HOLT‚ RINEHART AND WINSTON Writing a Personal Narrative by Lindi M. of Jenks East Middle School in Tulsa‚ Oklahoma Conquering Your Fears INTRODUCTION Attentiongrabbing opening Everyone‚ well almost everyone‚ I’ve ever known has thought of their years in elementary school as their favorites. I‚ on the other hand‚ do not feel so fondly about elementary Copyright © by Holt‚ Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. school‚ especially third grade. That was a year I will never
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As soon as the summer of 2015 ended‚ I was living in Colombia. I was used to spending summer with my family and friends in Colombia or traveling to the US to play golf tournaments or golf camps. But that summer was different. My parents told me I was spending the summer at USF in Tampa at “SuperCamp”. I read all about it on the internet and all it said was that it was a fun academic camp. I was not happy at all‚ but the decision was already made. I remember when I arrived to campus‚ there were
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Bryce York Professor Sanford English 103 5 February 2015 My Personal Narrative Growing up in Kokomo‚ Indiana there wasn’t much to the daily life in my hometown. I’d like to believe this is me telling the story of how through hard work and perseverance I could achieve my goal in high school. A goal that many told me was unachievable and stupid to pursue. What is this goal you wonder? My goal was to play Basketball at Kokomo High School. Heck Michael Jordan got cut in high school only to become the
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The first life lesson I learned was to never take anything for granted‚ especially life. It is a miracle that I was born because my mom had a rare bone cancer that almost took her life at the age of thirteen. She had a twenty percent chance of surviving‚ beat the odds‚ defied her experimental treatment and gave birth to me. There was an eighty percent chance that I would not be alive today and that makes me appreciate everything in life. Osteogenic sarcoma was the rare bone cancer my mom was diagnosed
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thoughts. The rest of the day the they had to work. The next day‚ the King grows angry that he is barely getting any money so he tries to increase the taxes even more. That same day‚ Wat Tyler is sitting on some grass drinking ale‚ and reflecting on his life. Sitting on the grass‚ Wat watches a radical priest ranting that peasants need more rights with barely anybody gathering around. The priest is tall and lanky‚ but he speaks as if he is the strongest man in all the land. His voice is loud and hard to
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My family and I had just landed on Oahu. The sight was one to behold. Beautiful grass-covered mountain ranges and a clear blue sky. We had seen the other islands of Hawaii leading up to Oahu like Maui and the Big Island but none of them were like this. When my family and I had gotten off the plane we were given lei’s to welcome us to what was a foreign place. We immediately got our luggage from the conveyor belt and a rental car‚ a 2016 Toyota Highlander that was as black as the night. The air and
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Life as a refugee Living as a refugee is a life filled with horror and petrifying situations. A life which I don’t think can be defined as a life‚ many haven’t lived in years. All they have done have been trying to survive. And in these three paragraphs you will probably figure out that what their life is like‚ is revolting and gruesome. They live in constant fear of not knowing whether they will survive‚ or die trying. They flee from a life where bombs drop over their heads‚ and men rob their homes
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My Personal Response to The Call of the Wild The novel The Call of the Wild tells a story about how Buck‚ a domesdicated dog in the "sun-kissed" Santa Clara‚ managed to survive in the wilds of Klondike. Jack London conveyed many of his own ideas about living in this novel by telling readers what Buck went through to adjust to the harsh realities of life in the frosty North‚ where survival was the only imprerative. Throughout Buck’s adjustment there were several turning-points which forced him to
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my own good I consider myself lucky that I am here and I have better chances of becoming the best. Even so‚ I am under pressure I am doing my best in my senior year and getting ready for college because people are cheering me telling me that college life is much better and funnier is it? Until now I have options what I am going to study but still I am not sure ‚ so I am considering to major in medicine or a therapist I will explain why one of them . First medicine since when I was young I used to play
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It was a day like any. School had just started. Little did I know it would be the worst. A day to remember for the rest of my middle school life. But I would also learn‚ something very important. I was sitting down in band class halfway done with the day. And my friend comes in and sits right next to me. And she turns to face me. I realize that and turn to face her as well. “Hey so I guess you know who I like.” I whisper to her. Not knowing the consequence of my action at the moment.
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