Experience Essay

After spending two successful years at Arapahoe Community College and Collin College, finding classes to stretch my thinking and challenge my worldview was coming to an end. Attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison will create the most unique challenges, enabling me for the greatest growth in my personal and academic life, and allow me to be closer to my family. To further my intellectual and personal development in the study of political science and journalism, I needed to find an…

UWC is a one in a lifetime experience. I am aware that it values compassion, service, integrity, respect and difference. For that, i would be more than proud to be a part of such a community. UWC colleges offer a lot to ensure that the future is in safe hands, that we as individuals are driven by the need to nurse the earth’s wounds before they scar, to offer a hand to those in need, to be the pillars of the earth. I believe that i can fit into this community and that i can succeed in satisfying…

1.Summarize the book. "Monster" by waiter dean Myers is about 16-year-old boy who lives in an urban community where most are unemployed or underemployed. the boy’s name is Steve Harmon. he is wrongfully convicted for a drug store robbery and murder of the owner Mr. Nesbit. Steve is currently in jail while his trial is being heard. during his time in jail, he writing down the harsh stuff and tortures that happen in jail such as beating steeling fights and even rape. during the trial Steve claims…

The other source is Solzhenitsyn’s own experiences from 1945 to 1953. He was one of many millions Russians who were forced by the communist rule into facing the worst unimaginable as a daily experience. He has spent around 11 years in concentration camps, prisons, and in exile in the Soviet Union. In 1945, at the age of 26 and while serving as a decorated artillery officer in the Red Army, he was arrested for having made some unflattering remarks about Stalin in letters to a friend. It was thus…

prayer, fasting, charity-giving, and self-accountability for Muslims everywhere. On June seventeenth of 2015 I had experienced my first Ramadan since my conversion to Islam. The experience was beyond exciting. I met a ton of people of different races and from different countries. Ramadan was a beautiful and life-changing experience I had witnessed. At the time I lived in San Antonio, Texas. The weather was tropical, but contained a breeze that swept across your skin like a tide rushing amongst…

philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, himself an ardent lover of music, felt that, “Without music, life would be a mistake.” In my life’s experience, however, some music is a kind of mistake. This sentiment was born out of my four unfortunate years as an orchestral cellist in Manlius Pebble Hill’s small, uninspired school orchestra. Fortunately for me, however, a superior artistic experience existed close by. At the urging of my private instructor I decided to audition for the Syracuse Youth Symphony…

during the Industrial Revolution. Blake was born on 1757 in London. He is a prophet, poet, painter, and engraver. Blake have radical political views and revolutionary standards (Raine, 7-13). He published Songs of Innocence in 1789 and Songs of Experience in 1794 both of these publication contain a poem called “The Chimney Sweeper.”…

My job title was “Counselor”. We had a one on one experience with our child that we looked after for a week then switched children every week. I had personal experiences with kids with mental retardation, autism, ADHD, anger management, Down syndrome and more. Having such a great opportunity to work at this camp opened my eyes to the way I look at special needs people and the way I feel about them. I am going to share a personal experience that I had with a child that has ADHD. Frank is about…

The novel Night is Elie Wiesel’s memoir that shows his traumatic experiences during the Holocaust and how the Holocaust changes him from a spiritual, sensitive young boy to a unspiritual, internally dead man. The changes that take place in Elie’s life are very evident as you read his memoir. The Holocaust began January, 30th 1933 and ended May, 8th 1945. These 13 long years were a life time for many jews, in this period of time they not only lost many family members and close friends, but many…

In order to prepare for this experience I made sure to complete it on a day where I had no school or work obligations. I also decided to do it the day before Thanksgiving so the next day would make up for the lack of human contact, food, and restricted activities. As for the mental and emotional aspect, I was not too worried and I did not feel as though I needed some sort of preparation. I tend to spend a lot of time alone in a small room. My main concern was definitely not being able to use…