Perosonal Recount Essay Examples

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A Personal Recount on a Close Encounter With Morality (1153 words, 2 pages)

Close Encounters Being fourteen is a magical time in ones adolescence, it is then when they are considered teenagers and start attending high school. Your mind is sponge absorbing fresh ideas and concepts. New opportunities and experiences are available to you, and the world is your oyster. It was in ... Read More

A Personal Recount of a Christmas Vacation (426 words, 1 pages)

Its Christmas time again, the time of hopes, joys, and forgiveness. Its the time that I always have the good feeling inside me. Every year at this moment, I like to be alone by myself to think. I think about many things that consider important to me. Theyre including my ... Read More

A Personal Recount on Gathering Eggs on a Farm (1303 words, 2 pages)

Every fortnight I was faced with the taunting experience of retrieving the eggs and every fortnight the task became more and more daring. Each morning at Nonis (grandmother) house a war between the chickens and I emerged from the normally silent yard, a war that separated all good from the ... Read More

A Personal Recount About Going to England (565 words, 1 pages)

Every summer holiday, when we go back home to England, it's always the same routine. We will arrive at Heathrow airport, and my mum will search for a pay phone. She will then call my grandfather, and make a conservative estimate of when we will arrive at his house. While ... Read More

A Personal Recount on Attending the Newtown Meeting (793 words, 1 pages)

Today I attended the Newtown Meeting. It was held from 11-12am. Today was also what I believe is called "Friendly first" this is the first Sunday of the month and on this Sunday the members of the meeting bring food for all attendees to enjoy after meeting. I liked how ... Read More

A Personal Recount About Going to Grandparents’ House (679 words, 1 pages)

Thinking back on my childhood, there is a montage of people, places, and events that jump out at me. The most vivid memories that I have result from my grandparents' house. As long as I can remember my plans for the weekend were never a mystery. I never had to ... Read More

A Personal Recount About Driving to Canberra (588 words, 1 pages)

DRIVING TO CANBERRA I heard a loud buzzing noise and opened my eyes. It was three in the morning and I had to wake up. Our family was going on a holiday to Canberra and we had decided to drive. We had decided to go early, so we could get ... Read More

A Personal Recount About Growing Up (1439 words, 2 pages)

A fragile girl gazes out of her bedroom window dreaming of what it would be like to be someone else, doing the activities other children do such as, skipping rocks, swimming in the pool, or playing a game of kickball with the local kids. Instead, she sits in her bedroom ... Read More

A Personal Recount on Losing Control and Over-Reacting (1300 words, 2 pages)

Have you ever had an occasion where you could prove you were better than someone? What about a time when you lost control and over-reacted to something? Sure you have, at least once in your life. When spring first arrived, I was very excited because the lacrosse season was starting, ... Read More

A Personal Recount on Basketball Improving One’s Life (344 words, 1 pages)

Hello!! My name is Tommy Lockett. Times were hard when I was growing up. I lived in the back woods of Alabama. My father died when I was 5 yrs. old. Before my father died he told me that I was gonna make it in basketball he said he saw ... Read More

A Personal Recount About Moving to a Different City (1820 words, 3 pages)

Every year, my family moved to another city, and I never knew why, but I never asked. It was one of those things that aren't so post to be questioned about. What depressed me was that every year, I would go to a new school and treated as a new ... Read More

A Recount on Perseverance in Life (619 words, 1 pages)

In life, winners are those that are tenacious and pursue their goals, and losers are those that don't attempt to make an effort at all. What is the difference between them? People consider winners to be super intelligent and losers to be really lazy, but this may not always be ... Read More

A Personal Recount About Being an Exchange Student (501 words, 1 pages)

Looking back over all my school years, I don't think I have ever been very happy. It probably caused by my poor family environment and, it's also because I was never ever real proud of my study. There are so many frustrations in my school life, in study, in love ... Read More

A Personal Recount on a Trip to Vermont (2615 words, 6 pages)

VERMONT TRIP On behalf of myself, and many other students, I would like to formally address the Drug and Alcohol problem that accompanied the 1999-2000 school year Vermont trip. Many times I have heard stories about the infamous Vermont Ski trip, and the many illegal things that have occurred consistently ... Read More

A Personal Recount on Travelling in an Airplane (1023 words, 2 pages)

Up In The Air As a little girl, I was fascinated with airplanes. I remember the times that I would step outside to glance at a potential airplane. I knew then, that one day I would be flying away. Many people dream of exotic vacations, and never get the opportunity ... Read More

A Personal Recount on Going to Universal Studios (477 words, 1 pages)

