Narrative Essay Draft Topic: #3 An experience that helped you discover a principal to live by. Buddha once said‚ “Instead of judging a man by his appearance‚ look inside their heart‚ and read what it is their soul wrote.” I was raised in a family‚ which at times‚ could be very judgmental of people. My family lived in an upper-class neighborhood where there was no poverty or homelessness. My parents made sure my brother and I had all the best clothes‚ the newest cell phones and laptops‚ they spent
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I shot my best friend‚ Akin‚ in my home’s kitchen. He was not alone when I shot him; there was a man with‚ a stranger that shot back in defense. I was hit too‚ but felt no immediate pain‚ because was still able to manage a shot at the stranger‚ before I dropped to the floor with strange heaviness. The man ran towards me as I was falling‚ my mind told me he was coming to hasten my death‚ because I was badly wounded already. My neighbors‚ who accompanied me‚ were already on the floor. But to my surprise
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“How I Met My Husband” Throughout Alice Munro’s short story “How I Met My Husband” the main character Edie changes. She interacts with different characters and her identity is influenced with every person she comes in contact with. Edie seems to reflect each person she talks to and mirrors who they are. By the end of the story though Edie figures out who she is and the reader is able to understand what forced her into being this person. The theme of this short story is that in order to find the
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I heard that people can’t change. I don’t think it’s true‚ because I changed all thanks to my best friend Lulu. Before meeting her I was the opposite as I am right now‚ unhelpful‚ not that good at my studies and even not that good as someone to trust. Not only did Lulu change my way of thinking she changed my life‚ within three different reasons‚ her honesty‚ her cleverness and her volunteering works. She is a very close to me‚ although I met Lulu in my first year at the university. The first time
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really cares for her. "I am going to write you a letter. I’ll tell you where I am and maybe you can come see me. Would you like that? Okay then. You wait" (Munro 136). He promises her he will write‚ and for months after that she sits and waits daily for the mail to come‚ not realizing she had a future husband waiting there for her the entire time. She later marries the mailman and he truly believes that she was waiting for him. "He always tells the children the story of how I went after him by sitting
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My Best Friend My Best Friend is Jane Doe. She has helped me figure out who I am. She has showed me the right path. She is always right next to me even if I did not take that path. My whole life would most likely be entirely different if I had not met her. She is the one person I know I can count on no matter the situation. Jane is more like the sister I never had growing up. I met Jane about four years ago at a Nursing home. We worked together as certified nursing assistants. When we
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I am always really impressed and excited by the girlstudents wearing Ao Dai coming out of schools every where in the city at the end of class time. That image is indeed beautiful and so rich in the Vietnamese culture! However‚ we may be forgetting such a lovely image because of the current tendency for cultural intergration .The white Ao Dai has been gradually replaced by the self-designed skirts matched with shirts as usually seen in the Korean or Japanese movies . Seeing this reality‚
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like with their peers. Kids had a huge respect for elders. Parents were more their masters than friends. There were an enormous distance between young and adults what we can see in many old films and books. Gradually this attitude between them has undergone changes since than. But can we confirm that parents become too permissive? I believe that this is true in some cases‚ but not always. On one hand‚ I suppose that children talk with their parents about every subject. Nowadays there don’t exist
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William Faulkner achieve contrasting effects. I. Alice Munro’s "How I Met My Husband" A. Cite character who tells story B. Cite position from which story is told C. Cite the effects the position has on the reader II. William Faulkner’s "A Rose for Emily" A. Cite character who tells the story B. Cite the position from which the story is told C. Cite the effects that the position has on the reader III. Compare and Contrast the Effects A. "How I Met My Husband" B. "A Rose for Emily" IV. Vantage
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A Man’s Best Friend This can’t be happening! I don’t believe this is happening! He was my best friend. They were both my best friends. How does one go from having two best friends to having none at all? I’m all alone…and he is who I have to thank! It was him who did this. He is responsible—him and him alone! And I will make him pay if it’s the last thing I do. [Pause] It seems like yesterday me and ‘ol Murph were playing fetch out back. I’d throw his favorite stick and he’d bring it back every
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