Creative Essay

The funniest thing about the town of Brattleboro was that it was impossible to not be creative. Everywhere you could possibly look there would be something that you could base a poem or painting off of. Everyone you met could be a character in some amazing novel. Every song you hear could allow you to create more music. This entire town oozed with art. Even the school was prominently people who one day would be an artist of sorts. There were trees everywhere. After all, the town did have a law…

For most people, the saying, “You never know what you have, until you don’t have it anymore.” is something they hear a lot but never truly understand until they need to. For instance, English. Sometimes, as a society, we take for granted the basic fundamentals of what could propel us to success and greatness. In Homemade Education by Malcolm X, we surely see the outcome of when you aren’t knowledgeable in the English language and the great affects of when you are. Malcolm X expresses how he…

So many people nourish my literacy, although there is none like dad, whose life was a prime model having an undeniable colossal impact on my literacy. A self-made person, who believed 100 % and more in the power of education, to him education, is the answer to the world’s entire problem. By profession, he is a military scientist, but to everybody that knows him, he is also a chemist, a physicist, a biologist, a linguistic, a history guru and absolute geography maniac and that is all because of…

The criteria needed to be considered be a good writer from an academic standpoint is a complex formula that for some comes naturally and for others is like navigating a nearly impossible labyrinth of methods, rules, and requirements. Many students including myself, struggle with these concepts. Even after having a background with college level English courses, both of which I was enrolled in at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA), the struggle continues. In my own experience, frustration…

Ever since I got to know that personal project is all about an excellent opportunity to produce a truly creative piece of my own and to demonstrate the skills I have learned in approaches to learning I only saw myself writing a book. We have always been reading the books of Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Alan Moore and of many more but when I started reading books of Alan Moore I was all into science and always wanted to write a book of my own on a scientific topic. Thus I made DREAMS, the topic…

Ever since I was little, I believed there were two types of readers, fast and slow. I knew I was a slow reader and was envious of the ones that were speedy. Little did I know that reading speed had nothing to do with how good of a reader you were. I was recently introduced to the essay “Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning” written by Christina Haas and Linda Flowers. This essay opened my eyes and made me realize that there is various type of readers. Along with this…

While sitting on my designated airplane seat, I lifted the window shades to catch a glimpse of the world under me. The once salmon and purple sky transformed into a vast expanse of jet-black that engulfed the mountainous Balkan Peninsula. A canopy of luminous stars materialized amongst the ocean of blackness. Some were dull, merely flickering into existence every now and then, but there was an adequate amount of shimmering stars to illuminate the dark, moonless night. The Adriatic Sea glistened,…

I was lying on the couch with Ivy on top on me when Shay burst through the front door. I nearly through her off my and into the coffee table, I was so startled. “Get up!” Shay came over, grabbed my shoulder, and pulled me into a standing position. His eyes were a dangerously dark shade of black and he was physically shaking from anger. “Shay, what’s going on?” I demanded as I positioned Ivy behind me. She gripped tightly onto my right hand while I held my other hand outstretched just in case…

Movin’ On Up Have you ever had a teacher who prematurely judged you as a student? I mean, the way a teacher, without getting to know you or your abilities as a student, just assumes that you are “just like your sibling”. My sophomore year of high school was the beginning of my “lack of confidence” path as a student. I had an assignment to write and orally present a 5 minute speech. The subject of the speech was left wide open. I chose alcoholism. I remember gathering a few facts from…

Now is the day of technological advancement and discoveries. Our ancestors have opened wondrous passages for us to take and follow and also for us continue their vision keeping in mind that the objective is to make the world a better place to live in. These ameliorations, however with pure intent, had compromising and inevitable effects to nature that we experience today. According to our forefathers, much has developed from before, not just the world we live in, but also the morality of today’s…