English 101 Narrative Essay In Death‚ You Live Forever “Can you get me a glass of water?” my mother whispered in a hoarse voice. I nodded and quickly escaped the dimly lit bedroom to fetch my mother a glass of water from the kitchen. She said she wanted water‚ and I believed her one hundred percent‚ but I knew that she had another motive for sending me out of the room. She wanted to speak to her friend‚ Angelo‚ in private. I knew she would be talking to him about her condition‚ but that’s as
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is from If I Grow Up by Todd Strasser relates to the real world because it’s often a struggle to see someone famous coming from poverty using academic success. This book is a interesting read because it explains a story about a boy who is growing up in the projects‚ who is trying to get himself and his family out of the projects with his smarts. But after a family death and his friends who is joining a local gang‚ life for Deshawn is getting harder and harder. In the novel If I Grow Up by Todd Strasser
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3rd‚ 2013 English III/ Assignment # My home Santiago People will always remember where they came from? Ah! When I was a child the world seem to be a place of joy and happiness. Nothing seemed to have much importance‚ yet looking back to my past I can find a meaning to everything. Furthermore‚ my house was located in the Dominican Republic in an amazing town called Santiago‚ where I lived the best years of my infancy. Dominican Republic is located on the Caribbean Sea‚ and it’s the second largest
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still proud because you did your best. Growing up without a mom has taught me how to work hard‚ be independent‚ and be proud of my work even if the outcome isn’t what I wanted. I can remember one of the first times I tried really hard but i didn’t get the out come I wanted. It was the end of the first quarter in of my seventh grade year. I was sitting in my english class when my teacher‚ Mrs. Barney‚ informed my class that we would starting our essay for the contest our school does every year. The
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Growing up in Houston I could see a business man full of success and then I would move my eyes away from him‚ to see a homeless man barely making it by all on the same street. It is sad that in order to live you have to focus on gaining a green piece of paper. I have lived in Sugar Land; a city near Houston for most of my life. When I was 11 years old my parents divorced‚ it was then that I realized I would have to be the man of the house. I remember the day that they told me‚ I sat in my room wondering
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When I was fourteen‚ I was in an accident which resulted in a spinal cord injury - incomplete‚ leaving me paralyzed from my waist down. We had recently relocated to Texas from Florida‚ so all of our family and friends were predominantly in Florida. For me the unexpected or “catastrophic” event was arduous for me to overcome. My mother‚ father‚ and brother were all supportive during my rehabilitation journey. I spent seven months at Texas Institute for Rehabilitation and Research (TIRR) in Houston
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Narrative Essay : Lost in the Forest So there I stood‚ no clue about my surroundings in a place I had never been before. Being in a forest all alone with nothing but a barely sharp pocket knife is a bad place to be but I had no choice in the matter‚ I was lost. I knew the first thing I had to do would be to build some kind of a shelter‚ something to keep me out of the weather and safe from any animals wanting to eat me. Next‚ I would need to find a food source abundant enough to last until I
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Waking up to Evil Everyone knows that cancer is bad‚ right? Cancer is nefarious. It kills and it’s hard to get rid of. In one way or another it affects everyone. I hate it. Things changed when my grandma died. I didn’t know much about her cancer‚ but I knew enough to know she was in a lot of pain. Before she died I had heard all the stories about what cigarettes do to you and about all of the relatives that had cancer. I heard them‚ but I didn’t really understand. They affected me‚ there is no
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The Day I Woke Up as a Girl Since I was a small kid I remember daydreaming about being a famous soccer player‚ a firefighter‚ a soldier‚ a world famous disk jockey‚ a super hero or even a ninja. As I grew older‚ my dreams and thoughts started focusing more on getting married‚ having my own family and live in a beautiful home. I have never really spent time to think about the possible impact that my life would have if one day‚ just like magic‚ I would wake up as a woman‚ a female version of
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giving up in tough situations can really bring you far. If you persevere. If you think it through. If you know what might happen if you don’t continue on with what you are doing. As a matter of fact‚ I was put in a few situations where I was about to give up‚ but I didn’t because I thought it through and figured out what I could accomplish if I continued. For example‚ when I was hunting. One time was when I was just about ready to give up while practicing with the bow outside on the deck‚ I kept
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