... It was time to head home. My family had driven all the way down to South Carolina, to spend a few days with my grandparents, and then decided that it would be a good idea to stop in North Carolina (NC) on the way back up, so we could visit some old friends. Now, I loved these friends with the entirety of my being, but in all honesty, seven-year-old me couldn’t wait to leave the humidity of NC behind and be reunited with the crisp, New England air that I had grown accustomed to. I couldn’t wait to sleep in my own bed. I couldn’t wait to be planless. I couldn’t wait to just be alone. I was rolling my suitcase out the door and saying my final goodbyes when I realized that I didn’t have my camera with me. My heart skipped a beat and my palms began to sweat as I scoured my brain for its location. I felt a wave of panic. Then, one of relief. I knew exactly where I had left it. I allowed my family to continue loading the car in their robotic fashion and I bolted up the stairs to frantically search the guest room. “AHA!” I...
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...Coming from a Mexican background and being born in Mexico both of my parents have struggled for a long time trying to settle in the United States. My father and mother knew Mexico was not the right country for their kids to live in , since Mexico is all about violence and you get no opportunity to be successful in life. My parents decided to cross the border so me and siblings could have a better life in the United States, since the U.S is the land of opportunities. Risking their life they decided to walk for 12 hours straight in desert and another 12 on car. Walking down the hot desert risking a bite from the nocturnal rattlesnakes and dying in couple hours. Or even getting raped by the smuggler who's taking you to the new land. When my mother crossed through the Rio Grande i remember her telling me how she saw a women get cut up by the cholos when going through a tunnel and she's thankful it didn't happen to her....
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...The point in my life that changed me was probably the time that i was with my dad and he was drunk and i watched him choke my stepmom and he was yelling at me and my little sisters. It was late at night and they sky was black with bright stars and the moon was brighter than ever. I had just fallen asleep when my stepmother came out of her room trying to get ready for work but she was very noisy which was irritating my dad. My dad was drinking a couple hours earlier and he fell asleep soon after but he turns into someone else when he drinks. He was so furious about the noise that he came out of the room yelling and banging on everything that was in front of him it was like he was the giant from jack and the beanstalk because he instantly resorted to violence. First he was mad that my stepmom was slamming the cabinets shut then he was yelling at my sisters for crying,...
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...many people have issues in life and I was one of them in high school and threw out college life. I had a lot of trouble with writing an essay in proper way in past until, I found an easier way to go by step by step. It's really important that you build your ideas when you writing a essay with brainstorm first get ideas and anything that you think will be good for prompt. Second step Pre-write is a first rough draft before you start you final draft and one the important things revise the paper and make sure everything is correct. I had to work on before I become really good writer in life. After I learn all skills about writing since than I really enjoy writing as long as it's not such as research paper or an essay...
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...------------------------------------------------- My most embarrassing moment My Most Embarrassing Moment Baum, Narrative Essay Have you ever had a moment in your life that you can just not forget about? I have a time in my life that I have never been so embarrassed in front of so many people. Some things are easier to remember, and some are easier to forget. I can remember this day as if it happened yesterday. It was a Friday night and I went to eat at Bonnie & Clyde’s pizza with my family for my brother’s birthday party. Out of all nights the place was packed and there was not one empty chair in the building. We sit down at the table and we enjoy the birthday. We eat pizza, cake, and everyone was having a good time. I thought I would be nice and start to clean up everyone’s plates and cups to make some room on the table for everyone. They give you the pizza on a round silver tray, so I started to pile up all the plates, cups, and silverware on to the tray. As my mother asked me “do you need any help?” I told her no I got it and started to walk up to the counter to drop off the tray. I knew that with all the stuff piled onto the tray that it was going to be too heavy but I wanted to try and carry it anyway without any help. As I am walking the tray up their stacked full I tripped over a step in the floor and I am sure you can guess what happened next. I dropped the tray everywhere and I feel to the floor. The trash went everywhere along with...
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...Experiential Learning Essay Template Review this check list in prior to submitting your experiential learning essay. If you have completed all of the items listed below, you are ready to submit your essay. Keep in mind, your evaluator may still request additional material, however, the list below will guide in your essay submission preparations. Not adhering to these guidelines will cause a delay in processing. ** Review each of the items below and check if you have completed each of them: 1. I have selected an approved essay topic from the essay course descriptions page. http://www.phoenix.edu/admissions/prior_learning_assessment/experiential-essays/essay-topics.html 2. Some essays have specific experience requirements. I have checked the essay description and I meet all of the experience requirements listed. 3. I have written and included a 1,500 to 2,100 word autobiography; autobiography is only required with first Experiential Learning Essay, subsequent essays do not require additional autobiographies. 4. I have written an experiential essay: 3,000 to 4,500 words for 3 credit essay 5. My essay is written in first person (1st) without references. 6. I have written to all four (4) areas of Kolb’s model of learning. 7. I have addressed all of the required subtopics in each of the four areas of Kolb’s model of learning. 8. I have included supporting documentation that validates my personal/professional experience with the essay course description/topic. 9. My essay is based on personal...
