Writing has always been my most difficult part of English. Reading, on the other hand, is something I could do all day; however, with writing, I grimace just thinking about it. It was not that I did not have anything to say, because I actually have quite a bit to say. I just could never figure out how to phrase what I had to say in just right way on the page. My mom taught me to read and write at a young age. After that, I would devour any book that I could get my hands on. However, I have had trouble with writing since it became more than just my alphabet and numbers. In elementary, I got through assignments by making my projects read like a boring fact book. This way was awesome for a high grade, not so great for writing interesting...show more content...
Mullins comments and said, "Next time, you will just have to change it up a bit." I asked her what she meant. My mom said, "Next time you will make it more fun, not so much like a timeline, and more like a true story about your subject." This was my first experience in writing for a grade. I learned a lot and I immediately applied to my future written assignments. I was in high school the first time I had to write a narrative. I was a freshman. This was Ms. Bradley's first time teaching at Union Christian Academy. On her first day, she gave us our syllabus and said, "I do not accept late work, especially on writing assignments." We, literally, sat there stunned. My freshman class had it very easy during eighth grade year. We were not expecting this. As I looked through the syllabus, I saw that our first assignment was due in a week and it was a narrative. At this time, I did not even know what a narrative was. Ms. Bradley explained that a narrative was an account or story of events. It could be either true or false. Our narrative had to be true. It had to be a true account of something that happened to us over the summer. She wanted to gauge how are writing skills were. Our narrative had to be at least two to two and a half pages long. I chose to write my first ever narrative on my trip to Fort Worth, Texas. Once again, I was plagued with writer's block. I had the story in my head, but everything I
Fantasy Story Deep in the City of Chic, on the plant of Decorous, there was a school named Ennui High School. At this school there was a very interesting girl named Bliss. Bliss had long wavy golden brown hair. She had big blue eyes that were on flawless snowy skin. Her lips were full, and they were always the perfect shade of soft crimson even without lipstick.
Bliss just turned 17. She was doing well at school, but she really felt she was ready to get out of her old routine and see what else was out there.
One spring Friday morning, Bliss was sitting on the stoop of the apartment building were she lived with her parents. She was looking up at the pink and purple towering buildings around her. They are wonderful, but...show more content...
Find the tree that is in the most southwest part of the park and tap on it twice. Go down the stairs, and turn right of the path. Turn left on the next path. Go to the fountain, and take a left. Go to the Castle. When you get there ask me what to do next." And with that the voice was gone.
Bliss looked with bewilderment at Jest. He was calmly sitting on the white floor licking one of his front feet. Bliss said, "That voice was a true bolt out of the whiteness. What was that? Where did it come from?", Jest answered, "Um, that was the voice of the magic wand. And it came from the wand." Bliss said, "That helps a lot. Well I guess we should get going." They went out of the white room through the emerald door to the royal blue hallway. They stepped down the red stairs and out of the light pink building.
Jest said, "Do you know where Morale Park is?" "Yes I do, but I don't know where we are," answered Bliss. "Do you know how to get there from Mulisha Square?" asked Jest. "Yes I do," said Bliss. She followed Jest down the street. They did another series of turns until they were at Mulisha Square. Mulisha Square is a square block in the middle of Chic. It is made up of bright pink bricks. On two sides it is sunken with steps that are used as sitting places. From there she found Morale Park easily.
Morale Park had always been one of Bliss's favorite parks in Chic. On this day it looked especially magnificent because it
Marlene: Good afternoon Houston division, I am so excited to be here with you talking about an exciting quarter for our division. We are so excited to introduce someone who is here with us for the first time. Rachel Ross!
Rachel: Thank you Marlene. In March, I assumed the role of Vice President of Merchandising for the Houston Division. I came from the Michigan Division so the heat and humidity has been quite a change, but being with this division's team has been so amazing.
Marlene: Rachel, we are glad to have you here and excited about all of the energy you have already brought to the team. First let's hear from our Division Controller, Akin Akanni, about how we did financially in the Houston Division this quarter.
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He spoke of how rare it is to receive the amazing level service that he provided in other stores. Thank you Brent for giving our customers highly satisfying service. We are so proud to have you on our Houston team.
Marlene and Mike: Way to go Brent!
Rachel: Remember being Friendly and Fresh is how we drive our customer loyalty. And speaking of Fresh...our fresh meat and seafood score was a 58.5% which was a 0.6% decline from Q4 and our Fresh Produce score was a 55.4% which is a 0.5% decline compared to last quarter. District 5 showed improvement in both with a 0.9% increase in their Meat and Seafood freshness score and a 1% increase in their fresh produce score. District 2 also raised their Fresh Meat and Seafood score by 0.1%.
Some of our best performers with all of our priorities in quarter 1 were the following stores–
Stores 180, 300, 609, 38, 190 and 367 all met at least two of the four goals and store 156 has met the goals for In stock, Friendly and Fresh Meat and Seafood! Way to go 156! That team there is really dedicating their energy to doing what's best for the customer.
Marlene: Well Rachel we did have one of our best quarters for our Customer First Tracker. Our goal is to get to 272 and we ended the quarter with a 266.7 which was a 5 point improvement. We were the most improved division in the entire enterprise, so everyone let's have a handclap for
At this point in my life I find myself in an interesting predicament regarding my attitudes toward reading and writing; more so towards reading. Years ago I used to love reading books for pleasure but nowadays I find myself reading things that little to no effort to digest. This includes the very basic posts on facebook expressing one's opinion on something or articles and threads on reddit discussing topics I find intriguing. Perhaps it's the severe senioritis that has overcome me as I enter my last semester at Chapman University. As I've gotten lazier I can see it start to reflect in my everyday life. Deep down I still love to read but I rarely find myself getting truly invested into the action unless it relates to something I am very...show more content...
You can feed the mind as much as you want and it will never get full of reading. Sadly, I'm not the same person that I was. I guess you could say it's part of growing up. It never really was intentional but it's just the way how it ended up. On the other hand my attitudes toward writing are very different. First let me say that deep down I truly do not like to write. I myself don't personally like to write for leisure or pleasure but rather I write because I believe it is one of the most important aspects of being able to communicate with those around you, both personally and professionally. To put differently, my attitude towards writing is that I write because I need to write and survive in the world around me. I write because I have to, not because I want to. Hopefully this somewhat makes sense. To better explain let me make a comparison. When I am assigned a writing assignment or I am writing because the action is being forced upon me I find myself not enjoying the process and overall the end result is subpar. The perfect example of this would be my junior year in high school when I was enrolled in AP english literature. I dreaded the majority of the class simply because there was so much writing involved in the entire course and therefore I was constantly writing just to get a grade. Being forced to write in such high volume every week for an entire school year was not enjoyable for myself and as a result the Get more content