...normal day but for me and my team it was a big day. It was the day we started training for the important race; the race decide which track team was the best in the city. My teammates are, George, Aron and Dylan. We have been working hard because we lost the championship last year it would be good for us to come out this year and win the championship. The teams that we are going against are good their coaches are pro coaches they know what they are doing that’s a big Adventist for them. I'm the fastest on my team and all my teammates are depending on me to win the championship, for the first time. I am scare because I have never had this much responsibility on me I don’t want to let my teammates down, there's...
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...Then we were off to Farmington raceway. I was ready to race, but extremely nervous because I thought I was going to be the only girl there. Then my dad said that should be another girl there that will race probably. The truth why I started racing because my dad wanted to find a way to bond. But I wanted to race when I was little. Then we have seen the mini sprint for the sign. Then I saw that we were at the track pulling in and dropping my mom off at the bleachers. We dropped her off because of her leg...
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...Personal Narrative He’s a runner, and he’s run many difficult races. But not one race has been more challenging than this one. His name is Ricky, but before we get into more detail about him, let me take you back a few years first, to his first ever cross country race. The year was 2006 and he was in 4th grade. His three weeks of training for this two mile race were going to be put to the test. Ricky took his spot on the starting line and waited anxiously for the gun to fire. Rick was a very anxious kid growing up. He often had anxiety and panic attacks when he would worry about something. Ricky missed an entire week of school in 2nd grade just because he thought his parents were going to leave him, so he pretended to be sick....
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...Walter Elliot once said, “Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” I have already went through many races to be able to do what I want, but I still have so many more races to go through. If I want to follow my dreams I have to persevere through all of the little races I have left. My brother, Tristan, influences me to be patient because he deals with me randomly texting him things, he is in college, even when he has homework or is busy. For example, a few days ago when I texted him at 9:30 at night, It was 12:30 for him because he is in Pennsylvania, since I had forgotten to eat dinner because I fell asleep and forgot to eat dinner until 9:30, I also made him send me dog memes at like 10:00 at night because...
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...It is 2016 and race is still an issue. America has changed over the years, but race relations are not improving. This country has tried everything and it is still not working. In order to fix race relations in this country, we must find out where the problem is coming from. Okay, people need to wake up and stop dreaming. If you are a human being, it is your job to fight against racism. We cannot end the discussion of racism. White people do not understand why people of color are upset because they are white. I do not expect white people to automatically understand how I feel as a black woman, but there are many white people who do not want to listen to what I have to say. In order for America to improve race relations, we need to learn...
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...pacing down the back stretch before a race at Talladega Superspeedway, I felt very unconfident due to a lack of experience in restrictor plate racing and a rash of bad luck including a gut-wrenching hop into the catchfence in the previous race. I reluctantly started the race in 17th place out of 23 cars, with my friend in car number 25 right in the middle of the carnage with the second starting spot. As we rounded Turn 4 waiting for the pace car to drop, my worst fears were realized. A 12 year old driving car number 99 suddenly starts screeching on the voice chat over keeping the race clean and having a good finish. I checked the starting positions of the cars, and of course, he was starting in spot number one. Despite this being a 15 lap race, I predicted he would run the field up the track on the green flag and take an easy win as the drivers behind him would wreck; I was not looking forward to this race. As the green flag drops and all 23 cars roared to...
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...Conflicting thoughts ofQ excitement and anxiousness swelled throughout my mind as I boarded the bus to my first cross country race of high school. As everyone becameQ quiet, a nervous atmosphere overtook the stagnant stench on the bus; racing spikes being placed on the racers, earbuds in, the noises I was never used to hearing. Fixated, I studiedQ the course map, as the words of my coach overshadowed my introspection; “Start conservative LoganQ; be the hunter, not the hunted”. The bus ride was longQ and unnerving, like a courtroom anticipating the final verdict. Nameless signs flew past my window, until the two words slowly went by, Rotary Park, everyone knew it was finally here. Stepping off of the bus, I thought nothing special of the course,...
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...Maninder Singh Prof. Cushner AMS-1A S21 02/05/2015 Journey of Mrs. Rowlandson in captivity by Indians (1675) In the narrative “A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson,” Mary Rowlandson discusses how her personal life was like in captivity in 1682. Rowlandson wrote this after the attack in Lancaster, Massachusetts when she was held prisoner by Native Americans during King Philip War for 11 weeks in early 1675. Her narrative consists of repeating words such as “food” and “remove” to indicate how it all lead to Rowlandson’s depression and anger. Throughout Rowlandson’s journey with Native Americans, she observes her understanding regarding God and the bible. She also connects her capture to religious purposes that...
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...I found that Richard Rodriguez's argumentative essay was compelling and persuading. The structure of his personal narrative drew my attention in how he would express his emotions in such rhetoric frases. “In the early 1970s, Nixon instructed the Office of Management and Budget to identify the major racial and ethnic groups in the United States. OMB came up with five major ethnic or racial groups.” His claim in his essay is that all the groupings of people only exist in this country but do not really split all races apart how President Nixon labeled them. “But I was reinvented by President Richard Nixon.” Rodriguez stated that President Nixon reinvented him because President Nixon was the one categorizing all races into the races we have today. “For “Hispanic” is a gringo contrivance,[3] a definition of the world according to European patterns of Colonization.” Rodriguez emphasizes that the term “Hispanic” is a term that was...
