My autobiography would be named...

Not Your Average Kid...Once Upon A Time In Brooklyn

I chose this because people say that I bring a certain atmosphere to the environment around me and I'm consider myself as a one of a kind person.

purple crayon wtf

You Are a Purple Crayon

Your world is colored in dreamy, divine, and classy colors. You hold yourself to a sky high standard, and you are always graceful. People envy, idolize, and copy you without realizing it. You are an icon for those who know you. And while it is hard to be a perfectionist, rest assured it's paying off! Your color wheel opposite is yellow. While yellow people may be wise, they lack the manners and class needed to impress you.

What Color Crayon Are You?

Before I Exit This World...

I must

1. Fly an aircraft at hypersonic speeds...(that's if Boeing would hopefully invent it before I die)
2. Punch Bill O'Reilly in the face!!!
3. Buy mama a house in the Hamptons.
4. Establish myself as a high prestige commercial or military pilot.
5. Fly my mother around the world.

ONE ADJECTIVE THAT DESCRIBES ME!!!

Debonair
- courteous, gracious, and having a sophisticated charm
- jaunty; carefree; sprightly
- having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air

I didn't chose this word, this word chose me. I'm just that type of person, not your average kid from Brooklyn.

Savage Inequalities Paper (1/31/08)

O’Abern LaCroix Professor Kathy Sweet

English Composition 1 – EG101 1/31/08

In “Savage Inequalities”, writer Jonathan Kozol talks with students and faculty members of Morris High School in the Bronx and examines the social and academic challenges they face. In his visit, Kozol witnesses the unsafe structural form of Morris High School that inner city students must endure. Inside the building, Kozol comes across a huge hole in the ceiling of a stairwell, exposed structural brick within the walls of classrooms, a leaky window in the counseling office, and an unattractive auditorium with missing stained-glass windows and rotting support pillars. Among school’s structural problems, its graduation rate is inefficient to its enrollment. Blacks and Hispanics make up the school’s population. Some students consider the fact that their school is in the condition it is because of race and financial stability.

New York City’s has a number of well-funded selective high schools with astonishing special programs and facilities. The enrollment process of selective high schools has not been honest to students that may have met the criteria for those schools. Jackson High School as well as other schools are seen he as a “dumping ground” for students who were not admitted to the schools of their choosing. According to Kozol, selective high schools are injustice to some deserving students of New York City, leaving them behind in overcrowded and low-funded schools. Ultimately, the board of education may be the key reason to the “savage inequalities”.

My Academic Journey Goes On...

I enjoy attending Transit Tech HS. I chose to go here mainly because it was a vocational school closely associated with the MTA New York City Transit. In my years in this school, I performed well in all of my subjects but my favorite class of all is Shop. In 10th grade I studied electrical installation where I learned the trade of electrically wiring circuits in buildings and homes. I've always had the feeling that I'm the best when working with my hands. I became the top student in that class by the end of that semester and had a new found skill of residential house wiring. After having electrical installation shop, I moved on to an automotive shop in the 11th grade. There I learned the anatomy of a cars, trucks, and motorcycles. I took great pride in my work in that class, doing all my homework, participating in class, interacting with my teacher and classmates and getting down and dirty working on different car parts. Like the shop before that, I developed a skill of automotive engineering, my own shop teacher Mr. Bogert ranked me number one that whole school year.

With the end of the school coming up, I thought about my future after high school. Well I decided to pursue a career in the aviation field and become a pilot. During the summer of 2007, I attended the Aviation Awareness Institute at Vaughn College of Aeronautics Technology in Flushing, Queens. There, I participated in programs that gave me the opportunity to prepare myself for the necessities of college and some of the aviation related courses they had to offer. For four weeks I attended college like courses in robotics, air traffic control, and flight dispatch and flight operations. I enjoy my time at the program so much that I've now considered going to Vaughn College after high school.

I think participating in the college now program will be significant to the development of my academic life. I’ve experienced more accomplishments than failures in life and I feel that the program will give me the opportunity to discover and enjoy things that would be beneficial to my academic journey to success. I would like to participate in the college now program because I believe that working in a college-like environment can help further my educational skills and give me an indication of what's to come when I enter college for the first time. I know my die hard ambitions to achieve would help become an effective student in this program.