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...My heart raced, my hands sweat, and my voice quivered as the first few syllables of my essay escaped my mouth. None of the public speaking rehearsals that I had painstakingly endured could have prepared me for the moment when the curtain rose and all eyes at the annual Mississippi VFW Convention stared seemingly through me. At the age of 14, I had never spoken in front of a crowd of that magnitude. As I glanced across the audience and saw the smiles that covered each of the veterans’ faces, all my apprehension vanished. The attitude of spite I had for writing dissipated as I came to fully understand that my ability to read and write had opened doors for me to learn more about my great grandfather’s life, bring joy to the members of the VFW,...
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...cognitive distortion affect your critical thinking?c) How could you manage the emotions associated with this cognitive distortion in the future?d) How will you avoid using this cognitive distortion in the persuasive essay you are writing for this class? | 1 | Jumping to Conclusions | A) I always jump to conclusions especially when my husband is trying to tell me something, but I really don’t want to hear it and this sometimes causes us to argue. If I would just listen to what he was trying to say and not trying to answer it myself I could avoid this problem. B) Jumping to conclusions affected my critical thinking because instead of waiting for my husband to finish his statement and then come up with a great and plausible solution or response to what he had just told me, I jumped in and through in a irrational conclusion.C) I could handle this distortion in the future by simply letting my husband finish what he is going to say and then think about it rationally and then lastly have a conversation with him about it.D) I will avoid using the distortion in my essay by thinking everything through thoroughly before jumping to conclusions about the research that I had done. | 2 | Blaming | A) Blaming is something that often affects me in my life. I am always blaming others for my pain instead of taking...
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...I had my other classwork done and finish any actual “assignments” the night before they were due. To be honest, I treated the class as so for a while. It wasn’t until after my first essay that I realized how I could improve my writing in preparation for college now instead of later. I didn’t realize that I tend to write in a passive tense every other sentence until now. I also, often, used, too many comma splices, which butchered the flow of my writing. I sometimes missed the MLA format details which lowered my scores early on. After I submitted the last essay, I was glad that I didn’t sign up for English IV. I enjoyed some papers...
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...quote this early in the essay? Explain (1)I feel that Emerson’s quote “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to its own string,” Is implying, whatever you set your mind too you can accomplish. “Every heart vibrates to its own Iron string,” Is implying that everyone is different; we go about doing things in different ways, but it doesn’t mean that it’s wrong. (2) I feel he placed this quote so early in the essay because; he wanted to attract the reader’s attention with such a unique passage. He tried grabbing their attention, early in the passage. 2. In paragraph 4, Emerson says, “it is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own” (as cited in Langan, 2014). What does he mean by this quote? What is his purpose in making this statement? Explain. (1) “It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion”, basically it’s saying that it is easy for other people to justify your life, doing what’s good in the eyes of society. Letting what other people think, affect the way you live your life. “It’s is easy in solitude to live after our own,” Is saying to live in solitude, you can easily live, doing the things that you want to do. (2) To shed light on the situation, of people caring, what other people think. Live by your own path; don’t let people influence what you do. It would be easy living in both situation, but living for your own self-interest, would be easier. 4. At the end of the essay, Gregory shifts his focus...
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...EssaysBrowse Essays English / Choices Of Life Choices Of Life This essay Choices Of Life is available for you on Essays24.com! Search Term Papers, College Essay Examples and Free Essays on Essays24.com - full papers database. Autor: anton 03 December 2010 Tags: Choices Words: 570 | Pages: 3 Views: 414 Printable Version Essay: Choices Of LifeRead Full Essay Join Now! Choices of life What would you do if you could decide your future, your life and your way in a couple of seconds? Will you take the chance and risk, or will you sit and wait for something else to happen? I took a risk when I decided to come in the United States, and there is no doubt that this decision has been the biggest choice I had to make in my life so far. The proposal came almost out of nowhere. I had heard about a coach who was interested in college soccer players, so I went to a scrimmage he had organized, not thinking that I could be the chosen one, not thinking that a day like that could change my entire life course. After the game, the coach came to me and asked me, “Do you want to come to America?†I accepted the proposal in no time. After all, that was the reason I went to the scrimmage in the first place. I was so happy he selected me out of so many players that I did not think about the importance of my decision. After a few days and sleepless nights, I began to have second thoughts. I realized how big this was, how my life was going to change. All my friends, my family...
