Experience Essay

Beowulf In the beginning of Beowulf, Beowulf comes to Heorot to get rid of Grendel. However, when he fights Grendel, he does it without protection or a weapon, and rips Grendel’s arm off without mercy. Through his battle, is clear that Beowulf is in danger of becoming a monster just like Grendel. Beowulf also fights, Grendel’s mother, and the Dragon, and the fight with Grendel’s mother reminds him of his humanity again. Beowulf is in danger of becoming a monster because of his boastfulness…

each characters story. Some examples include the water in the bath tub, the water in the tap dance scene, and the water in the bucket of water where the one character almost drown. Along with each of these instances of water a death or near death experience followed. In the bath tub, the one character attempted suicide to escape the voices in her head. The one was blatantly almost drowned to death in the one scene. In the dance off scene, the tap dance in the water was followed by a shoot off…

with children in foster care. I took into account past volunteer experiences, but I was still unresolved. It was not until another student approached me with an idea, to help the youth at the local Youth Crisis Center. I wanted to create a “bright spot”, and show the children at the Center that they were an important part of the community, and people do care about them. I acknowledged this problem, from a previous volunteer experience. The idea was set in motion, but there are so many…

African people brought into this country as slaves. Men, women and children of all ages were treated as domestic animals: no pay, no freedom. In the vile of cases, families were separated because the owner wanted to sell them. This was my first experience with selling and buying people and I was not impressed. The louder I objected, the more enemies I made. People did not like to hear about their faults and powerful people did not like to be objected. The slaves were normally kidnapped from…

Transitional Experience On a hot summer day on May 25 2012. I was walking out of a JFK’s airport for a job interview that I had with Delta Airlines. It was a hot day. The warm breeze that hit my face was not enough to cool me down and make me stop dripping with sweat. Out of nowhere from a distance I heard an aircraft’s engine. I looked up and saw an Airbus 320 aircraft taking off. This event brought me back to when I was a five year old. My journey had started on a hot summer month on august 7,…

Working at a whitewater rafting company during the summer continues to be an enlightening and socially informative experience. Rafters check in at 8 a.m., fill out their release forms, select their lunch choices, and are then given the option of a wetsuit. I work at the front desk where I man wetsuit rentals, selling breakfast items, and answering peoples questions, to only name a few. When you work in this position, you are given the opportunity to observe all the people as they prepare to head…

I grew up with my grandmother (may she rest in peace) in the mountainous place of Benguet. According to her, our place is often visited by Americans before as a result of gold mining. The Americans were the first one to develop the mining industry and they hired native people to mine. Mining eventually became their source of income. Settlers were used to speaking in English as a result of their often contact with the white people. They therefore taught their children to speak the same language…

After becoming a chimney sweep, Tom’s head was shaved, presumably by his master or boss, in order to prevent soot from destroying or contaminating it. While Tom cried, however, our narrator finds solace in the experience, claiming in lines seven and eight that it, “for when your head's bare, / You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair." This is the first introduction of Blake’s metaphor which uses black and white as vessels through which he discusses corruption…

what happened and therefore were unsure how well we would handle this museum. The bus skidded to a stop in front of the building and the class stepped out single file. We grouped in front of the door and took our first steps into a life-changing experience. After we entered the museum we were given a card. On this card was the name and bio of a person who was a prisoner during the Holocaust. With this in hand, we began our self-guided tour. Our class broke up into small groups and trudged…

On Sunday October 16th, my family and I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art located in New York City. Although I am from New York, I had never visited the museum before and so I was extremely eager and excited. I was amazed as I pulled up to the entrance of the museum. It was enormous! The architecture of the museum was astonishing. With the help of one of the very kind curators, I was directed toward the Italian Renaissance exhibit. The Italian Renaissance was a period of great cultural…