Sentences with phrase «high school year when»

Most of us have already lived through our high school years when peer pressure is at its zenith.

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They were a couple years older than me when I was reading them, so I also kind of read them as a fantasy ideal of what high school would look like.

I read the actual book a few years ago, and it's definitely one that I wish I could go back and tell my seventh - grade self is worth reading, especially since I liked «Brave New World» so much when I read it in high school.

How embarrassing is it when someone asks you, «How was Patricia's first year in high school?»

When Joe Landolina was just a 17 - year - old high school student he developed a lifesaving compound from algae that stops bleeding in just seconds.

Nike (NKE) and James have worked together since 2003, when the high school superstar signed a 7 - year shoe deal with Nike worth a reported $ 93 million.

In a 15 - year sales career dating back to when he sold phone - directory advertising door - to - door, the former high school history teacher estimates he's made some 15,000 cold calls.

«Look, there might be a cautionary lesson in LeBron for kids: this is what happens when you attempt to leave high school a year early to join the NBA.»

Twenty - year - old Christian Lunny was in high school when he co-founded ad agency Dash with a pal, so he's had to learn to quash concerns about his age and experience.

When Sara and I were in our final year of high school, both of us really struggled with imagining ourselves going to university right away.

Natalie Barden, a 16 - year - old sophomore at Newtown High School in Connecticut, was a preteen when she lost her younger brother, Daniel, in 2012, during the Sandy Hook shooting.

Carmen Schentrup would have celebrated her 17th birthday yesterday had she not been gunned down in a hail of bullets from an AR - 15 semi-automatic assault weapon on February 14 at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida by an expelled student who had bought the gun legally when he was just 18 years old.

«I think that we've all suffered enough, more than any kid should have to this year, and I think that having to study for a test that either lets you graduate high school or not is very unfair,» said Alexa Kitaygorodsky, a ninth grader who was in the freshman building when the shooting happened.

when Facebook market research in Australia engaged in sentiment analysis of more than 6.4 million Australian youth, including 1.9 million high schoolers as young as 14 years old, to estimate when those children were at their most vulnerable, experiencing feelings of being «worthless» or a «failure» as part of research conducted for marketers.

There have been lapses in this program, most notably last year when Facebook market research in Australia engaged in sentiment analysis of more than 6.4 million Australian youth, including 1.9 million high schoolers as young as 14 years old, to estimate when those children were at their most vulnerable, experiencing feelings of being «worthless» or a «failure» as part of research conducted for marketers.

Cashin, a 50 - year Wall Street veteran, drew more laughs from the audience in his first five minutes than all the other speakers combined, recalling how he got his start after his father died when he was a high school senior.

When a witness showed up to identify Nikolas Cruz face - to - face as the gunman who had just carried out a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the 19 - year - old heaved and vomited clear fluid, according to a police re

Once, about two years ago, Guerra and a friend stopped at the Dollar Tree on their way to a movie theater and Cruz said something particularly troubling when he asked them about the high school.

He compares it to the way teachers motivate students; grades based entirely upon the final exams are usually enough to incentivize the best students to go above and beyond to achieve high marks, but many students perform better when faced with regular testing throughout the school year.

«The NRA,» Pamela Flores, a 17 - year - old student from Oakton High School in Vienna, Virginia, outside DC, said, when asked whom she blames for why a March for Our Lives has to exist.

There were girls just starting to wrestle in high school in my area when I was in school 15 years ago..

A son made a decision for Christ when he was six years old, but then in high school got involved in drugs and drinking, and died one night in a car accident.

«A few years ago, I came across a high school textbook on U.S. history that stumbled badly when it tried to describe the first Thanksgiving.

When I was in my last year of high school I was good friends with Janice.

everything is made up of atoms (don't believe me do some research) its the different variables of heat and light and things like that that cause different reactions to make different things and these things when they interact can create something completely different and you and slowly the process of mitosis or miosis starts to work and form stuff hell i learnt that in high school and it was a catholic one at that a millions of years ago i bet the universe was completely different and had things in it that our minds cant even imagine that have since changed over time from action and reaction to what we have today and in another million years who knows with all the different gases we pump into the air and the weather getting more intense on both ends of the scale life as we know it will be different the human race will have to evolve to survive and will probibly form into a slightly different species hell maybe well evolve into 2 different species like in the movie time machine

actually you do nt have to prove the many deities or Gods that they really exist, because they really had existed in their times, They are part of the evolutionary process for us humans to transcend to higher consciousness.To simplify the analogy, when we were young and we are in the lower grade school, we were taught simple subjects not advance literatures but simple stories even mythicals, The same with religion, thousands of years ago when there was no science yet, primitive people had a religion, of course man made faiths to conform with their state of mind or intellect.But later atfter thousands of years we evolve into a more educated people and so new concept of God again was presented to them, another man made concept, and this go on and on, until a few thiousand years ago.monotheism, Judaism, christianity, islam, buddhism, etc also evolved, But with the accelerated evolution, these faith again is threatend with obsolesencs because of of scientific developments and education.In panthroteistic faith, the future religion needs to conform to evolutionary process, This proves that God is always there guiding the change.And it his will that made this a reality in history since the begining of the universe 13 billion years ago, and this will continue to exist until He will completely fulfill His will to infinity, Thats PANTHROTHEISM, the futue, man made religion under His guidance through scientifiic evoluition after the Bi Bang

Jessica Bowman married her high - school sweetheart when she was 17 years old.

