My Story Told Essay Examples

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The Weapon of Deception in the Short Story, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce (481 words, 1 pages)

The Deadliest Tool The most valuable tool in all wars is not that who has the best technology, men, cause or weapons. The best weapon ever conceived is not one of mass destruction or of pinpoint accuracy. This is the weapon of deception. This weapon is the one element in ... Read More

A Story About Savitri and Ramani (757 words, 1 pages)

In the quiet town of Malgudi, in the 1930s, there lived Savitri and her husband, Ramani. They lived with their three children, Babu, Kamala, and Sumati. Savitri was raised with certain traditional values which came into internal conflict when she took Ramani, a modern executive, as her husband. Savitri has ... Read More

The Various Places That I Have Lived Since My Childhood (781 words, 1 pages)

The corner of 94th St , Apartment 501. It was the bricked wall building with the yellow wall in the front. It was surrounded by eucalyptus trees that perfumed the air, and hid the 9-story building, as if it had been built in the middle of a forest. At night, ... Read More

An Analysis of the Critique of Potok’s Story “The Chosen “ (618 words, 1 pages)

Critique The Chosen In Potok's story, The Chosen, the author creates a character in which a lonely, determined young boy named Danny, growing up in Brooklyn at the end of World War II is trying to overcome the battle between his father's religious world and traditions, and the secular world ... Read More

A Dissatisfaction with the Community in The Problem of Place in America by Ray Oldenburg and Ishmael Reed’s My Neighborhood (600 words, 2 pages)

In Ray Oldenburg's 'The Problem of Place in America' and Ishmael Reed's 'My Neighborhood' the authors express thier dissatisfaction with the community. Oldenburg focuses on the lack of a 'third place' and the effects of consumerism on the suburbs, while Reed recalls his experience with prejudice communities. Their aim is ... Read More

A Review of the Short Story of The Boy Who Drank Too Much (233 words, 1 pages)

The narrator of this story is a boy who plays hockey. He comes from a middle-class family in the USA. His best friend Art plays hockey very well and he has no problem getting the letter (this is a kind of permission which allows playing hockey in the team the ... Read More

A Summary of Poe’s Story “The Tell-Tale Heart” (603 words, 1 pages)

Poe constructed this story in such a way that the events of the tale remain somewhat ambiguous. As the narrator begins to recount the occurrences that "...have terrified--have tortured--have destroyed him," he reminds the reader that maybe "...some intellect more calm, more logical, and far less excitable than his own," ... Read More

An Analysis of the Accident that Changed My Life (1314 words, 2 pages)

The Accident That Changed My Life I used to read in the news about people getting in car accidents all the time. The trouble is, I never thought it could happen to me. I guess you could say that I saw myself as invincible. With the way Id been living ... Read More

Describing the Character and Personality of My Brother (936 words, 1 pages)

It was a rather long ten minutes sitting in the passenger seat of my brothers jeep, watching headlights of the passing cars get thicker and closer and then brighter, but what went on in those ten very simple minutes is something that I will remember forever. It was a conversation ... Read More

My Journey Learning How to Do Business (661 words, 1 pages)

When I was a young boy at the age of nine years old, my father gave me money to spend but it was to last me all week long. Not alarmed by how much time I had between now and next week never came to mind until I had spent ... Read More

An Analysis of Symbolism in a Story of an Hour and Shiloh (689 words, 1 pages)

Symbolism in Story of an Hour and Shiloh Symbolism is widely used in both Story of an Hour and Shiloh, and plays a key component in understanding the story. The stories are similar because theyre both about a wife that is trapped in a marriage. Both of the wives in ... Read More

An Analysis of the Short Story Everything That Rises Must Converge (1085 words, 2 pages)

The short story "Everything That Rises Must Converge" centers on the relationship between Julian, a young man who has recently graduated from college, and his mother. It takes place in a city in the South soon after integration. Much like Emily Grierson in William Faulkners "A Rose for Emily," Julians ... Read More

A Review of the Story of The Hatchet (825 words, 1 pages)

The Hatchet is about a boy named Brian Robeson and he gets stranded in northern Canada when the pilot of the plane he is on has a heart attack. He is left without food and shelter. This is the story about how he survived. He has a dad who lived ... Read More

Describing the Successes in My Life (780 words, 1 pages)

"Success is counted sweetestBy those who ne'er succeed" Emily Dickinson Since the beginning of my life I have been studying. In the early years of my childhood I didn't quite understand what my role was all about. I always wondered why is it that I have to go to school ... Read More

My Experience Flying over a Massive Volcano (272 words, 1 pages)

Flying over a massive volcano, the scent of ash and inferno from eruptions over thousands of years prior, strikes me as scorching and invigorating. In the grandest part of Maui, the helicopter suspends us, towering in the heavens over one of the most astounding sites throughout the entire utopia of ... Read More

