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journal vii

"we taught marianna that her potential is tied to her intellect and that her intellect is more important than her character."

my dad and i had gotten into an argument over text about the very same topic.

i believe a college or a bad grade cannot define you. there are countless success stories of people who only graduated with a high school diploma.

he believes your grades dictate your job, and therefore your entire life. robotic is the only way i can describe it.

i love learning about things that interest me, not the best calculation for a diagonal slope going to mars.

"marianna is so concerned with pleasing her parents that the love she used to feel for learning had been crowded out by her craving for validation."

so many kids including my brother are so caught up in becoming perfect that it ruins their identity and they become marines of unused information. my dad always says knowledge is power but at what price must that knowledge come at?

self-identity? disregarded emotions? suicides?

i don't let grades interfere with my personal life.

a number doesn't define me as a person.

prompt; read the article and write a response using textual evidence to back up your claim.

outcome; placement and ending change.