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In school, I tried to blend in the best that I could. I liked all of the things that the other students liked, I tried to dress like them, I tried to act like them.

My older siblings loved to play school. When we played school, the best part was always being the teacher. When you are the teacher, it is more fun when you have a lot of students. When I was little, I was always wanting to play with my older siblings, so I was always willing to be a student. This is why I was able to read before I was in kindergarten.

Throughout elementary, middle, and high school, I was viewed as less likely to succeed while also being labeled as lazy, dumb, and not willing to try. Labels affect people and I dropped out after one year in college. I took to the stereotype and believed that school was not my thing.

You are different in so many ways. Others hate you because of those differences. You are smarter then everyone you know except for maybe your brother and sister. You get picked on daily by other kids and even the brother you just want to love you. The adults in your life are blind to the pain you go through and seem unable or unwilling to help you. You are Ender Wiggin and some day you will be the hero of one world and the death of another.

Have you ever been singled out, or called out because you are different, or smarter than the others? I have been bullied for years as I stand out from others, I read a lot, or, supposedly talk to much, so I am nervous of a lot, I am afraid to be a major part of a group, to talk about what I want, I lost my confidence. I stopped telling people what I thought, and retreated into books even more. But know I have been gradually working it back up, taking baby steps, working on being more sure of myself. Now what would happen if a kid like me was stuck on an island, with no adults, only other kids, how would a kid like that survive the others, well I just read a story that helps to show, that knowledge is power.

According to them, I’m not supposed to be smart, a nice person, or responsible. So, everyday I try to do the best I can in school, my job, and even at home. When I have some extra time I try to do more than my teachers ask me to do. And, I don’t do this effort to impress anyone or to show how wrong they are, I’m just trying to let them see that it’s never okay to judge people because of how they look or how you might think they are. I might not be an athlete to actually talk about how to use strategies to play an actual game, or a popular cheerleader to plan a routine and think how to beat the other team, but, we all have our battles and different ways to see and confront them. Winners are not people who never fail, but people who never quit. Life and its prejudices are my game; sometimes I’ll win, and sometimes I’ll lose, but the game goes

Everyday was the same with Thomas O’Brien at Lincoln Gifted Magnet School. He was practically the only kid who listened to anybody at his school who would benefit him. All the other kids teased him about how he was the teacher’s pet. He despised being called that. All he did was want to be the best in his class and to dilate his education. Thomas absolutely loved learning but all the kids called him a weirdo and a freak for it. Only his close friends, teachers, the principal, and other academic officials understood him. “Thomas is an extraordinary student!” as teachers would say. He liked to keep it that way. He didn’t like anyone including himself bragging about his “exceptional grades” or how he is so polite. What he unquestionably hated was people

I remembered my teachers were describing my behavior as a shy girl, and I was a little bit sharing with my peers, if my teacher asked me to do something I do it right away, but I didn’t start any action by myself. I remembered when my teacher asked me to help him and my friends to arrange and decorate the classroom, I did it in a good way and nicely and I was helpful, and that encourage me to engagement with the environment and I felt that I was responsible about my class. When I was at 6th grad, my teacher asked us to help him in the schedule of the activities like the length and the sequencing of activities, and written some words or draw some pictures, I was happy and that let me independent and facilitate interaction with my peers and change my behavior to be brave and encourage

Sometimes that was true, I was that new kid that barely anyone would talk to because I had an Indian accent. I tried to not pay attention to that and work on my own. That didn’t work out well because you have to choose partners for group work and I would always be left out. I always hoped that the teacher would pick the partners because I didn't want to go through that again. I never wanted to go to school because I was afraid that everyone would hate me.

Throughout my life, I had always been a very studious person. For as long as I can remember, I always wanted to be the top of my class, even in Elementary School. It started getting competitive in seventh grade, when everyone was allowed to take classes to get High School course credit. I worked all year and was able to be one of the twenty kids that was allowed to take high school biology in eighth grade. That was the beginning of my advancement in science classes. It was also one of the factors leading up to my challenge in getting at least a B in physics class as a Tenth grader.

I went to preschool and always felt like the outcast but now I know I was different in my own little way.I started 1st grade scared out of my mind of what was to come but little did I know I would have a bunch of friends that would always have my back.

I have always felt like an outsider. I wish I would have not cared earlier on about what people thought about me it would help deal with everything I went through .A thing to consider is that if I didn’t get bullied I wouldn’t be this confident person I am today.

There comes a time in everyone’s life that we are forced to make lifelong decisions. What is chosen may more and or less be based off mood, values and priorities. Our behaviors and actions are what help us shape our future, therefore being very careful is a key quality in life when your deciding the next step, sometimes its known that bad decisions can lead to having regrets. “The Road Not Taken,” by Robert Frost relates to this because in the poem he describes being in the same situation of deciding which “road” will lead him to being and living a successful life or possibly living in regret. The use of metaphors, archetypes, and imagery were used throughout the poem to give a meaning of making your own decisions and really think about long term goals.

This teen fashion model hit the scene march 9, 1959. Wearing nothing but a black and white zebra striped bathing suit, black opened toe shoes, and gold earring. She had blonde hair, red painted lips, full breast, small waist, and long slender legs. And every young girl white or black had to have her and wanted to be her. Barbie was the got to have doll in 1959 till this day worldwide. During my youth my sister and I wanted her too. For Christmas, birthdays and every time we saw a new commercial for her.

the years 1973 until 2009, over 135 inmates were released from death row as new evidence surfaced and proved their innocence (Schmalleger 360). This is just one of the many alarming facts that assist in the argument that the death penalty should be completely abolished. As the public opinion of capital punishment changes, there has been a drastic shift in the way states are carrying out death penalty sentences. Since 2007, seven states have abolished the death penalty as a possible punishment for crime (Schmalleger 369). Even though many states still have the ability to sentence an offender to death, only ten states have practiced an execution since 2007 (Dieter 815). While many argue the death penalty is necessary to protect society and can serve as retribution to the victim 's family, capital punishment should be abolished because it violates religious beliefs, and is a cruel and costly alternative to life without the possibility of parole, and it gives the criminal a way out by not allowing the criminal to take responsibility for crimes they committed.