...slip and fall. On cue, I bend down and breathe out. “Here we go,” I think as the buzzer goes off and I jump. As a Bashore, it was expected that I would be a swimmer, like my sisters. It only made sense, I grew up swimming in the lake and I loved the water. My entire swimming career started way back in 2007. I was six years old and my mom had finally decided to give me my first taste of competitive swim. She had signed me up for the Minnows swim club and I was terrified. New situations always scared me and this was no different. Swim wasn’t too bad. At my young age, I saw it as a few hours a week to have some fun in the water. But that excitement wasn’t there for...
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...It was my freshman year on the Masuk boys swim team. I was at our last pasta party of the season. I couldn't eat, I was extremely nervous for the next day. Tomorrow was senior night. Three seniors and I have been training the whole season to break the school record in the 400 yard freestyle relay. We came so close at every meet and senior night was our final chance. I was excited but also very nervous. I woke up the next morning and got ready to go to school. It was the day of the meet. I thought about how happy my teammates and I would be if the three seniors and I broke the record. I began to feel more excited than nervous. Eighth period passed by and the last bell rang. I knew it was almost time for the meet. I got my bag from my locker...
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...It was the year 2003 at a place called Dan Oden Swim complex at James Logan high school in Union City where a three year old was ready to take on his very first 13 years ago as a young 4 year old boy ready to go to preschool, was ready to put his trunks on and jump in the water. Already potty trained and speaking like no other, I was ready to take on the chlorine water myself. Being excited as I was to jump in the pool, I dove into the three foot shallow end and bobbed my head up and down in such great enthusiasm. As a young boy, I was able to pick up swimming pretty quickly surprisingly. This was the first time that I touched water and would never stop ever since. Coming from a world of swimming, I felt that this activity has been one of...
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...I’ve played a handful amount of sports so far like soccer and karate, but none of those sports had a strong connection with me. Except for swimming and hockey. I’ve been swimming ever since I was in preschool and I don’t plan to stop. The same goes for hockey in which I don’t plan on stopping, but I have only played hockey for a couple years . I will first talk about swimming in that it was before hockey. I have joined the Huntley Hammerheads swim team and have been on that team for 4 seasons. Since I’ll be heading to high school, I will have to discontinue my journey with the Hammerheads and I plan to join the Huntley High School swim team. But before I’ve joined the Hammerheads, it took a lot of work to get where I am with the help of friends and family. I did take a...
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...accomplishment in my life that marked my transition from childhood to adulthood was when I made the hard decision to quit competitive dancing and join my high school swim team. My entire life had revolved around competitive dancing from first grade all the way through elementary school and middle school. Letting go of dance and moving on to bigger and hopefully better things was the hardest decision I ever made. It was nerve racking to move from dance, a stage of my life I had become very comfortable in, to the swim team, something I knew absolutely nothing about. But I knew it was all worth my while when I won the team spirit award. Like most three year old girls, my mother signed me up for dance classes. I loved dancing, and my dance teacher must have thought I was very good. Three years later, my mom opened a letter in the mail asking me to be on my studio’s competition team. I competed on a team of about ten girls. We learned a few dances to perfection and competed them a few times each spring. I did this for nine years all the way through the my freshman year....
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...Lake” and Judy Brady’s “I want a wife”, both authors write on personal encounters they experienced. The author chooses two different methods of writing styles. E.B. White utilizes a nostalgic reflective descriptive piece, whereas Brady uses a more sarcastic narrative. Arguably both writers do a great job in their story telling skills. Both stories are respected and pleasing, yet similar but different at the same time. The authors’ choice of writing style is what gives one story more of an advantage to the other. Though descriptive and narrative essay have identical intent – to tell the reader a story- narratives are more effective in capturing the audience because the uses of different voices, they bring ideas into perspective and they are relatable. There are special components that both style of writing possesses. Narrative writing usually does not stress adjectives to give the physical details of characters, setting or events in the story. Nothing like descriptive writing, narrative writings are written in the first person in order to convey the author's attitudes, beliefs and memories. Narratives are conventional, while descriptive writings content often emphases on a single event, object or place. Occasionally, writers utilize narrative writing style to tell about the past or the future in broad terms. A narrative often reflects personal experience, clarifying what happened during some sort of incident. Narrative essay topics include recounting an experience where the learned...
