Sentences with phrase «about high school life»

Graphic novelist Dash Shaw adapts his own book into an animated feature about high school life.

The Dirties is a faux documentary about high school life leading up to a school shooting.

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She tells us about a very positive and inspiring moment that changed her life — and proving her high school counselor wrong.

Each year, about 65,000 undocumented students who have lived in the U.S. for five or more years graduate from American high schools.

About 60 survivors — and student activists — born out of Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, traveled to the infamous Columbine High School in Colorado as part of the Vote for Our Lives rally.

Today, we have people that barely passed high school biology, if they even took high school biology, make scientific claims about the world we live in.

I don't think I would put them to the average layperson in a small group setting, but to a pastor or deacon, a question or two at a time... for the record, I am a high school grad, have had three jobs in my entire life (church custodian, newspaper pasteup [pre-computer pagination], and grocery deli clerk), am on SSDI for complications of Marfan's Syndrome, and a Medicare beneficiary, no secondary insurance because I am about $ 20 over the income limit for Medicaid.

High school seniors in one church met for breakfast each week throughout the spring to talk with their minister about their place in life and their feelings about the future.

This is basically a show about the plans and dreams of nine Texas high school kids in the class of 2000 and how 10 years after graduation nothing in their lives is like they planned it.

One high school group began a session by having each person finger - paint how he felt about life.

Right out of high school, I lived in Rochester, New York for about 2 years.

I had a friend in high school who was older than me and able to drive before any of the rest of us, and to him Live was The Only Band That Mattered ™, and it was all he would ever play in his car, whenever we drove anywhere, and it was so fucking annoying I'm grinding my teeth just thinking about it.

In addition to coaching, Abdul - Jabbar will give occasional history lectures at the high school, and he has a contract to write two books over the next year: one, a journal about his experiences as a coach at Alchesay, the other a motivational book on how to succeed in life.

When you write about high school and youth sports for a living, you cross paths with a ton of parents.

But I also find it useful, every once in a while, to think about the individual people who conducted these studies: the doctors or psychologists or social workers who went in to an orphanage in Russia or an impoverished neighborhood in Jamaica or a high school in Chicago or a living room in Queens and said, in essence, I want to help.

I wrote this message a few years ago, but wanted to re-share it with our community since I feel strongly about the importance of giving high school seniors some well - deserved space during this emotionally charged time in their lives.

He was 3 or 4 when he started talking about Hannah Montana and High School Musical because one of his classmates (the most trashily dressed preschool girl I've seen in real life) was always talking about them.

Ostensibly, it is the story of a team of nine - year old hockey players in a Boston suburb, their coach, a former high school baseball coach and local sports hero, the all - male board of directors of the town's hockey club, a hockey mom concerned about her kids emotional well - being, and, at center ice, a set of adorable, identical, competitive, but sensitive twin boys who became, as is all too often the case in the adult - centered world of youth sports, the unintended but innocent victims of a real life power play.

What I liked most about the book is that it doesn't shy away from addressing the real - life challenges that can trip up the best - intentioned parent, whether it's the growing influence of peers as a child moves into elementary school, the «I don't need your advice» attitude of the high schooler, or the scheduling conflicts that can make healthy, communal eating seem impossible.

In How Children Succeed you wrote movingly about Fenger High School and the Roseland community in Chicago, near where lived when I was young.

On Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in the La Cañada High School auditorium, school officials will introduce parents to the basic tenets of the program and begin a dialogue about how subtle changes on campus could make a positive difference in the lives of students and famSchool auditorium, school officials will introduce parents to the basic tenets of the program and begin a dialogue about how subtle changes on campus could make a positive difference in the lives of students and famschool officials will introduce parents to the basic tenets of the program and begin a dialogue about how subtle changes on campus could make a positive difference in the lives of students and families.

From the first sonogram to high school graduation, most parents in the 2010's are not shy - or conflicted - about sharing their children's lives online.

The traditional leader talked about the provision of potable water in the district that was of grave concern to the people, saying water delivery was in short supply in the district because of the growing population He further called for a senior high school to be cited at Gbentri in the East Mamprusi District and Sanguli in the Tatale - Sanguli area in order to bring secondary education to the doorstep of the people living around that area.

The incident saw about 18 students of both Wenchi Senior High School and University of Energy and Natural Resources losing their lives.

«All you have to do now is not only feel sorry for the liars, but you have to go against them and pray to God that the lies can be crushed and the liars can be silenced so that real measures can be put into place to actually save children's lives,» Nugent said about the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students.

That means high school seniors like 17 - year - old McConville must also think about where they might be living eight years down the road.

