Personal Narrative: When I Pull My Own Weight

The biggest challenge I faced was one of my own making. A late start had me playing catch up through the entire research and writing process. Another challenge was finding relevant primary

The first quarter is always the hardest for me, this one especially as I work a lot after school. Being senior year I was looking to take an easy route, but instead I took hard classes to keep challenging myself; looking back now I should have taken the easy route. The biggest struggle has been finding time to work in homework after work, getting my work in on time, and I’m looking to improve my quality of work for the next quarter.

It was a typical Sunday morning, I ate breakfast with my family and got ready for church. The morning went on with a drag, than 5 o’clock hit. Once 5 o’clock hit my mother started yelling at my sister and me to get our stuff packed and into the car. We had only a few hours before my final summer of upward bound started. Since I started my senior year I’d been remembering many moments of my past and been reflecting on them. Therefore as I began to pack, it didn’t seem strange to me as I started to flash back to what had gotten me into Upward Bound in the first place.

The purpose of this experiment was to use stoichiometry to calculate the volume and percent yield of CO₂ produced from a reaction of acetic acid (vinegar) with baking soda.

Prior to undergraduate and graduate school, the repercussions of academic misconduct were not a deterrent to me. The consequences of plagiarizing were not clear and concise in High School. I was a poor, intelligent kid living in an environment where fashion and economic class established one’s social status. I wanted to fit in. I was so obsessed with fitting in, that I used my academic gifts to promote academic misconduct. My peers had academic weakness. Theses weakness’ included, lack of confidence in their work, lack of preparation and lack of motivation. I exploited the areas of weakness of my peers for my personal gain.

What I wanted on summer vacation made me end with a heavy debt on my shoulders. The debt that I haven?t paid off yet to my dad. Buying the PC was a good idea, but I messed it up myself. Last school holiday I had the bright idea to buy a PC, PCs are strong, easy to use, and reliable. I am a guy who wants to experience all fields of gaming, when some people like calm and relaxing games. Others might like driving, sports, strategy games, or some action. For me, I try all types of games, so to do that I have to get myself a PC, and what?s cheaper than building one yourself (at least what it?s normally like).

The results of my Strength Quest seem to fall in line with how I perceive myself very well. The 5 signature themes were communication, competition, input, self-assurance, and woo. While there were a few other themes I thought were potentially better fits, these results held up with my personality and actions. One of the emphasized ideas was that these things came naturally to the person, a talent. While this is true of four of these, I had to work on the woo aspect. Originally I was a very shy child and talking to kids was not easy. It was only late on in high school that I began to put myself out there and introduce myself to others. While now it comes naturally it did not before. However, the other four aspects paint a good picture of who

“Dad why can’t you believe me, I really can break the force field I’m not lying I saw your old bulldog please why can’t you believe me? people are sitting here thinking I’m lying and when I try a prove it to them you block me?” Kate said

We human beings are all works of art. Every experience that we have is a new stroke of paint to our canvas. The things that influence us do the same. I am not a completed work of art, but I can show my progress of what makes me. I am influenced by the media, my teachers, and the neighborhoods I lived in. Now here is the showing of my work.

The environment I was raised in shaped me as a Caring person towards others and a non carrying person on others opinion.

"Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, not thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortionists will inherit the kingdom of God." (1 Corinthians 6:9-10)

The way I see it, everyone carries something. Some carry the weight of ten-thousand men, and others, well, they carry small bundles. I have been carrying a concoction of things throughout my life. It started with anxiety, when I was six. I can see myself carrying that metaphorical hobo-style bag now. When I was ten, I was diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Now I was carrying a backpack, and by fourteen, I was carrying full hiking gear with depression. At eighteen, I carried my hiking gear and then some, because now my seemingly awkward mannerisms had a name; Aspergers.

Somalia is a fairly small country and only contains three different ethnic groups. There are the Somali people, which make of 85%, the Bantu, and the Arabs. The Arabs only make up a small portion of the population but have had many influences in Somalia due to their past relations. For example Somali people mainly speak Arabic. Somalia also has its own language called Somali that is less well known. These three groups make up the entire population of Somalia, which is 11,079,013 people. 73% of these people are below the poverty line, making Somalia the third poorest country in the world. These people struggle to survive day to day, caught inbetween civil war, disease, drought and starvation; in fact the average life span in Somalia is only

That is, until I was nine and fainted at the sight of my own blood when I cut my finger.

“Alright fellas, has anyone else got something to say to Shane Ferguson before he heads off to Mars.” Mr. Wright questions everyone as Shane will be gone from earth forever.