...not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail." Ralph Waldo Emerson. The lessons we take from failure can be fundamental to later success. Junior year. The year where every score counts the most. The year where SATs, college visits, and the beginning of your college future begins. October 24, 2014. The day my junior year would take a turn for the worst. The day where I would spend the next four months struggling to maintain myself. A concussion. A clinical syndrome characterized by immediate and transient alteration in brain function, including alteration of mental status and level of consciousness, resulting from mechanical force or trauma. In simpler terms, a temporary unconsciousness caused by a blow to the head. Yet what was so temporary about...
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...During my junior year of high school, I broke my leg playing soccer. This injury caused a variety of health issues, consisting of nerve damage, torn muscles, and mobility problems. With the intention of playing soccer my senior year, I worked assiduously to regain my strength and flexibility. Despite my efforts to achieve full flexibility, the ability to point my toe persisted as a challenge to overcome. My physical therapists recommended a stretching technique requiring me to kneel on the floor and push my heel to the ground. This did not work because of the severity of my tightened tendon. Pondering a solution to my problem, I designed a brace for my leg using drafting techniques I acquired from engineering classes I took during my junior...
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...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 essays. It gave me the free thinking approach I needed to hammer down my narrative essays this...
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...IV Demonstrate and Apply Knowledge of Basic Skills “This year you will be doing a lot of creative writing.” Mrs. Phelps introduced her class with at the start of my junior year. I had always been keen to free writing for the single reason that it was easy to fluff up and fabricate. As long as it was in MLA format and grammar was correct, I could not lose. I had discovered early on in my academic career that I was a decent writer; I could establish main points and a theme as well as apply proper grammar. It speaks for my writing that I was agitable to misusers of “there, their, and they’re” to say the least. The only criticism on writing prompts I would get were technical ones, like using apostrophes incorrectly or writing the number rather than spelling it. Yet, marked in red at the top of my first paper junior year was something I had not expected, nor seen before-- “Where is your voice?” My voice? I was not mute, so what kind of question was that? I thought about it all class period and looked for the flaw within the paper. All i had to work with was that obscure note and I thought about the question again and again-- I even began...
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...Junior is concerned with appearances in a more internal way - hiding his poverty. Asserting independence and greater curiosity are additional milestones in a teenager’s development. Both Junior and Penelope desire an escape from their small communities and limitations. Junior is the first to leave “the rez” in search of a better life and hope, while Penelope wants to flee the little town she considers too small. “Everything about it is small. The people here have small ideas. Small dreams” (p. 111). With the development of autonomy and identity comes reflection and the examination of experiences. Many teens may keep a journal or diary to document their; Junior cartoons to “understand the world” and creates lists of things that bring him joy to help him with a grieving process. Relationships...
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...111 Literacy Narrative Essay Rough Draft September 9, 2012 Facing a problem that seemed to be unfixable was the worst ever. Having to find a solution that was suitable for me was not an easy task. Everything I tried seemed to fail. But, then the answered came and my problem was solved. Entering school as a freshman was not as easy as I thought it was going to be. During my freshman year everything seemed to be hard and difficult. I being to doubt myself that nothing I tried to do was possible. After I decided that giving up wasn’t the answer, everything was a breeze from there on out. After, my freshman year came my sophomore year. Things in my sophomore year just became even harder. Throughout my freshman year, I maintained to be focused in all my classes and asked questions when I was unsure of something. To me “failure was not an option”. That quote stuck with me because in middle school that was our quote. Here comes the problem where I wanted to give up on everything and not even try anymore. I felt as if school was a waste of time. During my junior year in High School things became harder and unclear to me. I felt as if there was no need to try anymore. I had several classes first and second semester. I lacked in self-confidence and doubted myself even more. I couldn’t manage my time anymore because; my focus was always somewhere else. The classes were hard and I felt like my world was coming to an end. My breakthrough with my junior year had finally came...
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...Literacy Narrative In: Other Topics Literacy Narrative I grew up in a very fortunate family; we never really had to worry about a low income, and we were able to buy extra stuff and go on other trips unlike other families. I never really understood how we were able to do this seeing as my parents did not go to college. They also rarely ever read; if they did it would be a magazine or an article online, and they never wrote. My parents would always push me to read more and always do well on my writing assignments and review them over and over again so they would be the best of my ability. Back then I never really understood why they would make me do all of this, but now that I am a bit older and understand how important these traits are, I understand why they did this. I’ll never forget my English teacher my junior year of high school, Mr. Stanizzi. He was the most inspirational teacher I have ever had in my life. He genuinely loved his job and made English class fun, and fascinating. By this time I thought for sure that no teacher was ever going to change my opinion on writing, but he proved me wrong. There was something he did while teaching and analyzing poems that really struck my interest. Every week we would have a period just focusing on either writing our own poems or analyzing them. There was one particular poem that I was extremely proud of and showed Stanizzi the poem. He was shocked that I wrote such a good poem. He liked my poem so...
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...freshman year. Since then, I have been learning a variety of techniques in both the laboratory and in scientific literature that have driven me to the forefront of research in molecular biology. At the end of my sophomore year, I co-founded a research-focused club entitled Next Generation Scientists. We focus on introducing careers in research to undergraduate students and developing professional and scientific skills in order to obtain a greater understanding of professional and scholarly research, which is what I hope to attain as my career. Narrative Statement: During my time at Biotechnology High School, I presented annually at the Jersey Shore Science Fair, where I received second place in my category my freshman and and junior year and first place my senior year. From there, I presented at the Delaware Valley Regional Fair, where I earned second place and a scholarship to Drexel University my junior year and an honorable mention my senior year. I also presented at the Technology Student Association state conference my junior and senior years of high school, where we got third and first place in web design my junior and senior year respectively. At Monmouth University, I participate in the School of Science Conference in the spring and the Summer Research Program symposium. I have presented yearly at the Metropolitan Association of College and University Biologists conference, where I placed second my sophomore year and third place in my junior year. My sophomore year, I was...
