The Beautiful Game : Personal Narrative : The Beautiful Game

Spirit Club Influencing Lives through the Beautiful Game I volunteered in the community mostly through our soccer teams. From Freshmen year to Senior year I have helped out with our Modified soccer teams. I helped coach with Travis Antilla, Adam Soke, and Dillon Nugent. The players all respected me because I was an older player and on the varsity team. I feel I really assisted in spreading the soccer culture to players and teaching them more about the game. I was doing little things to push them such

stories and expression are not utilized when creating the holistic memory of the Holocaust. The idea of an “official narrative” of the Holocaust and its memorialization is rooted more closely in its recall of emotion than in establishing factual and divergent interpretations of experiences, this “constructive forgetting,”(Christie, 2) meaning that creating a singular memory narrative of pain and suffering is more pressing than in attempting to portray divergent and intersectional experiences during

Personal Narrative rough draft. The Garage It was a beautiful day in early winter 2012, my Family had had a big dinner at my uncle's house, the plan was to go a Blazers game after we had all gotten done eating. I had moved to Tigard oregon with my Mom in summer of 2012 from Connecticut, about six months before all of this had happened. We had no idea where anything was, the only thing we had someone what of idea was my uncle's house and the grocery store, but beyond that we were basically lost all

Glenn Atmadji 1 The Empathy of Immersion in Sex and Sexuality in Video Games The way one presents oneself is usually an ample enough reason to be judged positively or negatively. This factor is usually amplified by the surrounding and setting set for the subject, and it usually determines whether the subject’s self-presentation is fitting or being completely inappropriate to his or her surroundings. In video games, the issue of women being misrepresented by her role as a sex object and over-sexualized

hockey lingo-rhetoric to circumvent speaking to the underlying issues in the NHL. This paper will express personal opinions and, correspondingly will explore a few of the social and political controversies. Also, a personal interview and commentary will ground the

Alexis Contreras Personal Narrative Self-confidence is very important in people’s lives and everyone should have it. Well I never had it until …A beautiful thing happen to me I found out who I really was and the affect that this event has on me has changed me completely in so many ways. I am very proud to say I am Alexis Contreras. Middle school were the worst years I had to go through .Someone notice my teeth weren’t straight and they started to spread the word around the school and kids

stand out to me and in worse cases the narrative tries to force me to sympathize with them instead of letting me feel for myself. Looking at Merteuil character on paper, you’d almost want to describe her as brutal and maybe even unsympathetic yet Douglas manages to give layers to this character that weren’t just an “evil hard ass” but showed a human side to her that had pain and a soul that was damaged while maintaining that fierce persona. One of my personal favorite moments from the play was when

Video games have come a long way since Pong rid children of their quarters in 1972. In the past few years, a dramatic shift in the publics’ view of games has occured. What was once considered a kid’s toy capable of turning brains into mush is now enjoyed by the average age of 35 (Essential Facts). In recent times, another paradigm shift has begun for gaming: the road to becoming an art form. Today, museum curators from across the globe continue to accept video games into their collection, adding

uses many short stories to describe his experience in Vietnam. The story that captured many aspects of writing was “How to Tell a True War Story” because it acts as a guide to writing a true story. O’Brien uses many different rhetorical strategies, narrative techniques, and establishes a theme in this story to help develop his characters and story line. Tim O’Brien uses several rhetorical strategies in this story. A strategy that is easily found in the story is imagery. He uses a lot of sensory details

young age that they are not meant to like sports. In order to enforce this claim, Nelson uses the rhetorical strategy of narrative. In this narrative, Nelson tells the story of her young niece asking her mother, who was making dinner in the kitchen, if women are supposed to like football after seeing her father and brother watching the game together (3). Due to this narrative, Nelson is able to demonstrate that even within a family, there is the idea that men are supposed to watch sports while the