Semester Persuasive Essay#10: Allowance

Prompt 5: Many parents give children a weekly or monthly allowance regardless of their behavior because they believe an allowance teaches children to be financially responsible. Other parents only give children an allowance as a reward for completing chores or when they have behaved properly. Explain what you think parents should do and why.

Hey my fellow children, let’s talk about allowance. Do you get a weekly/ monthly allowance or do you only get money when your parents think that you have done well with your studies or your chores? How much money do you if you get allowance? Is it a whole lot of money or is it enough to get your needs satisfied from a day to day basis? From whichever way that you look at it, there is allowance given whether it is for a good deed done or just your time to get paid. But there is one thing that I would like to say and that is parents should give their children allowance monthly rather than for when they do good. Although giving children money when they are behaving good sounds very appealing, I believe that parents should give their children allowance monthly because children need to learn how it would be to get a monthly income, not every child is perfect, and children should get the best from their parents.

I believe that parents should give monthly allowance because sooner or later that child is going to become an adult. When that child becomes an adult, hopefully, they would have a job. Since that adult would have a job, they would be getting money from their job either monthly or every two weeks on average. When they acquire this job money, they would need to have a plan on how to balance their money that they get, which money would go to food, bills, savings, etc. If that adult would have gotten a monthly allowance from their parents when they were little, they would already be ahead of the game with organizing their money like which money for food, savings, and extras like clothing. With this kind of earl on training, I think it would make a person more balanced and that is one reason why I think that parents should give their children a monthly allowance.

My second reason that parents should give allowance to their children a monthly allowance is because children are not going to be good every single second of the day. If a parent just gives their child money only based on their attitude, grades, or chores, most children would never get allowance. I know this first hand because my parents do not give us allowance at all because one of the three components is not up on the good side. I know if a child has an attitude than it is a bad thing, but they do not need to void them of any money. They should just lower the amount of allowance that the child is given. If they allowance was monthly, this would make this system easier to apply because the parent’s child would not be as made at them as they would be because they do not have to go around begging and annoying to get money from other sources.

Finally, my last reason that parents should give their children a monthly allowance because they are your children. I know that most parents want to see their children to become successful, but on the other hand they want to make their children experience the best childhood that they could possibly have. One way they could do that is by giving a monthly allowance. It does not have to be a huge sum of money or exactly every month, because most people know that with the way the economy is, there is no way that could happen. But, once the child knows that the parent is trying to help with their childhood experience. I am pretty sure they would appreciate their parents more. I am pretty sure no parent wants to hear their child ever say to them that they never was given allowance or did anything for them. I know this because my mother tells me this all of the time.

In conclusion, I believe that parents should give their children allowance monthly, not by how their children acts, or does their chores. They should give them monthly allowance because children need to someday be ready for managing their money, they cannot always be good, and they need to have a fulfilling childhood. Because of these three factors, monthly allowance should be allowed. I would know that in the far near future, I would have children and give them a monthly allowance even if it was small. Now, what would you think because I could ask anyone and they would agree that my idea of monthly allowance is the right way to think?

Semester Persuasive Essay#9: Volunteer Hours

Prompt 9: Many junior high and senior high schools around the country now require students to spend a certain number of hours doing volunteer work or community service. Some people believe that this is an excellent idea that promotes good citizenship and cultivates compassion. Others feel that forced volunteerism is not volunteerism at all. How do you feel about this issue? Use specific reasons and examples to support your position.

“How many volunteer hours does your school require you to have before you can graduate from high school?” my friend asks me. “Well you see I need 300 volunteer hours.” I reply. This is one question that I get a lot from my friends from other schools. When they ask this question, it usually gets me thinking about how it is mandatory that we get volunteer hours in order to graduate. I also start to think about how we are basically forced to volunteer our time in order for us to complete our education. I think that is plain wrong since you are not volunteering from the bottom of your heart instead you are volunteering to allow yourself to graduate. Although volunteering is a nice thing to do, I believe that we should not be forced to volunteer for our schools because it is not sincere, it makes it a duty rather than something you would want to do, and it makes you not want to volunteer in the future.

I believe that when you are volunteering for your school you are not being sincere about it. Even though there are some people who are sincere with their volunteering, most of us are not. For example, I know for sure my volunteering was not very sincere. I had volunteered at a local park, but the only reason was because my mother forced me to go and I needed the hours for my future high school. I did not even want to do the volunteering, but in the end I still had fun. But, I still was not sincere with the volunteering because I avoided some of the things I was supposed to do and dreaded having to do something with the children alone.

