The Importance of Scholarships

Scholarships are very important, yet also diverse. There are many different kinds of scholarships to help students get into schools, such as college. Although this is their most popular use, scholarships are important for other reasons. Scholarships can increase a schools' diversity. If students who have special abilities or features all apply for a scholarship to a college, the campus will be made up of a variety of students. A colleges' popularity can increase as well. If there is an interesting scholarship that many people like and want to apply for, that college will get more publicity. Also, a colleges income could increase. Students are generally more inclined to apply to a college that offers them money, rather than paying for all expenses themselves. Because of this, more students will enroll into a school that offers scholarships, increasing the amount of money that school gets over all.

Admission Requirements

There are several things that I still need to do for acceptance into the collages I want to apply to.
1. Finish High School
2. Take the SAT and ACT
3. Get more letters of recommendation
4. Raise my GPA and Rank
5. Apply to the collages
I will have all of these tasks completed by 2016 graduation of next year.
Academically, I am where I need to be, but I would like to be a little higher.
These collages may be the ones for me, but I will not really know until I determine what I want to do with the rest of my life.

I college worth it in the U.S.?

A college degree is very important today in society. Jobs are really only given to those with the most degrees and college experience. I, personally, am interested in building a career for my self, and having a job that I want. It is going to be very hard to do that if I do not go to college and gain the experience. It is true that college generally takes a lot of time, effort, and money but that is what will be expected of you at a good job. It is definitely worth it to invest all of one's resources because college plays a HUGE role in one's life. I think that it would be much better if jobs took those with the most experience on the particular job, rather than the person with the best degree. 

The other country I chose to study was Australia, and their school system is very similar to ours in the U.S. The opportunities are not much different, and the schools seem to teach the same material. The only notably different aspect about the schools and their grade levels is that they are called by different names. other than that the opportunities are fairly similar.

Spring Break Plans

For Spring Break, I plan on spending a lot of time working on the One Act Play production for competition, and do homework. I may see my grandparents, but that is pretty much it. I an probably going to try and hang out with Jordan Barnes if her schedule ever opens up. On breaks like these, I really just enjoy sleeping. I will also catch up on some shows that I have fallen behind on, and watch a lot of movies.

More Dead Poet Society Question Answers...

1. The most influential leader I have ever had was God. He had such an influence on me, because it is because of him that I am alive, and I base my whole life on him.

2. I think that John meant that we read poetry because we feel something inside of us. I do agree with him, that we all read poetry because we have emotional connections to what is being said, not necessarily because it is cute.

3. I do agree with Keating’s second quote, that in order to understand something (especially from someone else) we have to see from their perspective.

4. I think that professor Keating told his students to “contribute a verse,” because he wanted them to find a life motto on their own. He means for the boys to all contribute a line about what life means. I think that my ‘verse’ to the world is “let everything you do be for the glory of God.”

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1.  I do think that Neil would have committed suicide whether or not Mr. Keating was his teacher, because either way, he would have stumbled  upon the flyer for the play and gone through with it. It was essentially the conflict the play created that led to Neil’s death, not Mr. Keating’s teaching style. However, Neil might not have chosen to do the play if he had not been given the courage to do so, and what helped him was “Carpe Diem.” “Carpe Diem” was one of the main themes of the movie.

2. I think the bravest of all the dead poets was Todd, because he had been living his whole life in the shadows and unnoticed, so he grew very nervous and frightful when any attention was called on him. Then, in the last scene of the movie, he stood up on the desk to show Mr. Keating that he did learn from him about life, and that the paper the boys signed was false. Even though he stood up too late to save his teacher, he stood up in time to save himself. The coward was Neil, because he decided to not face his problems and just end his life, taking the ‘easy way out.’ A coward runs and hides, but a brave person faces his fear head on, and changes his life himself.

3. When I was watching the movie, I actually thought that Neil had found the poetry book when he found Mr. Keating’s yearbook, and decided to use it during the “Dead Poet’s Society” meetings. I do not think that Mr. Keating would look back on that time (when he had already told Neil to burn his yearbook) of adolescence, sneaked into one of the boys’ dorm rooms, and left them a little ‘gift.’ Also, at the end of the movie, after Neil’s death, Mr Keating was looking at the poetry book found in Neil’s desk, and seemed to be surprised and reminiscing.

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In the Dead Poet’s Society there are several challenges shown throughout the course of the movie. I think that the obvious theme of the movie is to beware of conforming, and be your own person. A few characters who helped illustrate this main point include Mr. Keating, Neil Perry, Todd Anderson, and Charlie (Nwanda) Dalton. Mr. Keating wanted his students to know that life was more than just getting an education and pursuing a career that made them successful and gave them money. Life is about so much more, and he wanted his students to understand that. He also wanted them to appreciate poetry (which was appropriate considering that he was the poetry teacher) but he did it in a very unique way. One of the activities that he had his students do was to walk around a courtyard, but to their own step. He was showing them that when they write and read poetry, it means something special to them, and it should be unique. He also wanted them to learn that in life, sometimes you have to be your own person, and not conform. Neil Perry’s story is very tragic, and can leave a lasting impact. His passion was acting, but his father felt that if his son pursued that passion he would be throwing his life away, so he told him that he was sending Neil to military school. Neil was so grief stricken, and he thought that the only way out of his future life of torture was death. He was so afraid to conform to his father’s ideas of his future that it literally killed him. Todd was my favorite character and, I think, the most influential. He stood up for what was right, even though it scared him to death (figuratively). Charlie was also afraid of conforming, but not to the detrimental extreme of Neil’s fear. He just wanted to make sure that he was uniquely different, which is one of the reasons why he ‘changed his name’ to Nwanda.