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AP Exam Reflection

At around 7:35-7:45, we were called to the gym. There was A LOT of people. I happened to sit in one of the seats in the back, near the doors. During the test, there were a lot of noise outside and this girl, who was fed up with all the noise, told one of the proctors to tell them to be quiet. One of the guys outside yelled, “Y’all gonna fail”, and I was like, “You’re right”. While I was reading the 19th-century passage, my mind went blank. I didn’t understand it at all, so I just guessed on most of the questions because I didn’t want to waste time. I didn’t get to finish the last 5 questions, so I picked random letters. I happened to get three B’s in a row and remembered Mr. Felder saying that there’s never three consecutive letters, so I went back and changed one of the answers. Overall, I thought the essay prompts were fair. I was really scared about the argumentative essay and was worried that I could not come up with 3 examples, but surprisingly, it wasn’t that bad. I expect...
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Educational Profiling: Individual Response

Education profiling is a topic that is important to me because I see students being stereotyped in our schools based on the classes they chose. People need to understand that students in regular classes are not necessarily dumb or stupid. Being in a regular or AP class doesn’t define one’s intelligence. This problem exists because society emphasizes the importance of education and a student’s ability to achieve academic success. Society measures a student’s academic success by their ability to get into AP and honors classes. Students themselves get competitive and judge those whose intelligence is not on their level. For example, AP students and honors students might look down on students that are in regular classes because the regular students might not have high grades. Regular students might not like students that are in AP and honors classes because they are overachievers. I believe our news report is an effective way to address the issue. Our news report draws attention to t...
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"Shame" Rhetorical Analysis

"Shame" by Dick Gregory Rhetorical Analysis Essay Famous comedian and activist, Dick Gregory, in his narrative essay, “Shame” recounts his experiences of facing shame and poverty as a young child. Gregory’s purpose is to emphasize the hardships and struggles of poverty. Gregory achieves his purpose by employing the rhetorical devices of imagery, details, and repetition.             Gregory directs the use of imagery to describe Helene Tucker, a girl Gregory was in love with. In paragraph 1, Gregory describes Helene as “a light-complexioned little girl… She was always clean and she was smart in school…I loved her for her goodness, her cleanness, her popularity”. Gregory uses imagery to highlight Helene’s admirable attributes, but Gregory, himself, contradicts Helene’s qualities. Gregory uses imagery to compare himself with Helene, Gregory was not smart, clean, or popular like Helene. The difference in their characters symboli...
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Benefits of Adopting and Owning Dogs (Logos, Pathos, Ethos)

Speaker: Candy Ni, a world-renowned veterinarian Audience: Parents who have stable income and with children Purpose: To persuade parents to adopt dogs Subject: Benefits of adopting and owning dogs Hello and good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. Let me introduce myself, my name is Candy Ni, a world-renowned veterinarian. I am here today to tell you the benefits of adopting dogs as pets. First, I have spent years researching dogs and helping abandoned dogs find suitable families, so I have the knowledge and experience to stand here and tell you about why owning a dog is beneficial. Second, being a child that grew up with dogs, I can tell you that dogs can provide us with an irreplaceable emotional support that humans cannot provide. I encourage all parents with children to adopt dogs. Research and statistics have shown that more children who are raised with dogs are less likely to have allergies. Living with dogs can help children’s immune systems, preventing them from gettin...
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Self- Introduction

Hello. My name is Candy Ni and I am 16 years old. I live with my parents and my younger sister in Flushing. I used to live on Long Island until freshmen year of high school when I transferred to Francis Lewis High School. I was born in New York but was raised in China by my grandparents until I was six. When I came to the United States, I could not speak English and now I am still learning to expand my knowledge and vocabulary. My life is pretty uninteresting. I like to eat and sleep, which I spend the most of my time doing. My hobbies include going to the movies, listening to music, and shopping. My daily routines consist of going to school, coming home, doing homework, eating dinner, watch some television, and going to sleep. I am very short and my friends always tease me about my height. They call me “fun-sized” because I am small and my name is Candy. I may appear to be very shy and quiet in school, but my friends know that I am nowhere near quiet when I am outside of school. I...
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