Being forced to volunteer at our schools makes the act of volunteering a duty rather than something that you would want to do. I simply say this because it is simply true in all of my experiences. In my experiences, every time I think about volunteering, I think about how necessary it is in my life and how it needs to be done. The point of volunteering is for you to take out time from your life and dedicate it to something that you would want to help without getting something in return. This is not what comes to my mind. Instead, I always expect a paper stating I did so many hours on this day when it comes to volunteering and that is not the way volunteering should go.

I also believe that being forced to volunteer would make you not want to volunteer in the future. I believe this because this is how I feel at the moment. Ever since my mother forced me to volunteer and the school has required for us to have a certain number of volunteer hours, I have not wanted to volunteer for anything. I did not want to feel this way, but if you were forced to do something for a certain length of time, one day you are going to realize that you do not want to continue whatever you were doing. This is exactly how I felt about the volunteering thing and I regret having mandatory volunteer hours needed because I cannot enjoy going out to volunteer on my free will.

In conclusion, I believe that the schools should not require volunteer hours. It is being forced to volunteer which makes it not volunteering at all because you are not sincere and you would see it as a duty rather than something fun. It also lowers your chances of wanting to volunteer in the future because you would always remember that you were forced to volunteer just to graduate from high school. Now this is what I think about required volunteer hours. What are your thoughts about this? Am I right or am I wrong?

"Setting As The World"

The morning before school.
The bright blue walls,
The warm heat coming from the heater,
The smell of waffles and syrup in the air,
The sound of my sibilings chatter.

Iron my clothes in the dining room.
The ironing board is blue and is close to my face.
I feel so dizzy, why is that?
"Momma I don't feel good." I say,
Next thing I knew I see nothing.

Wake up to see I am in the living room.
The coach feels so cold despite the hot air,
It is dark, no light overhead,
I hear voices,
My mom called 911. I must of fainted.
"No!" I did not want to be a bother.

The sounds of cars outside,
Firefighters enter my house,
All I see is their yellow coats,
They filled into my living room,
It was the morning before school.

Semester Essay 8: Prompt 22

Prompt 22: Carpooling, recycling and planting trees are all activities that are good for the environment. Write an essay convincing readers to actively participate in one of these activities.

There are many things that you can do in your neighborhood that can be considered fun. You could go to the movies with your friends, go to an amusement park, go to the park, or even go to the museum. Even though these are some very nice things to do, there is something that you could do that would help the environment and would help you as a person. This thing that I am talking about is a little thing called planting trees. Although this may seem very boring, I believe that everyone should start planting trees because it helps the environment, helps you become responsible as a person, and could provide for something handy in the future.

I believe that you should plant a tree because it helps the environment out. By planting a tree, you would be making the environment greener and would be allowing more oxygen in the air. The planted trees would add on to all the other green plants in our environment and would make the city more alive with nature. It would make the world more natural and nature like, like it should be. Since we exchange air with plants, if we plant a tree, we would be doing a favor for us and the plant and we would rely on each other to stay alive.

Planting a tree also helps you become more responsible as a person. Since you plant the tree, you would have to make sure that the plant has all of the tender love and care that it is allowed to get. You would have to make sure it does not die and grows to bear some fruit, if it is a fruit tree that you have planted. Since you would have to look after the planted tree, you would grow some skills in responsibility because no one but yourself would take care of your responsibility (unless you have a gardener that comes every day to your house.)

Planting a tree also has other benefits. Once the tree you have planted is grown big enough, you might be able to sit under it for shade on a hot day, have a picnic right underneath the tree, or even collect the fruit from the tree. Now, if you never have planted that tree in the first place, you might not have shade, a place to picnic, or a source of fresh fruit. See, that is why you should do the simple, environmental act of planting a harmless tree.

In conclusion you should go and plant a tree. Planting trees could help the environment, make you more responsible, and could prove handy once it has grown to full capacity. Planting a tree is simple and very environmental and you should do it so that one day you can have that nice mango and be able to say that you were responsible for that tree that produced it. So, what do you think about planting a tree right now? Do you feel like helping your environment out? Please say yes because if you do not a person could lose some oxygen because you did not plant a tree!