Personal Response Essay Examples

I really like the idea of being able to write a story without having to use description. I feel like in life, people are more fueled by what is said, rather than what they are doing while they say it. Also, I want to see how different it is to read people’s moods without the help of description. This is just a brief dialogue section I wrote. It might be the middle of a story, but just kind of liked it. Hope to add more sometime in the future. “Life’s not fair kid, and the sooner you figure

The book Soldier's Heart is about when on June 1861 a war was about to go on and a guy named charley left his farm that he had made and he left it. He enlisted in the first of something but i forgot what it was but he was a;so fifteen . He didn't know what a war was like or what it felt like to be in one or anything about it or what it meant. or what he was fighting for he only knew he didnt want to miss out on an awesome adventure .The shooting war meant the horror luck of combat and the wild luck

When I started my middle school years, I met a man who told me that middle school will be the fastest two years of my life. That man was the same one I came to admire, Mr.Cathy, the principal. I look up to Mr. Cathy for the positive impact he has had on River Bend Middle School. I shadowed my former principal in the interest of transferring from a student's perspective to that of an administrator’s. When this opportunity arose, I was glad to take it. I felt fortunate to spend time with Mr. Cathy

For this controlled assessment we were asked to explore the theme of heroes eventually changing our perception of the term. Originally I thought of a hero as someone who does something big to help someone, but I didn’t give much thought to how different people see heroes and how the lives of ordinary people are affected by them, this changed after the 5th and 6th assessment. This assessment was called “The Soldiers Letters”, it involved acting as a family who had a son away from home (fighting in

The story “Two Kinds” was about this girl after losing everything but her mother, moved to San Francisco and there they put dreams that they wanted to go to U.S. So the mother wanted her daughter to be someone and wanted to be good at it so she put the daughter into piano lessons and after practice she went to a talent show and she failed but after years she was perfect at it. So whenever you feel like quiting just keep practicing. In “Two Kinds” the daughter said “I saw only my face staring back

This supplement is a record of my actions in this investigation. On July 30, 2015, I returned from training and received this case on July 27, 2015. On July 16, 2015, Ms. Tekyra Grace Gibson (runaway) stayed out past curfew. Mrs. Ebony Gibson reported her daughter as a runaway to Officer Raymond Golden. Mrs. Gibson signed an SP183 and the form was submitted to the Information Service Section and entered N.C.I.C. I made contact with Tykera’s aunt who told me that her niece had returned home

The premise of Sarah Crewe was to basically show how strong of a person she actually is. She reached her potential even when Ms. Minchin did not believe she could. As the stock market crashed and her parents had recently passed away, I believe that Sarah grew stronger because she knew she didn’t have her parents. She showed that she could still move on regardless if Ms. Minchin supported her or not. The three moments that resonated with me was the beginning when the cast sang Sarah’s Theme. That

ELA 30 – 1: Personal Essay October 16, 2012 Gaddiel O. Matira Is it fair to hold individuals responsible for a choice society pressured them to make? Canada might have been one of the best places in the world but for me and Tim, Canada is a lot more than that. For Tim O’ Brien’s “On the Rainy River”, Canada is freedom: freedom from the draft letter that pressures him to go to war, freedom from the war that he never understood and always hated, freedom from the dirt, tent, and mosquitoes,

Response to senior The seniors of the past years who have graduated, left us lower class men some advice about school. Most of these senior left us the tip "don't procrastinate" and that made me reflect on how I procrastinate on most of my school year last year and the year before. I stared to reflect on all the thing I didn't do the last few years, all the flaws and the bad habits I have, all the thing that I didn't do that I would like to go back and Change. I began to think what I am going to

I had hoped to keep my children from discovering the details about my most recent case but today, the truth was revealed. While Scout was at school today, she was confronted by a classmate whose parents disapprove of my recent undertaking. I had hoped that Scout wouldn’t let it bother her, but she is easily angered. She worries me during situations such as this because she is not able to control her emotions as of yet. As much as I would have loved to have shielded Scout and Jem from this prejudice