Personal Narrative Essay Examples

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A Personal narrative About Grandparents (358 words, 1 pages)

A grandparent is a constant presence in a childs life. My grandparents are individuals who I could look forward to seeing and could turn to for advice. Both of them showed me and insight into the complexities and challenges in life. My grandmother and grandfather had notable differences in their ... Read More

A Personal Narrative About a Guns ‘n’ Roses Concert (680 words, 1 pages)

GUNS AND ROSES CONCERT I went to see Guns and Roses in the fall of 2002, and it was truly an event of sensory overload. I felt inspired by their music in every aspect possible and the level of sound was through the ceiling. Throughout my seventeen years I have ... Read More

A Personal Narrative About Going to Jump School (673 words, 2 pages)

JUMP SCHOOL The hardest three weeks in my life had to have been going through Jump School. Jumping out of planes always sounded like a good time. I never really thought I'd get the chance to do it. Jump School was known as one of toughest schools the Army has. ... Read More

A Personal Narrative About Advertising, Its Benefits, and the Ideal Client Profile (603 words, 2 pages)

Personal Selling Situation I will be selling my knowledge of event planing and promotions, to advertisers and marketers that may have interests in reaching and surveying specific target audiences. My ability as an event planner and concert promoter has allowed me to provide advertisers various effective ways of courting and ... Read More

A Personal Narrative About the Country of the United States of America (575 words, 1 pages)

Home of the brave, and land of the free, but our nation truly has more depth than that. Our nation, built by many different peoples, continues to grow culturally and mature as decades pass. In this way we strive for a national identity that is largely founded on what people ... Read More

A Personal Narrative about Playing an Important Tennis Match (745 words, 1 pages)

On April 17, 2000 the Radford University tennis team played a very important match against Elon college in North Carolina. The winner of this match would play as seed number two in the Big South Conference tournament. Eventually, our place in the Big South Conference tournament depended on the result ... Read More

A Personal Narrative on Attending a Writing Class (1006 words, 3 pages)

The paths of learning are different for all of us and this is how it should be. Hmm..., this is the part where we're supposed to come up with all of these wonderful thoughtful insights and make our professors think that we learned everything that we were supposed to. I'll ... Read More

A Personal Narrative on Choosing a Career (554 words, 1 pages)

I have always envied those people who knew what they wanted to do with their lives because I was never one of them. I had been leaning toward the business world for a long time, but its a big world and there were so many directions to choose from. One ... Read More

A Personal Narrative Describing a Visit to a Ghetto (536 words, 2 pages)

When most people observe big cities, they see huge skyscrapers towering above the rest of the city. They may even see tens of thousands of people trampling about the narrow streets like bees all crowed in a nest. What most people dont see however are the homeless people who live ... Read More

A Personal Narrative on Believing in God (1053 words, 2 pages)

The Great Question "To the reverent scientist...the simplest features of the world about us are in themselves so awe-inspiring that there seems no need to seek new and greater miracles of God's care." Since the moment that I could make intelligible sounds come out of my mouth, I have been ... Read More

A Personal Narrative on Parental Influence (1287 words, 2 pages)

Where do they get this stuff? Some people say that you are a sum of all of your influences. For the most part, I agree with these people. I have had many influential people in my life. I believe my friends, people I have worked with, schoolmates and even television ... Read More

A Personal Narrative about One’s Best Friend (716 words, 1 pages)

It was a Friday night, this past September, when my best friend Katie called me and asked me to come up to her house because she had something important to tell me. The H family has been living up the street from me for about 10 years now, and although ... Read More

A Personal Narrative of Participating in a Baseball Match (1200 words, 2 pages)

Did not recive to much comments he just said he liked it. When I think of the times of my youth, all I seem to remember is the dusty baseball infield. Seeing the cleats from the players on the infield kicking up brown dust, which then was picked up by ... Read More

A Personal Narrative of Attending Physical Education in Elementary School (647 words, 1 pages)

Throughout my elementary years in Fiji, I was like no ordinary kid. Academically, I was an average student. I was a chubby kid with low self-esteem, which discouraged me from achieving good marks in school, partly because I had the fear of speaking my mind. To top things off, things ... Read More

A Personal Narrative of the Experience of Jumping into Cuyahoga River (536 words, 1 pages)

I sat anxiously on the edge of the bridge and watched as yet another one jumped. Their body flailed limply in the air as various obscenities were screamed before they finally hit the water below. No matter how many people I saw doing it, for some reason I could not ... Read More

A Personal Narrative on the Transition from Fall to Winter (515 words, 1 pages)

