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Proudest Moment

May 27th, 2010 by

Proudest Moment

My proudest moment was when I was finally able to pronounce K sound. I was about eight years old, and had been working on K sounds for three years with my school speech pathologist. It was unsuccessful. Soon before I know it, it was summertime and time for me to go to Children Beach House.

At the Children Beach House, there was a speech pathologist visiting. After an hour session with her, I told her my struggles with pronouncing K sound. She took me into another room with mirrors on the wall, and stuck a tongue depressor in my mouth. The speech pathologist showed me how to move my tongue with the depressor, and I heard the beautiful sound. K, I finally said K for the first time in my life. It’s funny how a simple three minutes from three years taught me how to pronounce K.

All of the tears shed for K almost seem ridiculous to me now, looking back but remembering the anger that I vested in trying to pronounce a simple sound. Remembering how I avoided all words that included K or C sounds since I couldn’t even pronounce it.

Sitting in that room, with the tongue depressor in my mouth, and finally being able to pronounce K was the proudest moment for me.

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Middle School Memories

May 27th, 2010 by

Middle School Memories

Being in Drama for the past two years, performing is my outlet. Acting, I discovered in 6ty grade was something that I love to do, and knowing that being in drama will take me one step further to getting into the dream college I want to get in. Yale University is very known for its’ drama productions and I wanted to be able to receive drama scholarship to get into Yale.

In 6th grade, I learned how to dance to “Time Warp” in Drama. I remember how fun it was and it was an opportunity for me, a little 6th grader to get into ease with Middle school life. 6th grade was the year of dancing, it came easy to me and I completely loved being able to be on stage and dance for entertainment.

7th grade… I remember it the most. I received my first line in Drama in the winter production. “Yeah” was the only line that I had to memorize for the show but the thrill that I had… it was silly how excited I was that my drama advisor was able to recognize my ability to speak. Then the spring musical… I was able to sing “These Boots Are Made for Walking.” It opened a door for me, something that I was able to prove the school and me that I can do anything.

Being 8th grader, it is the hardest year that I experienced. But I was able to memorize more lines, more involvement in the show in the winter production. I was the gypsy queen and an evil fairy. It was one of the easiest things that I did all year. The fact that I am so at ease on stage makes me proud. Currently I am rehearsing. I got a monologue, a solo dancing, and a song to do this spring show. I’m looking forward to entertain people!

Drama is turning into something that I am very serious about. I love being on stage and look forward to many more shows to do. Drama is a gateway for me, and something that I enjoy.

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Accomplishment Essay

May 19th, 2010 by

Accomplishment Essay

“These boots are made for walking and that’s just what they gonna do! One of these days, these boots are gonna walk all over you.” In 7th grade, Drama Club had opened a door for me. The saying that people who are deaf can do anything had a brand new meaning for me, I can sing!

Accomplishments are my life. I accomplished to gain respect from my peers, to speak, to overachieve everything, and to prove the world wrong. To prove the world wrong, that I am deaf but I am smart, beautiful in my own special way.

I was asked to write about accomplishments that I completed during I was in middle school. But I can’t bring myself to choose several accomplishments from middle school. My entire life revolves with me overcoming obstacles. Most people that I met thought I must be bitter, bitter about how my life turned out to be.

I am not bitter; I have accepted who I am. I am the girl who is deaf, everything else is normal for me. Yes, I might have a difficult Instead of being angry at the world, I’m happy.

Friends aren’t easy to come by, two different worlds colliding against each other. But I made friends. I am lucky to have friends willing to learn my language, and I am willing to get used to their lip movements, the sound of their voices. Making friends is never easy in a teenager’s life.

I am not trying to gain pity from others but I am only stating that this is my life. Accomplishments are something that you have to be proud of because if it wasn’t for these accomplishments, I won’t be speaking… I won’t be graduating from eighth grade.

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Book Review: Tarzan of Apes

May 10th, 2010 by

Maggie Williamson

May 10, 2010

Core three

Ms. Albanese

 

 

 

 

Tarzan of the Apes

By Edgar Rice Burroughs

 

 

Tarzan of the Apes is completely different from the Walt Disney World’s verison. This one is much more filled with adventure and action, written in 19th century. Since it was written in the 19th century, the language is much more sophsicated and complicated, using bigger term. In the beginning of the book, the point of the view was written in the Lord Greystroke, John Clayton. He spoke about the hardships and his young wife. Lord Greystroke spoke about how he and his wife arrived to an isolated place. But both of them died eventually, leaving behind a son to fend for himself.

