school, the students eat their lunches in their classrooms. I visit a Montessori classroom from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. on Mondays and Tuesdays for a public high school program called Teacher Academy. I'm placed with 6- to 8-year-olds for the second marking period.
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I'd rather talk than text
I don't like to text. I know that I run the risk of sounding like someone without a phone, without friends or without a social life, but the truth is, I don't like to text because I do have friends, and I value those friendships.
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Looking for writers, photographers
Generation Why is looking for writing and photography from high school students in the five-county Record-Eagle coverage area.
Continued ... - Monday, January 3, 2011
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It's easy to spot a college freshman
The first year of college is tough. Whether you've moved into the dorms or commute to college, the experience is the same. Students are nervous, lost and scared to death of walking into the wrong class.
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Where to live when you're young, broke?
Traverse City is often regarded as a place to retire or perhaps start a family in a two-income household. What Traverse City is not known for is vast amounts of affordable housing.
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Pro: Flights can't be too secure
I believe that scanners and full pat-downs are very necessary for the security of the United States. The most important thing is to keep citizens of the United States safe and secure. The new and stricter airport security is making sure of this.
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Con: Pat-downs invasive, out of control
I believe that the TSA agents have become too detached emotionally from their jobs; they see no wrong in the way that they have violated airline passengers. This supports my position by showing just how far the TSA is willing to go to provide "security" for the nation.
Continued ... - Tuesday, December 7, 2010
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Fate and Miracles: Summer day haunts me
Although it is difficult for me to remember that day, it is not because time has ebbed away bits and pieces of the memory like a great river ebbs away the land. Rather, I have blocked the memory because I do not want to think about what could have been.
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Perfecting the art of posturing
People say that high school is the time of your life. I hadn't the slightest idea what they were talking about until recently. It's all about being young; being boisterous.
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Imaginations create best fun
Though the makeshift restaurant and ice cream parlor appeared to be nothing special, they held a special place in the hearts of my sisters and me. Being clueless little kids, our prices may have been extremely generous or outrageously expensive, but what did it matter?
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Looking for writers, photographers
Generation Why is looking for writing and photography from high school students in the five-county Record-Eagle coverage area.
Continued ... - Tuesday, November 2, 2010
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A Terrible Beauty: Lessons learned from death
My father took four months to die. I counted. I remember on one of his last days I was plopped down in the middle of our living room, massaging my snoring dog when my mom glanced up from her book and said to me, "Whitney, it's OK to be mad at the world right now." As if I hadn't already had a rather bleak view of what was surrounding me.
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High-schoolers have a lot to deal with
Do your homework, clean your room, get a job, do well on ACT, get good grades ... As students in high school, we hear all those and more almost every day it seems. Parents, teachers and family members are constantly reminding us how important doing well on standardized tests, being a top student, going to college and "succeeding in life" is.
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Driving in the car with Grandpa
He talks about how my other grandfather served in the Army and fought in the Battle of the Bulge, explaining how he had fought for our freedom and protected our country. This message of respect for the people who fight and who sacrifice and who die for our country is a value that I will never forget.
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Grades: Letters, GPA take precedence over learning
Rather than students focusing on learning the material, schools are focused on grades. Teachers want students to learn the material, but our society places such an importance on grades. Students end up losing sight of why they go to school.
Continued ... - Tuesday, October 5, 2010
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Divorce has a devastating effect on children
When most people hear of marriage failing they usually think of the two people it mainly involves — the parents and not their kids. Divorce obviously affects the children, however.
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Real-world taste renews love of home
Everything about Elk Rapids seemed routine and uninteresting to me, I felt like what I was doing each week differed little from the last week's schedule. I started to get more and more apathetic.
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Truly living is being true to you
The pressure to conform that is forced upon us often stems from masculine and feminine roles in society, but in my young mind, the idea that men and women have distinct and certain roles began to transcend practicality and enter the realm of the ludicrous and even harmful.
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