The Great Transition Fall is the great transition, leaving the sunniest months of the year, and gently preparing us for winter, making the days grow colder, the trees become barer, and bringing with the wind a new alpine smelling frozen bite. Although this transition is a day to day process, ... Read More

A Personal Narrative of the Difficulties of Writing an Essay (629 words, 1 pages)

That life is a series of challenges is axiomatic. But not all of life's challenges are equal. Some are more daunting, more enervating, just more life draining than others. My latest Everest is an English Composition Course I'm taking at the Community College. First, let me say that I'm borderline ... Read More

A Personal Narrative of Different Treatment of Children Now and in the Past (726 words, 1 pages)

NOW AND THEN When weve got this composition for homework, I thought that this topic wasnt very interesting. But I was wrong. I phoned my grandparents in Bjelovar to ask them about the time when they were going to schoolAnd it revealed that that had been a really interesting time ... Read More

A Personal Narrative about My Mom as a Role Model Person in My Life (1078 words, 2 pages)

Nobody really understood. They didn't understand what they were talking about when they told me my mom was "perfect". Sure she was beautiful, intelligent, successful, and rich as well. But, everyone always seems to forget about the past. The scars. It didn't show on her surface, but my mom had ... Read More

A Personal Narrative of the Experience of the First Time Getting Pulled Over (841 words, 1 pages)

The First Time I Got Pulled Over Everyone gets pulled over by a cop eventually, but if you're one of the lucky ones that don't, well good for you. Authority figures are always intimidating, especially police officers and sheriffs. If you want to ruin your day deliberately, the best way ... Read More

A Personal Narrative About My Passions With Computers and Future Studies (230 words, 1 pages)

My passion with computers stated to grow when I learned accounting. I found that computers are powerful tools which can help businesses with analyzing the mass of data and making decisions. I believe that a person with both business knowledge and computer skill will be in large demand in China, ... Read More

A Personal Narrative of Why Logan is My Hero (911 words, 2 pages)

The name of my hero is Logan. Logan may be a last name or it may be a first name, no one knows. Not even Logan. Logan is a man whose past is shrouded in mystery. Logan can only recall a short time, thirty years or so, in his long ... Read More

A Personal Narrative on Training Dogs for the Canine Companions for Independence (504 words, 1 pages)

I became interested in service dogs eight years ago when I wanted to do something to make a difference in someone's life. When I saw a segment on Animal Planet about becoming a puppy raise for Canine Companions for Independence (CCI), I knew that was what I wanted to do. ... Read More

A Personal Narrative on Achieving Emotional Maturity (699 words, 1 pages)

As soon as I turned twenty-one, I felt a sense of ripeness. The world which surrounded me appeared unlimited. I had marriage, children, a career and traveling to exotic places to look forward to. Being young warps the senses, though. Being twenty-something gave me a false sense of reality which ... Read More

A Personal Narrative on Coping with the Disease of a Loved One (1087 words, 2 pages)

When I walked through my front door, the first thing I noticed was the odor. Then, I heard the groaning. I remember the occasion quite vividly, although it was ten years ago. My sister and I had just returned from the park with a neighbor, expecting everything to be normal. ... Read More

A Personal Narrative on Graduating from High School (549 words, 1 pages)

College Essay The last day of my high school career is fast approaching and I can only imagine how I will be feeling when I step out of Northampton High Schools grounds for the very last time. Throughout these four years, I have felt a lot of urgency about graduating ... Read More

A Personal Narrative on a Strange Encounter with an Old Woman (328 words, 1 pages)

Two years ago I was travelling around my town when suddenly I saw an amasing house. It was an old house with huge garden in front if it. I stopped and looked for a while. I had a strange feeling that I had been here before. I stood and stared ... Read More

A Personal Narrative on Leaving Comfort Zone and Spending a Year in Germany (1239 words, 2 pages)

Deliberately placing yourself outside of your comfort zone will do one of two things make you into a stronger better person, or cause you to shutdown and not accomplish the task at hand. While most high school juniors spend their year studying, excelling in sports, hanging out with friends, and ... Read More

A Personal Narrative About Telling the Truth (858 words, 2 pages)

"You're so beautiful!" "Whoa, that dress totally suits you!" "Yeah, come on ring her! She likes you!" Have any of you either said or received these comments? Most of you will have heard or said these comments, after hearing these comments I bet that all of you will then feel ... Read More

A Personal Narrative About Taking Care of Old Citizens (1317 words, 2 pages)

A Clean, Well Lighted Place One thing most people fear is old age. We all think that we are eternal on this earth, but when we age we begin to realize that our bodies on this earth will become dust. Where will we go? How will we die? Will we ... Read More