Personal Narrative: Rotating My Body

This semester my primary goals were to eat healthier and to maintain my 6 mile run time. My two goals required a lot of dedication and the body works class has helped me stay focus on my goals throughout the entire semester. Having body work class on Mondays helps me get my week started with a good workout, secondly having this class in general works as a reminder that being healthy and active is an everyday challenge that truly pays off in the long run.

Have you ever lost someone or something that was very important to you? In this prompt I am going to tell you about me having to move from one house to another.

I was affected more by the second dose than the first. I lost my sense of balance and my eyelids became heavy. I was inundated with a sense of unease. As charismatic as Bobby could be, this home had a cold and isolating feel about it. He and the others became increasingly intoxicated as the night wore on. It was unflattering. Bobby, I learned, had a coldness within him amongst more intimate company. He would ridicule and belittle Christina and his friends. Christina drank aggressively, and began mixing the formula into her whiskey surreptitiously, which caused me great discomfort. I sat silently while they told gossip about local residents; inheritances that had been squandered, suspected affairs, even speculation about unsolved murders.

Here is the different that I think needs to be noted and why I was against it.

I always had a fascinating fear with roller coasters as a child. Whenever I went to any amusement parks with my friends, I never dared to go on any roller coasters with them. It was a type of perpetual horror for me. I would have never gotten over it had it not been for my childhood friend Dean. Dean was the daring, loyal, and confident type of person, but can be frighteningly irrational at times. His personality made him the direct opposite of me who was rather shy at the time. As if it was fate, this lead to him helping me overcome my fear of roller coasters.

The hot sun beat down on us as we patiently waited for the line we were waiting in to move up. I stood silently next to my cousins, listening to them as they conversed excitedly. We were waiting to get on the MindBender, and it would be my youngest cousin Caleb’s first time on an actual roller coaster. At first, he didn’t want to get on, but changed his mind once he heard that his cousins would be riding with him. My cousins Kennedi and Trip, my brother Rudy, Caleb, and I were the only ones brave enough to get on.

One would like to believe that gender doesn't affect your employment prospects, right? My husband came down on orders to bring us to Benning, it was time to update ye old resume. As a CNC machinist with seven years’ experience, working in both a proprietary production shop as well as a diverse job shop, I'm qualified to set up, tear down, perform program edits and run a variety of equipment. There is, however, one large disadvantage working against me in finding employment here in the lovely state of Georgia; I'm a woman. This is an apparent deal breaker for the shops that I've applied at thus far. It's evident to me, as everything goes very smooth in the application and pre-interview process, until they find out that the "S" in "S. McPherson" stands for Stephani. The joys of being a woman in a man’s world.

One day, my auntie, my cousin and i went to Disney world. We saw a roller coaster and wanted to try it out for my first roller coaster. Turns out this roller coaster was way too extreme to be my first .There was a really long line, we waited for about an hour. When we got to the fence of the roller coaster and I saw how fast it went I asked can I go back my auntie simply responded with “we waited too long to go back now.”

At the last second, I jumped. My body hit the hood of the car and I screamed. My bones, muscles, joints, and organs felt like they were being crumbled and smashed into a tiny box. My lungs contracted with such force that I was afraid they would fold into themselves. My torso and head smashed up against the windshield while my arms and legs were flailing, searching for somewhere to hold and stop the forward movement my body was going. The world must have kept flickering its light switch because my vision kept flashing from bitter darkness to a blinding white light. The only sound that filled my ears was the crushing of glass mixed with the distinct crackles of my bones. Then suddenly, everything became light. I was flying through the air, my

I personally connect to A Chair for My Mother in several different ways. When I was a young child my mother and I lived with my grandmother, our house burned down and they were unable to save our belongings. Thankfully, we were blessed with kind family and friends that helped us just like they had help in the story. Another connection I have with the story is that when I was growing up my mom always kept a big jar and would fill it with change. This jar was a huge! My siblings and I would all hunt for change to add to the change jar because that was always our money that we used to do things on vacation. I remember sorting all the coins out when the

Throughout my life I have gone through many changes, but other things have stayed the same as well. Such as my love of math, it has been part of me since I was 4 years old, while my love of roller coasters only came into play when I was 11, the first time I went on an extreme roller coaster called the Boomerang.

Physical- This dimension was a major shift in my focus and time spent dedicated to increasing endurance, which is visually expressed under the title “Body.” When I was in high school I use to be very active and played soccer for years, but since quitting the field and hitting the library I have noticed a huge difference in my health and ability when I want to be active. This gave me determination to gather a group of friends to go to the gym 3 times a week for at least an hour and increased as the weeks passed. The goal was to be able to run 5 miles in 30 minutes and in almost obtaining that goal my new one is to now decrease the time needed to hit 5 miles.

I winced as soon as I woke when a pounding filled my skull. I was a little disoriented as I opened my eyes, having a hard time focusing. Goosebumps covered my bare arms, and I thought, Wasn’t I wearing a coat? It took me a few seconds to realize that I had never taken it off the whole time I had been with Jeff, so, of course, I had been wearing it. Despite my slow thought-process, it still bothered me that I wasn’t wearing it. Turning my head slightly, I saw it in the corner a few feet away.

Have you ever been on a broken elevator or gone on a roller coaster called” The Scream?” Well, when I was nine, I rode BOTH of those at Disneyland. This trip was important to me because it was one of the last vacations we took as a family before my parents got divorced.

One of the main focuses of todays lesson was basic technique. We concentrated on alignment, safe dance practice in ballet and body limitations. By this I mean, how far we can push our bodies with out being in risk of causing injury. Technique in ballet is the learning of movement and refers to a way of using the body in the correct alignment. Alignment in ballet refers to keeping the head, shoulders and hips vertically aligned. A dancer with good technique requires good placement, alignment and turnout. Turnout refers to completing movements with your legs rotated outwards using the six deep outward rotators of the hip joint (ball and socket). This promotes clean footwork, graceful port