Universal Narrative Schema ( Cns ) Essay

So, I got lost in the middle of Silverwood in Idaho with my little cousin…

In the summer of 2013 I moved in my dad’s house for the summer to learn how to cook. Moving from Cherokee, AL to Florence, AL was a stressful move. My Mother and I agreed it was best I learn from someone that has being in the field for over 15 years. The game plan was to go work with my dad a Dale’s Steakhouse with my dad all summer. I made sure I grab my notebook and plenty of pencils so I can ask him questions.

     Growing up as an only child I made out pretty well. You almost can’t help but be spoiled by your parents in some way. And I must admit that I enjoyed it; my own room, T.V., computer, stereo, all the material possessions that I had. But there was one event in my life that would change the way that I looked at these things and realized that you can’t take these things for granted and that’s not what life is about.

I had always assumed that my legs were strong and that I had decent muscle control, however, this thought was proven wrong at the beginning of my junior year in high school due to a detrimental injury. It was the first game of fall league for basketball, and within the first five minutes I had succumbed to an injury. Tearing my ACL and Meniscus has taught me to continue improving on my strength, not let this one injury keep me down, and to keep a positive mindset.

In this class, I have learned many new skills to improve my writing, and I have also learned new grammar rules. In regards to my writing, I have learned the importance of freewriting when beginning to write a paper. Additionally, I now know to allow ample time for revising and editing because I can look at my work critically for mistakes and make necessary changes. Furthermore, I have learned about grammar rules such as pronoun-antecedent agreement. This rule is something that I know subconsciously, but being made aware of it has allowed me to find mistakes I make more often.

Hi Christopher, I think this will make a very interesting topic for our first narrative essay. Having worked in the food service industry myself I can relate to this topic and understand how scary it can be to be thrown in to that type of situation. Especially having trained on the area so long ago, putting you in this position by yourself seems like a sort of trial by fire method. I think it will also provide a good frame for the story explaining your background in the establishment and the unprecedented placement of you in this particular area. The dialogue that you provided paints a very clear picture of the fast paced and high stress environment that you had to overcome. If I’m correct in assuming that this particular story will be framed

It was a normal Friday in March except for the fact that I got my license. So my friends and I thought about what we were going to do now that I have my license. Well, we cruised around town thinking we were hot stuff and that we were better that most kids in school since I had my license before many of my friends. We decided that we'd go off-roading since I had the huge truck. It was a hunter green 1979 Ford F-250 Custom. It had huge 33-inch tires, a loud crackling exhaust, and a unique 2-inch thick oak plank flatbed. It really was a beast. So we roared around the backroads hitting bumps and flying into fields just causing a little mischief not doing too much harm. After a week of horsing around

The reason why we are doing Common Task #11 is so we know how our writing has changed throughout the year and so we notice if we struggles or didn’t struggle on any of the Common Task also so we can improve on our writing. The Common Task I chose for Common Task#11 was Common Task#5-Analytical Writing-Write an informative essay about a complex process, also Common Task#7-Argumentative Writing- Argument discussing meaningful word or phrase, and lastly Common Task#2-Narrative-Personal Narrative.

In life do we see that everyone else is wrong or do we not want to admit that we are wrong? In my eyes I don't want to admit that I am wrong because I don't want to seem stupid. I ran into a situation last night during soccer practice that I want to understand where the other people are coming from. In this situation people are saying that a group of us Seniors on the soccer team are favorites and in my eyes I don't see that at all.

It all started in math class, it was a Monday and we had a test on the summer packet from math 2. I didnt study, but nobody did so I thought I was okay. Last year in math 2 I got an A, and I thought it would just be the basic curriculum, nothing advanced. When she handed out the test I was confident thinking it was gonna be easy, but was I sadly mistaken. It looked like material I had never seen before. I thought I was screwed, but the farther into the test I went, the more I started to remember. After about 45 minutes I thought I did pretty decent. Yet, I was nervous to get the grade back. I left class that day with my friends talking about how we all thought we made a 50 on it in a joking fashion.

I felt really connected to your experience after reading your personal narrative essay. I could relate to your essay because I suffered a lost in my family too. When I was really young, my grandma passed away suddenly and my time with her was cut short significantly. So, reading your personal narrative essay made me reminisce back to the day I found out she died. Similarly, just like you I went through a wave of emotions consisting of shock, grief, and acceptance. I'm sorry for your loss and I can't imagine the full extent of what you went through.

August first 2012 was the day I moved to the United States, I remember it like it was yesterday but I can’t express in words how scared was I coming to a new place with no friends, and without the ability of making friends because I couldn’t say a word. Three years fast forward, I’m finding myself seating in front of my computer and trying to convince you that I’m ready for ESL.05. As a second quarter DeAnza student I have taken five ESL classes so far. For me each one of those classes is like a bus stop that you need to wait for the bus to arrive in order to get to your destination so ESL 273 was a bus stop that I needed to wait in order to get to my destination ESL 05. ESL 273 has prepared me to ESL.05 by teaching me important writing strategies,

Ethics is a very important component in life, business, and everything else that affects our daily lives. Ethics are defined as: “the rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group, culture, etc.” (Dictionary.com, 2015). The creed will consists of my basic beliefs, my controlling values, my ethical commitments, and my plan to promote sound ethical practices in the following organizations that I’m closely connected to: my non-profit organization mentoring program, church, school, and my place of employment.

I realize that time has gone by as my favorite actors and musicians go one by one. Their art outperforms a life span and their iconic movies and music cross generations and live on. However, I still feel like a teenager, perhaps because I have always kept up an avant-gardist lifestyle.

Just a few days before I had to do this essay, my mom shared a story with me. In the middle of a Spanish lesson, one of her students asked her a completely unrelated question: Why do Mexican children always wear frilly dresses and slippers to the supermarket, and why do the men always crowd in the back of pick-up trucks to go to work? Although some of the students thought it was funny, my mother, of course, couldn't pass up this opportunity to respond and teach a more important lesson, interestingly enough, about stereotypes. She reminded me of our trip to Mexico some time ago and related those experiences to her students.