Personal Narrative-Heated Tie

What do you think of wolves? Do you think they’re blood-thirsty killers, or do you think they are rather friendly animals? In the book, Never Cry Wolf, (1963) the author, Farley Mowat, writes about his excursion to the sub arctic Barren Lands of Canada to study how wolves act and how the community is being affected by the wolves. The people of Churchill lead Mowat to believe the wolves are something that they aren’t, which is a blood-thirsty killer. Mowat then uses the rhetorical strategy Pathos throughout the book to show you how he personifies the wolves and how fear is all in our minds.

The first element we should talk about is plot; the plot structure for The Wolves is a variation. The two plot structures it is similar to the most are climatic and circular. In climatic plot structure the characteristics are few characters, few locations, late point of attack, and few plots. The Wolves share the characteristics of few characters, few locations (where they played their games), and a late point of attack (when number fourteen was killed). Circular plot structure characteristics are it ends where it began, and the expression of futility and meaninglessness of human effort. The Wolves also ended where it began (beginning of a soccer game).

It was record breaking temperatures on this July 4th day. Red, white, and blue filling up the stands. Fans and umbrellas protecting spectators from the heat of the sun. It was about game time and I was getting ready to take the field for the last home game. Butterflies in my stomach, but I had to tell myself “it’s just another game”. Even though in my heart I knew it was not just another game.

My head was going crazy, I could barely think straight.I was off to a great start. I has stuck all my landings and I just need one more Tumbling pass to go, and if I had stuck it then I would qualify to Nationals. My brain was rushing super fast that it felt like I was off the floor.

“Thud! Boom! Thud!” I was awaken by my grandfather’s heavy boots trudging up the rickety stairs. As he reached the top of the stairs, I heard his familiar voice exclaim, “Gabby, get out of bed! We are going on an adventure!

Attached is my resume and two writing samples. The first one is an article I wrote for a local newspaper in my hometown and was heavily interview based. The second writing sample is a data driven research paper and was heavily based on data visualization and analysis. While the samples do not directly deal with sports writing, I think that some of the skills can translate to writing about sports. Let me know if you need anything else.

food, surrounded by family and friends, and how could I forget the memories made with my

Note: I had the pleasure to sit down with Nikolai and discuss his new mixtape TiedDown. Quotes from the interview are spread throughout this review.

It’s often hard to believe that others have had different experiences from you, they have their own perspective and knowledge of the World. I came to this realization a few years back, in the summer of 2015 my cousin and her fiancé came to visit from Colorado. My cousin’s fiancé, Shea, grew up in a small town in Colorado, most towns there are very secluded with mountains and plains sitting between each little cluster of homes. The population of these little house clusters are predominantly white, and the religious diversity is greatly scarce, filled with Christians. It is correct to say that Shea has been living a life full of blissful ignorance.

There once was a story told of a girl who was so call it the “Perfect Debater.” She was fierce, confident, knowledgeable, and she understood how to get people to listen. But in life, no one is actually that perfect. Her only downfall was that she was ruthless and she defended her territory at all cost, her opponent never got to mumble a single word. As I learned in the leadership program, we call this person “The Competing One.” These are the individuals who only pursue their own concerns at their opponent expense, using whatever power seemed appropriate. Well then there’s me, I fall in with the competing ones, the one who is said to be self-absorbed and sometimes ruthless.

Howls encircled me as a black wolf jumped in front of me. He had a predatory look in his eyes but he didn’t scare me. As I studied his features he just stood there looking back at me with his piercing blue eyes almost ice blue. He was mostly black with his toes on his left front and back, feet were white and his right front and back, feet had socks. He should intimate me because on his stomach he had a claw mark that had scarred over and even in wolf form he towered over my 5’5 frame but what really made me think was the tribal tattoo on his head that matched mine when in wolf form and the paw print that rested on his left shoulder that rested on my left hind leg. His ears had white tips. He walked behind a massive tree as his beta and delta, he must of told them to guard me as he changed, started to stand next to me. They had already transformed into their human

Hey guys- I'm not trying to beat a dead horse here, but I wanted to apologize once again for cussing earlier tonight in an agitated manner. Typically, it takes a magnitude of outside stimuli for me to become agitated. What agitated me was not the jokes about what I said(I love jokes), but rather the fact that I didn't have anytime to clarify and elaborate further on what I mean't by that statement until after I became a tad bit angered about the laco of time. I wanted to address what I meant to the people who initially thought I was being racist with that statement. Furthermore, my personal stance is not to call anyone "African-American" unless they were born and raised in Africa, regardless of the pigmentation of their skin. I was just pointing

Beside her stood a man called 'Kai?' He was thin and had a bit darker skin than the other two. His black hair that was tied up into a small knot on top of his head. A cloth, that I've seen some warriors wear around their heads, was on Kai’s head as well. He seemed very light on his feet and ready to fight within a moments notice.

The illustrator's image using Bang’s principles, I see that in this image little red riding hood is the focal point here because all the eyes and the wolf-like creatures put her right on the spot and instead the wolves feel surprised that she is there. The rules the illustrator used was the technique of roundness when making the eyes of the wolves and the hidden eyes, to make the image less daunting and more secure. The illustrator also used the rule of vertical shapes when creating the wolf ears making them appear more exciting. Unlike their mouth, the illustrator uses the sharpness rule which is seen to indicate that these wolves are not supposed to be nice. Another rule the illustrator used was using symbolism of color for the background by creating a lighter background, indicating that the reader will feel safe.

It would have been easy to resolve had either one of us wanted to end the squabble. Looking back, it is unbelievable to me that I acted the way I did. Again and again the situation runs through my mind, unveiling new ends to the argument. It was a perfect example of similar scenes playing themselves out all over the world - the most basic level of social conflict we have, the easiest to resolve.