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...Su Fredrich is a filmmaker who created experimental films that are combined with narratives and documentaries. In the first clip that showed, Chapter 3: Gently Down The Stream #3 that she finished in 1981, recalls her dreams. It a silent, black and white film because she was not interested in sounds but rather getting her point across to the audience. Based on the film, she did not used dream sequences that were common in Hollywood movies, which had slow motions. Instead she made the film more of a fast motion that cuts back and forth to different scenes of her dream. She incorporate a number of unusual text in between scenes so that our own voice could be heard as we were reading it. I think her format worked, this was the first time I watched a silent film that was so meaningful and interesting. The symbols and characters used were a bit weird but they add power to the film and made the text even stronger. Although it was a silent film, I think it engage the audience to see the bigger picture the dream....
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...Personal Narrative I enjoy partaking in various activities including sports and clubs, as well as doing much community service. I am on the school swim team, in the Health Occupations of Students of America club, in and serve as the Public Relations Officer in the Business Professionals of America club, and in Student Congress. I volunteer for Volunteer North Dallas monthly by helping to make sandwiches for the homeless, for Special Olympics swimming training over the summer and track during the fall, for Lost Paws Rescue of Texas in the summer by helping rescued dogs get adopted in local areas. In addition, I help teach and tutor kids in math and reading. I will continue to participate in these for the remainder of high school, also. To...
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...Acts record the fulfilment of Paul’s great ambition to go to Rome. Ever since the purpose of going to Rome had been planted in Paul’s mind by the Holy Spirit, his plans had been formulated with that goal in view. He had been confronted with one crisis after another, but he had divine assurance that Rome would be reached. The final stage of this journey takes Paul on an eventful, dangerous and exciting sea journey. Marshall Points out that in proportion to the book as a whole, the length of the narrative describing Paul’s sea journey to Rome is remarkable. Paul was sent to Rome along with other prisoners in the custody of a centurion called Julius. He probably took enough troops with him to guard the prisoners, or even kill them if necessary. As a Roman Citizen Paul had greater privileges than the other prisoners. It is also clear that Julius liked Paul and treated him with respect. Aristarchus of Thessalonica is mentioned as a fellow passenger. He too was on his way to trial. The narrative changes from third person to first suggesting that Luke was on board with Paul. Some scholars suggest that he may have signed up to be the ships doctor. It was not a direct journey to Italy. Passengers could travel as far as a ship was going was going in their direction, disembark and then join on another ship whenever one was available. The first ship used sailed out of Adramyttium, a port on the northwest coast near Traos. It stopped at Sideon to unload and load cargo and Julius let Paul visit...
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...My Personal Narrative On My Trip To Catalina Island! The amazing and most fun adventure I had at the amazing Catalina island is when all the Catalina “teachers” took us night snorkeling. It was very cold at night and we had to be at dive deck. We first got on all out gear while the amazing Blinky went and got us hot chocolate and we listened to music. Once we got our gear half way on they told us the rules about dive deck and they told us about our “Buddies”. Then when we got into the freezing water and we started our adventure. Until a very horrific event happened. ( not really horrific ) And we discover a very extraordinary looking fish. And before our very delicious final cup of hot chocolate before we went to bed. Me and my group of friends who were in Will’s group were getting our snorkeling gear in the freezing cold weather of Catalina outside on diving deck putting on our gear so we don’t “freeze” to death. While we were...
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...anything but normal beginning with the past of his ancestors. His grandparents were brother and sister, his parents were cousins, and his brother was only known as “Chapter Eleven”. Of course Cal’s growing up experience was also definitely out of the ordinary during the understanding of his intersex gender, especially when he is sent to his specialist in New York, who put Cal in very unusual and uncomfortable situations in assessing his gender. The plot surely takes a twist when Cal makes the decision to run away from home, and hitchhikes all of the way to San Francisco where he meets the queerest character of all in terms of non normative, Bob Presto. When we learn that Cal begins working for Bob’s strip club called the Sixty-Niners, and swims naked in a pool where people can watch him through peepholes. At the club Cal is referred to as “Hermaphroditus”, and befriends the other workers there that all are dealing with other sexuality issues. The queer plot of Fun Home is just as surprising as it is mainly revolved around memoirs of her father. In the beginning we learn about Alison’s journey from a little girl to young adulthood while she comes to terms with her lesbian sexuality, and shortly after learns of her fathers homosexual...
