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Newark Essay Winners 6th Grade Essay Winner Best Friends is not all about trips and having fun, it’s about sisterhood. Best Friends is about teaching young girls how to be smart, successful and beautiful. Best Friends is about self-respect, self-control, responsibility and love. Its about respecting your body and not having sex at a young age. Best Friends is about being truthful and being yourself. Best Friends means that I have the right to say no to sex and drugs. It means to respect myself and the ones around me. It also means making wise decisions growing up in today’s society. Best Friends means to have trust, faith and self-esteem in any problems that I am bound to face. It means to love myself without anyone telling me otherwise. Best Friends means being a role model to people younger than I am. Best Friends means getting a better understanding of the world and life. Best Friends help girls build character. It also means having manners and confidence, being all that you can be. It means striving to accomplish goals and working hard. Best Friends is about being mature and having fun because you can only be a kid once in your life. But at the same time it teaches you about drugs, sex and much more. Best Friends encourages girls and teens to wait until they are married to have sex. If I could use one word to describe Best Friends it would be educational. 7th Grade Essay Winner Being a part of the Best Friends program means becoming a better person. Before I was in Best Friends, I was a problem child. Now that I’m in Best Friends everything has changed. I’m doing better in class. And I’m not in the halls as much as I use to be. The program has influenced me to become a better person, a better me. It has influenced me to stay abstinent from drugs, sex and alcohol. Best Friends means becoming responsible. I have to take responsibility for my actions. To not feed into negative peer pressure is being responsible. The Best Friends program is a place where your true friends help you to make the right decision. The girls are there to talk to and to share ideas that will help us all stay on track together. I have two mentors. When we get together, we talk about things such as how a young lady should act and about physical appearance. They remind me about self-respect. My mentors even remind me that sex before marriage is not wise. They don’t want me to do anything that will harm me. I enjoy being apart of the Best Friends program and the conversations that I have with my mentors. I want to pursue many goals and strive to do my very best because they both encourage me to do so. 8th Grade Essay Winner Words can’t explain my passion for Best Friends. To tell the truth when I first heard of Best Friends I thought it was a way for me to get out of class. I only wanted to do it because my friends were doing it. But as the months went by my thoughts changed. Best Friends is like my second home because something I can’t say at home I can say at Best Friends. I know for a fact that I will not be judged. I will be graduating soon and no longer will I be a Best Friends Girl. It will be time for me to become a Diamond Girl, but in my heart I will always be a Best Friend Girl. As I am writing this letter I want to cry because if it wasn’t for Best Friends I think that I would be having sex. I say this because there are plenty of times when boys have told me things that I wanted to hear just so I would have sex with them. But I didn’t and I am proud to say that I’m in the 8th grade and I am not sexually active. I owe it all to Best Friends. Thank you Ms. McCloud, Ms. Simmons and Ms. Pitts. DC Essay Winners 5th Grade Essay Winner Best Friends means a lot to me. When Amidon and Bowen joined together this school year, some of the girls I met weretalking about Best Friends. It sounded like fun. So I was glad when Ms. Darlington made the announcement about signing up. I didn’t know what it was about, but I was excited. Best Friends teaches us many things, one thing is the importance of acting like a young lady. It teaches us that the choices we make now and how we carry ourselves will affect our future. I am learning to take care of my health by exercising and my mind by learning the curriculum. It also teaches to know what you want in life and follow your dreams. Part of knowing what you want and following your dreams is not letting boys influence you to have sex at a young age. It’s not! Fighting and arguing are not things that a Best Friends girl does. We should try to be peacemakers and problem solvers, not problem starters. Best Friends teaches us how to own up to the truth and the importance of not lying. With Best Friends we have mentors that are our role models. I also have my big sister who is my best friend and a role model, and with what Best Friends teaches me, I will be a role model for my little sister. I think the most important thing that Best Friends teaches me to be respectful of yourself and others. And in order to get respect, you have to give respect. I also learned that what I learn in Best Friends doesn’t stop here. It will follow you through life. If I can be a good Best Friends girl, I can be very successful in life. 6th Grade Essay Winner I strongly feel that Best Friends means when a lot of girls come together and become young ladies. I believe that it means for girls to stay abstinent and to help girls to become best friends. Best Friends means a lot to me. I want to be a Diamond Girl all my life. I think that Best Friends means for girls to stay abstinent until marriage and not to have sex at a young age. More importantly, it means how young girls should share their minds with other people about how to keep your body to yourself and stay away from people and keep safe from alcohol and drugs and most importantly stay away from STDs. 7th Grade Essay Winner I strongly feel that Best Friends is an honor of respect and trust of my fellow Best Friends team. Best Friends has taught me well and taught how to handle myself in the worst situations. For example, Best Friends has told me how to walk alone and feel the load of responsibility beyond my years because Best Friends is full of wisdom. Not only that, but Best Friends also allows me to meet new Best Friends members. I also think that Best Friends is like an exercise. It makes you lose weight and makes you stronger and that is exactly what Best Friends does. It makes you stronger and the exercise will make you lose weight! So Best Friends has taught me to respect my elders, learn from my mistakes, trust, exercise, and have fun. I think that every school