Personal Narrative: My Acting Career

For as long as I could remember, I have always had an interest in acting and performing. However, growing up I was constantly overcome with anxiety that I would hold myself back from ever participating in school performances and enrolling in acting workshops. To make up for those missed opportunities, I began teaching myself by imitating scenes when I am alone, picking up on the rules and techniques by observing actors on screen, and watching behind-the-scenes videos so that when I grew older, I would be prepared for the real thing. When I finally mustered up the courage and motivation to enroll in this course, those techniques I taught myself were not only confirmed but were even enforced on us students. Skills such as character development,

My identity as a writer comes from how I view a piece of writing. I view it as art. To create something that intrigues someone, that makes them angry, sad, or confused is my goal when I write. I want the audience to feel something. It just so happens that for most people, writing with the strategy of pathos in mind is always extremely effective. My environment growing up was that of complete creative freedom and I had the privilege to be able to explore my interests at such a young age. My experience with growing my skills as a writer I think started with my love for creating artsy things if you will, but after many years of being stuck as a novice, I developed exponentially during my high school years. I came into my own as a student and learned how to let my longing to stay creative creep into every project I could get my hands on. But I struggled where I perceived creativity wasn't needed i.e. math and history. I became uninterested and skated by in that aspect. Why would I put so much of my time into something that so strongly opposed who I am as a person?

Throughout my childhood and teenage years, I have searched and searched for a talent that would give me a unique identity to make me stand out from my peers. When I was five years old, I was given the chance to be in a musical in our city's community theatre, PMT. This musical was "The Wizard of Oz", and I played the role of a munchkin in the Lollipop Guild. This initially sparked a great interest in theatre, and I fell in love with acting. I had an amazing mentor for my youth acting career, the late Jack Ewing. He played Harold Hill in PMT's production of "The Music Man", while I had the opportunity to play the role of Winthrop, the young boy that helps Harold Hill become a better person. (Jack later died a year before I had the chance to play the role of Harold Hill in my high school's production of "The Music Man Jr.") When I was about nine, PMT dissolved as an organization and therefore there was no community theatre around me for years, which put a setback in my interest and talent for theatre.

Me and my mother absolutely hate most Aerosmith music but Disney decided to play some on TV that morning, it felt kind of strange that this would happen on my birthday of all days, but we continued over to one of the Disney parks. It was the Animal Kingdom we went there for a character breakfast but we decided not to stay at the Animal Kingdom for the day so we went to Hollywood Studios. It was a nice morning at Walt Disney World and my family were so excited to explore Hollywood Studios. Our family started to walk around in the park after having had issues at the fingerprint scanner found a interesting giant guitar and we walked to it. We saw that the ride was called the Rock N Roller Coaster and we decided to go on it, but my little brother got scared so dad

I immediately went to my professor’s office hours to get advice on how I could perform better on my next paper, she told me to be more concise and I should use the resource “writer’s help”. Being the Stubborn teenager I am, I only focused on being more concise, but completely ignored reviewing writers help, hence my next grade was a seventy-nine percent. Though I was disappointed with the grade I received, I could only be disappointed with myself because I did not take the advice my teacher recommend to me. Determined to do better on my last paper, I finally read over “writers help”. I must admit, using Writers help was one of the smartest decisions I have ever made. The program taught me how to properly form a thesis, how to be concise and

We were the place to be for the season with sales exceeding three times expected for that year. As a result of my ingenuity and dedication, the department store hired me for a permanent sales position. It was a very rare opportunity because this store was the national corporate headquarters for the department store chain and they had very little turnover in staff. I loved the new permanent work and enjoyed learning about fashion from the expert associates each day.

