My Favorite Place Essay

is jazz music. Jazz has impacted my life in the most positive ways. When I was younger I wanted to sing but I was always too afraid. The first time I stepped out of my comfort zone and sang, I was auditioning for advanced choir. The song I chose to sing for my audition was, “Summertime” by George Gershwin. I believe that if it were not for my love of this song and jazz music I would have never had the confidence to sing in front of anyone. A year or so passed and my choir teacher pushed me to sing

I express myself through writing. My entire life I’ve had a big imagination that made it hard to express myself vocally; my thoughts scatter around in my mind and can usually only be properly brought to life on paper. Of course, I'm comfortable speaking to people and in front of people- but without the power of revision and addition, it’s hard to say what I feel needs to be said. I enjoy writing because I can let everything out on a piece of paper or a computer screen and it doesn’t need to make

tons of things to do. My favorite things to do where fair week, play softball and going to the lake. Sounds exciting right? My absolute favorite thing to do was fair. Fair week was the best fair week I’ve ever had not just because I did really well but also because of the new friends and the memories that will last forever. My sister and I along with Makinzie stayed at the fairgrounds all week and we loved it. This summer at fair I received 12 first place ribbons, 3 Grand Champion

Stratford in one of my favorite movies, 10 Things I Hate About You, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. The film has a hilarious script with ingenious lines, both original and borrowed from Shakespeare himself. One of my personal favorites is, “I don't like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to other people's expectations instead of my own?” I am a firm believer in being unpredictable and following my own dreams. Sarah Lawrence College is the perfect place to learn to live

peoples treks to different places around the world. The authors want the readers to experience what the interviewees have experienced. The authors portray through many descriptive words along with various photos what the different journeys would have been like if the reader had actually experienced it. People who are fortunate to have the chance to go to exotic places want to come back and share it with the people that weren’t able to experience it. This blog gives travelers a place to share what they have

Connection - I chose to do this project because I wanted to utilize my writing skills in a creative way. At first I was going to write poems for my favorite stories, but I felt that these poems would not do the stories justice, and that writing an analysis for each of my poems would be hard. I chose to write letters between two characters from one of my favorite stories, “Wicked Girl”. However, I put a twist by making them letters that a character could never send due to regret and shame. I found

up and go eat breakfast with my family. We always went to the same place for breakfast every day because it was really good. Then we would go back to our cabin and either watch a movie or go outside and do something outside. We would sometimes just go outside and sit in a chair because it was always really nice outside. Sometimes we would even see bears or some other type of animal. Then we would go get ready and go ride horses for a couple of hours. That was my favorite part of each day because it

As I walk off the plane and onto the lot, all I see is beauty. “I’m so glad you guys are finally here to see Italy,” my mother says with excitement. Of course, I was so overjoyed when I arrived, all I thought about was visiting Virginia (my Nonna’s cousin). While we drive to Pacentro, my mother was in tears. Soon, before I even noticed, we were seated at a wonderful dinner table, inside Virginia’s home. We had many wonderful foods, such as pasta. After dinner we were heading off to our town

wondered what famous person you would want to meet? What you would want to do with them, or talk about, or where would you be? Let me tell you about how my encounter would be. I chose a famous rapper that goes by the name “Lil Uzi Vert” his real name is Symere Woods but that is his rapper name. He is one of my favorite rappers. I chose him because in my opinion, he is unique. He is not like any rapper who shows how rich he is. He’s a man with a good heart. His music videos are unique for a rap music

In the book “All The Countries We’ve Ever Invaded’ a British historian named Stuart Laylock states that about 193 countries have been invaded by the British.”... his research goes all the way back to the beginning” In my own opinion, I find that totally crazy that the British have that kind of money to pay for war. But I also wonder why the British went to war with 193