Reyna Grande's Journey To Success

In The short reading “A Literary Genius I Am Not” by Matthew Ruffell The author talks about how he doesn’t really enjoy writing as much. He also mentions the things that is the most challenging for him about writing. He explains in details how English Composition isn’t his strangest course. The author main point of the short story is to show that you can struggle with something, but that doesn’t mean you can try get better at it even through you don’t like it.

Throughout life we go through many stepping stones, Maya Angelou's autobiographical essay "Graduation", was about more than just moving on to another grade. The unexpected events that occurred during the ceremony enabled her to graduate from the views of a child to the more experienced and sometimes disenchanting views of an adult. Upon reading the story there is an initial feeling of excitement and hope which was quickly tarnished with the abrupt awareness of human prejudices. The author vividly illustrates a rainbow of significant mood changes she undergoes throughout the story.

Chris Perez wanted to be a rock-star in a Rock n Roll band not a guitar player for a Tejano band. He lived in San Antonio, Texas and was in a band with Shelly Laras, a singer, and she introduced him to Selena y los Dinos. In Huston, Texas Shelly's band was playing at a festival and A.B. Quintanilla, Selena's brother saw Chris playing guitar and liked Chris's guitar skills. During that time Selena y los Dinos was looking for a new guitarist and A.B. gave Chris his number just so Chris can call him if he was interested. Chris called A.B and set up a date to play together in the studio, since that day happened Chris joined los Dinos.

Grande’s family already failed twice for coming to this country. If they fail again this time, she will be sent back to her grandmother because her father thinks her mother isn’t doing a decent job of taking care of her and her siblings. The third attempt wasn’t easy, even though they were fully ready and knew what they were supposed to do. The first day of the American school wasn’t easy too. Grande had

She was responsible, stood up to Trujillo, and followed her dreams to go to college and obtain a

During Sharon M. Drapers childhood years, they were very successful because of her parents. Her parents encouraged her and her siblings to study, work hard, and as a result they could reach any goal they set for themselves. As encouraging as her parent were, they would set standards for each child and push them to be the best they could be. Her parents taught her that every opportunity you get you take because you never know what the future holds for many cases. In the educational aspects “For her parents education was precious commodity”. (SharonDraper1) Ever since the time

Melba Beals was certainly full of grit. When she insisted to go back to school after segregationists were trying to keep her out the school, but she still insisted on going back to school to finish all her classes and take her final exams. Even after all those people told her to get out; and she finished high school with pride. When Melba showed her grit later on people started encouraging her more saying she’s doing a great thing for this town (Beals 224). I thought this anecdote was important because it shows an example of how grit is used in the right context. The journey archetype means a recurrent image, symbol, or even a situation that instinctual expressions man 's nature and experiences that are universal in humanity. While self-identity means the recognition of one 's potential and qualities of as an individual. People 's traits impact who they are as a person because if they have poorly traits they’ll show that in the way they act same thing for the good traits. Melba Beals’ “Warriors Don’t Cry,” “Homer’s “The Odyssey,” and my own life reveal that our characters traits have an impact on our life journeys and self identities.

He includes a story of his son to expand on the idea that you can’t progress in an activity if you don’t hold a passion for it. This connection in the essay helps the audience comprehend the idea that you can’t succeed in writing if you don’t have the desire to read. The author’s personal experience justifies his claim which initiates the reader’s feelings and deepens his position on the significance of practice. In addition to these rhetorical appeals, he also adds logical information to convince the audience that his claims are important, realistic, and correct.

Later in life, when was grown up, no longer fighting, and in college he discovers his passion for writing. Instead of going to the gym one night, he sat down and wrote. He persevered through his hardships of his younger years through commitment, work ethic, and passion. Andre reflects on younger years versus his older self “ I felt more like me than I ever had, as if the years I'd lived so far had formed layers of skin and muscle over myself that others saw as me when the real one had been underneath all along, and I knew writing- even writing badly- had peeled away those layers…” (259). Overcoming and persevering through the hardships of his childhood help Andre realize his full potential and passion.

In High school, she continued to excel where others fell short by focusing and exceeding in her academics, setting an example for others to follow and instilling confidence into others rather than letting them fall into peer pressure. With the help of her

Raicine Rodriguez was born in San Bernardino California; she was the middle daughter of three girls. Her siblings and she had all different personalities; Raicine was the one who always seemed to think things through, perhaps a little too much. She lived her life as full as she allowed herself, while always thinking about the “what ifs,” before she gave her one-hundred percent. It was a very cautious act, but it held her back in many ways as well. Once in college it took her several years to decide what she wanted to major in. In her mid-twenties, she moved to Nashville for a job. Here was able to figure out the kind of person she wanted to be in life. All of her friends and family were in California so she was able to concentrate solely on

Vanessa Molano was born in Miami,FL to a Nicaraguan mother and a Cuban father but quickly moved to Santo Domingo,Dominican Republic where her father was studying medicine. At the age of six Vanessa moved back to Miami,FL where she had to quickly learn english. She struggled to learn a new language but had to adjust quickly as her family moved to Michigan. In Michigan she was able to excel in school, finding a love for math and science. Vanessa love for math and science continued to grow as she went through middle school. Her family return to Miami, were she finished middle school and attends high school. Her love for math and science continues to grow in high school as she challenges herself with my most rigorous courses her school offers.

Being born and raise in the small isle of Antigua, there are not a lot of job opportunities to unskilled workers. As I grew up, I practiced to excel in my entire subject areas and do my best in all that I chose to do and I ended out on top. At the age of four, although a young kid, I was being molded into what will become the refined me. During that period, it proved no significance to me what happens educationally. At that age, the

As a child growing up in a Latin American household, you learn three vital lessons that give rise to personal success: dedication, consistency, and self-discipline. My parents instilled in me a strong work ethic and dedication to family. Unfortunately, my parents let their strong work ethic take precedence over family. They were often absent when I was in elementary and middle school, leaving me to discipline myself.

Since before the beginning of this creative writing course, I have always struggled to find a point to writing. By this, I mean that I always felt that having great skill and talent was what was required to be a writer, let alone a great one. From this point, I felt there was no need to continue my writing as I felt that in a sense it just wasn't good enough. However, reading the article "A Way of Writing", I found new hope. Here was a writer who says things such as "I must be willing to fail. If I am to keep on writing, I cannot bother to insist on high standards. I must get into action and not let anything stop me, or even slow me much"(Stafford) and quotes that writers don't necessarily have any special talent. The article "Why I Write" instilled further optimism through the authors view on just being a writer, not focusing on being good or bad. I found her words in which she writes "entirely to find out what I'm