A giant. A giant is a mythological beast that is supposed to be larger than any human ever will be. A giant is supposed to be very strong and muscular. A giant is supposed to not be real, but there is. His name is Chris Leprechaun.…
Growing up as a kid I never really enjoyed reading and writing. It was and probably will always be my least favorite subject, nothing against you my lovely English professor, but I just don’t enjoy it. The only time I really enjoyed reading as a child was when I got my first leap pad and I eventually destroyed it and it was probably within 2 weeks of getting it,…
I have not been thinking differently but I am surely endeavoring. I have an arduous time changing things about myself so at this point I am just gradually endeavoring. After reading these two chapters I endeavor to disunite my emotions from my thinking due to the fact that they incline to get me into an abundance of trouble. Prior to making decisions, I stop and notice first if I am allowing my emotions to get in the way. I ascertain no emotions are tied to my decisions just so at the end I get a good outcome.…
Wicked I went to Wicked. It was just me and my mom. We did not go to New York but we did go to the Aronoff theater. It was amazing, we had a blast!We went up one floor and got my picture in front of a poster of the two witches: Elphaba and Galinda. After that, we went to our seats in the balcony, in the second row.…
Trying new things is always important. Even when you have no knowledge of the task you want to perform it is a important to pursue new things. For my technical essay I performed Bayalage for the first time. I had seen many online tutorials about balayage and how to perform this task. This is how started my task, how I executed my task and the finished product.…
The pain began slowly, pricking me with its sharp needles only while doing barre in ballet once a week. I ignored it, believing it to be normal, common discomfort that would soon go away, typical thoughts of a dancer whose entire sport is centered around “good pain”. Six months later, it had escalated to the degree that every step I took felt like an arrow to my knee. Dancing had become impossible, and it was determined that I should be taken to the orthopedist. The bland, brown and beige lobby became extraordinarily familiar as I waited two hours to be examined.…
Rileigh Deitemeyer A phrase I have heard a lot over the years is, “You look just like your father”, and each time my father and I would exchange a glance that to us meant, “little do they know”. This is because if you were to look at me next to my parents, you would have no idea that I’m adopted. My birthmother was thirteen years-old when she gave birth to me and was taking care of all her younger siblings in a household with drug and alcohol usage. Not being able to care for me, she gave me up for adoption.…
She was able to keep me into it by staying in the real world and by the way she tied everything back together at the end of the story, making it very enjoyable to read. This story opened a new type of reading for me to get into. Even if you are a fan of mostly real world stuff, this story is very interesting and may even open you up to a new type of reading for you. If you are into fairytales and mysteries then I would for sure recommend this story to you. If you are into mostly realistic fiction and nonfiction I would still suggest that you give this book a shot.…
Before them books were something my teachers assigned me and those books were good but they were not my books. But Part One led to Part Two, and so the story goes.…
When I was a child, every night before bed my mother would read to me. She would lay next to me on my little bottom bunk, while the snow fell in the Maine woods outside and the dog slept at my feet and she would read. The stories she read to me were almost always historical fiction, a favorite of both of ours. We read about medieval Europe, ancient Greece, victorian England, the roaring twenties, the world wars, anything before this century really. One day she read me a book called Brighty of the Grand Canyon, the story of a burro that got involved in a wild west adventure.…
The Majestic I have been in many situations where I have been forced to make hard decisions. In elementary school, my best friend was being bullied. I thought about all the things I was going to tell his bully, but when he told me who it was, I could not do it. It was one of the coolest girls in our school and I did nothing to stop her from hurting my closest friend.…
Nearly every summer and winter break of my childhood was spent in the heart of Tillamook Country— a small coastal community called Neskowin. My family would gather with a rotating pool of close relatives in our favorite beach rental, dubbed the Octagon House for its distinct shape, central fire pit, and wrap around porch. For the children, the vast beaches served as open fields for soccer and football. The coarse sand an open canvas for castle blueprints and secret messages. Sand dollars switched hands as if they were currency.…
I was heartbroken, for the first time in my life. We were walking back to our houses from our neighborhood Christmas party. It was the 3 of us; Emily, Margs, and me. We have been friends forever because we all lived close together; but in school we all were in different friend groups. In school it was as if we didn’t even know each other.…
I recently had to write a literacy narrative for my writing class. I chose to write about my journey with reading, over the years. As I thought back, preparing to write my paper, I realized that I used to love to read. I obsessed over it.…
In the essay, “ The Lonely Good Company of Books,” by Richard Rodriguez,he mentioned to his readers in the very beginning that he was not big reader as a child. Rodriguez writes,” I knew my mother and father could read and write in both, Spanish and English(293).” He also mentions,” their reading consisted of work manuals, prayer books, newspapers, and recipes(Rodriguez 293).” From what Rodriguez writes we can gather that reading was not used very much in his house hold. The lack of reading to the Rodriguez house was the very opposite of mine.…