Writing circle

The way this book begins is curious to me because it starts, well rather the introduction starts, at the end. It’s curious because the book gives away its own ending at the beginning; of course, this book isn’t really one that requires much mystery because it’s just the retelling of someones life, but it is still pequliar. What’s even more strange than that is that I always read the last paragraph of a book before I begin reading chapter one, but with My Antonia I didn’t feel the need since the…

Swift was much inspired by Lucian as can be understood from the style of writing that he adopted for the book. Lucian’s story was highly popular with Swift and that accounted for the influence. True Story by Lucian Samosata is a satirical travelogue. For centuries his format has been copied. The facts in this book like journey to our moon inspired later science fiction writers. Lucian criticized everything through his writings; no one was spared, whether they were national heroes, philosophers,…

Introduction: In this paper, I will discuss my best-self portrait which indicates my strengths/weaknesses and translate into proactive steps for my future life based on the Reflected Best Self ExerciseTM (RBSETM). At first, I requested twenty potential respondents to share stories of when I was at my best, and collected twenty-five stories from seventeen respondents. Then, I created my reflected best-self portrait by analyzing shared stories. Following that, I listed enablers and blockers and…

majority of the information within the text was spot on for even today’s society. It is an amazing time to be alive in the twenty-first century and many people could not have fathomed that music would have headed this way. Ray Robinson as he was writing this chapter seem to have the foresight, that was needed to even give people considering music, a warning. Now more than ever the arts seem to be struggling to survive, especially within schools and churches. There is barely any type of funding…

Novels by Ilana Tan is one of the novel the season 4 for me. His first novel is titled Summer in Seoul, a novel entitled Autumn in Paris, his third novel, entitled Winter in Tokyo and his fourth novel titled Spring in London. The reason I chose it is because the title ' little ' pull my heart, a synopsis of the book very soon made me want to go home and read this book in my room. In this article, I will review some of the things I love about this novel. The main character in this novel there are…

My college career began at Seattle Central College when I was senior in high school because I was in the Running Start program. I had a good work ethic throughout the first few years of high school and wanted to challenge myself during senior year. I diligently attended class and took thorough notes but I did not put in any effort into the class works or group discussions which resulted in my poor performance during the first year of college. At that same time, I was going through a break up and…

Language as the “Supreme Weapon” in Nineteen Eighty-Four Human beings live in a small world in which they have to communicate with each other. They exchange beliefs, knowledge, opinions, threats, wishes, feelings and promises. Communication is not only based on speaking acts and words but also on facial and body gestures. For instance, we smile to express amusement, happiness, or disrespect. We can also scream to express fear, anger, or excitement. We can use facial gestures to express…

The story I am not a couch-potato! Never have I been so wrong about myself when two years ago I told it to myself. The truth was rather painful. Being for six years in the sports class I did a lot of exercises. Later on, some people told me that I am intellectually gifted (ehem...) and should do something 'more serious'. Cutting the long story short - this is how I became an engineer. Do not get me wrong, I love my job and engineering is something super-cool, but my problem is that at some…

The Soul of an Educator- Mr._________________ I wanted to send you one of my graduation announcements because you are one of the few teachers/mentors I had in my life who taught me something-that got me this far. I will NEVER, EVER forget the day in English class when you pulled out a map of the universe and gave a talk about how small our problems really are. That bit of information definitely saved me hundreds of times while at school. My personality and lifestyle has molded itself around…

I am sixteen years old turning seventeen on 28th of February. I have two brothers and one sister, I am the second oldest. I am very close with my siblings, especially my older brother, he’s more than a brother to me. He trusts me with all his secrets and I do too. I value my friends and family more than any other thing in life, and I am afraid to lose them. My goal in life right now is to accomplish my dreams, be happy, and make my loved ones happy and proud of me. School work and future life…