Master-Personal Narrative

As teacher’s we are committing to a life time of learning and development of ourselves and our learners.

I have lived in only one location my entire life: Edwardsville, Illinois. A peripheral suburb of St. Louis, it stands as the rare oasis of people in a desert of corn, pinned in its own personal bubble. Due to this blend of time and isolation, I developed a natural familiarity with my hometown. But, throughout my childhood, I longed to break free from the confines of the bubble and venture outward. However, this changed last summer, as I walked through Richards Brickyard, our family heirloom, that my great-grandfather, Benjamin Richards, founded over 120 years ago. I felt these childlike sentiments slip away. The bubble that had surrounded me for so long began to vanish, and the picture that it had been obscuring was slowly revealed.

When a product, in this case a sport, is easier to substitute the value of the product is less. Mixed martial arts cover a wide range of different sports including the UFC, wrestling, boxing, taekwondo, and karate. Substitutes for mixed martial arts include baseball, basketball, football, and any other legal sport. Some of the substitutes are more threatening than others. I think the main focus for a mixed martial arts sport would be to differentiate themselves from the other types of mixed martial arts. Because there are many sports for people to watch and be involved in, the substitutes are pretty high.

Throughout history there have been countless numbers of teachers: artisans, craftsmen, ideologist, to name a few. They have all master some skill, gained some wisdom, or comprehended an idea. These teachers have achieved knowledge which allows them to excel and to be above and beyond regular people. Knowledge is something everyone strives for, and many desire. To achieve knowledge, one must have an eye-opening experience, and epiphany that leads to the increase of one’s intellect and skill set. In Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha, the main character, Siddhartha, goes in an almost never ending quest to achieve knowledge. Throughout this journey, Siddhartha encounters many teachers, whom which he learns a great deal, but

The sparks fly in the air, there are marshmallows in your hair, and you’re with your favorite people in the world. This is called the best place on earth, for me at least. I enjoy camping so very much, you meet new people, experience different things, make new memories, and have a blast. You also see new sights, smell some things, and always wake up to the birds singing and not the bustling streets of the city. Camping is my go to activity.

It's a Friday afternoon, I plan to go to Great Wolf Lodge in an hour with my church. I see one of my friends so he says to his mom “ Hey, that's my friend” I said “Crap” So I go inside to sign in to go and see my friends just sitting in a corner on a big sofa. We are listening to music and just talking then a green bus comes.

It was not until a reading assignment in my freshman year English class that I fully understood what a cruel creature I was. My life-changing story came from nothing other than the short story, The Scarlet Ibis.

This is the sort of story that is eternal. Not only in the simplest sense, in the way all stories are, but also in the sense that this chapter in my life was edited by the Author of everything I’ve ever seen and known and loved.

Another lesson from the story is to follow your heart and to follow your intuition and understand that the journey to finding your Personal Legend comes with challenges, nothing in life is attained easily, you have to work for it but the reward in finding your destiny is so much greater than the challenge because it is all a constant learning cycle. Yes, you will be tested and there will be times when you may want to throw in the towel and question yourself but you must persevere. “It almost seems impossible until it’s done”. Nelson

We understand both fields are belonging to the fighting as baseball and basket balls are two different sports, similarly MMA and Boxing are two vast fields of the sports with different rules and it could be easy to the fan of both sports without choosing over the other.

It’s the start of grand final day. I wake up extremely nervous about it because of what happened last year. So last year we were in the grand final playing the same team (the dogs) and on the same ground. i was going for a mark, running as hard as i could to get go for it, but unfortunately, a player from the dogs comes in head first and headbutts my chest and breaks 3 of my ribs and we lose by less than a goal.

I was not an intentionally bigoted twelve-year-old. I was raised in an affluent suburban community where the vast majority of people are white. The 100% white private nursery school which I attended was chosen by my parents largely due to its proximity to our home. My public elementary school was about 70% white as it was populated with students who resided nearby. Finally, the private middle school which I attended, located almost an hour from my home, provided me with exposure to the most diverse student body of my youth as it was comprised of about 65% Caucasian children. What each of these formative academic experiences shared in common was both that their student bodies were disproportionately Caucasian, as well as that their senior administrators

* Even though MMA might be a very physical and bloody sport that shouldn’t keep you from wanting to watch it and be a part of it.

Two years after we had signed the gas lease my father stopped farming. The cows and the pigs were sold to the Baker’s farm on the other side of Iberdeen. So were his two tractors along with most of the other equipment that had taken up real estate on our land. Now our house sat on almost three hundred acres of dirt, grass, hay, fieldstone, history.

One Day, as my family was gathered sitting around telling stories. A while into telling these amazing stories I decide to tell my tale.