...Just For Decoration By:Ruthy Shvalbe White walls. The window welcomed a quiet breeze. It was morning, but no sound of an alarm, it would not be necessary, he wouldn’t hear it anyway. He rolled onto his back, eyes open and slightly bloodshot, he blinked. He turned his head to the left. Another morning without her. Her pillow was still present, her watch was still lying there on the wooden night stand, unworn for months now. Her presence was still so strong, but she was absent. The heavy skin around his eyes made it seem only possible for a slow blink. Gravity stretching his wrinkled skin towards the ground, his mouth had a too be consciously held shut. He sat up. He turned to the right, into the warm rays of the sun. His feet stuck slightly to the wooden floor in-between each step, they were still warm from incubating under the sheets all night. He turned on the tap. The water began gushing out. He enjoyed the warm caress the water gave as it blanketed over his entire hand. He began to lather, his left hand taking care of his right hand first, in a circular motion, the soap got squeezed out from in between his fingers. Rinsing the soap off his hands he gave his face splash of water. His right hand turned the tap off. While he looked at his eyes in the mirror, he was a little older than yesterday. The dim light in the kitchen was just strong enough to assist his actions. He heated up some leftover dinner from last night in the microwave. He pulled out the leftovers...
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...Harrison Liu 932273007 Rita Feinstein Writing 121 February 3, 2015 Aristotle once stated “man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual.” Looking at modern society, people often choose to conform to the “group’s” opinion. People choose to discard their own personal identity to stay under the radar and avoid being labeled a misfit. This leads to the abdication of free will. In Taylor Swift’s recent music video “Shake it Off”, she uses both her lyrics, and images in the video to display to the audience how free will is discarded to obtain collectivism. When initially listening to the song, one first notices the happy and upbeat background music. Background music is often regarded as the most essential piece of a song as it is the biggest contributor in giving the audience their first impression of the song, the message. As explained in Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society, first impressions are more than just the initial establishment of a person. First impressions create the foundation of one’s characterization of another and are the hardest to forsake in an attempt to change. Taylor Swift incorporates a very fast paced, upbeat background in her song. This generates a very positive and happy impression making the audience think of her as a cheerful buoyant person. Swift’s immediate attempt to make the...
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...Senior Writing Project-Reflective Essay As I look back at the writings I have created in these past few years, I realize that other than my junior year, I haven't written any narrative pieces, in any classes. The focus throughout my high school curriculum has been toward argumentative, analysis, and informative writings. Only in my junior year did I write my first creative writings in the form of a short story and a poem. The first creative writing I had to write a "Vomit" Draft. A vomit draft was the very first draft of a paper with little to no guidelines. "Bring two minutes to life" was the only instruction. We had to throw down 500 words without paying any real attention to punctuation or grammar. This kind of freedom associated with such creative writing was an alien concept to me. Getting used to writing without a structure that we had to follow, without a set of guidelines we had to abide by took a while. But, this kind of writing really helped me learn and improve, not just my writings, my organization and my time management skills as well. Knowing that I had to write such a demanding paper (it turned out to be fourteen pages longs), I had to improve my time management skills, which, up till junior year, hadn’t really been a challenge. Forcing myself then, to distribute time wisely has really helped me now, with the terrific pressures and burdens of college applications. This creative writing segment in my junior year helped my prepare, in a way, for these college...
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...What is Your Writing Process Like? As a writer I love making stories and there are many steps to go through before the story becomes a fluent piece of literature. My writing process isn’t very complicated, when I write I let out all my ideas. I let my creative side come out and write out everything that crosses my mind, it doesn’t matter if it comes together right away I just let my creative side take control. My mind goes through many steps when I write I have to think of what kind of story I want to write and what the story will mean to me, then I have to brainstorm and type out some main parts for my story, lastly I organize everything to make an actual story. In story writing I have to find something to write about and to write your story...
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...As for me, creative writing is a piece of art expression, very subjective, which is not dull and normal literature like news article or academic essay. If you ask how to write creatively, I would say inspiration can basis from anywhere, anything and anyone. Yet, it is not purely about thinking ‘outside of the box’ and writing something exciting. Creative writing is a style of writing mostly appears in feature stories, both fiction and non-fiction work. Writers need to generate their expression, maybe a viewpoint, an analysis and a story, from their inner-person meaning by their self of feelings, emotion, thoughts, opinion, imagination and even life experiences. It is a freedom writing, however, all should be a very original composition. Take an instance of our British leading fantasy novelist J.K.Rowling and her creativity of ‘Harry Potter’ series. The character Harry Potter is her sudden inspiration in 1990, when she was on the train to London, suddenly came up an idea to write a story of a little boy gets into a wizard school for study. It looks seems a children’s novel, while behind the wizards and magic adventures, there is deep moral fable, full of struggling between good and evil, life and death, right and wrong, love and hate, and that’s reflects Rowling’s life spiritual pathway and even her ideal of heroic characters. Other than fiction story, creative writing includes variety of its genres. It broadly uses in creative industry in order to express in kinds of format...
