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Quality of Life project: difficult but interesting By Zainab Toom
When everyone in my house is sleeping, I was working on my project. When I tried to go to sleep, I felt the pressure of completing the project like a on my chest. The Quality of Life project is taken very seriously by the High School of Telecommunications Art and Technology (HSTAT), especially by the government and economic teachers. The Quality of Life essay is unlike any other essay. Without it, we, the HSTAT students wouldn’t be able to graduate. It counts as the participation grade for the US Government Quality of Life class, which plays a major role in our grades. We can fail the class if it is not completed. It is not one of those one to five page papers that I am used to writing; the finished project is approximately 20 to 30 pages. The Quality of Life project is sponsored by the Wise Foundation, “[The project] promotes students to become active in the community, to research the quality of life issues in the community and offer recommendations,” said Mr. Lipari, a government teacher. When Mr. Lipari told me that the Wise Foundation was giving a scholarship, I became really excited and decided to put even more effort into it. I felt like there was another reason for doing this assignment. This assignment requires a lot of time and effort. It is broken up into five weeks. For each week we had to complete a part of it. I would go home after school and spend the rest of the night on my laptop doing research about child abuse. As time crawled by, I try to find an expert whom I can contact and organize all the information I had. Sometimes, I would stay up past midnight and wake up early on weekends so I could finish it and have the weekend to myself. There were days where I didn’t want to do it. I would strive to complete it even if it meant giving it in late and getting points off because I had no other choice because I don’t want to fail, I want to graduate. Bogumila Backiel agrees that it does take a lot of hard work and time. “I like it but it does take a lot of time and hard work. I feel that it is going to prepare me for college, because in college we are going to be writing a lot of long papers like that,” said Backiel “But I’m glad that I have Mr. Lipari as a teacher because he helps me when I can’t find the research I need and provides my class with good feedback for this assignment. But I also want it to be over,” added Backiel Even though this project was really annoying and took a lot of time from my days, I learned a lot of interesting information about my issue, child abuse, and other issues that go on in my community that my classmates researched. This project makes me aware of the issues that are going on around me especially on my topic child abuse. |
