together in this portfolio, I have to say that my best paper/essay so far during my writing experience is my final narrative. My reasoning to this choice is because of the personal experience given in the writing, and what the actual wording represents in my life, that made it so much better for myself to write and it flowed much easier for me. I have always struggled with putting my words into formal writing but the narrative paper gave me a different view of what I thought about my writing assignments…
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nd those who did usually dropped out during their freshman year and I did not want to continue the cycle of “dropouts”. Because of the slim number of family members that attended college didn't fully commit to college, they couldn't tell me what to fully expect. One thing I did know for sure coming into college was that if I wanted to become a forensic scientist, before all of the fun math classes and cool science labs, I was to first get through english which was not my best subject. The…
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Synopsis Slaughterhouse Five is a story about Billy Pilgrim, a World War II veteran, a successful optometrist, husband, and a father, who has become unstable and “unstuck in time”. He finds himself going through a stage where he starts to travel into the past and present times of his life, such as visiting his birth all the way through his demise and events prior and in between those two events in his life. Due to the fact that he travels back and forth in time and place, he was unstable and incapable…
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themselves as chronic procrastinators. I am part of that twenty percent group. It is now nine o clock at night and I just arrived in my computer room. It was pitch black outside when I started the daunting task of writing my narrative essay on my personal writing process. I’ll never wait this long again. I was like usual, exceptionally exhausted because of cross country practice. I did not feel like doing anything, but going straight to sleep in my comfy bed. I made my way to the computer room and…
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Felsenfeld’s narrative, “Rebel Music”, he talks about his interaction with classical music within his early to adult life. This appeals to me because I fit quite similarly to the kind of story he tells, but more on the vocal music spectrum of things. The drive of his essay was to dictate how he categorizes himself as a rebel. To me, it brought up how he learned to fall in love with music, the meaning of being a “rebel”, and how it became a passion. When assessing and responding to a narrative discussing…
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Professor H. Forstyle Religious Arguments Against Equal Rights for All Frederick Douglass wrote his biography titled Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, with the intent to expose the hypocrisy of slaveholders and the immorality of slavery in the face of religion. He uses personal examples just as much as others’ experiences to exemplify these points to readers. Douglass depicts himself differently from other slaves’ experiences in that the more educated…
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Paper 1 In reading A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah (2007), my understanding of the different dimensions of trauma expanded, and in observing my own reactions to my reading, I learned a bit about my own ways of trying to manage that which cannot be managed – what we call trauma. In thinking about the nature of trauma I think about an experience that overwhelms our capacity to bear it, and therefore it cannot be assimilated and integrated into our felt sense of self. Trauma divides our inner being, causing…
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marriage underneath a blossoming pear tree. The comments; both positive and negative, that Janie makes allowed me to feel as if I were right along side Janie living through all the ups and downs she encountered while simply riding what some may call, "the roller coaster of life". Take the very beginning of the novel for example. Without any prior knowledge, I was introduced to what seemed to be an awful town with nasty town folks who sit on some porch passing judgment on a girl who they had once previously…
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02/19/15 2nd period Personal Narrative How could such a foul smell be the force in setting my future goals in place? Yet, at the age of just fifteen, I came to associate this smell with my calling in life. It was the summer of my sophomore year. During the summer, I had decided to attend the Professional Medical Careers summer course at West Sound Tech. I had only enrolled in the course to pass time and get some extra credit, but it became so much more than that when I actually went. At the…
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oneself, One decides what is moral and what is immoral considering your own values. Common sense dictates that slavery is immoral but as Voltaire once said, “Common sense is not so common.” Placing ourselves in the 19th century, Freedom is a luxury and not everyone had the right to be luxurious. Luxury depended on race and social class. Where you are from, where you are raised and who raises you determines the life you are given and the extent to which you know about freedom and what it’s like to be…
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