I.+Self-Reliance+Project

Hi my name is Andrew Hall. I am seventeen years old and over the past few years I have become more self- sufficient and mature. I also have started to follow a passion of mine that I have had ever since I was a little kid, a love for animals. When I was a little kid, times in my life were tough, when my parents got divorced, I felt very depressed and I just did not do anything at all to help myself. My grades started slipping and I almost failed my fifth grade classes, because I had no motivation to try at all. When I turned fifteen, my life had hit a turning point for the better and I started doing volunteer work for the SPCA and that was when I discovered my passion, which is a love for animals. I wanted to become a veterinarian and I needed better grades to reach that goal. I switched into advanced classes and I started getting better grades and I am currently enrolled in AP Biology which is a hard class and I need to take several more if I want to go in that area of science. According to Confucius, “Before you embark on a journey, you must first dig two graves.” That means you must work hard if you want to pursue that goal. When I turned sixteen, I had my first job and my boss paid me less than what my wage was supposed to be and I also had less hours than most people. I wanted to ask him for a raise, but I was afraid he might fire me so I did not want to ask him, but I did and I got a raise and more hours. Everyone here should be more self- sufficient for two main reasons. You will be taken more seriously and be treated like adults, which in some cases can be either good or bad. You will also lead better and more successful lives, such as following a passion and making it a career like me, you may also find independence, and you will be satisfied with yourselves. Andrew Hall 4-5-11 Jeremy's he told a lot about his personality no, his didn't focus on independence and instead was his hobbies his pictures took away self reliance and was more into his hobbies his personality was creative by posting his hobbies on it Ryan's how he could test his own courage yes, and his pictures described his achievement His pictures brightly described his theme of the story Good job on the pictures they describe self reliance well Aaron's no story yes, he had a speech quoted by Bob Marley that tells people to live how they want his quote told the readers of how they should live their lives I enjoyed how he used Bob Marley to describe the importance of self reliance Addison's no story no, too many pictures that describe her personality, but not on self reliance the pictures were just too much in the way and got off topic

The organization needs improvement Jessica's how she acquired her drivers license yes, she can be very independent with a drivers license Her picture's describe personality so well it makes up for not being about self reliance very creative on both pictures and