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- 1911: Personal Writing: My Room
- ... filled with friends, schoolwork, and family. Each of these categories falls into different groups. The mind categories fall into their own groups, and the room bunches fall into the mind groups. For instance, I have school friends, and out of school friends. There are also school papers, and note and letters from your friends. This is because my mind makes my room. Even though my walls cannot speak, if they were able to, they would tell you many secrets and ...
- 1912: Jeffrey Dalhmer
- ... a dread of others that was combined with a general lack of self-confidence. He was developing a reluctance to change, a need to feel the assurance of familiar places. The prospect of going to school frightened him. The little boy who'd once seemed so happy and self-assured had been replaced by a different person, now deeply shy, distant, nearly uncommunicative." Lionel suspected that the move from Iowa to ... teenager would show some outer signs of mental illness. But Jeff just became more isolated and uncommunicative. Far from rebelling, he never argued with his parents because nothing seemed to matter to him. In high school, Jeff had average grades and participated in a few activities: he played tennis and worked on the school newspaper. However, his classmates considered him a loner and an alcoholic, who brought liquor into the classroom. He actually had a prom date, who he later invited to his parents' house for a seance. ...
- 1913: Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
- ... would civilize me; but it rough living in the house all the time considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways (Twain 11).This process includes making Huck go to school, teaching him various religious facts, and making him act in a way that the women find socially acceptable. In this first chapter, Mark Twain gives us the first direct example of communicating his feelings through ... beautiful women, but none of this comes to pass. Huck finds out too late that Tom s adventures are imaginary: That raiding a caravan of A-rabs really means terrorizing young children on a Sunday school picnic, that stolen jewel is nothing more than turnips or rocks (Twain 22). Huck is disappointed that the adventures Tom promises are not real and so, along with the other members, he resigns from the ... only wants Huck for his money. I used to be scared of him all the time, he tanned me so much, I reckoned I was scared now too (Twain 18). Pap demands that Huck quit school, stop reading, and avoid church. Huck is able to stay away from Pap for a while, but Pap kidnaps Huck three or four months after Huck starts to live with the Widow and takes ...
- 1914: Personal Writing: Myself and Tennis
- ... I am not the only one that some people call crazy. After an hour of drills, sprints, running, and laughing everyone races back to their cars to try to get home and then get to school on time. We all have hands like ice sickles, are hungry as a horse, have feet like ice, and our noses look like Rudolf. I rush home take a three second shower eat my usual pop tart on the way to school and some how manage to plop down in my first period seat just as the tardy bell rings. I have somehow learned to like the crack of the dawn bone chilling morning practices and sometimes ... language. Needless to say I did not take to well to my first lesson. Soon I fell in love with the game and can be found playing almost every day even in the morning before school. I have gained a lot from tennis. It has taught me a lot about myself others, and how to put the two together. It has taught me that you have to put in before ...
- 1915: The Ghost of Peter Quint
- ... and Flora saw were things still more terrible than she imagined, visions that sprang from their association with the evil figures. One day, Miles went to her and announced his desire to go away to school. The governess realized it was only proper that he was sent to school. She feared the results of influences once he was beyond her care. Later, opening the door of the schoolroom, she again saw the ghost of Miss Jessel. As the ghost disappeared, the governess realized that ... to her, shielding him from any view of the ghost at the window, while he told her that he had taken the letter. He also informed her that he had already been expelled from one school because of his bad speech and actions. The governess, angry and distraught, shrieked at him that it was the ghost of Peter Quint, just outside the window. When Miles turned around, the ghost was ...
- 1916: Creative Writing: One More Basket
- ... Writing: One More Basket Moreno Valley was Jenny Rinke's new home now and making friends was difficult for her. She put most of her energy into getting straight A's. The first day of school, however, the boy's put most of their energy into making fun of her. They had laughed at the way she dressed, if she was pretty or not, and her glasses. How could Jenny forget that first week. Now it was Sunday and she was depressed, thinking about another week of school. "I hope we get canceled," she said to herself, as she turned her light out and went to bed. The next day she awoke to her alarm clock, look outside, and knew that it was a perfect day and she would have to go to school. The sky was a rainbow. (met) She got dressed and her mom dropped her off. Waiting outside to go to class, Jenny heard some of the other girls in her class talking about joining ...
- 1917: The Return of the Native: A Relationship Destined for Destruction
- ... get the torment they deserve’”(Hardy 251). Shirley Stave believes that Clym: “…represents modern consciousness, Hardy’s grim projection of where the human species is headed”(56). With Clym’s new goal of becoming a school official , he disregards his new wife and her needs, and concentrates solely on his studies. He reads constantly until, finally, his eye sight gives out. This leads Walcutt to believe that Clym is “bent on ... jealousy is such that she would have been antagonistic towards any woman who interested her son” (110).Out of jealousy she finds hatred for Eustacia. Mrs. Yeobright opposes Clym’s new goal of becoming a school teacher. This opposition is external motivation for Clym. Walcutt seems to believe “Clym wants his mother to disapprove of what he is doing”(494). Walcutt goes on to state: It might almost be argued that the glowering contest over Eustacia has allowed Clym to modify the original plan of opening a simple school for the natives. That is, his destructive attachment to his mother is satisfied by the new issue , so that now he can please Eustacia by planning a much more impressive operation which will ultimately ...
- 1918: Personal Writing: The Path to the Unknown
- ... K." and “Yes,” was all I was able to say. What had I done? I was not qualified to play in the honors band I stink. I had trouble playing the music in the high school jazz band, let alone the music that was geared towards the musically gifted! The next few hours and throughout that night, I could not think of anything but the mistakes I was going to make ... Yeazell picked me up around nine, and I was off. I was comforted by the fact that I was going to know four of the people in the band because they also came from my school. When we arrived, people were just unpacking their instruments and getting seated. I couldn't help but notice there were only three other trombone players in the room. About ten minutes later, a rather large ... heart, "What grade you in?" Thinking he was going to bust on me if he found out I was senior, I was tempted to lie, but I told him the truth. " A senior, sir" " What school you going to when you graduate?" Willie asked. " Wright State," I replied. " Damn, you're real good, I could use a trombone player like you in my band. Let me see what kind of ...
- 1919: Owen Meany As A Prophet
- "Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean-make sure they know what they mean!" (Irving 572). In the novel written by John Irving, A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY, the protagonist, Owen Meany, developed an unusual religious significance. Owen experienced visions of future events, he had a unique type of faith in God that most do not attain, and Owen spoke ... meant to have it. John always remembered Owen because "he [was] the reason I [believed] in God; I am Christian because of Owen Meany" (Irving 1). Not only was it Owen who helped John through school, gave him the gift of reading, saved his life, and kept him out of Vietnam, he also taught John the most important lesson in faith; that seeing did not mean believing. Owen explains that faith ...
- 1920: Personal Writing: The Evaluation of My Coaches
- Personal Writing: The Evaluation of My Coaches Throughout my high school basketball career I experienced several different coaches. Every new coach brought a different approach to coaching. The varying techniques of coaching brought about different attitudes and expectations during practices and games. I found that during ... had different methods of coaching during and after the games. Practices are very important to basketball. If you practice hard and take it seriously, your team can become successful. All of my coaches in high school took practices seriously. I basically had two different types of coaches when it came to practice. There was the drill sergeant type, which had the team line up in the same place every day to ... during practice. This makes practice more fun. The coach is serious about making our team better, but he realizes that people are not perfect. During calisthenics he would talk to us about our day at school and tell us dirty jokes, and just try to be our friend. While we were practicing he pointed out our mistakes, but when we did something good he praised us. This made practice fun ...
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