It Chasing Mavericks By Christine Peymani

According to Thomas C. Foster, the reading experience is more rewarding when a person can take a step back from the work and look at both patterns and symbols that could spur imagination. This confirms that writers leave room for people to make a conscious effort to look deeper into the writing and to have more of an interaction with the story. In Dropping in the author primarily repeats the phrase “think of” so the reader will continue to imagine their personal experience. For example, the author includes the phrases, “Think of the relentless sun, the expansive silence between attempts, the vertigo-inducing landscape.” And “Think of how so few people have ever actually been here, and how, whether they came to hide or skate, they came in exile.” (Johnston 14). The sensory language describing the warmth of the sun and vertigo inducing landscape helps the reader to imagine the more physical aspect of the Nude Bowl.

When he was a junior at West Wilkes High School, Kevin read a book about Navy SEALs. Immediately, he was intrigued. He decided he could go through the training, he was strong enough and he was invincible. Kevin was not naive however and knew he needed to start training. Living in the backwoods of the Appalachian Mountains, he trained by running four to five miles with an eighty pound log on his back.

Talent can be ruined by forcing someone to conform to the stereotypes of a job, thereby putting a metaphorical hat on them. The hat symbolizes the role a job plays in society and how a person of that occupation is supposed to act. By expecting someone to conform to the standards set by the hat, expectations and boundaries are created that can possibly limit someone’s potential. As an experienced writer, Annie Dillard has given first-hand advice on how to discard the metaphorical hat in her essay Push It. Throughout her essay, Dillard informs her readers that the hardships they encounter may seem like Goliath before David, but that persistence is better than perfection.

It is usually filled with words and phrases we improperly use. If the writing is intended to show our viewpoint or ideas in a professional light, it includes writing that is proper in terms of grammatically correct use of words and structure. The written aspect of discourse really changes depending who your target audience is when

Hearing the message is not necessarily enough, but capturing the significance of a message requires professional listening skills. Listening to a message include sensing for emotions and unusual strong stresses. Listening allows leaders to analyze the message, understand the speaker’s purpose behind the delivery of the message, and recognize possible conflicts if applicable. B. Complimenting: It’s a misconception to think that people work for only materialistic gains. People usually would like to be eulogized and extolled for their

Skepticism Writing allows people to communicate and reflect on their thoughts. To write out one’s ideas allows the writer to reflect upon and reinterpret their interpretations. To feel a feeling, to think a thought is only surface level - to really explore the thought or feeling one must write it down and look at it objectively - not as their own as an idea removed. It is like evaluating someone else’s answer to a question. The removal from one’s self allows a writer to be more free.

It is not an end, but rather a continuation of my journey. If my writing at VBI can help one person feel accepted and a bit less lonely, if it motivates one person to unmute without fear of ridicule, if it puts one person on a redemptive path from shame to self-acceptance, then it is worthy. I’ve been told my ability to confidently deliver a speech, to challenge my opponent in debate, and to approach people with poise has inspired others to venture out into unchartered territory. And I’m ready to venture into new territory, too. My stuttering has inspired my dream of pursuing interdisciplinary studies to help change how we interact with the world with our

Symbolism is arguably a very important term when comes to writing, it plays a vital role in getting the reader involved and finding the key meaning of the text involved. It’s not easy to find an overall meaning when there isn’t any other outstanding force influencing the meaning behind the intended novel or whatever it may be. In other words; writers and books enjoy playing mind games with those who are reading. Sure, there are symbols that contradict one another or maybe perhaps that’s simply the point that’s being conveyed, an example that the two symbols add up to mean not everything is at it seems. Of course, those symbols that we find may result in something we’ve been looking for, such as the piece that could potentially lead to an important life experience.

Writing is an activity I do to get problems or ideas out of my head and into a physical state. After writing an idea down, I find I am more confident in my words and actions. I feel that writing has kept me from losing my mind to a battle with chaos. Writing has kept me rooted in real life as well as my imagination. Just like anything else writing requires a bit of skill, time, patience, the correct process and the correct environment.

From everyday experience, readers know how things usually happen and how people react. A distortion of action or an understatement of effect gets a special response from readers, because they consider these changes improbable or the unexpected. The reader has to be alert to the actions of character because actions are the author’s way of showing, not telling, what the characters are like Appearance may be taken as a due to the nature of a character if the author leads the reader to attaché significance to it. Literary analysis is not pure description or a summary of the action, although it may include these elements. He should also pray for strength to help other people.