I am standing there, one hand around the shoulders of a friend. My other hand, clutching a diploma and a bouquet of pink and white roses. The sun is beaming down on my brunette hair making it appear light and creating a glow off the top of my head. I can see the happiness not only spread across my face in an ear to ear grin but by the way my eyes are squinting so very little. The warm light balancing out the photo reminds me of the summer time that was creeping up on us ever so slowly. Then, I was just a 12-year-old girl with a whole new chapter of her life bout to unfold. Now, I sit looking back on this day, reflecting on all that has changed since I walked out of Newport Heights Elementary School for good.
Kindergarten through sixth grade
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In the first paragraph I was attempting to illustrate the moment and gather the memories from that day into a few short sentences. The words I chose and the way I organized my paragraph was in hopes of reflecting the nostalgia that I was feeling while looking at the picture. There is also a strange feeling that I felt while looking at the picture, because it defines a moment that now feels as if I had imagined it. Therefore, while writing my personal essay I felt the need to recover this and other misplaced moments. The entire concept that a previous self may be a stranger to me is something that I feel needs exploring, although I also felt, while writing, that there are certain fundamental aspects of a person that never change. After rereading my essay multiple times, I am pleased with how I was able to achieve my goal. Although I feel as if I could have used more detail to describe myself then, in that particular moment, I believe that by describing what has changed over the course of the years proved to be just as effective. From the beginning of the essay through to the end, it is easy for readers to track the progress I have made from an elementary school student to a high school student. Each paragraph I began to develop a little more as a person and student which then lead me to succeed in my first few weeks as a
The story of my history as a writer is a very long one. My writing has come full circle. I have changed very much throughout the years, both as I grew older and as I discovered more aspects of my own personality. The growth that I see when I look back is incredible, and it all seems to revolve around my emotions. I have always been a very emotional girl who feels things keenly. All of my truly memorable writing, looking back, has come from experiences that struck a chord with my developing self. This assignment has opened my eyes, despite my initial difficulty in writing it. When I was asked to write down my earliest memory of writing, at first I drew a blank. All of a sudden, it became very clear to me, probably because it had some
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Everyone have had that moment when they look back at their past-photo, Mother’s Day card, or a letter to Santa which would make them go red. That was the way I felt when I read over my essays from the beginning of the year. My old self wrote in a way which was informal, the word choices were not the best, and he also thought too highly of himself. That is why he was so surprised when his first essay got a measly 90. His ego had been boosted by his middle school teachers who would give an A to every student who put a bit of effort into the essays, just to be shot down by the harsh reality of high school. However, as that student progressed through the year, he improved as a writer by not using so many personal pronouns, became a reader of multiple
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This picture as a whole represents the feeling of missing something that's not there. In this picture there is a pull towards a special place and everyone has a place like that. Where they feel like it's essential to go there everyone in a while at least. It that place that feels like home even if it's hours away from the real version. It's a place where one belongs and feels welcomed or a place to be alone and accepted. It's important to have a place like that. It makes one feel things they can't feel at home or school. It may be a person or a building or a spot on a map but it is home to someone, they are home to someone. This picture represents a home. I chose these negatives together to give the feeling of a missing half or missing place. These separate photos are a girl in the woods and a house by the beach. Separately, they don't represent much of anything but together they can represent an emotion of longing.
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