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Probably one of the best trips I have ever went on was last year when we went on a carnival cruise and then we went to the wizarding world of harry potter after that. There is this shop called Ollivanders wand shop and you 40 people go into a room. Then they simulate the wand choosing the wizard on one or two people. They usually pick a child but he chose my sister and me to go through the simulation.  It was so exciting and Harry Potter has been my obsession next to golf ever since I read them when I was younger. It has defined my childhood and my high school career

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One of the greatest achievements my high school career was making it to state my sophomore year for golf. It is tied for one of the best moments of my life. Not only did we go to state, we placed first in our sectional when we were most likely to get third. I have never tried so hard in my life and succeeded so greatly on one thing before. We ended up being the first girl’s golf team from memorial to go to state.

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After family one of the bigger things that defined my high school career was golf. Golf is my hobby, sport, obsession, and hopefully one day will be a part of my career one day. It has defined my high school career and at some points I thought it was more important than school. That might be the reason I didn’t get the best grades my freshman and sophomore years because I needed to sort out my priorities.

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The next picture I decided to do was a family picture. This is my mother, my stepdad, my sister, and me at the capital protesting against collective bargaining rights. I thought this was a good picture because family is very important to me. And one of our new mottos as a family is a family that protests together stays together. It was a weird thing to bond over but it did effect my senior year greatly.

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I decided to do my photo essay on my high school career. I will talk mostly about trips I’ve taken, triumphs, and, of course, golf. What a better way to start of my high school cover photo is to use my senior picture. This was a long and stressful day of trying to take the perfect picture and of my mom yelling at me to smile. But I think it at least turned out decent.

Trayvon Martin Case

http://youtu.be/ThUCKcOAb2M

For those of you who don't know about the Trayvon Martin case it is a very controversial case that is happening right now. It involves the controversial law called the Stand your Ground Law. The law states that of you feel like you are threatened you can use deadly harm to your attacker and you don't have to try an retreat first. Critics of the law call it the shoot first law and a lot of people say that it will cause more racial  killings. This is what they think happened in the Trayvon Martin case. Zimmermann followed Trayvon Martin and shot him because he thought he looked suspicious. Zimmermann thinks the Stand your Ground law will save him in this case. This relates to my topic because ALEC is the group that came up with the law and a lot of people think it was just for corporations to sell more guns. Watch the video above for more info on the Trayvon Martin case.

Voter ID Law

http://youtu.be/_xlSU9-SmEo

This video is basically a debate about the pros and cons of the controversial voter ID law that has come into affect in many states. This is one of the many laws that has been made up by ALEC. Republicans say that it helps make sure that there is no voter fraud happening. The Democrats say the republicans made this law solely for political purposes only. This law makes a lot college students, Hispanic, and African American people not be allowed to vote and these are people who tend to vote more democrat. The democrats think it is only a move to rig the elections more in favor of republicans. In this video you see both sides of the debate. Two people debate on whether or not the Voter ID Law should be in the states and it gets fairly heated because you can tell they are passionate about what they are talking about.