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Response to President Obama's Challenge By Anthony Rangel Eighth Grade "You don't necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try," President Obama said during his speech about education that was directed to all students in America. In this speech, I believe President Obama is challenging me and all other students in America to get a good (if not great) education. You do this by staying in school. I am going to meet his challenge by getting good grades, believing in myself, and going to college. I am going to get good grades by turning in my work on time. I will listen to the teacher's directions, so that I know what the instructions are and I am not just guessing what to do. Second, I am going to meet his challenge by believing in myself. I will believe in myself by trying my hardest to succeed. I will also study for every test so that I will know that I will earn a decent grade. I will make honor roll so that I can keep my expectations high. I know I have to work toward my goals. I know I have to work inside and outside the classroom if I am going to learn enough to go to college. I will go to college to meet President Obama's challenge. His challenge is not just for me. It is for all students in America. As he said, "There is no excuse for not trying." President Obama's Inspirational Speech By Corbin DeVore Eighth Grade "If you quit on school, you are not just quitting on yourself. You are quitting on your country!" stated President Barack Obama. President Obama said, "…and my mother, she didn't have the money to send me to school where all of the American kids went to school." This happened when he was living with his mother in Indonesia and she thought it was important for him to get an education. His mother woke him up every weekday at 4:30 a.m. and taught him lessons herself, in addition to him going to school. "You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you!" stated our President when he was talking about not giving up. He said, "…no one is born being good at all things. You become good at things through hard work." This means a lot to me. It says that one is never the best at something the first time you try it. You have to work at it and get better. Last year, I was on the wrestling team but not on the A team. I worked on learning new moves and I practiced a lot. Now my wrestling coach says that I have a good chance of being undefeated this year. President Obama gave us this message, "The story of America isn't about who quit when things got tough. It is about the people who kept going, who tried harder, and who loved their country too much to do anything than their best." This made me think, "What will I do in my life so that people remember me as someone who loved their country?" President Obama's speech spoke a lot to me and really got me thinking about my actions and made me start to try harder to succeed in life. President Obama is a big inspiration in my life. Obama's Challenge By De'Jhawn Sylvester Eighth Grade After watching, hearing, and reading President Obama's speech, I believe that President Obama's challenge to me is to get an education. I am going to try to do this by being more mature, being responsible and by earning good grades. I will try harder to be more mature. I will be focused on my work instead of sitting around playing in class. If I want to get an education, I have to try hard at everything you do. Being more mature is one step closer to succeeding in school. I will be more responsible. This means I will turn in my work and be ready for class. If I am not responsible I will end up losing homework, and failing class. It is hard trying to get grades back up. If I want to be successful and get an education I will need to be responsible. President Obama wants us kids to succeed and to get an education. We will need to earn good grades. What I mean is that we need to make our grades, because our grades do not make themselves. You need to be focused on yourself and not other people. Earning good grades is something everyone has to do. President Obama wants me and all the other students in America to get an education and to be successful. By doing the things I have written about, you can succeed. It is your choice to be a successful person or a failure. Commitment By John Mutum Seventh Grade What would you do for your country? I would do almost anything to keep kids on track for graduating from high school. There are many kids who quit school because the work is too hard. I am going to stick with my education, help out in the community and go to college to be a literary critic. I'd like to promote new ideas to inspire people to be writers. Also, I want to explore the possibility of writing clinics to help get new writers on track. All in all, I would like to share the art of learning and writing in my community. The first thing that I would do is to advertise in the community and promote a variety of excellent genres from famous authors. There are many complex and intriguing books that have been published. I believe that if people read those books and analyzed them, it would spark a yearning to write. If you now have this ability and passion to write, many people wonder, "What do I do from here?" I know this is the hardest part for an individual. To get started, I would set up special training sessions that show the pupils how to share their writing with the world. The fee for this would be small, for many people may just have come from high school or college. They would be broke. I would like to get writing careers started and inspire people to get a good education and develop a writing career for life. I believe that literature, if written correctly, is priceless. President Obama's Speech By Tyneisha Parker Eighth Grade President Obama's speech on education proves how much education really does mean. Some people don't realize how important it is to get an education and a good job so that you can be successful and live up to most American's expectations. President Obama has very strong feelings about the children of America. He makes that very clear in his speech saying, "The story of America isn't about people who quit when things got tough. It is about people who kept going; who tried harder; who loved their country too much to do anything less than their best." My dad's feelings about education are as strong as President Obama's. He wants me to do well in school so that I can be successful in life. I feel as if it is my job to be successful in life. I can't help but notice that people come up with reasons why they can't do this and that. They also use reasons like: Nobody believes in me. But, like President Obama said in this quote (one of my favorites), "Even when you're struggling, even when you're discouraged, and you feel like other people have given up on you, don't ever give up on yourself, because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your country." I have always been taught never to give up on yourself. Always stay true to yourself. The President also said another thing that I liked. He stated, "I know that sometimes you get that sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard work; that your ticket to success is through rapping or baseball or being a reality TV star. Chances are, you're not going to be any of those things." All President Obama is saying is to be smart you have to get an education. You have to get an education to have a good career, and to be successful in life, so you can make him proud, your family proud, and America proud. 
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