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...well at. The difference is, I’m stronger in my writing skills than my reading skills. The reason for this is that when I’m writing I get so into my words and imagination to where my hand with the magical pencil does the talking. My skills in reading only depend on one thing, if it catches my attention or not. Stories have to get me involved with the story somehow in order for me to get interest. If it’s not catching my attention, I’m not reading it. But most importantly, critical thinking is what ties reading and writing together. I am very picky about the books and articles I read. Stories for me have to have a mystery or even sometimes a sappy love story. Of course I’m going to love romantic books because I’m a girl, right? Yet again, some love stories bore the living hell out of me because it’s a “typical” love story. Reading books just all depends on how the author grabs his reader’s attention and how he plays the story throughout the book. When I find a book that I’m interested in, I will read the entire novel. Or even something that is scary will keep hooked on the story. Scary stories are my favorites because the story just keeps my suspense in play. Celebrity gossip is definitely something that I get into reading. There is always something new with these celebrities. Since these celebrities are well known, their lives are somehow interesting to us. We love the celebrity gossip because they’re famous and any juicy story about a celebrity will catch our attention. The...
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...write an essay. I learned this situation when I decided to come in the US for education. Before I come to the US, I had to take a preparation course for English in Turkey. That’s why my writing history started like that spontaneously. I really don’t like to write as my personality; however, this is a necessity for enhancing the ability to write an essay. Particularly, academic writing is the most important part of the studying in university, and my earlier writing experience is related just academic writing which is some type of essay such as, process essay, cause and effect essay and compare-contrast essay. One of the types of essay that I wrote first is process essay. That was really important experience because I had never written this type of essay. A process essay explains a process by either defining it, explaining the steps for completing the process oneself or by showing how a thing works. My process topic was “Things to Do in Case of Hurricane”. I explained the processes such as before the hurricane, during the hurricane and after the hurricane. The second type of the essay that I dealt is the cause and effect essay. That was one of the useful types of the essay because everybody can learn...
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...Nonfiction ENG/125 - Literature in Society Reaction Paper - Nonfiction In class this week our discussion was about nonfiction and some differences from fiction. Google dictionary (n.d.) states “nonfiction is prose writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography and history.” For our assignment this week we were asked to select two of the five nonfiction texts from our week four readings. After thoughtful consideration, I have chosen to write my reaction paper about “On Going Home,” by Joan Didion and “Who Will Light the Incense When Mother’s Gone?” by Andrew Lam. In any form of writing the reader can find various literary elements such as plot, character, setting, theme, and point of view. Also when a writer writes they have a purpose in mind. The writers purpose might be to inform, persuade, or entertain their readers. The writer may also want to describe something to the reader. In both “On Going Home,” by Joan Didion and “Who Will Light the Incense When Mother’s Gone?” by Andrew Lam I consider the theme to be the main element of both essays. In “On Going Home”, Didion’s theme is that of belonging and family. In Didion’s text, she makes use of three of the four main purposes of writing. Didion’s very first sentence is informing the reader as to why she is going home. The sentence reads “I am home for my daughter’s first birthday.” (Barnet, Burto, & Cain, 2014, 20111, 2007, 2005, 2003, p. 636) Didion also describes...
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...Dear Reader The past few years of my life was spent in search looking for the gateway of dreams, I was lost for a good bit of time not knowing what to do with my life and even more lost on how to go about finding it. I found the path to the gateway of dreams with the help of my brother and the rest of my family. Po Bronson says "We are all writing the story of our life. It's not a story of conquest. It's a story of discovery. Through trial and error, we learn what gifts we have to offer the world and are pushed to greater recognition about what we really need." And the question that follows this had me thinking about my future, that question was “What Should I Do with My Life?” I really know how important it is for the introduction to any paper is. I want to make my essay introduction good by giving the reader something to think about as they read my story for epic technology, I want the reader be able to connect there thinking to the following paragraph, giving the reader something to think about is also a good way to get there attention-maybe some my readers can connect to (Every one at some point gets lost looking for there dream and some never find it) and this will lead into my next paragraph. Starting with the title of my story (The journey For Epic Technology) I will tell the reader about my journey and how I ended up on it and the places it will take me. I will also be telling my readers what I should be doing with my life, and the gifts I have to offer the world...
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