lay in my bed quietly as I heard the footsteps of my mother in the hallway. Lights went a blazing‚ lighting her way‚ some spilling into our room. Then I heard a door open and more feet shuffling into our quiet home. “Police‚” said an unknown voice‚ so loud and so clear. “Put your hands up in the air and get down on the floor.” My mother moved to obey the order. More feet were moving about. Voices were talking above voices. Someone asked my mother a question. As I listened‚ I heard the fear in her
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most. She had to move to her grandmother’s house which was on top of a hill behind her hometown‚ with her brother‚ Vichai. I feel that the main idea that the author is trying to communicate has a lot got to do with Facing Adversity. There are three parts to show that Noi is clearly facing obstacles before‚ during‚ and after the tsunami. Before the tsunami‚ Noi already led a hard life. This is seen in her ‘walking down the tourist strip carrying her tray of shells laden with the treasures she and
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“Facing It” is a very sincere‚ emotional poem; the speaker in this poem is an African American Vietnam veteran visiting the Vietnam memorial in Washington D.C. The speaker is an African American because he states this in the lines “My black face fades‚ hiding inside the black granite” (Komunyakaa 1-2). The speaker’s memories of the war are like undying passenger with him for the remainder of his life. The passenger has a solid grip on the speaker when he gazes at the wall of names at the Vietnam
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The Wildest Experience of My Life Carl S. Fricke English Composition 1 So my last weekend before being deployed has finally arrived. I wanted to do something exciting‚ extreme - something I never would have imagined doing before – something that would take a lot of heart to do. Maybe even could be called a little crazy as others told me. Skydiving was something I had never done and certainly had never thought of doing until now. After doing some research online‚ I found a place only an
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and lunch breaks after class. In the third grade tag games were the hot thing to do during recess. Personally I hated playing tag games because I was never the fastest girls‚ and I always seemed to end up getting tagged. I was “it” for hours! One day my friends and I decided to switch up our usual routine of playing tag and chose to play Cops and Robbers instead. As fun and easy as that sounds‚ to this day I am still scarred from playing that game. Excitement rushed through me when I was chosen
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Tanoshīdesu James is always looking for adventure. As a 5 ft 5 in‚ 12-year-old boy‚ James thought he could handle anything. Living on the miniscule island of Takeshima‚ Japan‚ James could never go further than his 123‚000 square foot island that was measured by himself. Every day‚ after his chores were done‚ James would fill his precious backpack with high-tech tools that were often used by professionals during the most perilous of adventures. Then he would walk out of his house and travel every
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Personal Narrative In my life‚ I have met certain people who have changed me for the better and have helped shape me into who I am today. A lot of those people have left but one that has always stood by my side and sticks out in my mind is my favorite person in the whole world‚ who happens to be my Papa. He has been there for me since day one‚ literally. He was the second person to hold me as in infant‚ after my mother. People like him don’t come around everyday. He is the most genuine person you
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MTRCB FORUM: “Para sa Matalinong Panonood” A Narrative Report By Lharize G. Soriano We were informed by Miss Abby a week ahead that there will be a seminar on November 17 at the BUCAL Amphitheatre and that certain personalities and important people will be visiting the school. I learned that it would be the first forum of Movie and Television Review and Classification Board‚ also known as MTRCB‚ to be conducted in Bicol University. So when Mam Abby needed help I volunteered and was tasked
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As a mode of expository writing‚ the narrative approach‚ more than any other‚ offers writers a chance to think and write about themselves. We all have experiences lodged in our memories‚ which are worthy of sharing with readers. Yet sometimes they are so fused with other memories that a lot of the time spent in writing narrative is in the prewriting stage. When you write a narrative essay‚ you are telling a story. Narrative essays are told from a defined point of view‚ often the author’s‚ so there
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and being able to write. I have always had my strengths within my writing but along with those strengths also came a lot of mistakes and weaknesses. If I am suppose to sit here and just list my weaknesses then I would exceed the three to five page limit by about 4 or 5 pages. So thank god that I have the option to list my strengths to try and convince people that I am somewhat of a good writer. So without further ado here is my self assessment essay. Strengths I have things that I do really
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