Essay About Myself

focused my energy on the relationships I had formed with my teammates. I needed something to divert my attention from the images of more and more runners passing me by as my injury continued to slow me down. Instead of racing to the finish line, I found myself racing around the course to cheer on my teammates. If my contribution to the team could not be speed, it would be…

personal. These goals will help me become a better person. My academic goal is to ace my math class, one of my professional goals is to become a famous writer, and my personal goal is to build up my self confidence. I know that my goals I have set for myself will make me a better writer in the future. For example, I love to read and reading a little bit everyday will help you improve your writing skills, which in this case will help me become a better writer. Another example is meeting up…

Before AP Senior English, I viewed myself as an exceptional writer; I soon learned I was mistaken. Beginning with my first essay, I realized that I had a lousy habit of writing vaguely and simple. However, I was not without competence. My strengths included organization and writing conventions, which are highlighted in my college essay. As I developed, my word choice improved tremendously. One can see this development I have achieved over the semester throughout this portfolio. The greatest…

Bettering Yourself One of the most rewarding aspects of high school is all of the opportunities you have. This is the time where you can find out your interests and hobbies, who you are, and who your friends are. For example, my school offers about 15-20 different extracurricular activities; these include volleyball, basketball, baseball, softball, speech, play, FFA, swing choir, jazz band, and many more. Through these activities I found out I have a lot different interests and hobbies. I…

I disliked my skin, and so I disliked myself. From the moment I entered high school, I struggled with acne. It started off slowly at first, with a couple of whiteheads here and there, before becoming progressively worse. Whiteheads turned into cysts that would turn into scars, marking my face…

Defining myself as a writer My experiences with writing have not been that great. I’ve always hated writing. Though this past summer I took GENR-091 which helped me a little, and I didn’t do too bad. One weakness I have with writing is that I can’t seem to organize, my thoughts are all over the place. Another weakness I have when it comes to writing is that I’m too wordy. Throughout this course I would like to learn how to organize my thoughts and not be so wordy in my writing. Even though I’m…

Huck’s character to be honest and truthful. Huck is an uneducated 14 year-old white boy and reveals the hypocrisy of white “civilized” society by speaking the truth on their lack of moral. Similarly, Walt Whitman in the free verse poem, “Song of Myself” in the collection, Leaves of Grass, published in 1855, Whitman emphasizes the notion of equality in the universe for all individuals and uses visual…

right for me. I feel like acting is just something for me because of my interests and personality. The thing I love more than anything is entertaining people and making them smile. I’ve always had a knack for relating to people and being able to put myself in other’s shoes and I’ve always tried to help people out with personal problems with one primary tactic: laughter. With that in mind, the way I always take my mind off of my problems is through entertainment of some kind. Typically, I just…

Being a person of color myself, I found the articles we had to read very interesting. I had honestly never thought of being a white person as something as being over privileged as one of the article mentions. T was very refreshing to see so many different perspectives on racism. I especially likes the number of points McIntosh brought up had never even occurred to me. Especially the point where she brought up that she would never have to speak for all people in her racial group (McIntosh). She…

Me, Myself and My Replica Parfit takes on a form of the Reductionist view on personal identity, arguing that despite knowing all the facts of the situation, it may still remain unclear whether a person is ‘themself’ or not. He claims that in his Branch-Line Case, being destroyed and replicated is about as good as ordinary survival. I will show that this is not the case by considering an alternative which Parfit did not discuss. Parfit begins by describing a method of simple teletransportation,…