The Youth of the Nation

"Education is taken for granted by many of America's youth."

This is my tentative thesis for essay 1. I chose this thesis because it is something I believe in strongly. I know I can support this thesis since it comes down to my experience alone. Just from the friends that I have, and have had, I can support this.

This topic was the first thing to come to mind when Dr. Wright explained this essay to us. Shortly after, I concocted this thesis. Immediately following the writing of this thesis in my student planner, I wrote down the names of friends, past and present, whose stories could help me support this thesis. At work I met Chad. He was attending classes at Tri-C when I first met him. Ever since he has quit school for a semester, gone back for a year, and decided college is just not for him. Now, just yesterday, he told me that he is bored with staying home and working. I supposed the party scene is just no longer fun and the reality of trying to live on minimum wage is setting in. He wants to go back...and he wants me to go back too.

Then there is Ty. If ever a person by his or her self could support a paper, it would be Ty. Since we were close friends I can safely tell you how he spent high school: fighting and doing drugs. He was asked to leave Brecksville-Broadview Heights High and was forced to get his GED elsewhere. He, too, went to Tri-C. It was perfect and manage for him, who suffers from Manic-depressive bipolar dissorder. One day he just left off going to classes and withdrew from the following semester. He stayed home, partied, tried half-heartedly to find a job, and used his disorder as an excuse.

These are two examples that came to mind during class. When I brainstorm and think over my four years in high school, I have no doubt that I will think of many more examples to support this thesis.