Humberto Salinas English 101 Professor M December 1st‚ 2012 Reflective Essay My writing is nowhere near what I would consider good. I am the only one to blame. As I previously stated in other class assignments‚ I dropped out of high school in the middle of ninth grade. Ever since then‚ I never did any sort of writing‚ unless it was for work. Instead of working on my writing and education in general these past 6 years‚ I have been ignoring the fact that being educated will get me further
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Mr. Hlawaty‚ A main struggle I had with this essay was the open-endedness of it. I found it difficult to come up with a dynamic research question and furthermore develop an adequate thesis out of that question‚ because I was often uncertain about whether or not I was doing it “right.” I worried that my topic would not be significant enough‚ my claims and appreciation of the craft not literary enough‚ and my greater implications not great enough. However‚ one thing I think that I did well was allowing
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Family often represents an important role in determining one’s life‚ whether it is ordinary or abnormal. In the short stories “House Taken Over” by Julio Cortázar and “Coarse Sand” by Hwang Sunwŏn‚ each narrator makes the usual seem unusual through the everyday actions of the characters. In “House Taken Over”‚ the everyday routine of the siblings incorporates eerie encroachment of the ethereal “they”‚ making the unusual seem usual. In “Coarse Sand”‚ the character is depicted as someone who lives
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to him. When I joined a new soccer team I thought I would have been one of the worst soccer players there. When I was trying out I saw so many people that were good. When I started to do a drill I was rocking it and even the coach was loving it. Once the drill was done the coach came up to me and shook my hand and said: “you’re on my team”. The coach thought that I was one of the best there and going into the season I was the probably the best player on the team. I could also relate to Jonas when
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Intermediate Ropes Course‚ Goals and Values‚ and the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) 360 Survey results review. As a leader and a Chief‚ we never want to see someone fail. The Intermediate Ropes Course taught me a vital lesson in working as a team‚ as well as relying on others to achieve a common goal. There were obstacles that could not possibly be conquered alone‚ and required the entire group to complete. Teamwork along with
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is gloomy. I was raised in the projects (low-income dwellings) in the city of New York during my teenage year‚ in a single family home with an older sibling. My mother worked long hours to provide the necessities for us; however‚ my sibling and I work part-time jobs to assist my mother since there was no other income. In my environment none of my peers ever talked about college or even graduating from high school. Most of us had to have jobs to help support our families or some found extracurricular
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traits to live up to‚ but on the other hand‚ both cultures have an incredible impact on my daily life and how I go about it. First of all‚ the IB culture has many more rules than the music student culture simply because it is more concerned with class work and grades than creativity
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Reflective Essay Ever since the semester started‚ we have written three major essay‚ review‚ report and visual rhetorical analysis. Throughout the semester‚ I have learned new ideas and methods of writing and learning new punctuation rules and learned the ease of writing within the minimum word limit. Through writing these essays‚ I have improved on wording‚ format and grammar. When staring out‚ I had multiple problems regarding wording and use of different diction. When I first wrote the Short
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how to do it‚ and no one bothered to lead them in the right direction. If even a single one of the senior members had stepped in to be a leader and inspired them to take an interest in their duties‚ our chapter would have had a stable advisor. My team recently did this‚ along with instituting a more strenuous interview process‚ and we now have an extremely satisfactory advisor. Those few leaders that attempt to inspire us to
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‘Social Stratification is the division of large numbers of people into layers according to their relative property‚ power‚ and prestige; applies to both nations and to people within a nation‚ society‚ or other group.’ (Henslin‚ James‚2011) There are basically four systems to socially stratify a family. Social class‚ as one of the systems will be investigated in the following paragraphs. (1) Identification of my family’s social class position and explanations of it: Social class is fundamentally
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