Victoria Ready 2016 Portfolio

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About Me..

Howdy! My name is Victoria Ready and I am currently a senior at Conroe High School. Upon graduation my plan is to attend Blinn Junior College in hopes of transferring to Texas A&M University to pursue a career in the medical field.

Being a Conroe Tiger has helped guide me through planning my next steps in life.

Throughout high school I took part in various clubs and organizations that each bestowed different values in me. One example is my participation in the dance team. Being a member of the Golden Girls and the Golden Girls Elite Team taught me the value of sisterhood and hard work. The early morning practices and late Friday nights surfaced a new perspective on dedication within me. Not only did I want to improve personally, but it also drove me to be better for my fellow teammates.

Aside from dance, I was also apart of the Flare staff for the duration of my senior year.

Being on yearbook meant meeting deadlines, going to events to take pictures and creating something that captured the memories of making friends that will last a lifetime.

While I’m not pursuing a career in dance or journalism, both of these organizations have taught me lessons that I will cherish and remember for the rest of my life, and for that I am forever thankful.

With the next chapter of my life approaching fast, I realize that I was blessed to have such a positive high school experience.

With that being said, it is time to close one door so others have the opportunity to open. Please take the time to observe my accomplishments of my time in Conroe High School.

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Victoria Ready 317 Prince of Wales, Conroe TX. cell: 936­827­5070 victoriaready16@gmail.com Education:

❖ Conroe High School ❖ High School Diploma ❖ Current GPA: 3.3

Work Experience:

❖ Texas Roadhouse­ September 2014 to January 2015 ➢ Host ➢ Seated customers and ran food ➢ In charge of small board and large party services

❖ Rachael's Hallmark Accents­ April 2015 to November 2015 ➢ Sales associate ➢ Responsible for cash register ➢ Restocked product ➢ Customer service Achievements: ❖ First place Youth Division United States Dressage Association ❖ Third Place First Level Test United States Dressage Association ❖ Graduating distinguished honors ❖ National Spanish Honor Society

Volunteer & Community:

❖ Conroe Animal Shelter ❖ B.B. Rice Elementary School

Interests/ Activities:

❖ Conroe High School Golden Girl 2012­2015 ❖ Once Upon a Horse intermediate trainer 2004­2012

Skills: ❖ Trained in Indesign

References: Kara Gold: (979-575-1613) Dathan Cummings: (713-283-4179) Greer Winslette: (936-520-7025)

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Victoria Ready D. Taylor ENGL 1301 11 September 2014

The Key to Success Success is often measured by how much money you have, or how big your house is, or even the number of vehicles you have. But who is the one to decide the requirements of “being successful”? The variety of the definitions of success range anywhere from, “attainment of wealth”, to “the favorable or prosperous termination of one’s endeavors”. Although people’s accomplishments are very broad, the definition of reaching those goals is not.

Success is a self­defined measurement of accomplishment. The key word being self.

Being successful is truly a goal that is set at different standards for each person, not only is it placed differently for each individual, the determination of completion is different too. From adolescence we have been told that “everyone is unique”, not only by our parents, but by society.

Having uniqueness is not just targeting your personality or physical appearance, it is pin pointing every aspect of your existence, including your goals and how you accomplish them.

More times than not, success is portrayed as an unreachable status, but it’s not if you don’t label it with that title. Accomplishing a goal can be minute or monumental, it all depends on where you set them. For example, obtaining success can be anything as simple as finishing an essay, or something as difficult as paying off your house.

Not only is success classified by your own personal preference, it also tends to be separated by age. A teenager wouldn’t be thinking of how they need to get a pay raise in order to pay off their house, they’re thinking about the football game on Friday, or of who is the latest gossip about. Yet in an adult’s mind, those things wouldn’t even occur. Some thoughts that might cross their minds is the house payments, car note, or what their kids want for dinner that particular night. Although, if an adult filled their gas tank all the way up they wouldn’t get the same feeling of success as a teenager with a tight budget would.

The term “to be successful” often follows the feeling of accomplishment. You might even say that you can’t have success without accomplishment. Because in order to gain the title of a successful individual, you need to accomplish your personal goals. And even then, sometimes without the completion of society’s requirements for success, you might never reach that status.

Success is commonly measured in wealth, status, and respect, and in some ways all of those aspects heavily influence society’s view on a successful person, but that is not always the case.

For example, you may feel accomplished if you have all of those things, but if you live alone with no friends and no family, just social connections, are you really successful?

To be successful can be interpreted in millions of different ways, by the amount of gas that’s in your car, the type of vehicle, how big the house, or how happy the home. All that really matters is that you feel success and self worth within accomplishing these goals.

Victoria Ready D. Taylor ENGL 1302 10 March 2015 Suppressed Equality Equality is a trait that America has strived for throughout history. Whether in race, religion, or sex, being equal is a goal that, in some people’s eyes, will never be truly obtainable.

In Kurt Vonnegut’s ​Harrison Bergeron​, equality is enforced in its strictest form. The year is 2081, everyone is the same. Exactly the same. Vonnegut, almost mocking the search for fairness, illustrates his characters in masks, harnesses, and restraints. In doing this, Vonnegut shows the downfalls of total equality, acceptance of suppression, and glorification of the “abnormal.”

Vonnegut explains in his short story that every member in society is equal in “every which way.” Meaning intelligence, physical features, and athletic ability. Citizens who had a higher I.Q. than most were told to wear a device in their ears which inflicted a high pitch sound that distracts the thought process. The handicapper generals had hoped that this would dampen the intelligence. Those who were more physically attractive wore masks to cover up beauty, and the athletes had to wear weighted bags. Ballets would be held with the dancers on stage stumbling around. Failing to leap because essentially, their ability is weighing them down.

The result of these abilities leads to measures taken to stop them, yet no one stands up against them. The residents of 2081 accept suppression. Instead of taking a stance against the blows on their dignities, they sit back and take it. Wearing the masks, sporting the bags, listening to the shrills in their ears, they are content with being stepped on. Something that Harrison Bergeron doesn’t understand or accept. His refusal of being brought down by equality leads readers to believe that he may or may not start a revolution upon his death. Guilty by association is a crime, by wearing, sporting, and listening these people are doing just as much damage as the ones strapping the restraints on them.

Which points the attention to Harrison Bergeron, the God, the defiant, the monster. Being captured and restrained for years could cause a little craze to boil, but Harrison’s is not one that could’ve been tamed. By making a scene at a poor excuse for a ballet, Bergeron scared, and tempted the government and its inhabitants. In choosing an “empress,” removing their restraints, and kissing the ceiling an obvious statement is made, equality is not the answer. Soon after his statement, he is shot on national television by the head handicapper general. Revolution or suppression is something that is left hanging in the end, “death isn’t always the worst evil.”