Who am I? I am Camila M., a freshman in high school. A few things about me is that Iâm the youngest in my family. Iâm also a very shy and quiet person who wants to travel the world. Also …
From a very young age I learned that my family wasnât allowed to eat like other families. Two of my sisters had allergies to many things but the important ones being corn and wheat, and my mother being allergic to …
Do you ever get up in the morning and sing in the shower or sing a song that you just love. Do you know what to motivate means it means to give faith complement or even tell how much someone …
It is atop the shingles above my garage, next to my bedroom window, under my twin oak tree where I frequent a perch, content on my roof. A place to think, to relax, to read, to escape: my roof is …
I am very motivated by challenges and always look for opportunities to solve problems. Challenges intrigue me because they show me how far I am willing to go. No one can meet every challenge, but I strive to do the …
âYour choice of vocabulary is certainly very…peculiar.â âIâm not sure if these sentence structures help to truly communicate the point that you are trying to convey.â âAlthough your style of writing may have worked well for you in other classes, …
âAre people born wicked, or do they have wickedness thrust upon them?â – Glinda the Good (Wicked) I believe that people choose to be wicked or kind. I believe that if you could change your past, you could mess up …
An avid cat-lover who is usually looked to for comedic relief, I strive for just one thing in the world: happiness. I adore Mexican cuisine and my biggest pet peeve is when adults talk to me like Iâm still in …
This sucks.” I grumbled as I stomped through puddle after puddle on the dirt road. Nobody heard me, how could they? The clatter of the heavy rain as it reached the ground drowned out everything else on the quiet Island. …
âYou can do anything you put your mind to,â they said. âAnything.â Those are the first words I remember hearing. My earliest years had proven a tough time (what with my lack of athletic ability), but in these words, I …
If you could change anything from your past what would you change? Many times I have wondered what I would change. Certain dissections or everything and just start over with a clean slate. I believe that everything happens for a …
Donât Back Down âIâm still gunna have recess, right?â Of all things, recess was the only concern I had about skipping a grade. I didnât consider the challenges of being a year younger than the rest of my class. Then …
After graduating high school there are a couple of ideas on what college I should attend for my career choice. Itâs hard on choosing a college that could help me get where I need to go, and the limited transportation …
âBuild walls that form a large rectangle around a 1000 acre land. Have the walls 20 feet high, 3 feet thick, and made out of the strongest material. We will have a hospital system, a school system, a housing system, …
Borscht and baked potatoes were on everyoneâs lunch menu in my native land of Belarus. Everyone who had such a lunch was fair-skinned and spoke Russian. A few years later, as I stood in the lunch line with my kindergarten …
Laughter filled the air like the aroma of my mothers perfume. Interruption. A knock on the door. âI have some good news and I have some bad newsâ. I never did find out what the good news was. I stood …
Being an only child, my childhood mostly consisted of me being left to my imagination as both my parents worked and I had to fend off the forces of boredom alone. I had a vast collection of stuffed animals that …
I have two residences: a house and a college dorm. In both these places I have a bed, a shower, and food. Every night when I go to sleep I don’t have to worry that my things will be stolen …
Itâs deja-vu all over again! Who would have thought that a phrase uttered by former baseball MVP, Yogi Berra in the early 1960âs could still apply to so many situations some fifty years later? Deja-vu, which translates from the French …
We all have to face difficult decisions in our lives where we have the choice to either do good for ourselves or serve others. In the story âThe Cold Equations by Tom Godwin Marilyn is faced with a tough choice …
Ever since I was old enough to dream, I have imagined myself soaring with the eagles. My love of flying has sculpted the way I live and the person I have become. Two years ago that passion rocketed to new …
Most people who ask a little kid what they want to be when they grow up receive the stereotypical answers such as wanting to be a firefighter, policeman, teacher, astronaut, or anything else that is considered a usual response. My …
Over the Corse of my high school year I have had many different goals but the main goal that Iâm still working at is to keep up on track with my work. I believe that this goal has helped me …
A time when I thought life was too short, was when my friend George got shot last year in January. He was a good person. He was a cool person. He was only nineteen years old and had two infant …
While not always appreciated or even noticed, change is ever-present in each and every one of our lives. The majority of change is met with resistance; human beings are creatures of habits and long for the good moments to linger, …
General Goal: To inform Specific Goal: To inform my audience about the possible reaction to mangoes. Primary Argument Appeal Type: (PERSUASIVE ONLY!) Introduction Attention getter: Who here has had a food allergy? Listener relevance: Not many people know mangoes are …
How would your childhood have been if you didnât have a mom? It wouldâve been bad especially if youâre a girl. You wouldâve missed out on all the dress up parties, cookie baking, and mother daughter stuff. Thatâs how my …
Donald was a shopkeeper during the year 1912, and amidst all the hustling bustling chaos of the Titanicâs departure, it had not taken long for his frustration to grow to an all-consuming proportion. For, whenever he figured it a good …
âOh my gosh, Mom! Heâs drowning!â I exclaimed as my unshaved, fourteen-year-old legs propelled me toward the churning and bubbling sea. I had spied a lumpy, gray, human-shaped mass battling the water nearly fifty yards off shore. I called out …
There were once two evil stepsisters. Iâm best friends with one of them. This stepsister is loved by everyone, even though she really is hideous. I cannot say that it is wrong to love or to love being around this …
My personality traits are like numbers on a number line. There are an infinite amount of traits stationed inside my body, each contributing to the development of my unique personality. Every trait I possess is essential to my overall character, …
At my junior meeting, I made it very clear that University of Wisconsin-Madison was my top choice for college. After a visit to the school and additional combing over every aspect of Madison I knew it was a great school, …