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...The Christian Story and Our Stories: Narrative Pedagogy in Congregation Life In the feature article " The Christian Story and Our Stories: Narrative Pedagogy in Congregation Life" the author, Benjamin D. Espinoza, explains the educational strategy of narrative pedagogy, its characteristics and creative ways to apply it effectively in religious and secular ambits in our life. First, narrative pedagogy is an approach to teaching that involve our life stories through creative ways and another life stories (in the Christian ambit biblical stories) to form and renovate our life from the past through the present to the future. The purpose of explain the theological truths through stories is to develop a clearer understanding of the ideas, avoiding...
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...The term “Jim Crow” refers to a set of laws in the United States directing the segregation of whites from all other races. These laws were set in place during the Reconstruction period in the southern United States as a remnant of the Confederacy's legacy. Jim Crow laws segregated everything from parks and schools to marriage and burials. The idea of facilities being “separate, but equal” was deemed constitutional for 87 years until the final overturning of the legislature in 1964 by the Supreme Court. During this demoralizing period, Jim Crow laws impacted colored individuals and society through mental damage and economic subjugation. Jim Crow laws impacted colored individuals using mental damage. Nobuo Honda, a colored American soldier...
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...Nancarrow-Clark (2012) states “illness is the personal experience of one who has been diagnosed by a doctor or who does not feel well; it involves changes in states of being and in social function” (p. 198). To listen to the story of the personal experience of a person with an illness is a narrative or a story that can be written or spoken about a series of events. A narrative of illness is the story of how one experiences illness and its accompaniments. Hellman (2007) refers to it as a “basic way of organizing an experience, especially a traumatic one; of ‘making sense of it’, and giving it meaning” (p. 140). A narrative is not only an explanation of what the patient is experiencing, but also their interpretation of the illness experience,...
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...Descriptive vs. Narrative Essays Camille Hall English 121 Instructor James Welch March 17, 2013 Descriptive vs. Narrative Essays Descriptive essays are much more detailed and expressive than narrative essays and are more apt to hold the reader’s attention by ejecting more emotion. The narrative essay uses detail to advance the story, while the descriptive uses to detail to describe an unfamiliar subject. The ability to describe something convincingly is always important to both the writer and their audience. Both descriptive and narrative essays use detail but for different purposes. In this essay I will compare and contrast two essays; “I Want A Wife” and “Caged Bird” in order to give insight into each type of essay. The aim of a narrative essay is to describe a course of events from a subjective point, is usually told in chronological order, and is usually written in first person. Narrative essays are used to tell a story in a way so that the reader learns a lesson or gains insight, much of this is done through lots of detail about the subject that is being written about. The best narrative essays are those inducing images in the reader’s minds about what's happening by using concrete, specific verbs and nouns rather than a lot of adverbs and adjectives. To write a narrative essay you will need to tell a story (usually about something that has happened to you) or it could be fiction. The purpose is for your reader to learn a lesson or gain insight of...
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...Racial differences are apparent to most individuals throughout our society today and those differences have been known to influence people’s judgment about racial minorities. These influences do not cease to exist when an individual is sitting inside the courtroom and race has been no stranger to the impact the jury decision. Racial bias inside the courtroom is not new nor is it a rare occurrence and have at times played a large part in jury deliberations. Jurors are supposed to be unbiased and rational individuals with a non-biased opinion on the case presented before them. However, collective evidence shows that the notion that jury members are always rational and non-biased to be completely false. This is believed to be mostly in part to an individual’s environmental influences. If an individual has grown up in an environment where there is a strong presence of racism against a specific community of people it would be difficult for this person to show an objective opinion towards another person of a different race. Those kinds of environmental influences can strongly affect a person’s decision when present upon a jury panel. It is even to be thought that an individual’s religious environment may have an influence upon their jury making decisions. One of the concerns in the jury selection process is that even though jurors are supposed to be rational persons whom wait until all evidence is present to make an informed decision; this process does not include...
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...works makes it easy to relate to them. Throughout my readings thus far in the class I have noticed some common themes that reoccur in many of the stories and poems. Of course slavery was a very common topic but there were others such as inequality between the races and sexes, injustice and resentment, the black identity, and a strong faith and religion. Even though the words can be separated in the end they all come back together. There were many narratives written by fugitive slaves before the Civil War and by former slaves in the postbellum era. These narratives document slave life from the perspective of first-hand experience. The stories they tell are dark and ugly. The authors like Douglas and Jacobs reveal the struggles, sorrows, aspirations, and triumphs of slaves in absorbingly personal story-telling. Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was the first autobiography by a formerly enslaved African American woman. In it she describes her experience of the sexual exploitation that made slavery especially oppressive for black women. She also recounts her life in slavery in the context of family relationships with her escape and her struggle to free her children. Fredrick Douglas who wrote Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglas, an American Slave, Written by Himself depicts the grim life of slavery as well. He vividly describes the brutality that slaves endured, the meager rations they are allowed for nourishment, and even the murder of a slave. He...
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