“Shitty First Drafts” by Lammott explains the importance of getting all of your ideas on the paper in the first draft. First, she states you need to be able to tune everyone and everything out, and write on the paper what occupies your mind about that topic. You need to incorporate all of your ideas on the paper, because you may have one good idea that will lead you onto your second draft. Throughout your drafts in the writing process, your work will continue to get better. Your first draft will…
Thousands, no millions of small crystals, suffocating the ground, the earth, blanketing our towns, canceling events. This is my favorite precipitation by far, snow! “Wake up!” my mom yells in my ear, shaking me out of sleep. Ugh, I think as I stretch and through the blankets off of me. Even though I had to leave in forty minutes, I still took about ten minutes just to get out of bed. Moaning and stretching my sore legs I somehow managed to pack my bags for school. Nevertheless, it was even…
Touch rugby reflection (draft-500 words) Description The third practical that we did for this year we participated in touch rugby. Our practicals consisted of mini games and full touch rugby games as well as tag rugby. Interpretation For me the most useful learning resulted from doing full games of touch and tag rugby. This is because I was able to use the abilities that we have been using during drills and warm ups and actually using the abilities in a proper game; I learn better when dropped…
Rough Draft-Application Essay Ever since I was a little kid my family has been hunting and going out into the whitetail woods in hopes of getting a nice buck. I remember going out to my grandparents and seeing the deer my family had harvested that fall, and wondering when I could finally get to go and experience what it was like myself. I always watched my dDad come home and have a little buck in the bed of his truck and I thought how come it wasn’t like in the hunting shows where they go out…
Joining a militia was one of the top things I never thought I’d do, and becoming Special Forces in that militia never made the list. Just when I thought I’d finally fallen asleep. The blazing light that fought to turn the milky white of my eyes to a black crispy crime. I raised my tingling hand that throbbed and as I gripped that white string and let my hand fall I returned to the cool dark. As I thought I had finally restored peace to the land a howling echo rang throughout the kingdom, and…
I was searching through Facebook one day when I first laid eyes on the horse of my dreams. The horse I had been dreaming about since I was a little girl. He was a chestnut with a huge white blaze and four white socks; in my eyes he was perfect. That day I made an appointment with the off the track thoroughbred rescue race horse reclaim to go and meet him. My mom took off work to accompany my hasty decision making. When we arrived all she saw was everything wrong with him. His tail had been cut…
Everyone has been confronted with a stressful situation where the end consequence would be dire. I know I was under the guillotine when a swarm of Hornets ended up surrounding me and turned my world dark. Yet, I was not stung once. It was a summer afternoon in Colorado when I had recalled a loud buzzing noise. Assuming it was simply the bees coming to pollinate the flowers, I continued on my merry way as to not disturb the bees. What I got instead was a pack of hornets that ended up surrounding…
Science Fair Rough Draft 12-13-16 Seventh Grade Science Period 5 Fingerprints Your name is your identity. It gives you access to your bank account, social security number, and gives everyone else a way to know you, even in a crowd of people! In the same way that your name gives you a way to be recognized, fingerprints can provide a clue to your identity. They are crucial to understanding your genetics. The little lines reveal hints to your genes, and even can let you glimpse your DNA! It seems…
Project Space First Draft The Los Angeles County Museum of Art well known as LACMA is home to thousands of artworks spanning all through history from ancient civilizations to modern exhibits of present artists. There is no doubt LACMA is consumed by art that demonstrates diversity even the most unlikely kind of art can be found. The space is filled with the freedom of an open atmosphere and transparency of images representing…
Research Paper Rough Draft There are many biological theories in criminology that attempt to explain behaviors that contrast with society’s expectations; these theories are within a paradigm known as positivism. The theory of positivism, asserting that criminal behavior is beyond ones’ control, can be used to explain why that individual committed the crime, as opposed to the crime being due to a rational choice made. The brains of violent offenders are different from other individuals in…