Personal Narrative Analysis

What causes laughs, the place you get stuffed, and involves sleeping? If you guessed a New Year’s party and/or sleepover then you guessed right. When it was time to leave my house, I was told to take soda and chips so I brought chips and soda.

My mother may be the one with an educator’s license, but both of my parents have always played an active role in my education. I have succeeded throughout my entire academic career due to their encouragement and help, and currently have a 4.0 at UT Tyler; However, not all of my education was scholarly. I was highly involved in a few extracurriculars, and my parents were at every event, from tryouts to state UIL, cheering me on.

It was a bad start to what would be a year of lowest lows and highest highs. A year in which my strength, courage, and most of all faith would be took to its limits. The year started with the biggest failure of my life, the end of my first marriage. It came sudden and harsh. When I started that relationship I only had two absolutes, don’t hit me and don’t cheat on me, and since I’m not in jail he did not hit me so you can fill in the blank. With this start to the year I thought will it just had to get better because there was no way it could get any worse… man was I wrong. Just two days after kicking out my cheating ex-husband I found out I was pregnant with baby number two. Now I have nothing against children, but I had a nine-month old little girl and a failed marriage, a new baby was not what I needed. I prayed the test was wrong, asked God to let the test me wrong, it wasn’t. So there I was, stressed to the max and not real sure what I was going to do. Abortion was not an option and I knew I never

All throughout my years in school, I have experienced many lows and highs. I have encountered many different types of friends that have made me who I am now and those who have made me better than before. I’ve been through really bad moments; especially in junior high and elementary. I can still remember clearly the names I got called for being ‘round’ and dressed like a little girl. It got to me, but it didn’t stop me from me being me. I had the chance to remove toxic friends from my life and move on. During my childhood, I had lived with my aunt and cousins, as well with my parents. We were all under the same roof and did things together. My dad eventually didn’t get along with my aunt and uncle which ended bad. We eventually moved out and moved into an apartment. I had to sleep with my mom because my dad didn’t have the money to buy a two bedroom house. I lived under that condition up until junior high. Things began to turn out good and it was until then that my dad surprised me with something. He got a raise in his job and purchased a home with two bedrooms! I met new people and I eventually became friends with someone who ended up being my best friend until the end of junior high; we got

Public speaking was a debilitating anxiety that I allowed to obliterate my self-confidence along with my self-esteem and prevented me from accepting opportunities. I lived with this fear, for quite a while, that is until my neighborhood blackout thrust me out of my comfort zone and eventually helped me grow and cope with my anxiety. Consequently, today when I walk out to rooms full of people, whether it is an introduction, hosting an event, or officiating a ceremony, I am always reflecting back to the day I was working at the theater. Going about my day when the blackout occurred. Suddenly, it was all hands on deck, which forced me out of my comfort zone and for the sake of public safety I needed to engage with an auditorium full of strangers

My mind teleporting itself to multiple universes is a constant in my life. Each individual universe is connected in a fractal-like fashion, consisting of spindly chains of universes in arms not unlike the Milky Way’s spiral arms. Imagine the famous Mandelbrot Set: narrowing in on a particular point will reveal the set’s characteristic bulbous shape, but scaled down; in the same way, zooming in on a set of temporally-linked universes will eventually reveal a branching-out shape not unlike the central shape of the multiverse.

As an introvert growing up, public speaking was never something I considered taking up; a few years ago, the mere thought of speaking in front of an audience would have terrified me. That, however, changed within a couple of years, solidifying through an event- a tournament held by the National Speech and Debate Association in Dallas, Texas.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk in a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks. There is a saying “there is no risk then there is no reward”. You have to understand that living a successful life will depend on the risks you choose to take.

Did you know that public speaking is ranked as the number one fear in America? This fear, called glossophobia, is “as common as fingers and toes.” (McDermott,5). Many of us have experienced anxiety during a speech. It might have happened to you, and also it might have happened to your friends too. It happens to everyone, even to those people who today are famous and excellent speakers. The book “Speak with Courage” written by Martin McDermott, author and master teacher, is a unique guide to the art of confident public speaking. This book has helped thousands of students to overcome their fears and rise above speech anxiety by using the right techniques. I totally agree with McDermott when he claims that everyone can leave behind the fear of

I spoke in public when I was in high school, 11th grade. I had to present about America and Vietnam war without using the note in my history class. However, I was little shy and scare that people will laugh at me because I cannot speak fluently English, even I was practice a lot at home and in my free times. In that moment I thought that I will give up. But, when I hear my friend’s presentation I feel like there are two person talking inside of me. One is motived me to go and the other one is not. At that time, I choose to step up and speak in front of my class because I know that I cannot hide behind my back forever so I motivated myself that I have to win the afraid in me. After that time, I have more experience, and in 12th grade I spoke

The kind of determination I demonstrated routinely, though valuable, was useless in correcting my poor public speaking skills. I had a penchant for gritting my teeth, putting my head down and doing the difficult, yet routine, tasks. However, up until now, I had rarely practiced stepping outside of my comfort zone. Considering this, the keys to

Whenever any words related to “public speaking,” “presenting,” or “read this aloud” were said, anxious thoughts crept into my mind. The thought of those words sent my mind in a million different directions. Speaking and communicating have huge roles in everyday

This piece is a note to you, Mrs.Cummings, serving as a follow-up/extension on the end of the semester evaluation. I think it will be useful, or at the very least interesting, information to have. I am also aware that my grade is on the border (as I’m sure I’ve made you painfully aware as well), and so if my grade does end up falling short after everything else I hope you will consider making an exception to your policy. I will, however, understand if you do not.

Do you fear of speaking in the public? If yes, you might be one of seventy-four percentage of Americans who suffer from ‘glossophobia’ – a public speaking anxiety (source: ‘National Institute of Mental Health’, 23 Nov. 2013). You might also be surprised to know that a large number of people fear of speaking in the public than their death. Well, I was also afraid of presenting in the crowd some years ago when I was in the high school, but now I can effectively do it. The following essay is to convey to you, my classmates and my instructor, how I effectively joined a public speaking community by learning presentation and persuasive skills as well as by proving myself above board.

This class is helping me to develop a better understanding of who I am. Hitherto, I consider myself to be an adequate public speaker but, I’m considerably better writing papers than speaking in front of an audience. My time in this class is forcing me to confront aspects of public speaking that I’ve never attempted before. I believe that I’m gaining a great deal of knowledge from this class thus far, but I have a few things to learn to advance my public speaking skills. Currently, I have strong points and weak points that I’m working on, and hoping to develop further during my time in class.