Personal Narrative: My Freshman

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Four years ago, I was a freshman. Throughout the years I have learned several things; however, there is only one thing you need to know: how to walk in the hallways. As a freshman you must know that seniors will accost you. For you to not get yelled at, you must walk on your side of the hallways. Simply like a road. If you have to get on the other side of the hallway, you must cross traffic. Don’t be that person that walks the opposite direction as everyone else (once you are a senior, you’ll understand). Also, if you have to cross traffic to get to the other side don’t just jump out there. You will get ran over. Wait for an opening for you to dash through and go for it. However, if you do run into someone say you’re sorry. I can’t stand people

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Personal Narrative: My Freshman Year

Freshman year is known to be an intimidating time for most people. Big seniors and juniors walking by you in large hallways and pushing you out of the way. Luckily for me freshman year was remarkably uneventful until my favorite part of the year began. I had been on the varsity tennis team full of boys who seemed like giants to me, and our first match of the season had arrived. “On three we yell AB” “Leon! Woo at the end!” “No! Wait why me?!?!” I knew what was about to occur. “C’mon Leon! Let’s…

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Personal Narrative: My Freshman Basketball Team

a highschooler and achieved my personal goal, making the freshman basketball team. The season started in November and we were beginning to compete in games. I was very excited and ready for every practice and game. We finished the regular season 12-5 and we were all ready for the upcoming Presidents Day weekend tournament. Our first tournament game was at 10:00 o’clock at Ridge Middle School against Harvey. I got there at 9:15 ready and very thrilled to play my first tournament game as a Mentor…

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Personal Narrative: My Freshman Year Of College (ROTC)

My freshman year of college I belonged to an organization known as ROTC. This organization focused on molding the everyday college student into potential officers in the military. Not only did ROTC require a lot of time and dedication but also physical and mental strength. Aside from physical training three times a week, in class studies, and group exercises; we were encouraged to join their team. This team was known as the Ranger’s and participated every year in a statewide activity called the Ranger…

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Personal Narrative: My Freshman Year The Greek Economy

clubs, be graduating with my academic honors diploma, and be the president of my own volunteer organization. Although I know live this life, my freshman year, it looked impossible. If I’m being absolutely honest, you could compare my freshman year the Greek economy. No matter how hard I tried to stable myself, each failure gradually worsened. During my eighth grade year, my mother decided to home school me after we had moved to another city. So, after I miraculously passed my 8th grade year without…

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Essay about Evaluation: East Bay English

25800 Carlos Bee Blvd. Hayward, CA 94542 Dear English Department at CSUEB, Coming into college straight from high school wasn’t very easy, and it was a huge step for me especially because majority of my family members did not attend college and those who did usually dropped out during their freshman year and I did not want to continue the cycle of “dropouts”. Because of the slim number of family members that attended college didn't fully commit to college, they couldn't tell me what to fully expect…

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Personal Narrative: My First AP English Class

classes by my Junior year of high school, ever since I was in seventh grade at Crispus Attucks; neighbors of IUPUI. For the reason that Crispus Attucks High School challenges their students academically, I was ahead of the game. Entering my Freshman year of high school without fear, I took my first AP English class with Mr. Dearing, a sophisticated, tall, bald, white man, who fails at being humorous. At this instant, when I stepped into his classroom on the second floor I could already sense my writing…

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Essay Descriptive Narrative

English 10100 October 9, 2014 Descriptive Narrative My MacBook Pro Writing technologies have been shaping the way people live throughout many generations. Our previous generations used different methods to organize important memories, keep track of new findings, and pass on their stories and discoveries to future generations. Their method of writing was very inefficient, as much effort was being put into carving and preserving a tablet or other writing device, while the end result contained…

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Critical Race Theory Summary

theory doing in a nice field like education?” with a personal narrative. I share her sentiment for the importance of storytelling as a developing critical race theorist. She emphasizes her reasoning by stating, “I tell this story both because storytelling is a part of critical race theory and because this particular story underscores an important point within the critical race theoretical paradigm” (1998). Here is my story. In 1996, I entered my first year of high school at George Washington Carver…

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Essay Personal nerrative

Personal Narrative When I was in about the fourth grade I strive to be just like the other kids in my grade but I didn't feel the same as the other kids in my grade. I use to go to other classrooms rather than be with everyone else. I use to hate leaving the classroom and feeling like I never fit in or wasn't good enough like the other kids. I would always ask “why can’t I be with everyone else” or “why can’t I stay here?” the teacher would just tell me “we are going to learn in a…

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Personal Narrative: How I End Up In Job Corps

Personal Narrative Today I’m going to tell you about my life and how I ended up in job corps. I don’t know where to start, but I’ll start here. In school back when I was in first grade I was a good student stayed on A-B honor roll. Always had awards for doing well and doing what I’m supposed to and what’s asked of me. Second grade was just the same as the first grade year it was different at the beginning I was bad I never wanted to do my work or even go to school. Never did my school work even…

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