Freedom and Responsibility

East Millbrooks essential question for the 08-09 school year is,"What is the relationship between freedom and responsibility?" We have tied this into our final project. This project is called my vision, my mission, my legacy. This project is mainly about our future.

Freedom is what everyone seems to want; to be free from rules, school, and sometimes even parents. Sometimes people don't take this seriously. Most people don't realize this, but when your in middle school (and up) your on your own, and you make your own choices and mistakes. When you are "free" sometimes you forget to be responsible.

Responsibility is to remember your things, homework, clean your room and much more. When your at school you are (or supposed to be) responsible. Responsibility is also getting good grades and to take credit for your actions. I think that responsibility mostly is to respect your elders and remember things.

I think the relationship between freedom and responsibility is very large. I mean large like complex. I think this way because I believe that freedom and responsibility are similar and different. I think that they are different because they are two completely unrelated terms. They are similar because with freedom you need responsibility to survive.

This project has taught me a lot. It has taught me things like getting more in depth with freedom and responsibility. When I wrote this essay I learned a lot and I hope that you do too.

My Vision, My Mission, My Legacy

In class right now, we are learning about our future. For some people, they want to have a high paying job just for the money, instead of what they really want to be. I don't think that this is right. Others think that they won't go to college, then later in life find a way to get money by selling things, inventing something, etc. This isn't right either, what I think is right is that you go to college now, then live the life that's yours, not one that's not.

If I keep my grades up, and behave the way that i do now throughout the rest of middle school, and high school, I could probably succeed and go on to college. If I were to start behaving poorly , and letting my grades drop, I would probably not go to college. If I make it all of the way to college as a good student I could probably work at the job that I've always wanted. There are many things in my future, good things, bad things, unexpected turns, but I always have a back-up plan is I get fired because I would have gone to college.

If you know me well enough, then you would probably know my future job. My future job is to be an architect. If I ever need a backup job or if I change my mind, I would want to become a home designer. I was never into designing, but I started watching HGTV since my friend recommended it. These are just the minor missions/goals that I have, but I still have a few major and minor goals as well.

One of my minor goals would be what people remember me by. I would want people to remember me by the way I treat people, respond to elders, and my grades. I said my grades because it is something that I take very seriously and a C is very bad to me. I think that its sad when people think C's and D's are good. I think to succeed in life you must do what your told, get good grades, and treat people the way that you would want to be treated.

Both me and my parents take my grades seriously. If I were to come home with anything under a B, I would probably get in a lot of trouble. Also, a major thing in my life is the goal to go to college. When I grow up and get older, I would definitely rather to be happy than filthy rich.

What are the benifits of education in the United States?

There are many benefits of education in the Unites States, I can only name a few. One of them is that it is FREE. Another is that you are required to go until you are a least sixteen. Also, you learn a lot, which will help us succeed in life. Not many people realize this, but we are very lucky to have the the education like we do here.

An advantage in America is that public school is free. Well, it is for the most part because some of the tax's our parents pay go to public school. However, most school can help pay the expenses of school supplies and field trips. This helps a lot of Americans because you will need to know a lot of the basic skills to get a job.

It is the law to stay in school until you are at least sixteen. This is very important because you are almost "forced" to be smart. Also, as long as you are in school for the amount of years you will hopefully learned a lot of important information by then. Another reason to stay in school is because you probably don't want to be referred to as "the high school dropout."

To succeed in life many people would want to at least have a high school diploma show in your office, work, school,etc. A majority of the time good paying jobs require that you are highly educated by showing you high school/collage diploma. If you don't have one of there you probably won't get the job. If you say-work as a cashier at food lion, you probably would want to know how to count change. Education comes up a lot in our lives, and most of the time you will want to have a diploma.

Many people take for granted of what we have while few others realize how fortunate we are to go to school. Most schools in the United States are free; while in places like Nicaragua you must pay to get a quarter of what we learn. When you think about it, all of the "dropouts" just quit and give up. If you don't have an education then you can't get a decent job. My parents always tell me to never give up, and that's why I chose to write this essay.

When I was Younger essay

Right now in Picture my World, we are finishing our portfolios. This is our last piece of writing/work for our portfolios this quarter, and we are all writing about our past. For an example, I am writing about what I used to do when I lived in Pennsylvania, because that's where I lived until I was ten. Most of these paragraphs are about what I would did, knew, and thought when I was younger.

The first thing that I am writing about is how I used to shovel snow. Obviously it doesn't snow here, so that's how this "tradition" stopped. It used to be really fun, because my parents would shovel snow on the driveway and put the snow on the sides. We would play in that for hours, or until we got really cold. What is really sad about this "tradition" is that we moved and we can't do this anymore. Sometimes I really wished that it would snow here so I could continue this "tradition."

Just like any other kid, I used to believe in Santa because I started to heard things about him and I just started to wonder who he was, and what he looked like. Also, I believed in him because every year we would go to the mall and take photos with him. I really started to believe in him when I was seven, and I heard something loud in the middle of the night, i didn't get up because I had thought it was actually Santa. When I grew older I found out that was actually my dad falling down the stairs with our presents.We also made chocolate chip cookies and milk and they disappeared in the morning, it turned out that my dad ate them every year.

My mom was a teacher, so at our old school where she teached she had to go before and after the summer to do her planning. We never had anywhere else to go so we would stay at our Nana's. We called this "Nana's school." When we finished our work, we would get prizes. Some of our work would be to name the fifty states, name all of the presidents, and write calligraphy. After the two weeks we would go on a field trip, once we went to a theme park and another time we went on a walk to the park. I had a lot of fun then because she made everything fun and time pass quickly..

My favorite part of my "early" childhood was having my Nana around a lot because like I said before, she makes everything fun and she was always there for me. I also had a lot of fun in the snow because of the snowball fights and sledding. Another fun thing that I did when I was younger was to believe in Santa, which I began to question when I was eight or nine. I had a lot of fun when I was "little" because elementary school was easy almost careless, but still fun.

When I grow up I want to be an architect

When I grow up I want to be an architect. I want to be an architect because I had started watching a lot of shows on HGTV. I started thinking that I should be a house designer, but then I figured out that that wasn't what I really wanted to be. I had soon figured out that being an architect. I want to be this because you design the layout and just think about what it is going to look like. Wat is best about this is that I could enjoy this if this were my future job.

When I grow up I picture myself living in a nice house, happy, and having a good job. I would like to think of myself as living in a city, walking to work, happy. Also, I want to think of myself as finishing collage. What most people are worried about in life is how much money that they have. I am not that worried about having a lot of money, just as long that I am happy.

All About Me

Hi. My name is Ali Then. My birthday was July 11th, 1996. I now live in Wake Forest, but I was born in Limerick, pennsylvania and moved here when I turned eleven. I have a twin sister named Tyler, and right now I don't have any pets. My interest are softball, baseball, violin, music, surfing the web, and wathching T.V. My favorite type of music is the violin, and the Jonas Brothers. My friends are Gianna, Olivia, Maddie, Bailey, Ambra, Alexis, Zoe, Crystal, Lauren, Staci, Mariel, Kyasia, Victoria, Marissa, Brandi, Laura, Katy, Emiley, and Jackie.