Health Care

Health care is a right that should never be denied to any human being. I feel it is the United States government’s duty to make sure that each and every person should be able to receive health care without having to pay for it. There are many people in this nation who are suffering because they cannot afford the outrageously expensive health care this system has to offer or better yet, they do not qualify to get the service. Health care is not a privilege but the United States like to treat it as one. To me the U.S. seems to think that health care isn’t something everyone should have. If you have enough money then you can afford the price of health care but those without the money have to suffer whatever disease they may have of illness. I watched a video one time about a guy who was going all over the world where health care service was free but they had to pay higher taxes. The people seemed happy and didn’t mind paying the higher taxes. In my opinion I think the United States should run their health care system this way. If what has to happen for everyone to get free health care is paying higher taxes then so be it. Health care should not be a privilege to anyone. Everyone should be able to get it for free or have to pay a little amount for it. I believe all of the United States would be a lot better off if everyone were able to get health care.

Problem Solver

I have always been a problem solver throughout my whole life but I have never perfected this skill until I got to high school. I think problem solving has been a natural thing for me because I’m a very logical person. In my freshmen math class I was one of the top students because solving math problems was just an easy thing for me to do. I was going to be put in a math class that would help me out because the year before I had poor math test scores but I was able to test out of it and I learned geometry. Math isn’t the only example of me being a problem solver. There are other times when I was able to work at solving a problem that was more group related than math. For example in my peer education class we had to decide what lessons we wanted to teach our students and how to go about them. Sometimes we had conflicts as to what we wanted to teach our students and we had to solve those problems. We did so by communicating with each other and exploring all of our options. We discussed what the outcomes of each decision would be and how it would affect the students we taught and how they learned from the activities we decided to carry out with them. The outcome was very good. Because we were able to work at and solve our problems the students we taught benefitted greatly. Becoming a problem solver is a very important quality to have in high school because many problems do arise and it’s important to be able to solve them.

Five Year Plan

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Resume

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Effective Communicator

In my four years of high school I have learned to become an effective communicator. This year as a senior I took a class called peer education where I had to be an effective communicator because we worked in teams of four and we presented to a class of sophomores. As a team we had to work through our conflicts by communicating with each other. We also needed to talk about how we wanted to accomplish certain ideas and how we wanted to get them across the students we were going to teach. Becoming an effective communicator was especially important when it came to teaching our students because we needed to get our point across in a way that would carry on with them after we were done with the lesson. As a whole team we had to be able to communicate with our students because if we weren’t able to do that in an effective way the whole lesson would have been messed up. Because we were able to communicate effectively with our students, they were able to grasp the concept of our lessons and take it with them. Being an effective communicator has helped me out greatly in my career as a high school student. I have been able to work through conflicts with my peers, discuss my ideas, express what I feel about something but still hold respect for others and listen to what they have to say as well. I am glad I was able to take on the task of becoming an effective communicator and being able to really grasp what its concept and put it into practice.

Technology Producer

As a student at School of Science and Technology I have accomplished the ESLR of a technology producer. All my years in high school have helped me to become a technology producer. In my freshman year of high school I had to learn how to use power point to give presentations. For example I did a group project on the solar system using power point and it came out very successfully. During the end of my freshman year we also had to create a website for our freshman exhibition. The website had to include links that lead to projects that proved we completed the four ESLRs. I learned how to use all of the components in Microsoft office which include excel, word and PowerPoint. This year as a senior I learned how to use adobe Photoshop. The class was called digital mixed art media and I learned how to design a CD, the tray liner, and the track list. I also learned how to use line art, and how to design a label along with editing pictures. I learned so much in that class and I feel it will help me out a lot in the future when I need to edit a picture for something important. For essays throughout my high school career that I needed to turn in I had to research some of the topics using the internet to find information and then using Microsoft word to type them up. Becoming a technology producer in high school has helped me out greatly not just in school but also in the real world. I know that I am going to need the skills I have acquired all four years of my high school career later on in the future to help me out.

Collaborative Worker

During my High School career I have mastered the ESLR of a collaborative worker. There are many examples of have done this but I will only share a few. In my peer education class we had to work in teams throughout the whole semester. This required great collaborative skills because if one person slacked off it affected the whole team so I had to keep up and do my part as a team member. The results were amazing because when we presented to a class of sophomores they really took in what we were teaching them. If I hadn't been a collaborative worker it would have shown greatly in the presentation because that was what the whole thing was about.

In my science classes I had to do labs and work in teams with other students in the classroom. We had to read the experiment and work as a team to get the job done and get it done the right way. If I wasn't able to work in a team with others it would have affected the outcome of the lab results. Each time we did the labs the experiments came out the way they were supposed to and I can give credit to how well I worked in a team with the other student and how they worked well with me.

High school courses always require you to be able to work with others. Every day of class you're working with students. Whether it has to do with participating in class and keeping a respect for other people's opinion or working in groups, you have to be a collaborative worker. I feel that I have gotten adequate training during my high school career to be able to work with other employees in the future.

Responsible learner

Throughout my high school career I have contimually shown that I am a responsible learner. I have always gotten decent grades. While in class I would pay close attention to what I was being taught by taking nothes and listening intently. I also kept my planner up to date with homework assignments and due dates of projects and essays. This helped me to stay on course and not lose focus on what i needed to accomplish by getting distracted from things like the computer or television. I have always done my best to complete all my assignments and turn them in on the date that they were due. When I knew I was going to have a test I studied for it the day before to keep the material fresh in my memory. For instance when I was going to have a history test I would study the lessons we went over throughtout the week in the text books. I also studied for math tests because I knew they would be difficult and as a responsible learner I wanted to get good grades on my assessments. During class time it is very easy to get sidetracked by all the commotions and disruptions by other students but I have always concentrated on what the teacher was discussing and instructing so that I would know and understand the task that would be assigned to me. All of this has helped me to do well in school and on tests, get good grades, remember what i have learned and most important it has all helped me to become a responsible learner.