A Look at My Sophomore Years in High School (304 words, 1 pages)

my sophomore year in high school i was brought up with a problem. I had to either choose between racing my dirtbike or playing basketball. I almost got kicked off the team for just telling him about it. I told my coach in advance about the ONE race that iw ... Read More

A Plot Overview of the Story of A Streetcar Named Desire (415 words, 1 pages)

The play centers around Blanche DuBois, who has been fired from her teaching job, and arrives unannounced at the small two-room apartment of her pregnant sister, Stella Kowalski. Stella, who lives with Stanley, her rough and domineering husband in a poor section of the French Quarter in New Orleans, welcomes ... Read More

An Analysis of the Story of Solomon’s Wisdom (311 words, 1 pages)

The story of Solomon's wisdom is a very encouraging story. It shows how God came to Solomon in a dream and said to him that anything thing that Solomon asked for he would get. I will show the relationship between God and Solomon. Also, show what type of person Solomon ... Read More

An Analysis of Story of a Solider (2330 words, 8 pages)

Story of a solider The war journal of a young Iraqi lieutenant When they resumed control of the bases deserted by Saddam Hussein's troops, the Kuwaitis found a whole series of documents abandoned in the debacle. No matter if they were on loose paper, typed or handwritten, or if they ... Read More

A Look at a Blind Spot Experiment on My Eyes (340 words, 1 pages)

On figure one of the blind spot experiment, when the black dot fell into my blind spot, it was replaced by white space. The reason behind this I believe is because my eyes are receiving overwhelming evidence that whatever is in my blind spot is probably white space because the ... Read More

My Class Session at the Soup Kitchen (1722 words, 2 pages)

Soup Kitchen On Friday, December sixth, two thousand and two, for my sociology class project, myself and a few of my classmates volunteered to help out at the soup kitchen in downtown Valdosta Georgia. Tedrick and myself left my office around ten thirty in the morning to begin our voyage ... Read More

A Plot Review of the Story of The Son From America (692 words, 1 pages)

There are those who spend their whole lives trying to become wealthy and there are others who are happy with what they have. Berl and Berlcha were two old Jewish peasants who lived in the small village of Lentshin. Everything they needed was provided for them in a way such ... Read More

The Theme of Social Anxiety in Faulkner’s, Wright’s and Welty’s Stories (950 words, 1 pages)

According to the Social Anxiety Network, "Social anxiety is a fear of social situations and the interaction with other people." Put another way, social anxiety is the fear and anxiety of being judged and evaluated negatively by other people, leading to feelings of inadequacy, embarrassment, humiliation, and depression. People with ... Read More

My Favorite Types of Smoothies (443 words, 1 pages)

SMOOTHIES A Smoothie is a cool, thick and creamy drink, blended with real fruit and juices and nutritional supplements available in over 50 flavors, 40 of which contain less than 1g of fat thats made fresh to order, and come in tons of different flavors. To produce the cool, thick ... Read More

A Focus on the Character Siddhartha in Herman Hesse’s Story “Siddhartha” (554 words, 1 pages)

On page 132 we read "Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone." What does this mean in regards to Siddhartha and any other of the characters in Hesse's story? Do you agree with this statement? Explain. This quote is ... Read More

The Scary Encounter in the Story of My Experience in the Ghost Town (913 words, 2 pages)

A dark, gloomy mist flooded the air as I entered the town. "Its like a ghost town". I said to himself, wondering where everybody was. I stumbled out of my car and peered curiously into a shop window, no one was there. No one was in any of the buildings, ... Read More

It discusses the similarities and differences of West Side Story and Romero and Juliet...there are a lot of similarities good detail, nice perception Similarities of Two Famous Tales of Love In one of the most famous love stories of this century, many elements from anotherfamous tale of love were borrowed. ... Read More

Limiting My Options with GED (514 words, 1 pages)

Entering the small office through the glass door, I noticed a friendly looking woman sitting at the desk in back. Noticing me enter she politely asked me to have a seat until she was finished with the person at her desk. I told her I had an appointment with Jane. ... Read More

The Story of the Street Vendors of Sixth Ave. (1651 words, 2 pages)

The street vendors of Sixth Ave. each have a unique story about how they came to be vendors . Many of them say it was a choice they made, some ended up there because of drugs, or the inability to find work, whatever the case their life is not an ... Read More

A Comparison of the Story of Siddhartha and the Story of Buddha in True Stories Turned into Fiction (973 words, 2 pages)

Siddhartha Your gonna be a genius anyway (Phish, Mango Song) Throughout the literary world true stories are turned into fiction. The story of Siddhartha, the Buddha is no different. Hermann Hesses novel Siddhartha fictionalized one of the most influential persons the world has ever known. Hesse did a masterful job ... Read More