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People throughout the world learn new things from day to day whether it is something big or something small. I learned three new things while I spent my time in summer school. Some of the things people learn can be good or bad depending on what it was and what kind of person you are. The three things I want to tell you about is that I can improve myself in anything if I give enough effort. Finishing school with no failing class is a good idea. And also summer school can seem like it takes a lot…

n the piece "On Being a Crippled" written by Nancy Mairs, she discusses her personal experience with recently becoming crippled and the journey she has travelled through to learn to fully accept herself. Mairs utilizes an assertive yet sarcastic tone to get her point clearly across. She uses the derogatory word "crippled" to best describe her new situation which could be seen as peculiar to both abled and disabled people. Nancy Mairs starts her composition off direct, indicating to the reader…

High school so I can’t pinpoint when I started writing. In essay writing I learned its always good to express yourself with your own opinion. In writing your suppose to use descriptive details and to always have a point to why you are writing the story. My writing didn’t until I came to college; being in your class has been teaching me how to write. It’s bad a way that I just started writing because I have way…

characters make me feel that are related to my personal life. For example, Fredi, teacher of the other characters, is helping his student to accomplish the goal of winning the competition. I feel I am related since my friend volunteering to tutor me on my essay, so I could improve my english skill. In addition, I think I was related to Oscar because he won't give up his dream, and he will do no matter what until dream achieved. According to my experience, I will do no…

John Quincy Adams once said, “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” I believe there are two type of leaders- those who stand on a pedestal and ask that the world listens and those who lead by example, a humble example that does not boast and does not expect to be followed, but an example that is followed anyway because of its sincerity. My world was shaped by humble leaders. My world was shaped by the fifth-grade spelling teacher…

After finishing the English 101 course I feel like I have accomplished many of the goals that I was challenged with the beginning of the course, such as critically thinking and reading with text from the textbook “Dialogues” by Gary Goshgarian, substantively replying to my peers to understand their point of views from the text and to get a better understanding of a rhetorical argument. Thinking and reading critically were very important this whole course. Thinking and reading critically were…

My mind feels like a 1000 piece puzzle missing a piece. I can’t simply find the right words to say to start this paper. It is always like this when freewriting; the idea of freewriting in and of itself frightens me. Never able to put the words in my head onto paper in a way that it can be read eloquently by others. My hands start to cramp automatically at the idea of freewriting. My eyes dart around the room looking for any inspiration to that can light the spark off in my brain. Nothing does…

How to Read Literature Like a Professor Summer Assignment How to Read Literature Like a Professor is, as explained in the title, a guide to better understanding literature, written by Thomas C. Foster, an English professor at the University of Michigan-Flint. Foster wrote this book so students and casual readers alike can enhance their reading experience. Each chapter gives an in-depth explanation of a specific element of literature. The first concept I used was quests in literature, and how it…

timed, 500 word, in-class essay, my best personal essay, my best out-of-class essay with MLA documentation, and my best paper with an annotated bibliography. In this short essay I will explain why each of these represent me as a writer and show growth in my writing experience. For my best timed, 500 word, in-class essay, I chose “Response to Inked Well.” This is my response to the short essay Inked Well by David Kirby. It shows my ability to read and summarize an essay, give my personal opinion…

from this course I expect to learn how to write college level papers and be able to apply what I learn in this course to all my classes that require me to write essays, memorize how to do MLA formatting, and improve my vocabulary so that all my papers will contain college level vocab. Also, I want to be able to write good essays in a short amount of time to prepare for written exams, and know how to work my way out of writer's block which is a problem I often have when writing.…