I have personally struggled with the thought of my future. I am sure all children go through a teenage angst period that makes it difficult to see long term goals as something achievable. Where I feel I differ from my peers is in the fact that I never had a direction growing up. In the third grade when we had to write journal entries on our aspirations I always drew a blank while others had full pages on what they wanted to be. I didn't find my passion till late in the game. In middle school theatre was in my periphery, but I never took much

I experienced my pop culture moment when I was a senior at my high school. My transportation to go to my school was buses. I took the same buses to school from freshmen year but I have never notice what I notice in my senior year. Every morning I wake up to go to school at 8 a.m. I would see people going to work, school etc. but one day I notice there was a group of white women who went to work wearing sari (sari is a garment which is long and elaborately draped around body. Asian women mostly wear it). I found that very odd because they didn’t look like to me that they would know anything about the culture that the sari is originated from. I used to see them wearing traditional Indian cloth and I used to wonder how did they get interested

I was fired from one of my first jobs because I continuously forgot to put bananas on banana splits (9). I then became a model for Hattie Carnegia, under the name Diane Belmont (1). I also started appearing in very small film roles (1). The small films I appeared in included: Three Little Pigskins (1934), Room Service (1938), Roberta (1935), Top Hat (1935), Follow the Fleet (1936), Stage Door (1937), and Hey Diddle Diddle (1936) (1). My possible big break, Hey Diddle Diddle, ended very suddenly. Sadly, the star, Conway Tearle, because seriously ill one week before going to Broadway.

I have been saying since I was 11 years old that I wanted to be a producer. From that time until now, I still do not entirely know how exactly I will get there, but I know I can and will do the work to get myself to that position. My dream of being a producer came from the first play I did as a member of stage crew in the sixth grade. I fell in love the behind the scenes aspect of a performance and what went into achieving a successful show. Between the sixth grade and the twelfth grade, I worked on and participated in many shows and never lost the pull towards being a part of the collaboration behind putting on a spectacle. However, with each show I was a part of, I began to question more and more why I loved it so much. I could not find solid footing in the concept, just that I felt happy while doing it.

I love acting; everything I do is full of emotion. Interpreting someone else's work and then putting your own emotion and feelings into it, is one of the greatest things to do of all time. I love acting with all my heart and soul, I will always love acting and the emotion and the thought and care it involves.

Here’s a little about myself hopefully it can spark inspiration for an ideal costume. My physical features include longer brown wavy hair with brown eyes and that’s about all I’m going to say. Personality wise, I am outgoing and love talking to different people. I am involved in a campus organization called the Cougar Counseling Team. I love volunteering anywhere available such as orphanages, animal shelters, etc. My favorite sport to play is volleyball; I play at every opportunity given. I come from a small town and am a Christian, however, I am a liberal. I am very open minded and accepting in all aspects. The things that are most important to me are my family and friends. I adore my pets including my cat: Cinderfella,

What kind of name is Princess Ja’Nai Farkhanda Ibinah “DVS” Abdul-Wajibul Lavender (pronounced Juh-Nā-Ya , Fuh- Con- Da, Devious, Wa- Gee- Boo)? It’s a unique name and it happens to be mine. It has been mispronounced, the butt of many jokes, even a bullying tool, but most importantly it is the perfect name for me, because its meaning is true to my life and personality.

The first time I ever performed in front of a live audience was in the living room of my childhood home. Before I could even read I was performing the classics. With bold expression, I played the starring role in the Phantom of the Opera. Along with my two siblings, I performed in our version of Star Wars, Psycho, and Pirates of the Carribbean. From the beginning, I revelled in the thrill of the performing arts.

I have been trained to become a chemist since the first year of my high school. This is a challenging career, requiring analytical thinking, attention to details, and adaptability. It is also a well-paying and promising career. However, chemistry is not what I have always dreamt of doing the rest of my life. As someone who is concerned about the development of sub-Saharan Africa, I came to a conclusion that what this region needs is not only scientists but also people who know and understand leadership and international affairs. In this paper, I compare my strengths and abilities to the qualities that one should have in order to excel as a chemist and a diplomat.