Personal Essay

would like to say I kicked ass this semester. But whether or not I pass, ultimately isn’t up to me. The professor has the power, and with the flip of a metaphorical switch, they can determine my fate and write it in stone. However, in this one final essay, it is up to me to perhaps swing the odds in my favor. After all, what kind of person would I be if I went down without a fight? Basically, I should pass because I put the upmost effort I had into every piece of content…

Two Women walked past me, and purchased my mother's white puffy wedding dress, that I thought would one day be endowed to me, for as little as nothing. Watching with teary eyes the now empty living room, I knew that my parents were serious about leaving Persia and moving to an unpopular destination, China. rooted in persian culture and courtesy, with a limited view of the world, at only eight years of age, never could have I imagined the events, and experiences that future had in store for me.…

international high school in Shanghai, I known what I need to do is try my best to speak, read and write English as first language. I was anxious, because the only contents for English I learned in middle school was just words and sentences. I never wrote an essay more than even a hundred words and I neither read even a single article more than one page. I sat in the classroom, facing the first foreigner teacher in my life, Mr. Fine. And I known deeply inside that what I had on English was…

proper use of these techniques can and will reach the hearts’ and minds’ of the readers. I began this writing class under the assumption that I was a good writer. I soon come to realize that I had faltered in my ability to properly write an essay. However, today I have credence in myself to become a great writer. I believe that with continued practice, I can and will achieve this goal. To have good writing skills is another major stepping stone on my path to success. The most…

Everyone has his or her own writing process. I believe that my writing process is ambitious because even though I struggle sometimes trying to get started, I don’t panic because I know that I will figure it out eventually. My writing process is like hitting a brick wall but once I get started I find my writing interesting. From the readings, I learned to write everything down in my first draft and not be ashamed of what I write. As you walk into my bedroom, the first thing that you see is my…

Speech and Debate When I got into high school, the one class I really wanted to take was Speech and Debate because I rather enjoyed arguing with people. I was not able to join it my freshman year because of band and other classes that I had to take. I did get a small taste of it, though, with Mrs. Thorne. It was a little bit less of an Honors English class and more of a demo Speech and Debate class. This year, when I went to go and decide my classes, I saw that my fourth period was open and I…

The writing process was different and interesting for me. When you assigned this essay I automatically knew that I wanted to write about music censorship. The introductory paragraph surprisingly was very easy for me to write which is never the case because I’ve always had trouble with creating a thesis statement and attention getter. Once I started writing the body paragraphs that’s where I experienced more trouble because I’ve gotten used to just writing whatever is on my mind not outlining my…

“Purpose Paper” goes over my long term goals, short term goals, and what will result after they are achieved. Briefly my goals all fall into one finish line, academically get my college degree in order to pursue a career that’s stable to support my personal life with family friends etc. It’s been embedded into our central intelligence to follow the strict path of academia, work family, then retirement. No matter how hard I try to break out of the constant rhythm of life it seems that I’m always…

people places and things, like Napoleon Bonaparte, The battle of Waterloo and JFK and his assassination. which I also hope more things like that we will happen in college and to along with improving my punctuation and spelling grammar and getting my essays to a well used grammar level that I can be proud of. When I was in high school we were graded on our grammar very harshly especially on the things I need to work on like punctuation and word placement and I don’t think it helps me and I hope…

Literacy has been in my life ever since I first started talking. At first my vocabulary was just a couple of words like mom, dad and blue but, then as the years went on I started to learn more and more words in school and in life. So there for vocabulary has been in my life since my first three words. I wish I could know more words but I don't read like I used to. From kindergarten to 6th grade I would read books but once I got to middle school I havent really read a full book unless it was…