Starting off my first semester of college I didn’t know what to expect‚ the first day felt like the first day of high school all over again. With graduation over and the first day of college over‚ high school was just like college. When entering my reading class it reminded me of my senior writing class but with a twist of personality. What I learned in reading class this semester was more of a review of my senior writing and reading class combined. I enjoyed learning about both topics because it
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Throughout the semester I was aware I was learning things‚ but it wasn’t until watching my IDEA speech that I realized how much I had truly learned. I thought that maybe I had picked up a few useful tips‚ but I didn’t think that I had really changed much as a speaker. It turns out I was dead wrong. I have clearly learned a tremendous amount. This shows in my improvement from the first speech‚ as well the drastic change in my PRCA-24 score. When I took the PRCA-24 for the first time at the beginning
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Who I am My background as a writer only goes as far as high school assignments. Even then‚ I have not done much writing. My first year in high school‚ I do not remember us doing any writing. The most I remember writing is short essays‚ stories‚ and poetry for a class project. Other than that project‚ I do not recall doing much writing. The project was to write stories‚ essays‚ and poetry about our life. My second year in high school‚ I was supposed to write more because it was English 10 Writing
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them‚ we always seem to come off as stupid and sometimes crazy to them. I believe most women view some men as unclassy‚ selfish human beings who lack the ability to give respect or acknowledge the fact that women are not there to take care of them. In some ways‚ men are sometimes seen as the term that women use often: animals. However‚ that would be an immoral judgment. In Barbara Ehrenreich’s short essay‚ "What I’ve learned from Men‚" she describes and bases her essay on things women can learn
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Things that I have learned so far about high school is that the more you will realize who your friends are they will really start showing you their “true colors”. Furthermore balancing the workload is a very hard task because you have extra curriculum and other responsibilities dealing with your household. Being in high school you aren’t going to get pampered or a teacher constantly coming to you‚ tell you that you have work due ‚ missing assignments ‚ being in class on time and keeping up with your
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What is academic English? You may be confident in using English in everyday situations‚ but the kind of English you need for study is rather different. It is what is known as ’academic English’ and is the type of English you need for * reading and understanding your study materials * writing about your subject. Academic English is different from everyday spoken English. It may be used to * describe an object or situation * describe a process or how something works * explain
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I struggled to write my stories when non-fiction meant ‘real life’. I did not know what I wanted to write and how much of my own life I wanted to share. I am not a very open person‚ but I do enjoy sharing anecdotes of adventures in my life. When it came to writing non-fiction‚ I felt like I had to expose who I am and reveal my secrets. In my writing‚ I do not think I could hide anything. The Mixed-Genre class became my sense for self-discovery. I started figuring out who I am as a writer and I realized
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something new can be a very scary experience. Of course I think I can discover and have discovered something original from every incident in my life‚ but sometimes I wish there had been easier ways to gain those insights. Sometime in June of the year 2001‚ when I arrived to the United States from Brazil‚ my parents and I were welcomed at the airport by this very nice lady whose name was Romy. My dad would be taking Romy’s job in a few weeks‚ and I assume it was her duty to show us around the new town
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I found an interesting article about motivation called Praise and Trout: What I Learned Fly-Fishing with Charlie by Rodd Wagner. In this article Rodd discusses the motivation it takes to persist in a task until success‚ even when the outcome is frequently failure. It compares human motivation to learning to fly-fish. He discusses the dedication‚ patience‚ and persistence that is required in the task to reach the eventual fruitful (or fishful) outcome. The article discourses on how success is its
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In high school I have taken a lot of classes. Some I had to take as a graduate requirement such as English‚ math and social studies. Others I didn’t have to take‚ but did because I either wanted to work out or learn more on some subject I liked. These classes would fall along the lines of art‚ power lifting and ceramics. That’s just what I thought this class was going to end up being. Just a class I took for the fun of it because the subject looked cool to me. I had no idea that it would forever
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