The calls for more armed officers in schools is one side of the many argued nationally about gun control in America following the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14 which claimed the lives of 17 people.

PARKLAND, Florida — The shooting inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland that took the lives of 17 students and teachers lasted about six minutes.

With a grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences, Project 2061 is developing a new six - week curriculum unit to help high school students understand and use important ideas about energy to explain fundamental processes in living organisms.

The questions have been field - tested by over 100,000 middle school and early high school students for their ability to assess students» knowledge of life and physical sciences and to identify students» common misconceptions about the sciences.

In 2009 University of Virginia psychologist Christopher S. Hulleman described a semester - long intervention in which one group of high school students wrote about how science related to their lives and another group simply summarized what they had learned in science class.

Going to my high school reunion reminded me how far behind I am on the husband / kids / money / house front, but I'm about to have some fun getting my life back.

Welcome to the world of Prom Week, a game about the social lives of high - school students that is powered by a «social physics» engine.

Reasons given included a desire for autonomy, leadership roles, prestige, high salaries, work variety, and opportunities for one's partner, according to the paper about to be published in CBE - Life Sciences Education (LSE) by researchers at the University of North Carolina (UNC), Harvard Law School, and The Jackson Laboratory.

In one study Australian researchers asked 624 high school students about their lives and nightmares during the past year and assessed their stress levels.

The lab - grown mini-brains, which researchers say are truer to life and more cost - effective than similar research models, came about thanks to the son of two Johns Hopkins scientists and two other high school students who were doing summer research internships.

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I was at the local grocery store today and one of my high school buddies ran into me at the store we started catching up on some things and seeing how life has been since school and after I told him about my weight loss journey he then went on to make a statement about him losing weight by lifting weights.

1 - lack of relaxation 2 - devitalized food 3 - unfulfilling employment (dead - end jobs) 4 - dead - end relationships (romantic or not) 5 - surgery 6 - junk food 7 - trans fats and rancid fats 8 - financial stress 9 - sedentary lifestyle 10 - excessive exercise 11 - death of a loved one 12 - alcoholism 13 - smoking 14 - illicit drug use 15 - prescription drug use 16 - toxins 17 - poor eating habits 18 - marital stress 19 - repeated traumas 20 - workaholism 21 - nutritional deficiencies 22 - hormonal imbalances 23 - oral contraceptives 24 - stimulants 25 - counterproductive attitudes and beliefs 26 - conventional hormone replacement therapy 27 - non-prescription drugs 28 - psychological stress 29 - persistent fears 30 - emotional stress 31 - lack of sleep 32 - being in denial about feelings 33 - acute or chronic infection 34 - repeated stresses 35 - persistent negative stressors 36 - fun or enjoyment deprivation 37 - allergies 38 - caffeine 39 - white sugar and white flour products 40 - antacids 41 - artificial sweeteners and colors 42 - major life events — even if perceived consciously as «good» (e.g.: graduating high school, moving, etc..)

Whether you are (or you've got) a recent high school graduate, about to enter post-grad «real world» life, or just now care a heckuvah lot more about your personal finances than ever before, you need a checking and savings account.

This week I have had some high school reminders about negative people and their energy and I thought I would take this opportunity to share with you my thoughts on this topic because I know I am not the only one who experiences people like this in their lives.

Major life lessons include (1) Don't jump to conclusions about family members intentions, (2) Don't lie to everyone in your high school about a major life event, (3) Don't get too drunk in a foreign country / let your high school senior go on a foreign vacation, and (4) Watch more Lifetime movies.

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When I was in high school, I would sneak into the bathroom during 4th period AP European History to watch the runways live while my classmates were stuck learning about the Renaissance.

About me: my name is sydney... i am about to be a sophmore in high school... im a christian and im trying to get closer to God at this point in my About me: my name is sydney... i am about to be a sophmore in high school... im a christian and im trying to get closer to God at this point in my about to be a sophmore in high school... im a christian and im trying to get closer to God at this point in my life.

I am about 4»11 I am a senior in high school very smart Many call me MISS APPLE BOTTOM I alway keep myself up i love the better things in life always have J's on my feet.

Throughout high school and college, she continued reading tips and tricks from the experts and became inspired to do something about the lack of success in her love life.

let me tell you a little something about my girl Tiffany here =) she is 18 and lives in Georgia =) she goes to school at troup high and this is her last year =) this girl is the bestest friend i have ever had we have our fights haha but we always get over it the nex

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The film is about high - school senior Bianca, played by Mae Whitman, who finds out living a gay life in the heart of Manila Philippines