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...Unfortunately for Swift, the Tory government fell out of power in 1714 and Swift, despite his fame for his writings, fell out of favor. Swift, who had been hoping to be assigned a position in the Church of England, instead returned to Dublin, where he became the dean of St. Patrick’s. During his brief time in England, Swift had become friends with writers such as Alexander Pope, and during a meeting of their literary club, the Martinus Scriblerus Club, they decided to write satires of modern learning. The third voyage of Gulliver’s Travels is assembled from the work Swift did during this time. However, the final work was not completed until 1726, and the narrative of the third voyage was actually the last one completed. After his return to Ireland, Swift became a staunch supporter of the Irish against English attempts to weaken their economy and political power, writing pamphlets such as the satirical A Modest Proposal, in which he suggests that the Irish problems of famine and overpopulation could be easily solved by having the babies of poor Irish subjects sold as delicacies to feed the rich. Gulliver’s Travels was a controversial work when it was first published in 1726. In fact, it was not until almost ten years after its first printing that the book appeared with the entire text that Swift had originally intended it to have. Ever since, editors have excised many of the passages, particularly the more caustic ones dealing with bodily functions. Even without those passages...
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...Some definitions of literary devices, techniques and style from searching via http://www.ferretsoft.com/ LITERARY DEVICES http://mrbraiman.home.att.net/lit.htm Literary devices refers to any specific aspect of literature, or a particular work, which we can recognize, identify, interpret and/or analyze. Both literary elements and literary techniques can rightly be called literary devices. Literary elements refers to aspects or characteristics of a whole text. They are not “used,” per se, by authors; we derive what they are from reading the text. Most literary elements can be derived from any and all texts; for example, every story has a theme, every story has a setting, every story has a conflict, every story is written from a particular point-of-view, etc. In order to be discussed legitimately, literary elements must be specifically identified for that text. Literary techniques refers to any specific, deliberate constructions of language which an author uses to convey meaning. An author’s use of a literary technique usually occurs with a single word or phrase, or a particular group of words or phrases, at one single point in a text. Unlike literary elements, literary techniques are not necessarily present in every text. Literary terms refers to the words themselves with which we identify and describe literary elements and techniques. They are not found in literature and they are not “used” by authors. Allegory:...
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...view The shifting point of view will shift the focus from a narrow to a broader perspective of the omniscient narrator Setting the location and the atmosphere of the story Conflict this is the struggle of opposing external or internal forces Plot This is the structure of the story. It’s the twists & turns. It you the story un folds. Plot structure Crisis / Climax The moment of truth rising action conflict builds, exposition, We learn about the various characters, the falling action crisis is over resolution the story ends. what happens at the end. Allteration This is the use of similar consant sounds. Using woods that begin with the same on similar consonants’ helps to form the movement of the poem Example Do or Die/ Sink of Swim “Whether with wordier text way false? Assonance The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in neighboring words. It sets he mood for the peom. Example “ Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled peppers.” Assonance & alliteration Formal Verse * The Sonnet is an example of a Formal Verse. It...
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...ASSESSMENT ON CREATING A DYNAMIC CAREER DEVELOPMENT PLAN OF LEADERSHIP SKILLS Course: Developing personal and professional leadership practice Lecturer: Jill Machon /Jill Fortune Submission Date: 28TH March 2015 Nominal Word Count: 1000 Question: You should seek to show your progress during your studies, taking a critical approach and ensuring all your learning experiences inform your views. You should adapt and amend your plan as new information becomes available, ensuring that you can justify any changes made - keeping a reflective diary may be a way of achieving this. Steps * Introduction (100 words) * Section 1: * Section 2: * Section 3: * Section 4: * Section 5: * Conclusion (100 words) Assessment criteria Using knowledge of theories and concepts from the course reflect upon application and progression of learning and how this will affect/impact on your future management and leadership practice Excellent knowledge of theories and concepts from the course to reflect upon application and progression of learning and how this will affect/impact on your future management and leadership practice. Excellent ability to demonstrate an understanding of the impact of management and leadership practice in the wider organisational community. INTRODUCTION Continuing professional development (CPD) is recognised as a commitment by professionals to continually maintain and enhance their skills and knowledge with a view to support their...
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