Alice Munro published “How I Met My Husband” in her book Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You (1974). Told from the first-person point of view‚ the story layers the voice of the fifteen-year-old Edie‚ working as a “hired girl” in the house of the comparatively wealthy Peebles family‚ with that of the adult Edie‚ now happily married and wiser than she was as a teenager. Edie’s voice is colloquial and friendly‚ keenly aware of its audience. In this way‚ the story celebrates the art of storytelling
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My First Date Why is everyone so stressed out about their first date? That’s an easy question. Everything depends how the first date goes to determent either you like that person or not. It’s like a test for the rest of the relationship. That’s why everybody wants‚ to make it original‚ special and a pretty moment that they could remember. Mine was all those things. Last year‚ in New Year’s Eve‚ my best friend Omar and I had a date. He invited me to his family reunion at his house. At first I
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freshman year‚ my grandpa said to me he expected a state ring. I told him that was impossible. A freshman doesn’t get a varsity spot‚ especially with as much talent the upperclassmen have. Little did I know that anything is possible when I put my mind to it. My first sport in high school was soccer and I wasn’t prepared for the amount of fitness I needed. I thought that I was in shape‚ but I was in for a rude awakening. The first practice we ran the entire time. I hated it and I wanted to quit‚
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My First Marathon By the time I entered Tsinghua University in 2006‚ my life had been occupied by boring studying for several years. There were many things that I never believed I could do like being a monitor of class‚ getting into a fancy relationship or dancing on the stage. If those were things I had still imagined‚ marathon was one thing that I had never imagined. A distance of 42.195 kilometers (about 26.4 miles) was not kidding. In the first month I went to Tsinghua‚ the student union
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rise and school administrators are having a difficult time creating a safe learning environment for all students without infringing upon first amendment rights. School officials now have to ask themselves when it is appropriate to punish students for behavior outside of class. All school systems should have the power to override a student’s freedom of speech if that student causes substantial disruption of the school environment. The main problem when dealing with cyber bullying and the first amendment
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19 March 2014 How I View Failures In life‚ no one wants to fail at anything they do because they think failure leads them nowhere. They think failure is embarrassing and they usually given up trying to finish what they started. Sometimes people fail due to their own faults such as not studying for a test‚ therefore that person will fail. But other times it may not be their fault in failing. An example would be in a competition where someone gets picked as the winner and the other person doesn’t
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Breathe. Step. Look. Repeat. Don’t quit‚ I remind myself. You can do this‚ I remind myself. Just finish it‚ I remind myself‚ as I run my first high school 5k. I was nearing the final‚ lit up and glowing soccer stadium. Tall bleachers filled with people surrounded and hovered over the field like a vulture over it’s dead prey. Prior to this race‚ I had only ran one high school race‚ a 3k. Even though I had trained all summer long‚ my hamstring problems that had started a while ago‚ we’re just
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Aniya Lyons Core 1 Memoir Assignment The First Time I Broke My Ankle Introduction So to start this story off i was in the third grade i was on the bus going home it was the last day of school so i sat two seats up from the white boy i liked his name was landon but he sat in the back with all the older boys and his brother sat back there so his brother friend was like everyone pick a girl to date for the summer and he was like i pick Ani…. an i looked but when he said that. He came and
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My First Day… As of today‚ August 30th‚ I‚ Blah blah blah‚ took the initiative to explore the entire campus. Today‚ the temperature could have possibly been right at about 93 degrees‚ and I decided to walk around this gigantic campus to waste time before my next class. During orientation week‚ I missed the campus tours because I was too busy sleeping my day away. So‚ what other way to compensate for lost time than to take my very own campus tour? Initially‚ I intended to look for the art buildings
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My First Deployment On August 19‚ 2003 at Fort Riley‚ Kansas‚ is where I received notice of my first deployment. I woke up at five-thirty in the morning to get ready for physical training. When I went outside‚ the temperature was about thirty-five degrees with a brisk wind. Standing in a formation in my black thin sweat pants and my gray sweat top‚ it felt like I was only wearing a t-shirt and shorts. We ran about three miles up and down long steep hills that I thought would never end. Finally with
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