I graduated high school in 2011 but I started my first ever semester of college in the spring of 2017 at Southeast Missouri State University. I was extremely nervous about being in an English class in college. The writing in college is completely different from writing in high school. Writing has never been my forte but I have managed to learn some new things and relearn some old things. My first writing assignment was a literacy narrative. I had no knowledge of this topic. Once the professor explained
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The prewriting method I had chosen for my narrative essay was freewriting. The reason why I chose that method is because of the topic I was given. The topic was my family’s traditional food. So‚ because the topic is about my family‚ I thought it would be easier to free write since it’s based on my own knowledge. This method allowed me to share what came into my mind‚ which included knowledge I knew about my family’s traditional food and its importance in my religion without stressing on research
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Professor Pascale September 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
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to this day. I was at one of those monotonous‚ obligatory family gatherings that we’ve all experienced at some point in our lives‚ celebrating the engagement of my older cousin. I quickly took upon the role of the event photographer‚ after having been praised for my supposed artistic skill. Then‚ it dawned on me - none of my extended family had seen any of my artworks for at least the past 7 years. The last any of them had seen was likely the deformed stick-figure style I had embraced in my childhood
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"My shoes! These were my favorite pair‚" he groans. Then as if realizing where the puke just came from he looks at me. "Shit‚ this means you have a concussion or something‚ right?" The whole time I am just trying to hide my mortification; I just puked all over my sister’s idol. On what apparently is his favorite pair of shoes. "Um‚ we should go find Karla‚ can you walk?" he asks. I have no idea who Karla is. I’m hoping‚ Karla is the manager who spoke with me earlier and not one of the nurses
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ENC 1101 3 February 2014 Narration Essay Number One Growing up nothing ever affected me as much as the time when I saw my baby sister in agony. Cecelia was only two years old at the time and yet she had already gone through something so horrific and frightening for a toddler to experience. I could not understand what was happening as I was only a little girl. The feeling that I had in the pit of my stomach left me feeling petrified because it was truly one of my worst experiences. But the way I felt
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California‚ nor did I know what the judges thought of me‚ I knew that I had successfully completed a memory that would have a big impact on my life. I knew that I had worked hard and tried my best‚ and even if I ended up not even winning a place‚ I would have earned something from this extreme event. My teacher had been trying to decide what piece to give me for my next competition: MTAC‚ the Music Teacher’s Association of California. What does that mean? It means that I will be competing in one
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sexually‚ or any type of background. My parents’ identities are incomprehensible to me‚ because I do not experience life the same way they did‚ and I did not grow up in the same situations in which they did. My cultural identity is inherited from my parents in a way that does not particularly connect with them--that is‚ it is inherited from their sense of self identity and capability to recognize who they are as people. While my my mom may associate herself as one way‚ my dad may associate himself as another
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My Experience in English 106 Jenelle Whitfield AIU English composition has always been a difficult subject for me. Even back in High School I struggled with writing papers and understanding the writing process. However‚ English 106 has been a great experience for me. In this class I was able to understand the many steps in the writing process‚ improve my writing skills‚ and utilizing the feedback I received from my professor. Putting an essay together has always been difficult for
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It was a sunny day in Ardeche. The temperature was about 16 degrees celsius. Tuesday September 12th might seem like a lovely day to you‚ but if you knew what was going to happen later today that day‚ you would not exactly describe it as lovely. Today was the day I was going to spend on the river. I got into my yellow and green fresh looking canoe with a guy called Even. I changed partners many times‚ as we practiced doing a couple of different things with the canoe including 360s and speed paddling
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