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...I think my pieces speak about who I am as a writer. I believe they say that I write to convey emotions and want the audience to feel what I am feeling. The common thread throughout all of them is emotion. It is easiest for me to write from a place of feeling. As a writer, I do not want to write about anything that does not hold meaning to me. I work to make meaning out of every task and assignment. I make revisions based on the way the pieces flow. If the pieces do not have a common theme or emotion, I revise them, or cut them completely. I know that in the first piece, the self-portrait, I wanted to incorporate a lot of aspects of me. However, not all made sense to include, and not all would fit. So I divided up my pieces into two distinct...
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...about plants incorporates reading and writing strategies along with science standards. The unit includes text suggestions as well as projects for reading and writing to enhance student learning. Culminating projects provide opportunities for students to display their learning as well as record their thinking during reading. Thematic units provide students with fiction and non-fiction selections to read and respond to. There is also a detailed description of the reading and writing activities to be included with each text selection and whether the selection is to be used as a read-aloud, independent reading, or in a listening center. Writing projects give students practice with the writing process culminating with collaborative group projects and published pieces. Rationale This thematic unit plan demonstrates the ability to create a unit study including literacy components in content areas. This plan also reflects the teacher understanding of how students learn and must be provided opportunities to read and write in authentic ways in order to demonstrate learning. This meets the requirements for course standards through the completion of the thematic unit demonstrating the understanding of literacy standards that must be addressed in a comprehensive literacy classroom through writing, reading, as well as the understanding that learning must take place in an environment that provides students with various types of reading and writing activities with varying types of groupings...
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...Masterpiece Introduction Creative writing is seen by many as a way to free the expression of the mind, allowing anyone who feels the urge to put their thoughts on paper can do so. There are a large number of people who have lived throughout time that have had their legacy live forever through their writing because they were able to eloquently configure their thoughts in a manner to reach others. Writing in literature has stretched over many long periods since the beginning of time and that could easily be established by taking note that the Bible is the highest selling book of all time. The Bible may have not been written all at one time, but the majority of the works and its authors were mainly from the same time period. Writing has gone through different ages where the majority of writers had the same idea, or style of writing that they wanted to focus on. Some of the ages of writing that had a strong influence on literature as a whole were that of the neoclassical and romantic age of writing. One piece of literature in particular that has been the topic of many discussions is the “Ode to a Nightingale”. This piece of artwork has been under much scrutiny for its lyrical anatomy, and it has also received much praise for its elegance in form. This short poem has given the world of literature much to discuss all the way down to when it was actually written and how many pages it was originally written on. Writing in Style Ode to a Nightingale was a piece written by John Keats in...
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...Breaking the Stereotype In his writing “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me,” Sherman Alexie explains how he taught himself how to read through a Superman comic at the age of 3. He did this by imagining what the illustrations were portraying and then putting words to the pictures. He then became fascinated with reading at a young age and began reading anything and everything he could get his hands onto. He got his fascination of reading from his father who read a lot as well. Growing up Alexie was exposed to piles of books throughout his home. These included murder mysteries, gangster epics, basketball biographies and anything else he could find. In this writing about his childhood Alexie makes it very clear that as a minority he refused to fail and fall into the stereotype surrounding his Native American heritage. He knew he wanted to learn, and that he loved to read. According to the writing, most Indians in that time were expected to be short, quiet and uncommunicative in-front of their non-Indian teachers, and did not want to speak up or seem smart in the classroom, especially at the young age Alexie was. Therefore they were comfortable around other Indians but came off as completely un-intelligent around non-Indians. He always spoke out in class and asked questions, he was not afraid to stand out, because he knew it was not necessarily a bad thing. Alexie describes a smart Indian viewed as “a dangerous person, widely feared and ridiculed by Indians and non-Indians...
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...long-term professional objective of my career, I look forward upon the completion of my studies with admirable grades. My long –term professional objective of creating security within the information technology sector coincides with my goal for this writing course. In development of computer programs, there is a lot of creativity that is required just like what is highlighted in most writing courses. Personal writing experience in comparison to the process approach I have handled writing in my previous experiences. This has involved writing of term papers and assignments. In this form of writing, I noticed that what is required is objectivity. In such forms of writing, one is supposed to concentrate on facts that exist in theories and concepts. Unless it is asked by the tutor, writers of such papers are supposed to be objective. I found that this form of writing to be so rigid because one is not supposed to give his personal views. Considering that computer science is based on most scientific calculations and facts, it therefore becomes difficult for one to include personal creative views about a particular subject in discussion. The process approach that recommends that people plan, gather information, write a draft and edit before writing a final draft is more interesting. This is because it has certain...
