Essay About Myself

This semester, I set up a goal for myself: I would do one thirty-minute work-out video everyday for at least five days of each week. At the beginning, I felt excited and ready, but then I was extremely disappointed in myself for choosing something that, based off of past experience, I was not going to accomplish. Per result of my own negativity, I made little effort at first to work out. My initial priority was my education - getting A’s in my classes and manufacturing my academic résumé to…

I wasn’t a bad child; I was quiet and stayed to myself. When going to school, I had kids who would bully me sometimes, standing up for me would work and sometimes it didn’t. That’s when I would call my auntie and tell her the things, I had going on in school. She understood me, she would tell me” son…

Being super confident and comfortable with myself has never been my strong suit. Growing up the youngest of five was hard enough as it is without everyone constantly comparing me to my older sisters; I was always the last included in everything when it came to them. I was always “too young” or “not cool enough yet”. Having five sisters who all had their own activities and their own talents made it harder to find my own; It was a forbidden sin to be interested in the same activity as one of my…

Journal Entry #1 How do you see yourself as a writer? I see myself as an aspiring professional journalist who wants to write every day. I understand I need to improve on some writing skills, but that’s why I try to practice every day. What would you think are your strengths as a writer? (spend the most time here, please.). I feel like I talk more through my writing, so I believe one of my strengths is being able to express myself through writing and giving a lot of detail in one of my…

Taking Care of Myself: I have mixed feelings on the success of this area throughout the semester. While my efforts surrounding my first goal of tracking my sleep were commendable, my efforts to eat healthier were wavering. I consistently used a sleep tracking app to ensure I was getting enough rest. While I only met my sleep goal approximately 1-2 days of the week, I was much more aware of the amount of sleep I was getting. If I had not prioritized sleep in this way, I believe that I would have…

Summary Wally Lamb’s book Couldn’t Keep it to Myself is a book that tells the stories of 11 different women who were (are) incarcerated in the York correctional institution. These women who’s stories were told, were women who had committed all sorts of crimes, from embezzlement to homicide in the first degree. Their stories include stories of their lives before prison, how the got to prison, and their lives in prison. There were common factors in some of the stories of the women who ended up…

Walt Whitman’s poem “Song of Myself” is about self-identification and experiencing certain emotions in life. Walt Whitman uses symbolism, metaphors, and philosophical thought to set a sense of creation for the readers. The poem also connects theses topics with specific objects in nature and leaves the audience thinking about their own lives. In section 50 of “Song of Myself” major themes such as a death, happiness, and a sense of purpose can all be found. In general, the themes show what the…

Song of Myself is a poem by Walt Whitman’s. This poem introduces a constant stream of human awareness, where he attempts to dissect death as common and transformative process, which should strike everyone. Walt Whitman was an American artist conceived in 1819 and passed on 26th March 1892. The artist was conceived around the local area of Huntington, Long Island, New York, U.S.In one of the sections from the poem, “Song of Myself” Walt Whitman starts out with a child asking a question, “What is…

about me when the fought. It was then when I realized that the people around you aren’t always thing of what best for me. Then I realized that I need to know how to take care of myself and look out for myself. As a child I was told I was to mature for my age but the people didn’t know that I had to be. I learned how to cook myself dinner by the time I was eight and I don’t mean stuff like mac and cheese or PB&Js; I learned how to cook steak, chicken and other rather hard recipes. However, going…

etc. Some great authors include Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, William Cullen Bryant, Washington Irving, and many more. Throughout this essay I will do an analysis on these stories: The Devil and Tom Walker, Thanatopsis, and section 33 from Song of Myself. The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving, is about a common man who lives in the woods far away from society. He had a wife who was just as miserly as he was. They had no values and would hide things away from each other. He wanted to…