Writing Center Should I Use “I”? Like Be the first of your friends to like this. What this handout is about This handout is about determining when to use first person pronouns (“I”‚ “we‚” “me‚” “us‚” “my‚” and “our”) and personal experience in academic writing. “First person” and “personal experience” might sound like two ways of saying the same thing‚ but first person and personal experience can work in very different ways in your writing. You might choose to use “I” but not make any reference
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Were Queen Elizabeth I and Catherine the Great effective rulers? Were their reign’s characterized as good or not so well? Disregarding the opinion of those who reigned concurrently or historians today‚ these two ruled their country in a time of turmoil and uncertainty! The world and the people within it were undergoing a major transition. New lands were being discovered as well as major role-playing continents and countries were changing status. Some losing power while others gained it. Queen Elizabeth
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first time that I discovered that I loved football‚ was when I was playing football. My whole life I have been told i’m a really tough kid‚ and at the time I was a soccer player. My sixth grade year playing soccer I started to be more rough when I played. It got to the point where I was nicknamed the bulldozer. I was at the level when kids would start to flop to get the penalty. I then realized that I didn’t want to play a sport where you had to fake being hurt. So the next year I joined the football
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AP U.S. History Essay #3: The colonists were simply a mob of ungrateful‚ greedy‚ spoiled‚ babies. To my understanding‚ The colonists were just a mob of ungrateful‚ spoiled brats. When the colonists first arrived in America‚ They did not entirely break free from British rule. They had the freedom of expansion‚ And the freedom of religion‚ But Britain still reigned control over the colonies. Britain imposing acts on the colonies did not give the colonists the right to revolt. Granted
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Growing up I read almost everyday. Reading took me to places I never thought I would go. I’ve been an alien fighting against others to save earth‚ a lost bird looking for my mother‚ a highschool kid going through what every other high school kid goes through. Of course that was before technology took over my life but I still manage to pick up a book every now and then. I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore‚ one of the most interesting books I’ve ever read‚ is the first book in the Lorien Legacies series
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“I‚ Too Sing America” is a poem by Langston Hughes about racial equality. All humans are created equal and should not be put down because of race. I intend to analyze what the poem is saying about racial equality‚ how we haven’t really come a long way in racial equality‚ and how Hughes wanted freedom. Langston Hughes talks about how “they” send him to the kitchen to eat in the kitchen to eat and how tomorrow nobody will dare tell him to eat in the kitchen. Back then people only ate in the kitchen
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Twilight Zone episode‚ “I Shot an Arrow in the Air‚” and the Lord of the Flies was survival. The main charaπcters needed to use all of their survival skills to survive the hostile environment‚ in which their rocket crashed. This is very similar to the Lord of the Flies because in Lord of the Flies‚ the children’s plane crashes near a deserted island‚ and the children must use their survival skills to survive on the island. Finally‚ the themes of Lord of the Flies and “I Shot an Arrow in the Air”
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Right now I am attending Polk State Collegiate High School in order to obtain my Associate of Arts degree while I am still in high school. One of the main reasons that I am attending Collegiate High School‚ besides to get ahead is because I have no college funds. My college savings were used in order to try and keep my step dad from being extradited back to England. In the end he still got deported leaving me and my little sister to survive off of my single mom’s teacher salary. My ex-step dad‚ who
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As long as I can remember I have always wanted to be a nurse. I loved the fact that I could help someone and love doing my job at the same time. I knew a couple of things before I started my research. I knew you had to go to college. Also‚ I knew that I would have to work my way up to a Registered Nurse. I knew that Itawamba Community College offers a nursing program‚ so that’s why I chose to go to school there. Knowing that being a Registered Nurse would require a lot of my time‚ and being at work
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And he knew that. Mars knew that it wasn’t nice to steal all of Earth’s water. Mars could’ve asked for some not all. He could’ve shared with him. All of Earth’s life on him was all harmed (Danuser 2). All of the animals were dead‚ and all the plants were burned beyond regrowth (Danuser 2). If Mars would have known to be fair‚ he would have also known don’t hate others to get what you want. Earth started to hate Mars. “Mars was flying around when a huge rock flew past him. He thought
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