...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 shouted just before doing my self-choreographed victory dance of glory. I then proceeded to run back down the stairs, as fast as my legs would allow me. Just as I reached the last step, a second wave of panic hit. This one much worse than the first. I came to the realization that I wasn’t breathing and that I couldn’t have...
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...The road to become a man I was so arrogant and so ignorant that I almost died. I was pressured and with that pressure, I acted recklessly. All I ever wanted was to prove my friends that I could swim but honestly, I couldn’t. I thought that I wasn’t a man because I was the only boy in school who couldn’t swim. That was my moment to prove them that I was a man. The waves were crashing, the sun was setting, and the people were laughing, sniggering and embracing under the sunset. I felt the sand squish slowly through my toes as I carelessly walked down the shoreline of one of the greatest beaches of Thailand. Off in a distance, the reflection of the sun in the ocean began to set in a sleepy leisurely fashion. But as the sun kept on fading, the more crowded the beach was becoming. I was bewildered but the perplexity of my thoughts kept me out of the darkness as I sat captivated and allowing the foamy mist from the unbridled ocean spray my face lightly as though it was the touch of a feather. This was the best moment of my life. I thought. All my friends were enjoying the bittersweet warmth of the ocean and me, I was just so afraid to even stand and put that first leg in the ocean. They didn’t know that I couldn’t swim and I didn’t want to tell them because I thought that I was going to embarrass myself but I wish that I did. “Didier, are you going to swim? The water is really nice.” Said one of my friends and by the way she was my girlfriend since grade 3. I just wish that I...
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...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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...multiple identities? No matter what you say or do, your identity will show who you really are. There can be many different views of one person’s identity, it is just the way you choose to view it. A man who lives on the “good” side of the city goes through a midlife crisis and decides to go to the “shady” side of town, when a police officer shows up and mistakens him for someone else because he was wearing old clothes and driving a nice car. In the story this is supported by the saying “Normally he goes clean-shaven into the world, but the promise of a saturday liquid with sunshine draws him first from his study to the backyard, from there to his front lawn.” (Pg. 1 W.D. Valgardson). Also, “he is driving a grey Mercedes Benz. Gangs of young men follow the car with their unblinking eyes.” (Pg. 1 W.D. Valgardson). The person you decide to be will show who you really are....
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...WR 115 Assignment Essay One—Literacy Narrative 600-1000 Words Basic Prompt As you begin this essay writing process, reflect on your experiences and attitudes about reading and writing. Regardless of our backgrounds, our ideas of literacy often become deeply engrained as good or bad without much thought about to how these views have come to be. As a result, many of us have definitions of literacy–of reading and writing–that could benefit from a thoughtful and honest close self-examination. Choose a Topic: Please draw from the following as you develop your essay focus: • Narrate an early memory about writing or reading that you recall vividly. Then explain why this event is significant to you now. • Describe someone who taught you to read or write and explain this person’s significance in your life. • Identify a book or other text and explain its significance for you in your reading and writing. • Narrate an experience with a writing or reading task that you found (or still find) difficult or challenging. • Describe a memento and explain how it represents an important moment in your reading/writing development. Then Create a Narrative: Use sound writing and story-telling skills to organize and articulate your story. Make sure to stay focused on your one, main idea. Key Elements • Create a well told story. Bring your narrative to life by using concrete and vivid details. • Develop your main idea. (make sure you only have one main idea) • Develop the significance or affect of your...
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...WR 115 Assignment Essay One—Literacy Narrative 600-1000 Words Basic Prompt As you begin this essay writing process, reflect on your experiences and attitudes about reading and writing. Regardless of our backgrounds, our ideas of literacy often become deeply engrained as good or bad without much thought about to how these views have come to be. As a result, many of us have definitions of literacy–of reading and writing–that could benefit from a thoughtful and honest close self-examination. Choose a Topic: Please draw from the following as you develop your essay focus: • Narrate an early memory about writing or reading that you recall vividly. Then explain why this event is significant to you now. • Describe someone who taught you to read or write and explain this person’s significance in your life. • Identify a book or other text and explain its significance for you in your reading and writing. • Narrate an experience with a writing or reading task that you found (or still find) difficult or challenging. • Describe a memento and explain how it represents an important moment in your reading/writing development. Then Create a Narrative: Use sound writing and story-telling skills to organize and articulate your story. Make sure to stay focused on your one, main idea. Key Elements • Create a well told story. Bring your narrative to life by using concrete and vivid details. • Develop your main idea. (make sure you only have one main idea) • Develop the significance or affect of your...
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...Killing someone, would you count it as insanity or not? The story “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe is about a person who is trying to kill the old man he works for over a series of days. The reason was the old man's eye. The old man ends up dying, but it didn't take long before the narrator confesses his actions from all his guilt built inside. For me that is insanity. One reason I have to prove the narrator's insanity is that he killed the old man because he couldn't stand his eye. Even though the old man was nice and kind to him. According to the passage, it says “I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! Yes, it was this!”. The text also says “I made up my mind to take the life of the old man and thus rid myself of the eye forever”....
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...The Baudelaire’s lives were just miserable. Their lives had become even more miserable when they went to Prufrock Preparatory School. Violet Baudelaire was the oldest, Klaus Baudelaire was the second oldest, then there was Sunny Baudelaire who was merely an infant. These children’s parents had been in a terrible fire at their home Due to the events, that had happened the children were place with a horrible person. Count Olaf was the Baudelaire’s first guardian, after he was caught trying to get the Baudelaire fortune. Guardian after guardian Count Olaf was there in disguise. The setting of this story is at Prufrock Preparatory School. Lemony Snicket described as “The school was made up of many buildings, all made of smooth gray stone, they...
