Personal Narrative: My Favorite Class

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They say every day you 're supposed to learn something new. But is this really the truth? Do you learn something new everyday? My freshman year at GRCC I could agree with the saying that you learn something everyday. I started the year with taking political science, English of course, yoga, and anatomy. Every course tested me physically, mentally and emotionally.

Let 's be honest, my favorite class was English. The most interesting, most familiar, and by far the one class I didn 't mind learning new things in. I learned more about commas, semicolons, the proper ways to write a review. How to write so many different kind of papers. Which every paper I truly enjoyed. They all were creative, and tested my creativity.

Of all of the papers
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We are so stuck on what we ‘need’ rather than taking a step back and really thinking if this is really a ‘need’ do we really need a house with 6 bedrooms for two people living in it? Do you really need three cars when you 're the only one who can drive? Do we really need to cut down those trees to build that bigger house or mall? The talk left me thinking of ways that I can stop having all these needs. Ways that I can make myself and my family cut back on these ‘needs’ and think of the true needs. Which in the area I live in I could say that few people need and more need to give.

This course has tested me as a reader, a writer, and as a thinker. I have had to dig deep to find my true feelings on things. I have found my strengths along with weakness in my writings. Which just happen to go hand in hand. Although each paper was different and had its own differences. I learned the common strengths and weaknesses I have. One of my biggest weaknesses is getting too thorough, most the time I just keep repeating myself and going on and on when it isn 't needed. I figured out that the best way for me not to do this is to reread and sometimes read out loud to hear if I repeat

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