Paper doll

Before I broke my dominant hand wrist during the winter of freshman year, I was used to successfully learning on my own for my courses and confident in sharing my ideas with others. After the injury, I was forced to compensate for even the most rudimentary skills such as practicing writing with my left hand. I was embarrassed to be struggling in the competitive academic environment that my college provided, and I didn’t want to hold back the progress of others. I suffered in silence. Upon…

An Essay Aabout Pagan Beliefs and Believers in Purgatory Throughout this Fall semester’s Western Literature class, I have had the opportunity to read a variety of ancient books, poems, plays, and essays. Throughout my time in this class, the assigned readings have broadened my knowledge of forgone cultures by requiring me to read a variety of works by authors I would have otherwise never read. Specifically, works such as the Odyssey, Aeneid, and the Divine Comedy have broaden the spectrum of…

Class activity 4 was very interesting and kind of difficult. We had to hear a list of words and then try to write down the words that we just heard down. Out of all the words that were told to us I was only able to recall eight of them. While I was being told the the list of words I was very quickly repeating them trying to remember them. Mostly I was trying to remember the ones that were told to me first and then I went on to try to remember the ones that were toward the end after I stopped…

For our 2016 National History Day Project, we have decided to do research on Christopher Columbus. When we first heard that the theme was encounter, exchange, and exploration, we couldn’t decide who to do. There were so many people with such amazing contributions and traits that were able to fit into this year’s theme. We thought, who is the most famed explorer in the world? The name that came to us was Christopher Columbus.. We knew only what limited information was taught to us and his famous…

to write, but because I like to write and desire perfection. I am motivated to write but within that motivation comes fear of failure, struggle with not being perfect as I write the first draft. As I write this paper, it has been a challenge to stay focused and to put my thoughts on paper without revising in my mind as I go. Moving forward, I need to explore my motivations with writing and let go of the fears and perfectionism that holds me back. I look at the entirety of my writing experience…

Here at “Paper R Us” we look to supply our customers with the right paper for the right cause at an affordable price. Choosing the right paper for the right audience is important because paper is the key part of a document, and choosing the right paper can make the difference of getting your document read and getting your document thrown aside. When considering what type of paper to print your document on, consider the most important factor of who is the intended audience for which you are…

This is the last set, this is the last set. I stand in the blistering sun with the rest of the marching band on the last day of band camp. Everyone is hot and sweaty as a beaming ray of sun hits our skin. We all have shorts, a tank top, a hat, and a pinning on. I stare at everybody and see them slouched over and eyes drooping like a beagles ears. My sneaker softly touch the concrete ground of the parking lot football field. I snap into focus when I hear a shout at the top of a metal structure.…

As a person ties their boots, they start by pulling their laces and tightening their boot, around their foot. Before going around each hook, they pull the laces tight, maker the boot tighter and tighter all the way up. Once all the hooks have been laced, you finish by tying a bow at the top to keep the boot snug all the way down to the top of the foot. A relationship is similar to this, it starts off loose at the beginning, but with time, as the laces are pulled, the two become closer and closer…

A Legacy in Fairy Tales Many scientists believe in the long term value of talking to your children as they develop. Children who are read to develop language and reading skills much faster than their peers, and every mother of a restless child knows that the best way to get a child to be agreeable at bedtime is with a story. I’d like to explore how family stories and fairy tale traditions shape each following generation. For me, my mother raised me on books. When I was very young, I was…

This quarter my goal is to be able to revise an essay efficiently and effectively while following a concrete plan that provides the materials to compose an essay to the best of my abilities. To complete this goal, I have devised a plan based upon recommended steps to improve the process of one's writing in Hjortshoj’s The Transition of College Writing. He explains that writers often undergo ‘’phases of planning, revising, and editing ‘’that ‘’ are therefore interwoven with composing a draft’’…