Universal Studios The lights were as bright as Las Vegas at night the smell was a mix somewhere between popcorn and cinnamon rolls and the people, well they ranged from excited teenagers to scared little kids. Where was I? I was a Universal Studios. A park where adults have a ... Read More

A Personal Recount About Feeling Jealousy and Anger (502 words, 1 pages)

As a child, we were all bound by the rule of loving parents. Many of which better prepared you for the world to come, and others to merely keep order. Often times, rules tend to change from child to child, as the parents become more experienced in parenthood. But how ... Read More

A Personal Recount of Childhood Memories (498 words, 1 pages)

My grandparents gave me many great moments in my childhood that have formed into such great memories. (Thesis statement) The admiration I have for my grandparents can only be explained by my memories which are so, so many, so very dear to me and were the happiest moments in my ... Read More

An Analysis of the Topic of the Vivid Recount of the Travels as a Slave and the Role of Gustavus Vassa (465 words, 1 pages)

Paper 2 In a vivid recount of his travels as a slave, Gustavus Vassa enlightens us to the details of a world in which people are bought and sold as property. In his stories we can see how he interpreted his own experiences and we can also get some clues ... Read More

A Personal Recount on Dealing with Multiple Sclerosis (1542 words, 2 pages)

MS and How It Has Affected Me My mom was just recently diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. I didn?t know how to react and was very upset at first. The only things that I knew about this disease were all horrible. My aunt has been fighting MS since before I was ... Read More

A Personal Recount on a Field Trip Through America (736 words, 1 pages)

Title Field Trip America is sometimes referred to as a 'nation of immigrants' because of our largely open-door policy toward accepting foreigners pursuing their vision of the American dream. In cities across the United States you will find people of every race ethnicity, ethnocultural or cultural group, some more diverse ... Read More

A Personal Recount on the Worst Grade in School (452 words, 1 pages)

The Worst Grade Ever The first time I ever made a mediocre grade on a test changed my life forever. Before this pathetic test grade I would study for shorter periods of time and slack off more in class. My grades were much lower and my conduct was usually satisfactory. ... Read More

A Personal Recount About Living With Pancreatic Cancer (368 words, 1 pages)

My name is Keir Ramanos, a merchant in Dubai in the U.A.E. I have been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer which was discovered very late, and at this very moment I have only been given about a few months to live according to various respected medical experts. I write this now ... Read More

A Personal Recount About a Bad Dream (684 words, 1 pages)

Dreams can be a frightening place to be. Do you ever feel fear as you drift off to sleep? Have you ever worried that you might not wake up? I may not fear staying asleep, but I have felt the panic induced by nightmares of my own creation. It amazes ... Read More

A Fictional Recount on the Trip to the New England Colonies (867 words, 2 pages)

The Trip to The New England Colonies My trip started off with the 30 day voyage across the mighty Atlantic. Not knowing that I would be sent to the well established colony of Jamestown. I would be staying with the average family. They are to let me stay on account ... Read More

A Personal Recount About Being Overweight (602 words, 1 pages)

My particular body type has definitely shaped how I act and who I am as a person today. Having been a big guy all my life, I know what it is like to be discriminated against because of one's appearance. On the other hand, I also know what it is ... Read More

A Personal Recount About Visiting Lions Park (319 words, 1 pages)

Michael Emery Writing and Research AALA-5 Essay 1 March 15, 2004 The Park The wind whistling through the crisp cold air, birds chirping in the dusk of daylight, and the babbling brook running through. The cool air makes you relax and forget about all of your problems that you've had ... Read More

A Personal Recount of an Event that Happened in Kuala Lumpur (2182 words, 3 pages)

INTRODUCTION I had selected an experience, which happened at my living place in Kuala Lumpur last year. This incident is concerned about a big quarrel between me and one of my housemates. My approach to this experience will be similar to Kolb's Learning Cycle. Kolb's Learning Cycle explores the cyclical ... Read More

A Personal Recount on Living with a Handicapped Person (411 words, 1 pages)

By definition, my grandfather is handicapped. However, he doesn't act as though he is, and he certainly does not want to be treated in any special way. In fact, most of the handicapped people in society do not appreciate being treated in a way different from anyone else. They just ... Read More

A Personal Recount About a Storm on a Sailing Trip (697 words, 1 pages)

I am on watch in the cockpit on board the sailing vessel "Sister Moon". I am being flung around as though I am a bouncing ball. I try to make sense of my surroundings as I awkwardly search the horizon for any other unfortunate vessels being thrown from towering swell ... Read More