Personal Response Essay Examples

Personal Response When I first picked up this book I thought that it was another Vietnam era book talking about the battles and other things of that nature. When I got past the first chapter my views on this book flipped around. This is one of my favorite books I have read so far in 2016. Plot The Things They Carried is about the psychological effects the Vietnam war had on the soldiers. The author, Tim O’Brien, has witnessed the war and is the main character. Tim describes the effects of the

Personal response- I thought this article was helpful and fun to read. Some of these techniques in the article would have been helpful the last couple weeks. I have learned a few new things from this article and I enjoyed it. Plot-The plot would most likely be on the ice. The author Steve Ryan is directing this to ice fishers that need some more help trying to ice fish. While sitting on the ice trying to get a few gills he found a few tricks that have seemed to work for him and has shared them with

Personal Response on Sexuality Identity Lillian M. Floyd PSY/265 Lauren Lappe February 16.2014 A person’s sexual identity may seem like something obvious, something that should be an essential characteristic of our lives. However as we have found, these things are not always so simple, often finding that our sexual identity, is ever changing most of our lives. I have given my own identity some thought and I find for me it wasn’t easy. In this essay

The Boat: Personal Response Mother knows best. I’m sure we are all familiar with this saying. Unfortunately, as much as we’d like to believe it, it may not always be the case. Every so often, our mothers’ expectations (with intent for good) push us too hard to reach certain goals. This extraordinary amount pressure of not wanting to disappoint our mothers manages to deform our lives, negatively determining the future for us. In the boat, the narrator is torn between two worlds, going to university

My Personal Response Microeconomics covers many interesting topics but I was able to find five that truly reflected on things that I go through in my daily life. My first topic was supply and demand which are the two words that economists use most often. These are also two words that I use often when demanding items and also supplying them for customers. Another topic that I discussed was the opportunity cost. There are so many things that can be done in one day but it’s always a cost to do one

The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote a semi-autobiographical story, of a time when she was enduring a sickness of deep depression and suffering in her marriage. Gilman was a feminist, woman’s right activist, and a major replica for women to gain economic independence. In The Yellow Wallpaper, the narrator starts out by telling the reader, that her and her husband, John who is also her physician, are going to be staying in a summer home. He has demanded that is all she needs to be cured

The Brass Check received a lot of criticism, unsurprisingly, from the mainstream media. He personally published the book, as no book publishers would take it, even though it had a lot of potential and actually sold over 150,000 copies. Almost all media either refused to review The Brass Check or gave it a falsely negative review, charging it with falsifying facts. Large newspapers such as the New York Times wouldn’t even run advertisements for the books. Sinclair, who had tried to be as accurate

Joy Goel AP English 12 Mrs. Graham 10 September 2009 The Writer’s Duty Upon receiving the Nobel Prize for his excellence in writing, William Faulkner expresses his dismay towards the writers of the day and laid out what he terms “the writer’s duty.” In his acceptance speech, Faulkner is disheartened by the fact that young writers continue to discuss “the end of man” in their work. Faulkner advocates that authors must make all efforts to “help man endure by lifting his heart.” Because man

The Book Thief I believe that the theme of the book thief is the power of words. I chose this theme specifically because one, it was the theme that was repeated in the book and two, because without words there wouldn't be a story. For example, Lisle learning how to read and define words with her father made them have a closer relationship. From there, I believe is where the usage of words began to have a big impact to the plot. Knowing how to read not only allowed Liesel to read her first

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain, paints a painfully honest picture of this broken world we live in, in a way that is sarcastic in regards to its flaws. It is a painting we don't feel comfortable with being fashioned before our eyes because it's truth hits too close to home. Our culture constantly feeds us lies; such as that we can believe the way we want, and that we possess the freedom to act and speak the way we like. However, although in our minds our opinions are unique