Olaudah Equiano’s‚ a respected former slave and Author of the Autobiography The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano‚ or Gustavus Vassa‚ the African‚ authenticity of his autobiographical account regarding his childhood has been questioned by scholars and historians. Some state that he had only made up his African origin to gain political success whereas others go against that argument. I believe that Equiano’s autobiographical account of his childhood is authentic. Vincent Carretta
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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 to be on the Robbers team. That means I got to hide‚ and I had always had a
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My best and worst quality is my excessive curiosity‚ especially when it comes to space travel and programs related to it. This quality sometimes gets me into trouble because I will drop any activity I am doing to find answers to satisfy my curiosity. This quality has a good side; with curiosity I also expand my knowledge in many subjects that I am interested in. I will use my major in Aerospace to satisfy my curiosity of space flight and achieve my goals to work for NASA. One of the main reasons
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Casey Evans Becoming Independent Life is going to have a million turning points. I’ve realized what you make of those turning points proves who you are. When things get tough you really can’t give up‚ keep going. Moving on is not simple‚ but when you realize what has past is in the past‚ you’ve learned a great lesson. Senior year is the most important of my high school career‚ so far it’s been full of high and low points. Starting in the summer getting dumped by your best friend; well I thought
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letters . . .” T he essays you write and the stories you tell come alive when you use description‚ narration‚ and example. Descriptive techniques help you show your reader what you see‚ hear‚ smell‚ touch‚ or taste. Narrative techniques help you concisely tell a reader a story that makes a point. Examples supply specific illustrations and instances in many types of writing. Description‚ narration‚ and example provide the foundations for many other types of essay writing. 120 CHAPTER
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when my daughter started kindergarten in the fall of 2002. I told her I would consider it if she would babysit. We never discussed it again. November 2002 my mother got into a serious life battling car accident that put her into a coma for a month in a half. It turned my world upside down. My whole life went numb‚ and I felt as if I was watching a lifetime movie and I was in it. She was never the same‚ short-term memory loss‚ incompetent‚ and never walked again. My mother struggled for 5
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thought back to my past life and never saw a pair of twins in my life. Neither mum‚ nor dad ever talked about me having twin cousins. I was starting to think that mum just kept this ultrasound because she felt like it but something else caught my eye. The date on the bottom right hand corner stated that the ultrasound was taken on the 2nd of July 1998. Later on‚ I found a note that read‚ “Ultrasound of Georgia and Emma ❤.” It was only then that I realized what mum meant the other day about me taking something
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(only) mistake I ever made. My first job was horrible. I did not really know how bad those fast food jobs really were until I got my first job. I was a cook at Whataburger. Yes Whataburger in Decatur‚ the Texas treasure‚ the Alcatraz of the west‚ the worst place to work in America. Believe me when I say that Whataburger is the closest thing to hell a human can experience. Maybe not that far‚ but it is bad. The job was not that bad at first. Everyone would joke around be relaxed‚ and have a good time
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spite of the naughtiness and popularity we had‚ we were kind to everybody. We played with everyone and didn’t bully or do anything bad or harmful to others. However‚ things didn’t go well when a new student started to settle into my class. It was a day before winter break‚ everybody was waiting for going snow shoeing‚ skiing during the break. Unlike to me‚ I knew that good things come when I least expected. My new fellow student – Adam Tran – was a good-looking guy with an angel smile. People said
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A Mothers Worst Nightmare On a very cold March day my son Garrett and my daughter Jordan were playing ball in our backyard when Garrett’s ball went into the neighbor’s yard. Garrett proceeded to go into their yard to get the ball not realizing how long their dog’s chain was. The dog lunged forward and grabbed Garrett by the back of his jacket and pulled him in and then proceeded to viciously attack him. This colossal fury wolf like dog began to assail my feeble little boy. While
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