During the majority of the book, it was written from Tarzan’s point of view and his struggles to gain respect in the jungle. Tarzan is the main character in the book; the entire book revolves around him and his hardship. He endured tests of strength, learning how to be civilized, fell in love, and found manship.

The themes of this book are survival and learning. Survival was an essential need in this setting, Tarzan must learn how to survive in impossible situtations, and fight for his own. Learning was also important since Tarzan taught himself to read and write. He eventually learned to speak English from a man that he saved in the Jungle.

I think this book is very important and believes that everybody should read it since it is NOT Walt Disney’s verison. It showcased reality into ficitions. I love reading the book and was pleased that I loved it!

Middle school age and older should read this book because it affects your opinion and lets your imagniation runs wild. But since the language is much more complicated and old-fashioned, I believe you need to be an approriate age and have approritate knowledges of words.

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Choices Reflection

May 3rd, 2010 by

CHOICES

If i can’t do
what i want to do
then my job is to not
do what i don’t want
to do
It’s not the same thing
but it’s the best i can
do
If i can’t have
what i want . . . then
my job is to want
what i’ve got
and be satisfied
that at least there
is something more to want
Since i can’t go
where i need
to go . . . then i must . . . go
where the signs point
through always understanding
parallel movement
isn’t lateral
When i can’t express
what i really feel
i practice feeling
what i can express
and none of it is equal
I know
but that’s why mankind
alone among the animals
learns to cry

Reflection:         Choices is one of my favorite poems of the year. It reminds me that there are choices and I am able to choose what I want. Choices is about life, and how you cannot always get what you want but you need to look at what you have and love it. Nikki Giovanni does a good job, explaining how life can be and the solution to it.

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Sucess is Counted Sweetest Reflection

Apr 28th, 2010 by

Emily Dickinson wrote this poem, explaining that on the battlefield, you hear your group scream for victory but you are in the process of dying. Success for you sounds so sweet because you will never accept that success. You know that you helped to succeed the battle but you cannot taste, hear, shout and participate in that victory, since you are dying. Success seems so sweet to others when you never had that success.

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Sleeping in the Forest Reflection

Apr 28th, 2010 by

Sleeping in the Forest is about being surrounded by Mother Earth. The poem was about being aware of the Earth around you, and let mother earth ease you. Mother Earth took you into her pocket, and allowed you to see the starry sky, listening to animals doing their works at nighttime. I love this poem, and when I read it to my mom, she loved it!

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Five Little Poems

Apr 22nd, 2010 by

Haiku-

Green Leaves Appearing

Groaning In Their Ancient Age

Gladly Trees Awake

Limerick-

A Nymph is dancing

Along with others singing

Trees awake from their long sleep

Nymphs calls to them, and leaps

‘Wake up’ the beautiful fairies were whispering

Cinquain-

Trees

Beautiful Majesty

Slowly Awaking, Yawning

Bewitched under their spell

Woods

Free Verse-

Shuddering from their long sleep,

Trees look up to the sun

Drawing the water with their roots

Buds slowly bloom

Flourishing into beautiful lush green

Their bare bark was hidden by the deep green

Opening up to the sun

Filling the blank space on land

With their greenness,

An object often used in painting

Artists and writers live among the trees

In their mysterious aura,

We often wonder what secrets they hold

What have those trees seen?

What have they heard?

Yet when we are surrounded by them,

We are at home

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Free-writing

Apr 16th, 2010 by

      Today I was thinking about how it will be in High School. High School comes closer and closer as the days passes. I often wonder if I am going to be able to handle High School, if I’m going to fail, if I’m not going to succeed my goals that I had since I was 6 years old. High School seems a gateway but once you enter it, you cannot back out. Childhoods will be gone next year, and we all will grow up into young ladies, and men. Being in High School next year will brings promises, and the best times of your life yet will bring the realization that you are not a child anymore.

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Touched by An Angel Reflection

Apr 16th, 2010 by

     “Touched by An Angel” is about love entering our life. Love just make everything more vivid and fun, you got that scgool girl fits of giggles and at the same time be in awe of it. The poem is about love changing our life, we might look back and remember the pain, the burdens that we had to carried but love makes you think of happy times. Love just completely change your life, when you felt love and give love, you will never be the same.  Maya Angelou, the poet, was trying to show that Love can be an angel in our lives because Love can easily change your life.

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