the road to college

The high road to the college life

When kids are young the say they want to be a astronaut, firefighter, or pro sports super star. Most of the time, younger kids want the life that their role models have. But as they grow up, most children change the ideas towards their profession and find more suitable jobs towards their talents. Kids go through stages in their life's that affect what they want life to be as adults. When a student gets into high school, that is one of the times that they get the opportunity to get a hands on expirence with a subject that allows people to relate a profession they're interested in. Yet, that may not be the best choice for the student because it may not help them get into a good college that allowed them to pressure their dream.

In high school there are regular classes that most of the students take and then their are AP classes, the gateway to college. AP English classes, mainly taken in highschool for people intersted in majoring in college" get more in depth in books, writings, vocabulary, and much more. AP math classes, math majors, go more in depth in the lessons, equations, and usually teach at a quicker pace. another advanced placement coursethat my school has offered is AP history. These higher classes challenge most of the students to their limits, which will help them later on in the challenging classes.  They also help the students find out what they are interested and what they might excell in. although. Not all high schools offer the same number of  AP classes. Some have a wider range of AP classes that students can take and some have less.

Students that want to stand out from all the other students takes these AP classes. Most colleges want the students that take the AP classes because it shows all of the extra work that was put into his highschool expirence. They classify these students as go getters. Now a days alot kids are expected to enroll in the AP classes and college based on their intelligence level.  Some kids use AP classes just to get their GPA over a 4.0 in order to attract the ivy league schools. They don't care whether the class interest them or not. They just want the extra points. These students only care about getting their GPA as high as possible but some kids actually take these classes to learn materials that arent shown in normal classes. this will also help once you get into college. 

 

Taking a AP class prepares the student for college much more that a regular english or math class would. In a AP English class the student will learn how to write essays in a college prep manner. The student will be introduced to a broader vocabulary and they will learn how to analyze books, prompts and much more. They level of homework and expectations are extremely higher then in a regular class. No only that, but the stress level of the student goes way up as well. Students receive a huge increase to their homework and study time. Colleges encourage students to take AP classes even if it is not their best subject. Colleges see the student as wanting to improve themselves when taking these accelerated classes. You constantly hear on the news about how students are way over stressed because of the expectation of them. School is not the only thing that contributes to the stress of the students but also if the student does a sport. These high level classes put a lot of stress on the students which affects other aspects of their life. For instance, I am a swimmer and while I am swimming I am stressed out during practice because i am thinking about all the home work and project I have to do.

Back in the days when my parents and their friends were teenagers, did not have aventages available  like we do today. Back then, there was also not talk on the news about the stress that commonly affects teens today. They had very good teachers but they had a very difficult playing field. in order to get into college, they had to do many different extracuricular activities.  

 

Students that take AP classes and successfully passes the class are prepared for college to the best of their ability. They prepaid you with the knowledge and study habits that you will need in college. The AP classes prepare the student with the knowledge to pass their college classes and peruse their profession they choose.

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Compare and Contrast of Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman

Although they come from different parts of the United States, Morgan Freeman and Denzel Washington they have both picked up similar careers. Ever since the beginning of their careers, they have excelled in their movie productions.

Morgan Freeman was born in Memphis, Tennessee. His mother’s name was Mayme Edna, who was a teacher and his father’s name was Morgan Porterfield Freeman, who was a barber who died in 1961 from cirrhosis. He has three older siblings. Freeman was sent as an infant to his paternal grandmother in Charleston, Mississippi. His family moved frequently during his childhood, living in Greenwood, Mississippi; Gary, Indiana; and finally Chicago, Illinois Freeman made his acting debut at age 9, playing the lead role in a school play. He then attended Broad Street High School, currently Threadgill Elementary School, in Mississippi. At age 12, he won a statewide drama competition, and while still at Broad Street High School, he performed in a radio show based in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1955, he graduated from Broad Street, but turned down a partial drama scholarship from Jackson State University, opting instead to work as a mechanic in the United States Air Force.

Denzel Washington was born in Mount Vernon, near New York City, on December 28, 1954. His mother, Lennis "Lynne", was a beauty parlor-owner and operator born in Georgia and partly raised in Harlem. His father, Reverend Denzel H. Washington, Sr., a native of Buckingham County, Virginia, served as an ordained Pentecostal minister, and also worked for the Water Department and a local department store, S. Klein.Washington attended grammar school at Pennington-Grimes Elementary School in Mount Vernon until 1968. When he was 14, his parents' marriage fell apart and his mother sent him to a private preparatory school, Oakland Military Academy, in New Windsor, New York State. "That decision changed my life," Washington later said, "because I wouldn’t have survived in the direction I was going. The guys I was hanging out with at the time, my running buddies, have now done maybe 40 years combined in the penitentiary. They were nice guys, but the streets got them." After Oakland, Washington next attended Mainland High School, a public high school in Daytona Beach, Florida, from 1970–71. Washington was interested in attending Texas Tech University: Washington grew up in the Boys Club in Mount Vernon, and we were the Red Raiders. So when he was in high school, Denzel Washington wanted to go to Texas Tech in Lubbock just because they were called the Red Raiders and their uniforms looked like theirs. Washington earned a B.A. in Drama and Journalism from Fordham University in 1977. At Fordham he played collegiate basketball as a freshman guard under Coach P. J. Carlesimo. After a period of indecision on which major to study and dropping out of school for a semester, Washington worked as a counselor at an overnight summer camp, Camp Sloane YMCA in Lakeville, Connecticut. He participated in a staff talent show for the campers and a colleague suggested he try acting.

Freeman and Washington’s appearances are very similar. They are both tall African American males with a deep but soft spoken voice.  Their hair however, differs. Morgan freeman has black hair but with a bit of gray while Denzel Washington has curled black hair. From the TV however you can never tell how their skin is besides the fact that it is a lighter shade of African American. Morgan Freeman and Denzel Washington have a very similar physical appearance.

These actors are very similar in their acting styles. They both like to take part in movies that have a moral towards the end, and they also like to take apart of movies that are based on true stories. The movies that Washington has taken apart of that have a historical significance are “Remember the Titians”, Malcolm X, the recent hit,” Unstoppable” and many others, while Freeman has been a part of the newest block buster, “Invictous”. These movies have changed the voices of our generation.

The two American actors have also made drama movies a favorable choice. Most of the true story movies have been dramas but these two actors have done many fictional dramas that have been top of the charts. Many of these films consist of the well known, batman begins, wanted, the million dollar baby, the shawshank redemption, and the newest of its saga, the dark night are the major fictional drama movies acted in by Mr. Freeman. Some fictional stories that Washington has acted in are Déjà Vu, American Gangster, and the newest award winning movie, The Book of Eli. Also unlike Washington, Morgan Freeman has taken an interest in narrating many documentaries. The most famous documentary that he has been a part of is the March of the Penguins. Another acting job that has separated Freeman from Washington is the ability for Freeman to do comedy movies.