Freshman Composition I‚ Summer 2012 Instructor Name: Sampada Chavan Assignment #2 Personal Narrative (20% of total grade) Description of Assignment For this project you will write a narrative essay about a significant moment of your life using the literary strategies of plot‚ character‚ and setting. This should be a moment when you learned something important about yourself or someone else‚ or about life. You will develop your story through the use of contraries‚ creating tension that moves
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I woke with a start‚ my alarm clock screaming at me to get up before the sun. I slid myself out of bed‚ groggily dodging the mountains of boxes precariously placed about my room. I truly believe that I was not ready for such a big move‚ or what it would do to me as a freshly graduated 6th grader. I avoided everyone on that too-early morning‚ not quite brave enough to say goodbye. I was feeling some odd mixture of excitement and distress because I was excited to see me mom again after 3 months‚ but
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On Being Barbie Why is it that just because my hair happens to be blonde rather than brown or black or even red that I become the subject of hateful or “funny” jokes? On July 9th in 1999‚ I was introduced to this big world full of people‚ drama‚ love‚ stereotypes‚ and tons of things that I had yet to understand. I was an innocent child starting in the world with years of learning ahead of me just like everyone else. However‚ there was one thing that set me apart from all of the other babies‚ and
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1. My current set of values and beliefs about human beings 2 2. My current set of values and beliefs about my chosen counselling setting 2 3. My current set of values and beliefs about myself 3 4. How can I resolve any contradictions? 4 5. How my beliefs and values affect my work and attitude towards counselling 4 Section B 5 1. What does counselling mean to me? 5 2. How do I distinguish counselling from helping? 5 3. How do I distinguish counselling from psychotherapy? 5 4. Goal of counselling offered
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Moving homes and relocating to another city sometimes feels like starting a new life. New home‚ new friends‚ and new streets to learn. I moved towns at the age of five and got to see things from a different perspective as I grew older. It was not until the age of 12 that I transferred schools and made new friends. At the time‚ I was frightened of the idea of moving‚ but after some time I was truly grateful it had happened to me. My parents‚ as well as a friend of mine‚ took a big part of this change
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I used to be popular. I used to make friends as naturally as breathing. I used to be so sociable that adults would tire of hearing me speak. I used to find myself standing before the teacher’s desk‚ receiving some minor punishment for socializing too often. Then my family moved‚ and I lost all the relationships I had built up. I used to start all over again with the same level of enthusiasm as initially. And again. And again. Every time my family moved‚ I started to see less and less of
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I was running on the blacktop as I reach my hand out to grab the tetherball pole to swing around. As I was swinging around my foot caught on a rock and I tripped‚ my face hit the ground very hard.... I was in the cafeteria and I got a hot dog. I sat down at a table. I didn’t talk to anybody I just ate my lunch and then the teacher dismissed us to go to recess. I talk to my best friend Jaxon for a few minutes‚ and then I decided to start running on the blacktop. I was running on the blacktop as I
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When I was younger about 12 years of age in Brooklyn‚ New York I felt like my life was coming to an end by a very neglectful man driving. It was a late night‚ mother and I were visiting my aunt who lived in Brooklyn while we’re living in Long Island‚ New York. We left at 3:00pm on a Friday when I came home from school. We took the N22 bus to the train station and when coming of the bus it smelled disgusting. It smelled like urine because well we were underground and there were many homeless people
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What Being a teenager is all about Introduction Hi. Today I’m here to talk about something we can all relate to. I’ll be talking about how to go from a naive teenager to a grown responsible adult that is really to take on life. From getting new responsibilities‚ to getting an education and finding something to do with our live that we will enjoy. But in order to end up as a happy adult we must first go through some pretty difficult things such as finding our first jobs and keeping up in school
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making their appearance known‚ and I did relatively well‚ though wasn’t totally on my game that day. The next morning‚ I decided to get some extra practice in‚ and knew the waves would still be decent form the previous day. I wasn’t the only one‚ as about a dozen other surfers were already beach side when I showed up around six in the morning. We all paddled out‚ a couple locals
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