or young lady should try this program because it will teach you well. To conclude this is what Best Friends means to me. 8th Grade Essay Winner Best Friends means a lot to me because every since I have been in the program, I haven’t been fighting like I used to or using profanity or being disrespectful. I think that I have improved in my behavioral problems and I have also improved in my academic skills. Best Friends means a lot to me because if I am in trouble I have a mentor or other adults to talk to. When I have problems or I am in trouble, there is always someone to go to and talk and have a very respectful conversation with an adult. Best Friends is very encouraging because you have someone to teach you how to be a lady if you are not being taught that in the home. They also teach you proper etiquette and how to mind your manners when you are at home, at school, or even out in public. Best Friends is a very nice program to be in because you get to meet people from all over and people with a different culture than you. As a Best Friends girl, and a leader in my school, I am very happy to be able to encourage the younger students about what not to do and what is wrong in our school. That’s what Best Friends means to me and why it is so important. I am happy to be in Best Friends and be represented by Mrs. Pamela McKinney. |
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___________________________________________________ National Essay Winners DC Best Men Essay Winners 5th Grade Essay Winner The first thing that Best Men means to me is that they are good role models to me. Second, having to go to Best Men is giving me information about being a man. Third, being in Best Men helps me learn to be a leader and helps me make good decisions in my life. Fourth, while I’m in Best Men, they provide me with fun activities and teach me how to be a gentleman. Finally, Best Men teaches me not to use drugs and tobacco, and Mr. Carter and Ms. Stokes told me that it was not good to have sex before you are married because you make get a disease. That is what Best Men means to me. 6th Grade Essay Winner Best Men means the world to me. I have been in Best Men for the past two years. I started Best Men in fifth grade at Amidon Elementary, and now in sixth grade I attend Jefferson. Best Men has taught me how to handle peer pressure, say no to drugs/alcohol and the importance of being abstinent. Mr. Carter always teaches me the importance of being a Best Man. Also, Mr. Carter has taught me the importance of not smoking or drinking alcohol. Mr. Carter has been very nice to me for the past two years. In conclusion, Best Men is a great program and one I hope to be a part of for the rest of my life. 7th Grade Essay Winner Best Men to me means to be all that you can be. It also means to be respectful to everyone around you. Best Men are young men who will admit when they are wrong, and are proud when they are right. I believe that it also means to show leadership to your peers and to set the right examples to people your age and the people younger than you. It also means to be courageous in and face your fears in life. It also means to stay out of all the things that would get you in trouble, and to go the right way in life. 8th Grade Winner Best Men means a lot to me. Best Men has taught me how to make good decisions for myself and others, and it taught me how to be a leader and not a follower who follows leaders to the wrong crowd. Best Men also taught me how to be abstinent in sexual things. Best Men has really taught me how to fight peer pressure and say no to alcohol. Mr. Carter is a wonderful man to be around and he is a really good Best Men teacher. He helps you when you are in trouble and he makes you laugh when you are feeling blue. In conclusion, I am planning on joining Best Men Leadership next year at McKinley Tech High School.
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National Best Men Leadership Essay Winner: Best Men means a lot to me. It’s a program based on abstinence, and making the right choices. I’ve been in Best Men for seven years. I came to the program because of life situations. Growing up was hard, I had to make tough decisions and I didn’t have opportunities that other kids had. I never really got a chance to hang out with my family, or do kid stuff. The hardest part of my life came as I was becoming an adult. As I approached adulthood the relationship between my mother and I got worse. I felt like I was all alone. I didn’t have anyone to talk to. I was confused and didn’t know what to do. I ran around with the Grape St. Crip organization because I thought I could consider them family. I thought they would be there for me when I needed them. They were there but for the wrong reasons. They wanted me to sell drugs and carry guns. I thought to myself like whoa, family doesn’t expect you to do things like this. Fortunately, I woke up and said I can’t do this anymore. I felt like my life had run its natural course. I decided I did not want to be here any more. I began to think of ways to commit suicide. I was thinking about slicing my wrist, drinking Clorox, or just walking in front of a bus. I sat down and started to talk to God. He said unto “my son why would you want to do something like this”. I said I don’t know, and he said “I gave you the gift of life and you want to ruin it”? Then I thought to myself like wow! I didn’t think of it like that. He told me to follow the path that I have laid for you and you won’t go wrong. I said OK. A friend of mine came to me and said, “Will you come with me to a Best Men meeting”? I said sure. When I got there I met a man named Brother Roderick McCathern. I didn’t know who he was when I first met him but I kept on coming because he asked me to. I kept coming and started to enjoy the program. Brother Rod and I became closer and closer. He became a father figure to me. More positive men started coming into my life like Rev. Donelson, Mr. Phelps, Mr. Chambers and Mr. Glover. I decided I wanted to be like them; men of integrity, dedication, courage, and wisdom. In conclusion, Best Men changed my life and made me who I am. Best Men challenged me to become a man worthy of respect. Best Men is a program all young men should be in instead of joining gangs, running the streets, and making the wrong choices. If it helped me it can help anybody. You have to have the right mind frame and set high standards for anything you want to do. Best Men helped me develop a positive attitude about life. I’ll leave you with this, if Barack Obama became president, can’t I? |
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