Atinuke Adebiyi 10/2/14 English 101 Professor Muller The Journey Just Beginning The speaker is speaking on how far we‚ as the class of 2014‚ have come. He starts to talk about how people around him thought he would not amount to anything due to him not being really focused in school. From there‚ he goes on about how he graduated college with a Master’s degree and a Bachelor’s degree with five years. Before he was about to take his seat‚ he said one statement that stuck in my head like glue. His
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Since I had started school and writing composition‚ I have had experiences that either was good or bad. But at the end these experience helped me through my next and future years of school and college. One of the incidents that most marked my writing experience was in sophomore year. The prompt was doing a resume for college‚ and I actually did or tried my best‚ but then again the result wasn’t so good. The resume was almost completely marked by red writings‚ of my grammar. All though the professor
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How I Learned to Skate Learning something new can be a scary experience. One of the hardest things I have ever done was learning how to skate. We live in Canada‚ and I could not be the only one who did not know how to skate. I have always been a shy person and afraid of the ice; but I decided that skating was an important sport that I should learn. I thought it would be a nice experience and I had friends that were willing to help me. What I did not know was that learning to skate would also
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As Bernard M. Baruch once said‚ “Be who you are and say what you feel‚ because those who mind don’t matter‚ and those who matter don’t mind.” I was unaware that my opinion of myself was more meaningful than my peer’s opinion. I had a rough time figuring out who I was and who I wanted to be in my first few years of high school. The first chance I got to poke the popular bubble was taken‚ giving me one shot to embed myself into an exotic‚ unknown social group. What I didn’t know was that this social
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Sam‚ Dean‚ Mary‚ and Castiel all slowly entered the abandoned restaurant with weapons at the ready. When they saw that no one was around‚ Sam spoke the question on all of their minds. "Are you sure this is the place‚ Dean?" Dean finally lowered his gun and sighed. He pulled out his phone and checked the text again. "It says to meet at this exact place." They were all looking around in the same area until Cas froze. "What is it‚ Cas?"‚ Mary asked. "Someone’s here." Then‚ a voice echoed through the
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the middle of the journey of our life‚ I came to myself‚ in a dark wood‚ where the direct way was lost. It is a hard thing to speak of‚ how wild‚ harsh and impenetrable that wood was‚ so that thinking of it recreates the fear. It is scarcely less bitter than death: but‚ in order to tell of the good that I found there‚ I must tell of the other things I saw there. I cannot rightly say how I entered it. I was so full of sleep‚ at that point where I abandoned the true way. But when I reached the foot
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How could people be so bad! Argh! Why do I get all the problems? Why me? Those guys made fun of me for no reason. I was trying hard enough. I was feeling so bad about it that wasted my evening thinking all over things that happened by the pool. Well actually I have been attending the Recreation Centre these days. I go there every evening for swimming. Not that I can’t swim but I can’t do some of the swimming styles. And learning these styles had become so frustrating that I would feel mentally exhausted
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Awakening from General Zaroff’s comfortable bed‚ Rainsford felt he just had the most bizarre dream in his life. What happened slowly came back to his mind. He won in Zaroff’s hunt and then he fell asleep in Zaroff’s bed. Zaroff was the hunter who lived in the enormous building on Ship-Trap Island. Rainsford wasn’t mad like the day before‚ and he got dressed and walked down the to the diner looking for breakfast. Zaroff wasn’t there‚ but there was a new person‚ Evan. Evan looked exactly like Ivan
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Eternal Love We were sitting in the doctor’s office when he told us‚ “your wife has breast cancer.” All of a sudden the room vanished and I found myself in a darker room‚ unable to feel anything. I wanted to cry but couldn’t. She was shocked‚ just like me. was staring into my eyes. “Don’t worry sweetheart‚” she said after a few minutes. “I am going to be OK.” She was smiling at me as if nothing had happened. I don’t know how she could be so fearless. We had been married for 23 years; we had shared
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Can you think of a time when you were feeling down and everyone else is having a good time? The best think you can do is cheer someone else up. That sometimes makes me feel better. Not to long ago I wasn’t cheerful around my friends. I was just having a bad day. Neither was my friend Mark. We both were on the same team for badminton in gym. Our other good friend Wade was cheating on us. So that was making Mark mad. I had to cheer Mark up to cheer myself up. Mark was mad as a bee gets when humans
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