Have you spent your life on things that make it worth living? Are you simply existing in this life or are you living in it? Anna Quindlen in her Commencement Address at Villanova College forces us to ask ourselves these questions as she leaves long lasting imprints in the minds of the attendees and graduates. Quindlen’s use of rhetorical devices, personal stories, and quotes helps her express her main points, that one must make their life worth living and that life should never be taken for granted because there are so many things to live for. Throughout Qundlen’s speech she uses all three of the appeals to create a connection with her audience.…
Two months after my eighteenth birthday I chose to get “love” tattooed on my wrist as a permanent reminder of this organization and how much it means to…
* For the Fall for the Book assignment, I chose to attend Janet Mock's event. Last year, she was supposed to come; however, she was unable to make it to George Mason University. Before learning about the Fall for the Book assignment, I heard about the event through my Introduction to Woman and Gender Studies class. The upcoming topic that we were going to discuss in class was transgender women and men, so my professor encouraged my class to attend the event. *…
“The simple truth is that you can understand a town. You can know and love and hate it. You can blame it, resent it, and nothing changes. In the end, you’re just another part of it.” This quote Brenna Yovanoff relates to me especially after I hit the age of two years old.…
I chose to include prompt 13-2 in this portfolio because I learned the most that week about how little I understand people. I have always been one to try and see things from someone else’s point of view but, after writing that prompt, I realized that I was actually pretty ignorant about how others view problems. There is not one defining event or moment that dictates how one views things rather, it is a messy series of life events that shape the world through each persons’ eyes. Understanding this will help me going forward in that, I will be more thorough in research and also more open minded about what I am researching. I have also learned that just because I am reading or researching one topic, that does not mean it is the only topic within that book or paper.…
An unusually fragile underclassman: devoid of faith and fearful of a new environment brimming with the cold embrace of the unknown. “What do you like about yourself?” Sitting in the audience, listening to an assembly during my freshman orientation of high school, this existential question hit me like a tidal wave—initially destructive yet ultimately metamorphic. Those around me blessed with a wealth of confidence from a young age beamed with vanity: athletes, scholars, musicians and those exceptionally precocious few with the ability to thrive in multiple environments.…
This item represents my culture and as a daughter in a Hmong family. Furthermore, it represents my duties as a daughter in a Hmong family. My duties as a daughter was important than education but as time went by, it was reverse and education became more important. When my baby brother was around 1 years old, I would have to carried him on my back to help my mom so she could cook for the family and clean the house. I always enjoy carrying him when I was younger.…
These aforementioned self-realizations have drastically increased in quantity and significance since my mother decided to send me to Chaminade High School just over two years ago. With much encouragement from my mother, I reluctantly…
A new journey in my life began on August 13th, 2014 as my school principal cut the red ribbon celebrating the opening of a brand new high school. Little did I know, it would become a journey of growth and unique experiences unlike any before it, further refining and adding to my inner sculpture of identity and talent. I was going to Liberty High School, therefore it was necessary that I adapt--quickly, yet strategically. Throughout my life, I had never imagined that my high school experience would reach and exceed my expectations in the way that it did. I had the unique opportunity most people don’t get in life: to be part of a grassroots movement in establishing a culture that would enrich future students with tradition and values for many years to come.…
Introduction For this assignment, I have selected the skill of a basketball lay-up. I perform an task analysis of the skill along with highlight key topics such as motivation, practice format, and identifying errors. To successfully perform a lay-up, one must build up force by using their arms, hips, knees, ankles and applying the appropriate amount of that force in the direction of the hoop at the correct angle resulting in the ball going through the basket. The learner for this skill will be an adolescent female. The learner will have some experience with basketball, but will be introduced to a lay-up, the location will be in a gym with a hard wood basketball court.…
All of these symbols show who I am and what I have gone through in life. These symbols remind me to keep going and never regret anything. Life can bring me down, but when I think of soccer, family, and my faith, it reminds me that everything will be fine. A lot of great stuff has already happened in my life, but there is much more for me to…
My life is brimming with numerous wonders; however, there are a few aspects concerning my life that I believe have made the biggest impacts on my personality, and me as an individual. Those aspects include my athleticism, my desire to learn, and my work ethic. I am an aspiring tennis player, and through my athleticism, I have trained and thrived for what I wanted in both my physical stature, as well as my physical capabilities on the tennis court. As a result of my physical training, I am able to endure matches that may go on for prolonged interludes of time. Additionally, I am capable of withstanding points where I am running from one precinct of the court to another, and sometimes win the point as well.…
I’m the product of my beautiful and rich heritage. And just like my grandma, I’m a confident, strong-willed, and college bound young lady ready to define my place in this world. I will be the bright light traversing the halls of academia in pursuit of knowledge to compliment who I am and more importantly, redefine societal labels including my…
Becoming Vice President can change your life! It changed mine. Everyone has had a defining moment in their life that shapes who they are. These major events often affect how people will view them for an extremely long time.…
Looking at my poster, there is a variety of objects that appear to have nothing in common. What they do have in common is me. Brainstorming for this project was difficult because I thought there would be no way that a poster could summarize my life. But, as I was putting the poster together, I realized it wasn’t very hard to condense me as a person to a sheet of paper with objects on it. I chose objects that have to do with things i’m involved in or that represent who I am.…