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“Be yourself”. We have all heard this expression so many times, coming from so many people, that it has become hackneyed and questionable. We have read it in self-help books, we have heard our parents, teachers, and guidance counselors say it to us, and we have even said it to ourselves on occasion. Because, like any cliché, though it may be overused, there is an undeniable truth to it. The key to success and happiness is embracing our individuality. Yet, the same society that has worn out this…

Nicholas Peterson Instructor: Avra Spector HSS1-M: Freshman Seminar 12-09-14 The Word Scratcher What happens to an oral culture when someone starts writing it down? What are the dangers of written words or stories, of using the same language as the police reports and laws? Solibo Magnificent is a metaphor, an exploration of the fate of an oral tradition in an age of writing. In the middle of telling one of his greatest stories under a tamarind tree, Solibo Magnificent, the storyteller, dies…

GPA, I will not be able to achieve it for approximately three years unless I graduate early. In the mean time, I can basically use my other two goals to get closer to this goal. I just need to focus on getting As on tests, quizzes, projects, essays, papers, homework, and everyday classwork. I will need to use my time management skills and my note-taking skills especially so that I feel prepared for everything that has to do with school. I know there will be days that I just do not feel well, and…

Reflection text. When I applied for the English course, I did not really know what to expect. Sure, I knew it would be a lot of work to do, a lot of thoughts to think, and many new things to learn. However, I find the course interesting, and I have learned so much already. One of the main things that made me want to participate in the course is that I want to be a better English teacher. During this course, I got different kinds of inputs, and I find all of them interesting. Some of them made…

do just to write the drafts of the broadcast to advertise this important event. There were total seven drafts I need to write, including two summarized drafts and five drafts for the five activities of this event.However, if that was the essay or paper for my homework, I didn’t need to worry about it. All things I need to do just to try it as usual. The main point was, the broadcast would be heard by all over the school, where included over three thousand people. It made me nervous, so that…

writing neither did I expect that there would be much difference between the two disciplines. But as the class progressed and I did more and more of the projects, I realized that business papers are more straightforward and more condensed compared to just your regular papers. It is just like writing your regular paper, but wrapping it up faster and trimming out the fats. Because of that, I learned to be a little more meticulous in this class. I had to review some English writing topics and to…

semester of college made me a little nervous. Once I began the class and started on the first paper, I started to gain some confidence that I would do fine. Even though there were challenges in each paper I wrote, I also feel I made improvements through each paper. The first paper assigned was a narrative; it had to be about something that happened in my childhood that still has an impact on my life. For this paper, I honestly struggled at first with finding a topic. There was nothing that I…

Receiving a grade of a 92 out of 100 on a paper is not necessarily an unacceptable outcome for many people, yet this grade was one of my lowest grades out of all my papers in English 1101. The 92 my literacy narrative earned inspired me to revise this paper for the final. My literacy narrative was my first college paper and after the two papers I have written in this class I thought I was more equipped to fix my errors within this paper. I chose to write a short story as a rendition of my…

In the past, I rarely received satisfying grades on my papers and essays. I had very little confidence in myself prior to taking this course, and I did not think I was going to achieve much. Before taking this class my writing was very unorganized, hard to read, and did not flow well. I never used thesis statements…

There are a lot of different aspects that create a person, and make them unique. Some aspects include: personality traits, physical traits, and even literacy traits. The term literacy is defined as being able to read and write. Most people are required to know how to read and write, but not everyone learned the same way. Literacy is the not only being able to read and write, but learning how to write and how to say things in different ways when reading and speaking. As a child, I was amazed by…