English 1301
Essay 1
A Remembered Event

Your assignment is to write about a major event that took place over a short period of time, that involved a conflict, and that disclosed something significant about you. You should consider your classmates or peers as your audience and you should write a well-told story that reveals the significance without sounding too moral or trite.
Due: 11:59pm on Monday, 6/9 (Please submit in the dropbox on D2L)
Length and Format: The paper should be at least 900 words and should not exceed 1,200 words. (One double-spaced page of 12-point Times New Roman font is about 300 words.)

Consider Possible Topics: * A difficult situation such as when you had to make a tough choice and face the consequences, or when you let someone down, or someone you admired let you down * An occasion when things did not turn out as you expected such as when you expected to be criticized, but you were praised, or ignored, or when you were convinced you would succeed but failed * An incident that changed you or revealed an aspect of your personality such as ambition, jealousy, insecurity, or heroism * An incident in which a conflict or a serious misunderstanding with someone made you feel unjustly treated or caused you to mistreat someone * An experience that made you reexamine a basic value or belief ( such as a time when you were expected to do something that went against your morals or values or had to make a decision about which you were deeply convicted) * An encounter with a person that led you to consider seriously someone else’s point of view, that changed the way you viewed yourself, or that altered your ideas about how you fit into a group or community * An event that revealed to you other people’s surprising assumptions about you as a student, friend, relative, coworker, etc