As an incoming freshman I did not like English that much. It was too much writing and reading. I started to like writing. I passed. Becoming a freshman maybe stressful or nerve wrecking to most. You may think that as soon as you walk in the gates that all people are staring at you. When in reality not everyone is really looking at you. It’s mostly the nervousness that gets to you. Within the first couple weeks of high school mostly everyone will feel overwhelmed but it will go away, it just takes
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I have always preferred reading over movies and television. When I first received the book for this class I was confused on how we would use this in an English course, I began reading the first few pages of the book and by the time I sat the book down I was halfway through it. I tried to continue my other chores and course work but, the book kept drawing me back to it. I’ve read almost all of it and plan to reread it again when I’m done. The comments that I have to share is how unfair, deceitful
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Some of the semester challenges were to be able to take notes from the book To Kill MockingBird we got to take notes on. For the first semester that was my first book to take notes on. To understand which of the notes were the correct notes from the book to use for when we had test on the book. That was my one of some problems on the first semester. I had the problem on how to write specific notes which could help me if I needed them. My second problem was on presentations that we had. What I think
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In the fall of 2014, I was admitted to the Thomas Jefferson School of law. It was an exciting and rewarding opportunity for me. However, during my time in law school I encountered some life situations that affected my ability to put my full focus in school which resulted in me being distracted from my course work. Instead of asking for help, I kept things to myself as I had done for so long, and unfortunately I was not able to succeed alone, which then lead to an unfortunate academic issue which
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appropriate voice needed in an argumentative essay. Argumentative essays should not only include a position on the topic, but it should also use emotional and logical appeals directed toward countering the opposing argument. Since originally submitting the paper I’ve made stylistic revisions including, not posing rhetorical questions that I leave unanswered which suggest a different style of writing such as a magazine or something less formal than an academic
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My first paper was a little rocky. At first I could not settle with a topic. When I would start to write a paper I would think it was not good enough and change it to something else. I changed my paper three different times. It was just hard for me to get started and it was also hard narrowing down my topic because I felt like what I was talking about was so broad. Turns out when I finally picked my topic my paper was headed in all the wrong directions. I ended up having to change a lot of things
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while writing my papers. In “Lean on Me,” there were more corrections made about my use of second person than in “Let’s Get Ready to Rumble.” In everyday conversation, I find myself speaking in second person rather than first or third. I am accustomed to using “you” and “your” instead of “he or she” and “his or hers”. My previous English teachers have not corrected any of my papers on its point of view. I had begun to learn how to correct myself and have others proof read my papers; however, on this
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Ep Reflection During the different processes of making the essay, I felt that it was easier to make the final written essay as we had already made our points and found our quotes. If we had forgotten different events in the novel we could look at our reading log which helped tremendously as we were reading other novels at the same time. These steps helped me stay on track as I would have procrastinated and finished my essay a day or two before the due date. When writing the essay I found that it
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Since I first learned to write, I have been a writer. It has always been an incredibly cathartic and therapeutic passion of mine. Writing became a part of my job when I had to learn to write search engine optimized web copy more than 15 years ago. And about 10 years ago, I started writing how-to articles to help fledgling developers who were trying to teach themselves the ins and outs of web design and development, like I had done. (I swear this is leading someplace. Hang in there.) Then, just six
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Zadie Smith, the daughter of Harvey Smith and Yvonne Bailey, was born on October 25, 1975. She was born in North London; she is of English and Jamaican descent. At an early age, she began writing poems and stories. Smith changed her first name from Sadie to Zadie at the age of fourteen; she wanted to draw attention to her individuality. Smith attended the University of Cambridge, where she studied English Literature. While in college, she met a man, Nick Laird, whom she later married. Smith began
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