Academically and professionally my former boss‚ Gisella‚ has been the most influential mentor in my life. Gisella was once a professor at my junior college but I knew her as the director of the East Los Angeles College Writing Center. I was hired as a writing tutor and Gisella was my main boss. What I admired most about Gisella‚ was her intelligence and her empathy. Her knowledge of literature and her ability to think critically‚ always inspired me to push my intellectual abilities. As a student
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A writer is what I aspire to be. You know when you’re a kid and most of the other kids say they want to be a artist or an astronaut‚but I wanted to be an author. I assumed this just because I had quality English grades and I had a strong interest in reading‚ but as I got older I found the power of words to be the best way to express myself. I learned to create stories that help people see things differently‚ that bring new ideas to my readers. Later I started to look back at the authors that changed
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I thought I wasn’t going to be able to get a hold of her. I quickly ran through my list of problems. I ended up having to repeat it twice because I was talking so fast; she couldn’t understand a word I was saying. “You have to calm down sweetie.” My mom stated. I was wondering why I was hearing this so much. Did anyone realize the pressure I was under? She began to explain to me that she had taken them out of my bag that morning because she was buying new ones‚ which
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"A teacher’s greatest joy is seeing his/her students have success." These are the first words that came out of the mouth of Mr. James Glennon on the first day of class. A man who can be considered ancient‚ with his white hair and thick rectangular glasses stood in front of the classroom with a commanding presence. At first‚ he was frightening to me‚ but in the coming days I noticed his personable character. Not all students come to school excited to learn‚ but Glennon is the type of teacher that
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A man in his search of the human‘s soul once wrote “Nature is not primarily functional. It is primarily beautiful. Which is to say‚ beauty is in and of itself a great and glorious good‚ something we need in large and daily doses. Nature at the height of its glory shouts‚ Beauty is essential” (Eldredge 34)! The authors of Walden and Thanatopsis regard beauty as a necessary part of nature and life. Walden‚ written by Henry David Thoreau‚ is a story of a man who finds out more about himself while living
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* ------------------------------------------------- * ------------------------------------------------- * ------------------------------------------------- * ------------------------------------------------- My father died thirteen years ago and I am still regretting my past behavior towards him. We had a turboulos relationship . I was a bit rebellious during my adolescent years‚ and moved out when I was only seventeen.. Now I can say‚ that I had the best and most
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I walked out of the plane and I saw the aerodrome of Greece. It was the early phase of World war II and I was recruited as a Junior Pilot Officer‚ one below a Corporal‚ in the Royal Air force of the British Imperial Army. The runway was just a little strip of flat land surrounded with wild grass and flowers blossoming blue and yellow and red in their millions around me bordered by brown craggy mountains with a sea at a distance. It was springtime here and a gentle breeze was flowing from the sea
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When I was a young boy aged ten I always had a fear of being by myself in a strange surrounding. The thought of no one else but me gave me an eerie sensation and a chill always ran down my spine. I knew I had to be able to conquer that fear someday but on April 1st‚ the chance caught me by surprise. It was on the morning of a sunny beautiful as day for April. Not a cloud in the sky and as I exited the school grounds heading back home I could feel the strong wind brushing against my face and through
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believe that you can tell a lot about a person by observing what they wear. Is this true? A man in a nice pressed three-piece suit‚ carrying an expensive briefcase is obviously a businessman‚ right? A woman wearing a long ruffled colorful dress‚ with many jewelry pieces around her neck and wrists and colorful beads braided onto her hair must be a hippy or a gypsy‚ right? It is easy to label people based on how they dressed‚ sometimes too easy. Let’s face it; the first thing you do to a person
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WHAT I HAVE LEARNED ABOUT MYSELF THUS FAR Taking the Myers-Biggs test has forced me to admit what I as an individual am not capable of performing. I have learned that I value my strengths and take advantage of my abilities‚ but ignore my weaknesses. To grow as a person and get what I want out of life I must not only capitalize on my strengths‚ but also face my weaknesses head on. This will not only better me as a person‚ but it will also force me to be honest with myself. One of my personal strength’s
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