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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After the long vigorous hours of hard practice‚ game day arrives. The coaches and girls have been waiting on tonight for numerous amounts of days. The smell of diesel fuel fills the air as the fierce competitors exit the yellow painted bus‚ after a long‚ time consuming ride. The players enter the gym in a parade like fashion as the loud roars of supporters fill the stands. While the hype increases‚ the players gear up for war. The torn knee pads slide on to protect the player’s boney knees as they
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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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Identifying language techniques Composers use various language techniques or features to make their texts more interesting and engaging to the responder. Some language techniques used by Stephen Herrick in The Simple Gift are: • simile: comparing one thing with another using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’ • metaphor: a comparison where one thing is said to be another • colloquial language: everyday speech characterised by informal language and shortened words (g’day‚ can’t) • direct
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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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Outside Writing Assignment #1 Has the question‚ “ What do other people think of me?” ever crossed your mind before? It has crossed my mind before‚ which has led me to many questions. In this day and age people know how to handle a computer‚ I’d like to say I know more than your average bear. Many things are possible with a computer‚ like watching videos or listening to live streams. Every week or so a group of my friends speak about random topics‚ this particular week the gang decided to speak
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The Story of My Love 02/13/2013 Love is a crazy‚ strange‚ yet enticing game. Many think that they will never fall into its captivating lure; I am one of these people. If someone had told me back in April‚ when Aingeal and I were officially introduced that he would later become my Fiancée‚ I would have laughed at the mere thought. It’s quite funny how life works. We have had our share of problems but I never would have thought I would lose him so soon. Shortly before finishing the last of
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