Defining Moment-Personal Narrative

I casually walked through the park on a crisp summer day with morning dew smell still lingering in the air. Nobody is out during this time as usual. Only people awake during this hour are morning joggers and dog walkers. Of course, there was also a mother who was playing with her toddler. She catches her chocolate-brown son and tickles him, and they laugh and trip and fall together onto the floor and laugh harder. I walked by just to say hello to them as they waved back to me. I had set myself to wake up every day at this time and start running laps around the neighborhood to help lose weight. I recall running to every single spot in town on the blocks from Lang to Richland Lane were buildings in wild assortment: two drugstores, Henry Clay Frick's mansion with

I walked outside the next morning feeling great. The bright vibrant sun shone on the freshly mowed grass. I loaded into my sister's car and we went off to school. The day passed extremely rapid,

Topic Sentence: The Military Service Act was vital in maintaining contribution of soldiers to Britain, Canadians faced the harsh conditions of war and were forced to serve into war without a strong motive to fight.

Coming from CP World Voices to Honors English II pushed me to work hard as a result of my fear of falling behind. However, the jump made me grow as a writer; my strength in analyzing literary texts grew and so did my love for the literary works we read. Because this class pushed me to become a more focused and serious writer I have experienced many pivotal moments that caused me to become more aware of my strengths and weaknesses. Looking back on the work we have covered this year I have concluded that my pivotal moments were a series of realizations that came in intervals. Close to the beginning of the year, I discovered that I enjoyed understanding and analyzing literary works to the smallest detail. To successfully do so I focused on my

We had all gotten ready for practice and coach told us we were going to go on a trail run. We loved trail runs because coach didn’t care how fast or slow we ran . we all loaded the bus so we could drive there I decided to sit with

She helped me out on how to properly breathe and pace myself and today was the big day. My first race on our home course. The girls and I quickly got on the start line: a white, painted line on the grass. Then an old man slowly approached us, one step at a time. He wore dark pants with a navy blue flannel shirt that was two size to big along with an old raggedy blue Cubs hat. Each step building more and more tension in the air. Once in front of us, the old man raised his arm pointing a gun towards the sky. He stared directly at us, watching for anyone who would try and get an early start. In that moment time slowed down; as if in some time warp everything became slow. The wind stopped my breathing slowed down, no longer could I move and then “Boom.” It was as if I was in the famous battle of Gettysburg. The first shot had gone off and the whole stampede of boys and girls began running toward the target.

"Introduce yourself. Describe an unforgettable event in your life and how it changed your perception of yourself or the view of someone close to you. This event can be dramatic and/or comedic. The assignment may be written as a short story in the first person or as an essay."

“Come on Kelvin!” shouted my mom from where she was sitting. But I couldn’t sprint, all I could do was run. I crossed the line for the last time. Another person from the high school track handed me a little paper with a 9. I had got 9th place. I was so tired that I dropped the piece of paper, I leaned over and got it. I handed the paper to a person with a clipboard and made my way up to my mom.

1. What are some defining moments in your childhood that changed you , shaped you into who you are today, or helped you mature or grow?

It was ten am on a Saturday morning and I was only three two hours away from the greastest moment of my life. I was about to meet the most amazing guy ever. Im not typically the girl to get overly excited about meeting someone but I mean its Jake Miller. Jake Miller is this really cute but sweet and loving guy. I first found out about him from my best friend Jaun and he showed me his song “Like me”. I knew from that moment on this was not the last time I will be hearing the name Jake Miller. Later that night I googled him and listened to all his songs. I fell in love it was like love at first sight. So for months I kept listening to his music and buying his album until I heard he was playing at Tampa Bay Jingle Ball concert for free. I told my mom we have to go and as she know my love for Jake Miller she easily agreed. I could not wait till December thirteen. The day I met my idol Jake Miller was exciting yet nerve wrecking moment

The leaves were falling and people are in shorts and t-shirts. Cross country season was on and it was going to be a good one since it was my last year in junior high cross country. Twins on the team made it even better since they judges of the course we would be running at would mix us two up. The day we would get our coach was even better than getting the judges at meets.

I’d gotten up that day and thought that it would have been a normal day at school eat breakfast go to class then go home at the end of the day. I had known that we were going to be running the mile sometime in the next week because that's when our teacher had told us since that week was going to be a busy week. When I got to the gym I was a little surprised that there were cones set up for the mile I was getting anxious while getting dressed in the locker room everyone was talking about it in there too saying what none of they were going to get a good time and some of them were going to throw up. I started talking with my running buddy that I had the past couple of weeks we spent getting ready for the mile we kind of evened each other out she would get tired first so I kept her going and when I got tired she kept me going kind of just

It was Friedrich Nietzschehas who said, “What doesn’t kill you makes, you stronger”. I like to call these moments in a person’s life, “defining moments”. Additionally, I like most people, have had a few of these “defining moments”; probably more than one person should. Growing up, I had a hard time accepting one of my “won’t kill you-make you stronger” moments. It was a moment of betrayal and deceit, inflicted upon by a person I trusted fully and completely, with my life. My mother.

It was finally the “big day”. The annual single’ night was tonight and it was time for Brett, 28, to find a soulmate. It was was great way to convene with many people because they all lived in the area and were people Brett knew, just didn’t want to talk to on his own. He had been preparing for this night ever since he was in eighth grade when he decided it was time for a girlfriend. Brett had been tragically rejected countless times over the past 15 years. Perhaps it was be cause of his odd odor or maybe even his disturbing facial expressions. That all didn’t matter tonight because something just told him that tonight he would meet his future spouse. Brett had a million things to accomplish before single’s night and the first thing on his

Everyone discovers the pain of losing someone they love eventually. In my opinion, my turn to experience that pain came much too early. But, that loss also forced me to grow up. It forced to me accept the things that I can’t change, to start taking responsibility for my actions, and it showed me that the world most definitely doesn’t revolve around me. There has been no experience, relationship, challenge, or obstacle that has influenced me more than saying goodbye to my grandpa.