GHCDS This I Believe: True Voices (B)

I Believe in Happiness for All

June 09, 2022 18:09 - 3 minutes - 4.96 MB

This is a quick essay on what I believe in and how some of my experiences led me to believe in this.

I believe you can't make everyone happy but you can make yourself happy.

May 27, 2022 19:53 - 3 minutes - 2.98 MB

Elyssa Franklin a senior in high school and attends good hope country day school. I believe you can't make everyone happy but you can make yourself happy. This became very true when picking a college. I had two options to choose from one close to my mom and the other that fit into the price range my dad gave me. This turned into a division in the home between my father and I. He didn’t understand why I would even give the other school an option. I stayed up countless hours arguing with my ...

I Believe In Pushing Yourself to Healthy Boundaries

May 27, 2022 16:23 - 4 minutes - 3.73 MB

Alexandra Bhola wrote this essay as a high school senior in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. In her free time she volunteers at her church and tutors students. She also enjoys running for her track and cross country teams.`

I Believe Poverty Is Not A Choice

December 18, 2019 23:57 - 2 minutes - 2.98 MB

I expand on why I believe poverty is not a choice

Rosei, is not okay;

December 18, 2019 23:02 - 2 minutes - 1.39 MB

Rosei Simpson is an 18 year old student in the 12th grade attending Good Hope Country Day School, she is passionate in writing. in this podcast Rosei will be talking about coral and how our coral reefs are dying and what is causing this, she will also be discussing ways YOU can help. coral serves as a protection for small islands along with breaches in other parts of the world and double as a habitat for marine life. she believes that we have the ability to save our reefs before its too late,...

Andre’s true voice podcast

December 18, 2019 22:57 - 4 minutes - 3.85 MB

Andre McIntosh Common app The Journey Who am I? What is the self? Questions like these are the type I ponder about a lot, and the ones that changed my life. In order to find these answers I had to look into different philosophies such as Buddhism, and Taoism. And by trying to find these answers I’ve been led onto a path which has...

I Believe Nobody Should Be Neglected

December 18, 2019 22:10 - 2 minutes - 4.81 MB

I believe that everybody should be looked out for. I feel that sometimes as people we can physically, emotionally, or meta-physically disappear. We become unnoticed, our feelings stop being accounted for from others, and we just become a number in the crowd. I learned this when in elementary school I didn’t have much friends because I was in an accelerated class and didn’t have many people to talk to. As a result, I felt lonely, which caused sadness as I saw peers run around and have fun duri...

I believe that people are lessons

December 18, 2019 01:15 - 3 minutes - 6.5 MB

I believe that people are lessons. As people we put a major value on the importance of people in our lives. We get close to them and believe that they are always going to be there. Sometimes we wonder why they are in our lives, other times we just enjoy their company. Sometimes we meet amazing people who we believe that are going to stay forever, we never see the end. So when friendships or relationships end we wonder what we did wrong or hate the person for anything they’ve caused. Sometime...

I believe that blood is thicker than water

December 17, 2019 20:54 - 2 minutes - 4.74 MB

I believe that blood is thicker than water. Being raised in a family oriented household. I’ve learned to follow basic morals that family is one of the most important things in your life. Growing up in the Bronx and Queens I started to learn that yes you make friends along the way in life, yes you start to feel as if they are family but I also had to learn that just because they feel like family your real blood is what comes first. One half of my family wasn’t raised the same as the other side...

Money is not the key to happiness

December 17, 2019 13:50 - 3 minutes - 5.8 MB

Intro: Most people believe that with money you're powerful. Money can buy you anything in this world is what many say. It can’t buy you happiness though. You can be the richest person in the world but if your not happy, are you truly powerful? Her is an essay by Stephen Bannis on “ Money is not the key to happiness.” I believe that money can’t buy happiness, it’s the people in your life, your family, your friends, the people who really care about you, are the ones who truly give you happines...

Where Your Career Truly Starts

December 17, 2019 13:50 - 3 minutes - 6.39 MB

Nbiko Bowry is a Senior at Good Hope Country Day School. He is a great thinker and tries to be the best person he can be.

I Believe in Trying New Things

December 17, 2019 13:39 - 2 minutes - 5.24 MB

Essay Bio: Lidia Bogusławska is a senior at Good Hope Country day school. She is a world traveler and enjoys learning about other cultures and places.

I believe in love

December 17, 2019 13:27 - 2 minutes - 3.84 MB

I believe in love. Love is the strongest feeling above all other feelings. It is life giving or life taking. Love can be exciting and frustrating, happy and sad, Love heals and breaks. It’ll bring people together and tear people apart. Love to me is respected and disrespected. Love can be pleasant and cruel. Love can be tender and tough. It creates life and destroys it at the same time Lives aren’t fully lived until love has entered them. If love destroys, it must be love that builds. I've le...

I Believe in Silver Linings

December 17, 2019 13:13 - 3 minutes - 6 MB

I believe that things happen for a reason. That even though bad things do happen, good will come out of it. When I was seven or eight, my grandmother died of cancer. She was 52. It was a big shock to my family and was a hard time for all of us, especially my grandfather. Why do the good die young? Why do bad things happen to good people? These questions couldn’t have a valid answer. We could only try to justify them to comfort ourselves. Now it’s been ten years and my grandfather has remarrie...

I Believe in Hard Work

December 17, 2019 13:13 - 4 minutes - 8.6 MB

I believe in hard work. “If your going to do something, you might as well do it right,” is my mother’s motto, and if I think about it, mines as well. If you are going to do anything that ultimately will hold your name along with it, shouldn’t you do it properly? Shouldn’t it be well done? Why do something and put half the work in when you can do something and be proud of it. Working hard on something can relate to anything. It was a sunny, cheerful day on a Wednesday morning. I walked to my...