Personal Narrative: The Pareto Principle

The diction being very ornate as the author uses unusual word pairings that pair well with the

Summer vacation, and school ends for about three months, and then you have as much fun as you can, then back to school… right? Well I had to go to summer school, but it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. Everything was going fine, I had a job after summer school, and that was going fine as well. They say that summer is supposed to be fun and exciting, and it usually is for me and my family. However in July my father started coughing up blood. My father usually doesn’t make it his top priority to go to the doctors, so he waited about four weeks until he really didn’t feel good.

The use of descriptive language is important for the writer to entertain, persuade and teleport the reader into their work. Descriptive use and imagery allow the reader to experience the setting, sound, taste, and mood as if they can live through it. Which takes us to Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Not only does he use exceptional details and imagery throughout the play between the characters, but the way he uses word allows us to put ourselves into the play as if we can feel what they feel. It also allows us to experience and go through the play as if we are in it also. So in this paper, I would like to focus on a few major moments where I believe Shakespeare descriptive language is the strongest.

Adhering to my health behavior change ended up being much more difficult than I thought it would end up being. I wanted to change my behavioral by going to the gym more often, more than three hours a week, and on a weekly basis. In the first week, I started off poorly and did not end up going to the gym once. The second week of my plan is when I was finally started to go to the gym and taking my plan seriously. I was available to meet my goal and spent three and a half hours at the gym that week. By week three, I only went for 2 hours that week at the gym.

I was incredibly excited. School was starting tomorrow. The first few days were just icebreakers, learning everyone’s names, blah blah blah. Then the real learning began. Of course, teachers started to write our lessons on the board. I started to notice a few changes in what I was seeing. The words they were writing were just...black lines! I didn’t pay much attention to it, I just asked my friends what the board said. As the year went on, it affected me more and more, especially in math. I saw a 2 as a 6, and and an A as an 8.

When I got my first job as a PT aide I met Tali, the woman who would become my mentor and confidant. She was tough as nails with bright red hair, a thick Israeli accent and arms that looked like they were sculpted out of clay. I'll admit, she was the most intimidating woman I had ever met, but she was also very sweet. I had absolutely no idea what I was getting into when I was assigned to her. She had such an unorthodox way of treating patients. It was completely bizarre but also absolutely brilliant.

Everyone on earth is defined by their core beliefs. It’s what makes us all individuals, what separates us from the others. It wasn’t until I was talking with my friend Sean in 8th grade that I started to realize that one of my core beliefs, something I was taught growing up, may not be my own belief.

With so many rules in the English language, it is easy for one to wonder how they were created. The dictionary, for example, was only created a few hundred years ago by people who thought that was how language was supposed to be. Many artists have had the mission to go forward and break these “rules.” Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons, bill bissett’s “text bites,” and John Agard’s “I Ain’t No Oxford Don” question rules of grammar and synaptic normality. By the way, these poems disrupt words, use non-standard prose, and have ambiguous interpretations they break the rules of grammar and disrupt the formal laws of language, inducing new ways of about the how one produces meaning.

The utilization of descriptive language is important for the writer to entertain, persuade and teleport the reader into their work. Descriptive use and imagery allow the reader to experience the setting, sound, taste, and mood as if they can live through it. Which takes us to Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Not only does he utilize exceptional details and imagery throughout the play between the characters, but the way he uses word allows us to put ourselves into the play as if we can feel what they feel. It also allows us to experience and go through the play as if we are in it also. So in this paper, I would like to focus on a few major moments where I believe Shakespeare descriptive language is the strongest.

This transcript, an extract taken from one of the creative writing controlled assessments I submitted for my GCSE English Language studies, is a sociolect between two East-End Londoners. The complicity and the natural language employed within this private exchange denote a long-term relationship between two middle-class, middle-aged women, on the same intellectual level who are having a tease - a literal 'dig'- winding each other while carrying out casual gardening work.

While most of William Shakespeare’s renown comes from his plays and sonnets, few realize how many words he created. Whether for no purpose, or for lack of a better word to use, the words he invented lasted way beyond his life. Even four hundred years from his time, Shakespeare’s words still exist. He took the word “assassinate” and turned it into a new word – “assassination.” Shakespeare also invented the word “lackluster,” a term used to describe something lacking in brilliance.

Too many Americans believe in the myth of rugged individualism and the self made man because they are uneducated on just how dependant our country’s founders actually were. Without the assistance of indentured servants, slaves, and the trade goods of other countries, I believe America as we know it would not exist. Being honest, I never actually considered just how un-independent Americans really are. As a child, I was told many times that achieving success consists of one’s own ability. My father in his earlier years proclaimed how he would be a millionaire, and boasted how he would do it on his own. Later he realized that God intended and will always intend for people to help one another. My father is a completely different man today and uses his past as a testimony that there is no such thing as self made. It is unnatural for people to be loners and self dependant without the assistance of others. At no time in history has a person ever been so omnipotent that they could carry on without the assistance of other humans. In fact, without

And, this mental project, whose phrases drift on a limited terrestrial space, swings in repetitious movement. His mind, nevertheless, professes a penchant to work in his present improper place.

The random movement of the nightmare was also the controlled movement of a poem, in which a quality of feeling might be stated or suggested and only much later justified. But it was justified at last.

But, since I’ve literally written that on this paper it, like what I’m saying right now, that makes it even more trippy and inception-y, and everything.  Back on track, I interject into my own thoughts a lot, and you can generally tell by the tone of my voice and tilt of my head what layer of thought process I’m in.  Of course, it totally doesn’t matter, and I’ll I’m doing is essentially warning you about how confusing all of this is going to be, knowing full well that this is going to be a confusing explanation and I shouldn’t have said anything at all, but that’s not who I am to not explain everything as much as I can, with as much space as I feel I can reasonably allow.  I am not a concise person.  What I have written here I will be saying word for word, but with a gagillion other little interjections as well.  Due to my acute level of self-awareness, I have vastly cut down what I was going to say, knowing, that I will say so much more in actuality.