Dear Katniss Everdeen, My name is Venus Gatlinburg and I am from the Capitol. The choices that you made were very interesting and I would like to comment on some of them. First, I would like to say, “Well done in your efforts of winning the games, which was not an easy task.” We have these games so you and all your fellow districts never forget the uprising towards the Capitol and how generous we are towards the districts. I hope that you and your family are now living a better life since you have won the games. When you were in the arena and had to choose whether or not to get the medicine you needed, why did you choose to go even after you told Peeta you weren’t going?
My ninth grade was pretty cool until the last week of school I let my mouth get the best of me and said some things that I really should’ve not said and because I did I earned the next semester at the alternative school. When school started back I was very sad because I had to go to the “bad” school with all the “bad” kids and I was very nervous. Once I got there it was pretty cool and I really enjoyed it because the classes were smaller and you got more one on one help. My grades went up and my mom decided that I should spend the rest of the year there, which really messed me up because they did not offer any elective classes only the basics . My eleventh grade year was also a disaster because of the struggle of passing my biology state test and I was really distracted and just wanted to go back to the alternative school but my mom and the principle would not send me back.
Many readers often do not notice the presence of New Historicism. A first category of the theory to look at is when the author and readers do not interpret the text exactly the same way. In order for that to occur, Markus Zusak and all of his audience must have the same opinion of death and how death makes them feel. With death being the narrator, some may find this extremely interesting, while others may feel uncomfortable. The narrator is not afraid to speak his mind throughout the book by leaving a trail of witty or sarcastic remarks and even says, “It kills me sometimes, the way people die” (464).
They are both every verbal people and their ability to verbally point out the inferiority in people and myself being their focus much of the time assures me that in most times I am on a path they are not happy with because the path that I am on is a path that they them selves have not been able to travel and complete. In the past their ability to take down my ego was mostly rooted in my past short comings even that as a child. Today my short comings are still there but they have changed and the fact that I have been able to separate myself from them has truly changed their ability to be the ego busters that they have been in the past and given me the opportunity to focus on my family, health and ability to grow as a mother and a
During my Junior year in high school, I experienced an immense change that reversed my entire perception on why I ran Cross Country as a sport. I was always mediocre at best when it came to running. But in the fall of my Junior year, I realized I could be much more than what I had ever perceived. My coach constantly trained me to my ability everyday, to no avail, or so it seemed. My first couple of races within the season had been tolerable for my standards.
I later married again, and learned that it can be a positive aspect of life. I am now a student …again. I would not say this has affected me negatively, but it sure has taken a punch at me. I never got to finish school before, too busy taking care of family. Now, starting back so late, it is sometimes frustrating, but overall rewarding in that I am capable of doing it when I thought I
What I like about the competitions is not winning a gold medal because to be honest I probably lost more than I have won. For me it is the experience of being able to compete and all the hard work I put into preparing for the competition that makes it all worthwhile. Winning is just like the icing on a cake. I owe a great deal to figure skating. It has taken me, molded, and shaped me into the person I am today.
He answered the prayer and she made it out. The moment I stopped singing my grandma would get sick. There has not been a moment where my mom does not remind me of that promise. My senior year came with alot of stress. Some how in order for me to be the greatest nurse I had to get my grade point average up and a high ACT.
I received my progress report that day, and I was not proud of the Cs and Ds on my grades at all, even more not proud of the things I did afterwards. So this is what happened. Not wanting to see the disappointed looks on my parents’ face and wanting to get the brand new Nokia phone, which would be given to me as a reward if I did well, really badly, I decided to lie to my parents about my grade. But they would not simply believe in the nervous murmuring of mine if I told them verbally, so I needed proof. Being very proficient with computer I quickly came up with a way to fabricate the proof.
This essay will critically respond to her arguments. Two of the arguments that Wanda Williams gives are that people are writing less meaningfully and academically; and young peoples' verbal, social skills and ability to read and absorb a long, complicated text are harmed. Williams explains that in the past, people would spend hours, even days on writing letters, full of meaningful discourse and communication, but now young people do not think about what they are writing, they simply exchange meaningless sentences and their ability to write academically is suffering. The author also states that the young generation finds it more difficult to understand and process a complex text; and they become unable to deal with simple social interactions necessary to advance their careers. First, the writer fails to convince the reader that people are using less meaningful and academic writing because of using email or social networks.