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...It is all Trisha has to stay alive. She is lost out in the middle of the Appalachian Trail. Throughout the book, her faith wavers and she claims not to believe in God. However, she still has hope. Hope comes to her in the form of baseball. Almost every night, Trisha falls asleep “with the sounds of Fenway Park” (King 74). Not only does it help calm her down, but it also connects her to the outside world. It makes her feel not so alone, not like she is the only one out here. It gives her hope that soon she too will be back in the real world. Word Count:...
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...After walking a short time inside, I went to Ho Chi Minh Complex. It is an important place for many Vietnamese. I visited Ngoc Son Temple in Hoam Kim Lake and Tran Quac Pagoda in West Lake. I couldn’t reach Ngoc Son Temple, so I just saw it on my sight because it is located at the center of the lake. Near Hoam Kim Lake, I saw many couples took their pre-wedding photoshoot and I said hello to them as my greeting. In tran Quac Pagoda, I didn’t have much time because of the time. After that we moved to location near Halong Bay. Tonight, I could rest in longer time because we reached the hotel earlier. I was so excited for today because I already knew that I would see the beautiful Halong Bay. Halong Bay has breathtaking natural beauty. I couldn’t leave my camera even I should hold it up for 4...
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...defend a man who is innocent but by the color of his skin is convicted, or the learning of right from wrong by growing up in the world rather than sitting in school. These ideas of morality and ethics show the indignant and almost transforming ways of the kids living. As for Atticus finch he has morals already, his ideas to set examples for his children and be open minded is a quality that rubs off on his children. The kids throughout the book have to understand right from wrong and assess situations that make them have to grow up sooner than most. Starting with the kids they were the ones who over the course of the book were exposed to the most eye opening situations in which they themselves had to grow up to understand and also consider their ideas and thoughts based on what some other peoples situations are. Scout imp articular in the opening stages of her moral stage has an encounter with Walter Cunningham, “He ain't company, Cal, he's just a Cunningham” (26). Scouts ethics about people based on what they say, or how they act or even there living situation was wrong. Calpurnia is the character other than Atticus who teaches the kids right from wrong. Cal has to set scout straight when scout reacts wrong to Walter Cunningham., "Hush your mouth! Don't matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house's yo' comp'ny, and don't you let me catch you remarkin' on their ways like you was so high and mighty! Yo' folks might be better'n the Cunninghams but it don't count for nothin'...
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...not to try to win,” (Ch 9, pg 76). In the novel To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee Tom Robinson (a black man) was accused of raping Mayella (a white girl) in Maycomb County Alabama during the Great Depression. Atticus ( a white lawyer) was chosen to defend this black man in court. Many people supported this decision and many were against it due to the time period where Whites believed that they were better than the Blacks. The benefits of Atticus taking a stand did outweigh the consequences. One reason why it was worth it for Atticus to defend Tom Robinson is to set a good example for his children. It is ideal that Atticus...
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...years to complete, and when he did, he emerged as Greece’s greatest hero. As Hercules goes through these trials, he goes through many steps of the Hero’s Journey. As a young child, Hercules was always different. He was much stronger than most infants. His mother was the goddess Hera, while his father was a mortal man making Hercules a Demigod, a mortal born from a God or Goddess and a mortal. Throughout his early childhood, Hera sent many dangerous beasts to murder baby Hercules so she wouldn’t have to carry the burden of this baby, who had many times, accidently hurt his mother with his strength. This is Hercules's unusual childhood, showing the first part of the hero’s journey. Throughout his young adult life, Hercules had many milestones including getting married and having children. Soon, Hera came back and decided to torture Hercules until he went crazy. Hera succeed in this and Hercules, in a blind rage, murdered his wife and children. After he came out from his ‘temporary insanity’ Hercules saw the full scope of what he had done....
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...it may vary depending on the place you live or how close you are with the person. Is the conception of family in the usa the same like in my country cameroon? who is considered as a part of your family in each country? are all the people in each family are related by blood?i am going to be talking...
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...of his class who remembered him”: Religion and morality in Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” Ernest Hemingway considers that religion but not morality plays a significant role in his novel “The Sun Also Rises” for the whole novel is about drinking, parties and the religion issue. Hemingway describes the inferiority of a Jew called Robert Cohn and he is always called “the Jew with Brett” to announce how religion can impact people’s disposition. Hemingway suggests that religion is an essential role in lost generation but morality is not that important in this amoral society at that period, which was a period that filled with alcohol, money, sexual obsession. By using the modification of Cohn’s character from the beginning to the end, he illustrates how religion can affect one’s life and personality, in that case, he draws a rich Jew who had a strong feeling of inferiority although he was so-called the upper class and he did not dare to consider other girls but his fiancée Frances, and he gained confidence when his novel got a little success but he was actually a man with inner self-abasement which can be inferred through his handshaking behavior. As he says, “he cared nothing for boxing, in fact he disliked it, but he learned it painfully and thoroughly to counteract the feeling of inferiority and shyness he had felt on being treated as a Jew at Princeton” (Hemingway 11). Princeton was known as a place where is full of wealthy guys and the ones who are revered...
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