Best Days of My Life Essay

As a child, I was outside almost all the time. I would either be on my family farm working or in the backwoods that are on our farm. I love the outdoors because they are so perfect because they are so beautiful and great. As a farm boy, the outdoors are what I have been around my whole life and all I have known. Therefore, I honestly wouldn’t know what to do without them. I remember a couple of years ago, my family went on a excursion to Disney World, and I wasn’t myself, I felt like I…

hormones and their reproductive system. I would get up from my bed and look at myself with both a sense of fascination and horror. I would honestly be intrigued as to how something like this happened. I’d eventually find no reasonable explanation and give up, chalking up all my memories of being a male to being one really realistic dream. I figured in the end it didn’t really matter, why would it? Male or female, I’ve still got my life to live. Little did I know that due to a whole different…

they work hard”. There are many Americans that have successfully achieved their version of the American Dream. One of those people is a man by the name of Chris Gardner. Chris Gardner was someone who was a single father and lived a very impoverished life. Another person who achieved the American Dream was Helen Keller. Helen Keller is a girl who got a fever when she was young and went permanently deaf, and blind because of it. Finally, another person who successfully achieved the American Dream…

rides all turned into life lessons. I found myself nodding, laughing and in awe of how a person could take one simple thing and make it so much more. Each of theses essays brought me back to what Ballenger said, “the personal essayist must always find some way to hitch the particulars of his or her experience to something larger that the reader might share” (pg 73 of The Curious Writer). And that they did. Daniel’s essay “The Necessity of Parades,” takes a goofy St. Patrick’s Day Parade and…

commandments. In life, we have a lot of unwritten “commandments” that we should abide to as well. A few of those commandments are: 1.) Speak when entering a room. 2.) Respect your elders. 3.) Treat others how you wish to be treated. 4.) Cover your mouth when coughing, sneezing, etc. 5.) Don’t be in people’s personal space. 6.) Put your phone down when you’re supposed to be doing more important things. 7.) Get it in writing. Those are just a few unwritten rules of life, but they are…

someone believes that people are trying to kill them, they’re digging a bigger hole for themselves. But if someone believes that everyone is doing their best, their life will be changed for the better. The novel One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich is about life in a Russian prison camp. Life there is hard, and one’s perspective of this brutal life is vital in their ability to survive. However, different people have varying perspectives of this prison camp. For example, the protagonist, Ivan…

Life Inside a Cage Reporter Parsa Javan looks at the incredible, yet terrifying journey that David Fengel took to find freedom physically and emotionally. David Fengel was held captive by a communist Russian camp for nearly all his childhood. While we take it for granted, in the camp food and water were a great privilege to have. Freedom was not even reachable. He was unquestionably living inside a cage. David was feeling eager to tell me about the night he escaped. A guard from the camp…

take is, again, astounding, and is always more than one would expect. I feel it would do a disservice to those who have lived through dire situations like those that Ivan had gone through if I would compare his story to situations in my own life. Not once in my life have I gone through situations like those that he did. I have never experienced extreme hunger, nor have I ever had to worry about surviving in extreme…

What role does imagery play in the extract? One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is a novel by esteemed author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn that concerns the gruelling conditions which Soviet prisoners in the gulags had to endure. In this extract, Solzhenitsyn employs imagery, themes, and a combination of both to communicate the daily adversities of being a prisoner in the gulags as a means of shocking the audience. Imagery is arguably the most effective tool utilized by Solzhenitsyn to deliver…

In many situations, faith and endurance is the key to survival and the only way to keep one from degrading under social and physical oppression. One day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is a novel that depicts the journey of a convict, Ivan (Shukhov) Denisovich, through one day of his sentence at a Stalinist work camp designed to physically and mentally test the prisoners. His hopefulness and camaraderie spirit with those in his bunk sustain him throughout his…