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...The best experience: Narrative When I was 7 years old, I had my best experience. I went on a holiday with my family, so it was very special for me. We went there by plane. It was so comfortable but a bit noisy. First, we went our hotel. It was a very big pool and it is located near the sea. On the first day, we didlots of different activities. I enjoyed very much. On the second day, I went to scuba-diving with my father. It was fascinating. At night, we went to one of the most famous restaurants in the region and had wonderful meals. We stayed there for a week. After one week, we returned to our home. It was the best memory of my childhood and I'll never forget my first holiday with my family. The worst experience: Narrative I went to the Emergency Room for the first time when I was eleven years old. When I was riding a bike in front of my grandmother's house, I tried to do a trick. I messed it up in the end and headed to the ground with my hands down. I fell hard on the ground, my left wrist was twisted the wrong way. At first it did not hurt at all, but a short time later when I looked at my warped and twisted ankles, sudden excruciating pain, my whole body was wrapped. Rolling around on the ground yelling and cussing in pain, my parents saw what happened and came running to my aid. After about ten minutes of yelling and screaming, I finally got up and held my wrist as I walked to the car. The whole way to the hospital the pain got worse and worse. Later I foound out the...
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...My expectations of Rosa Parks School is that it will guide me to achieve success, improve my art skills, and expose me to new ideas. In my opinion, I believe success is the biggest part of building a good future. Also, Rosa Parks High School is a school that specializes in artistry. Therefore, it will be beneficial in helping me improve my art. Lastly, I believe I will exposed to new ideas, such as, techniques, artists and more. In all, just the thought of getting into an art school excites me! As far as I know, I have contributed to many things. For example, in school I participated in, Safety Patrol, National Junior Honor Society (currently as president), Student Government (previously as treasurer), Chorus, Cougars Go Green (an environmental...
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...personal narrative You act white tell a personal narrative of multi-racial girl. The girl has more problems with her skin color because she is too shy to make friends. Three black girls deride her and cause some problems. She is only 8th grade's student and a small kid. These three girls give pressure that a kid can not easy to withstand. Their threaten and actions to her makes her so upset. What those girls has done to her makes her suffering a lot. When I read this article, my childhood also has some dark memories that I did not want it happened to me again. When I was 12 years old, this was the time to go to junior school in China. The Chinese education system force students to very hard and compete with each other. Students needs to study sine 6am till 10pm everyday to study all kinds of subjects. And most of parents want their children to go to top schooling their city in order to have a promising future. With a huge amount of students but limited best schools, not all the students can make their "best school" dreams come true. So the entrance exam is the only way to pick students who want to go to the best school. Fortunately, I was 1000 of 10000 students who passed the exam. However if i had a chance to chose again, i would rather not pass that exam. What I had experienced made me feel so upset and lonely. The Foreign Languages School, one of the best schools in my hometown, was a boarding school. Students only had 4 days off to home per month. I lived with my grandparents...
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...Over the course of my final two years in high school, my opinion of English literature’s importance and relevance has changed due to the authenticity and complexities in literature. In my junior year, I was intrigued by Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild a biographical novel which embodied themes of transcendentalism unusual to our world today. The divergent thinking expressed by the main character rejected social norms and chose self-enlightenment in the wilderness. Furthermore, I believe I grew most as a reader during my senior year, due to Trevor Noah’s satirical yet original read, Born a Crime. Those two works of literature really caused me to enjoy reading and writing about inquiries into global perspectives regarding life. In Jon Krakauer’s...
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...world, but it is in this one” (W.B Yeats), this is how Sherman Alexie managed to begin the journey of his eye-opening novel, The Absolutely True Dairy of Part-time Indian. It is a magnificent story of overcoming the obstacles of being an Indian teenager while stepping outside of the reservation world and striving for better opportunities in the world. Junior, who carries the Native American blood in his roots, gives an insight into Native American culture, encompassing all of its sacred and astonishing details. Through Junior’s experience and between the storylines, various aspects of the Spokane Indians community are revealed, such as poverty, alcoholism, and kinship that make the novel stand as an unique Indian literature piece....
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...all three pages carefully and refer back to them as required. A final check before submitting work is also strongly advised. In-Text Citations If you quote from a book, journal article, or other source, indicate the page number in addition to the author and publication date. For example: (Bradley 2012:10) where 10 is the page number. Short quotations of less than 20 words can be included in the text enclosed by quotation marks. For example: Bradley (2012:10) notes ‘law arises from perceived norms within society’. Long quotations of more than 20 words should be indented from the left and enclosed and quotation marks. You should also leave a line above and below the quote. Example: ‘The nature of law as narrative construct relies on the imagination to align narrative sources with identities. The imagination is not, therefore, only a literary phenomenon.’ (Bradley 2012:6) If you are using more than one source from the same...
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...The Help, Kathryn Stockett's debut novel, tells the story of black maids working in white Southern homes in the early 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi, and of Miss Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan, a 22-year-old graduate from Ole Miss, who returns to her family's cotton plantation, Longleaf, to find that her beloved maid and nanny, Constantine, has left and no one will tell her why. Skeeter tries to behave as a proper Southern lady: She plays bridge with the young married women; edits the newsletter for the Junior League; and endures her mother's constant advice on how to find a man and start a family. However, Skeeter's real dream is to be a writer, but the only job she can find is with the Jackson Journal writing a housekeeping advice column called...
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