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...and they also need a way to pay for their expenses. Writing grants is the way an agency finds funding. Either an employee professional grant writer or having administrative personnel to write the proposals, they then submit them for review to potential donors. Writing grants proposals is far from an easy to deal with. There are deadlines, awareness of what programs a funder is looking to invest their time and money into. Details for the application are an important part to writing a grant. Some are short and don’t require much information, while others require detailed description of the program. This is the grant writer’s priority to make sure that it meets requirement and all the information that is needed is there. The primary point to a proposal is that is to get their program out there and to make it clear and honest picture of the organization project for those funding and in general. The writer must convince the review committee that their program is the best to choose. Grant proposals are the entrance to a organization, and creative writing can either win the committee over or break the deal. The information needed to write an effective grant proposal is directly tied to the program planning process. Without a plan which is understandable and reasonable, no grant writer, regardless of their talent, can hope to attain funding. Most of the requirements for a good business plan are the same as they are for grant writing; the difference is that one is written more for the...
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...Writes follow their own writing process and often the process is a routine that comes naturally not a step by step guide writers refer to. To prevent struggling with a particular piece of writing, writers use basic steps to towards creating a particular essay. Academic writing is a continuous processs which involves different steps such as pre-writing, drafting, reviewing and publishing rather than a linear step. For most students drafting a particular essay is a painful process and if not planned will result in a mess. Organising and planning of work is the important tool in academic writing. Richards (2002) states that experienced writers plan what there are going to write, this done before starting writing. Planning is a distinctive thinking process which is used all over the writing process and is used over and over again. It assist in guiding the writer on which procedures and steps to follow and creates coherent...
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...While writing this informational text I learned about writing and myself. In terms of writing I learned that formatting and presentation is extremely important. I found it very easy to write the text of this piece, but harder to present it in a format that made it accessible and reader friendly. Additionally, I had to make sure that as a writer I was explaining everything thoroughly, because not everyone will have the same background information on the topic of the State of Israel as I. In learning about myself I had to make sure I was not expressing my own bias when writing about things that could be deemed controversial. Additionally, I reconfirmed my passion for Israel and really enjoyed sharing factual informational about the state with readers of my text. While composing my essay I used the following strategies: planning, drafting, revising, and editing. In planning my essay I first compiled a list of topics I could write about and subcategories to make those ideas more specific. I then compiled my first draft, adding more text and pictures to express the facts I wanted to convey. Then I revised my text two times with my peers and professor in class. I shorted the list of original ideas so that I could focus more on making the ones I had more substantial. I made sure I was conveying information in a non-biased manner and in simple...
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...good side. In Bergmann and Zepernick’s article, “Disciplinarity and Transfer Students’ Perceptions of Learning to Write’”, there were both positive responses and negative responses for composition courses. For example, “students tend to think of writing in English classes as personal and expressive rather than academic or professional” (Bergmann, Zepernick 129). It appears some students view the courses as something that they learn from expressing their own personal views onto a piece of paper. Furthermore, students “reported having gained much of their current writing ability in courses such as history, chemistry, or metallurgy” (Bergmann, Zepernick...
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...GCSE > Creative Writing 2 > The Assassin How it works This is an oven-ready resource, great for producing effective writing from students because it’s short, simple and elegantly structured. Students follow the instructions and – bingo! – come up with a piece of original prose. However, it has become so well-liked by teachers that exam boards have commented on its popularity as a piece of GCSE coursework, expressing concern about its ‘very limiting framework’ (Edexcel) and ‘questionable content’ (AQA) (see the AQA A Examiners’ Report for June 2006 and the Edexcel Examiners’ Report for Summer 2007). Here are some ideas to take it further. Try this! Do read the Teacher Notes at the start of the resource – they contain a number of great ideas to spice up the activity and develop learning. Or this! Get students to complete their own paragraph plans for a tense, atmospheric narrative. Use the given plan for ‘The Assassin’ to establish the requirements of a successful plan i.e. simple three-stage plot; few characters; logical, cohesive structure etc. Or this! Display the paragraph from sheet 1 describing the character (beginning ‘He shuffled forward …’) on the board. Get pupils in turn to underline / highlight the most expressive words and phrases (start off by focusing on adjectives and adverbs, then look at verbs and key nouns). Then get everyone to rewrite the paragraph, substituting the words marked to change the tone of the piece completely...
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