Unforgettable Experience Essay

An unforgettable experience is an event that has a great impact on a person’s life (An Unforgettable Experience, 1969). The experiences that I want to share are the trip in Taman Negara and Redang Island. Firstly, I would like to introduce the two tourist attraction, Taman Negara and Redang Island, which I visited before going into the essay. Taman Negara was established as King George V National Park in 1938. Then, the park was renamed to Taman Negara after independence. Taman Negara, two words in Malay language, which call images of large green garden filled with flowers and creatures. The word "taman" means park in malay while "negara" means nation, both words together translate as "National Park". Taman Negara is the world's oldest tropical rainforest, estimated to be more than 130 million years old.…

An Unforgettable Experience Waking up from my sleep hearing the melodies from natural sounds like birds chirping, roosters crowing outside my window, listening to the sound of the leaves rustling as the wind blows through the trees while sunshine caresses my face. A calming tropical breeze that sifts through the kitchen that reaches my bedroom. Another perfect day in the Caribbean. As I walk toward the living room to start my day. I turn on CBS News and proceed to the bathroom. While…

at it as from a film student’s perspective; analysing what I was seeing on screen to unearth deeper themes, Migration, cultural tensions, past and present. I had heard prior to viewing the film that it was “not for me”, initially I thought nothing of this. Now, having read the responses of other individuals it became clearer that the category of race may contribute significantly to how one responds to a media text. Bobo, being unnerved by her respondents initial quiet response to me was…

experienced was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Her generation may all bond over that experience because they were alive when it occurred. This theory of a personality life narrative is that individuals form an identity by putting their life experiences into an internalized, story of themselves. This provides the person with a sense of unity and purpose in life. A life narrative reflects on their reconstructed past, present time and imagined future. It tends to seem like a story. This…

In the same first experience, she would see this as one of the greatest opportunities to have. She believed that you could be anything you wanted to be in America. Unlike Jing-Mei, her mother felt like this was the prodigy that Jing-Mei should live up to. She would have done anything to make sure Jing-Mei would become a piano genius. In the second experience, she expected her daughter to play astonishing, which was quite the opposite of what it really was. It was obvious that Jing-Mei’s mother…

Think of a large room. In this room there are people of every age, ethnicity, and country that you can think of. Now think of each individual story behind those lives. Everyone, despite their age, has a unique background, upbringing, and mindset. As college is hastily approaching, I see more and more people wanting to stay in the comfort of living near what is known. Not that there is anything wrong with living close to home, but personally I would rather go to a place completely unique to…

world around him. This, however, does not inhibit him from experiencing the world around him, unlike the Narrator. The Narrator’s blindness comes from inability to experience the world around him, a curtain he pulls down to shield himself from anything he doesn’t deem “important” enough for him to try and understand. This draws a contrast between the two character’s…

White provides the readers it the overall theme of his own personal narrative. E.B. White illustrates an afternoon at the lake were a thunderstorm took place. He explains how it was an old melodrama that he had seen awhile ago with childish awe. E.B. White provides descriptive details on what is going on with the lake, the electrical disturbance and a curious darkening of the sky was a familiar experience that E.B. White experienced when he was a child. “Then the kettle drum, then the snare,…

We have all experienced our fair share of pleasant and unpleasant shopping experiences. Most of these memories from these experiences fade over time. However, some of these experiences are so phenomenal or extraordinary they have a lasting impression on us. On the other hand some of them are so unpleasant or foul that they leave us with a bad image of a once favorite store. I can recall one shopping experience that was horrendous. It happened while I was shopping for a crib at Kmart. In the…

called To Have or to Be, in which he describes two opposing orientations to living life. These orientations are the having orientation, and the being orientation respectively. In short, he describes the being orientation to life as living life in such a way that values objects above all else. Be it living life for money, or living for the next edition of the iPad, the concept of the having orientation encapsulates the rampant materialism or consumerism that pervades our culture. Then, as…