Malika Bushey

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“I can do it”

9/27/07

I have always had a learning disability and when I was younger it was very hard for me.

 During school when I was younger people would take me to a special room where I would learn to read and write. I always will remember people calling me a case, and it made me really upset because I remember thinking that I am not a case. I am not a file. I am a human.  I remember telling people that I went to a special classroom when I would get taken out of class.

 Being called a case really brought down my self –esteem at that time. When high school rolled around it got even harder. I had a teacher telling me that I was stupid and that I was never going to pass high school let alone get into college. I am now graduated with a 3.4 grade point average in high school and now in my second year of college.

In high school I tried to keep my head up and not let people or what they said get to me. Words tend to stick in your brain which brought me down a lot in high school. That also pushed me to try to have more confidence in myself and to prove to people that I can do better. I wouldn’t let my learning disability get me down.

After that, I started getting good grades by pushing myself.  I proved to people that I wasn’t going to let it get me down. I worked really hard once I realized that I can do better. I knew that there was no way these teachers could label me and tell me if I was going to graduate or where I was going with my life.  It was time to take control of my own life. I turned my life around and I began to study hard. I began getting A’s instead of C’s. I started enjoying school instead of dreading and fearing what people might say or what rude comments teacher might make towards me.
After high school my confidence was way up there. I am now able to believe in myself and I know now that I can do it. No one has the right to take away my education.  I won’t let my learning disability get in the way or bring me down anymore.

“Every issue of playboy, every lewd poster, and even the Victoria’s Secret catalog transform real women into ornaments, valued exclusively for their outward appearance”

I really like this quote because it’s true. Its something that people are having to deal with all the time. I watch America’s Next Top Model all the time and one thing that i really like about this show is that they have Plus Size Models. Now you look at a playboy or Victoria’s Secret Catalog or even going to the mall the manicas at Victoria Secret are all skinny. Its saying that they are taking what “real” people look like and changing them into a barbie. They put the image out there that you have to have a “perfect body” to be able to succeed in life. Young girls are wanting that perfect body that they see people that they might look up to having that perfect body and they want it to. I dont like it when people such as Amy L. Beck says that you need to all look like a model. I think we are all made different and thats that way it should be. Nobody should change there body to having the “perfect” body because when changing your old body to the “perfect body” you may loose who you really are.

Batman is probably my favorite superhero. He is confident and he always is trying to look out for people. I am or at least I try to be confident and I want the best for everyone. I look out for people just like Batman does. Batman also drives the bat mobile, which I don’t but I do think my car is pretty cool. Batman has a lot of strong characters that make him who he is. Each person including myself has there own identity and characters that make them who they are. We have special powers just like batman does.

The quote i picked was “But as a seventh grader struggling to make the cut in a tough Atlanta grammar school, all it took was a dare”.  This quote stuck out to me because when you are young and starting junior high you want to start in the “In” crowd. You want that popularity because in high school/junior high school popularity is such an important thing to some people that they want it and it doesnt matter how far they went in whatever they had to do to prove that they are “cool” ones. Everyone in school has peer pressure. Its juat a matter on how far you will go to get that “ok” by in the in crowd. I liked this story a lot because it really showed that peer pressure really does happen and anyone can be the target of peer pressure.