I was raised Mormon, then went to a Baptist school for my elementary years, then had to read the damned thing again in high school, and when I took an Honors English class (The Modern Legacy) at my college, we were required to read the vile New Testament, in addition to the Enuma Elis and the Epic of Gilgamesh.

You can ask high school teachers or youth workers about this if you like, but you really need look no further than your own teen years, when your interests and attention seemed to spiral out in a million directions that could be mistaken for having no direction at all.

I remember this myth being thrown in my face little more than ten years after the Holocaust, when, as a Jewish teenager, I was confronted in our Chicago high school by another Jewish student — Sam, who screamed at me for wanting «to be chosen by that god,» after most of his family in Europe was murdered in Auschwitz.

Five years later, on February 14, 2018, Robinson was a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when the same boy, Nikolas Cruz, rampaged through the school, killing seventeen of her classmates and teaSchool when the same boy, Nikolas Cruz, rampaged through the school, killing seventeen of her classmates and teaschool, killing seventeen of her classmates and teachers.

I first became aware of oxymorons many years ago when my high school Latin teacher informed our class that our motto would be festina lente (make haste slowly).

For example, when someone I went to high school with and had not spoken to in 20 years found out I was a SAHD, he took it upon himself to send me email after email about how I was acting outside of God's will.

When German kids go to high school and college, alcohol isn't a big deal to them because they have been «trained» so to speak by their parents for many years beforehand.

I am mindful of that weekend now because I have twins who are high school seniors, and I realize that the clock is counting down to the weekend next year when my wife and I will drop off our kids and make that long drive home as empty - nesters.

ive been wrestling since i was 9 years old and when i went into high school i had to wrestle a girl... growing up learning to wrestle i had ended up having violent style, i never was dirty or broke rules but i was taught to do anything in your power to win whehter it was to club down the head or grab the throat to gain position etc. unfortunately i was in the postion to wrestle a girl once and at the time i did nt care who you were boy / girl, white / black / purple it did nt matter im was going to go out there bounce your head of the mat and bury you, so i went out there and wreslted the same way i always wrestled, 110 % and always to put your oppenents back through the mat i dditn change my style at all bc she was a girl i wrestled the same against everyone but after i pinned her in the first minute i did nt even realize that i broke her ribs when i power doubled through her, now after that for the rest of the tournament i was heckled and berated for forcefully beating a girl ppl were telling my parents «hey, looks like you raised a wife beater» etc. etc.... ever since then i refused to wrestle girls and thank go i eventually grew out of the lower weights, moral of the story is that is great and all that girls are wrestling but they shouldnt wrestle boys even if they know what they are getting into because 1.

I recall some twenty - three years ago when, as a young seminarian serving a congregation of tenant farm families in rural Virginia, one of my duties was to teach a class for high school students each Sunday morning.

Many observers were troubled when Andy Savage, a pastor at Highpoint Church in Memphis, received a standing ovation from his congregation for his admission of a «sexual incident» with a 17 - year - old high - school student when he was a youth leader at Woodlands Parkway Baptist Church in Texas.

I literally have been waiting for this day to arrive since that fateful day in 2007 when Season 7 ended — which also happened to be the year I graduated high school, so guess who feels pretty darn OLD right about now???

I first fell in love with Philly cheesesteaks years ago when I was in high school.

When I entered high school, after an awkward freshman year, I decided to «reinvent» myself.

A few years ago, when I was on staff with my church, my best friend and I took several high school girls to Charleston for Spring Break.

It was not until eight years ago when Shamy's youngest daughter's high school drama club was hosting a fundraiser that he packaged his garlic butter to sell.

My mom passed when I was in high school so it all kind of worked out that I got a couple years extra with her when i was a wee young» in.

I'm sure every 2016 helicopter parent has disposed of this childhood diabetes inauguration ceremony, but this was back in the early»90s, when parents got a Parent of the Year Award if their children made it through high school without getting themselves (or others) pregnant.

Autism Awareness Month took on a deeper meaning for me when my father married his high - school sweetheart, five years ago.

Ton Mulgrew, BBC Cook of the Year and chef at Ravenscliffe High School, which provides a predominantly vegetarian menu, said: «This is a great opportunity for all school chefs to showcase their skills — for example, writing their own menus for their students and schools, and having the flexibility to use only the best quality and local produce when designing menus.&School, which provides a predominantly vegetarian menu, said: «This is a great opportunity for all school chefs to showcase their skills — for example, writing their own menus for their students and schools, and having the flexibility to use only the best quality and local produce when designing menus.&school chefs to showcase their skills — for example, writing their own menus for their students and schools, and having the flexibility to use only the best quality and local produce when designing menus.»

It's officially that time of year where everyone I went to high school with posts football memes and lols and sad posts when their team loses.

«When I arrived, I had a lot more trouble with the white community than the black community,» says Gregory, who is a high school art teacher and football coach in Reedley, Calif. «But a lot changed during my years there.

When she was 13 and pretty sure that golf was going to be her career, she approached the sisters at Xavier High School in Phoenix and outlined a three - year plan.