... . I am always trying to think before I speak especially when I'm emotional or feeling so strongly about my point of view. Being in Catholic School all of my life, I have learned how tough it can be and how important it is to learn how my pride can effect my life and how to hopefully control it. I have learned how to do so to ... pride. I either get defeated or don't successfully complete my task and suffer the consequences from not doing so. When I get a good test grade or accomplish doing a new trick on my skateboard, I am filled with happiness, and such great pride. It hurts to fall or...

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• Grade Level: High School

... turn on you r T.V. and find such things as the X-Games, and Gravity Games. And the idea of being a skater is now popular among the youth. You"re cool if you skateboard or wear skateboarding apparel. With such a drastic change such as this one wonders if the concept of cool changes over time. When you are looking back in time in American ... culture you can see that the concept of cool does in fact change. In the 50's you were cool if you had a Muscle Car and were rough and tough. Leather was in and so were poodle skirts. From here in came the beat generation. It was al about freeing you...

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• Grade Level: High School