Riordan Scholars Program: Personal Narrative Analysis

Narrative essay Life throws many challenges at you, but you need to know when to tackle them and when not to. A challenge is something that Is a struggle for you and needs more attention than a problem. Now I know this from experience from the time that my baseball team was in the league finals and disaster struck out. The day was June 13, 2015. This day is a day that will always teach me something new and life mending every time that I bring it up.

Adversity can bring out the positive and negative sides in a person. In “The Proof of Worth,” Edgar Albert Guest demonstrates how challenges in life can help someone understand what he or she is capable of during a hardship. Similarly, “The Importance of Adversity in Growth and Development” written by Patrick Kohan exemplifies how children will never learn how to conquer an obstacle if they are always given assistance. Additionally, Laura Hillenbrand’s novel, Unbroken, indicates that experiencing problems can affect the way a person’s body reacts and thinks about a difficult moment. Ultimately, the authors highlight that obstacles can be a complex or helpful task, as well as assist people in the future when they need to know their true

Every Moment Counts I hug her knowing that this will be our last. Tears are streaming uncontrollably down my cheeks, staining her shirt. I'm not ready to say goodbye. I don't understand why this is happening. Out all of the 7.28 billion people in the world, why did it have to be her?

In my life, I have been through so much in my life, from good times, to bad times, I had to make the best out of everything. Ever since I was a child, people have been making fun of because of my skin color, and what my beliefs are. I had to deal with that all of my life. You couldn’t live in my shoes, anyone could try, but all of them would fail. In my life I had, many hardships during my childhood, as a grown man playing in the MLB, and as a Senior.

Theme: Challenges Make People Stronger. Challenges. People go through challenges everyday, they can either be easy or hard. Challenges can be the smallest bump in a person’s day or it can be something major. People learn and achieve something when they go through challenges in life and it ends up making them stronger.

Growing up through middle school years, I had conformed to settling for whatever grades I got and not really working hard. When the transition was made to high school, I truly learned how much work would have to been put in for to make average grades, much less above average ones. At the beginning,

My body cried like a newborn babe, afraid in an unfamiliar place. Immediately, my fresh eyes were greeted by waves of black hair, friendly smiles, and the Japanese language. I had arrived in Japan. I did not know the language or the customs, but I dove right into the dark pool. I was determined not to let the unknown drown me.

Surreptitiously and quietly, the posted sentries at the main entrance leading to the Dweller city of New Hope maintained their duties guarding it, keeping watch over any potential threats that may arise from beyond the entrance at any time. From the balcony that stood directly above the steel gates of the main entrance, the Dweller city guard had managed to place a small barrier of sandbags with an additional sentry gun turret, consisting of twin mounted MG42 machine guns. Even further behind the sandbags and sentry turret emplacement was a table, with two G43 semi-automatic rifles leaning on the table. Seated around the table, there were three Dwellers: two Dwellers who were part of New Hope’s city guard, and the Silent Orphan, the leader

Prior to moving in for the 2017-2018 school year at West Virginia University, I took an adventure orientation class through the university. I participated in the Odyssey 31 adventure over the week of Fourth of July, and had a great time and memorable experiences. Coming from near Gettysburg Pennsylvania to West Virginia University, I was nervous about not knowing anyone on campus. The Odyssey trip really helped in calming my nerves about moving onto campus. When I pulled into the parking lot on that monday of July 3rd, I knew only one person, my roommate Trevor, who I had only met once at new student orientation.

Thank you so much for the opportunity to apply into the Fairfield University Honors Program, I am very excited at the prospect of becoming a member. I believe I can contribute many things to the program. I have always looked for opportunities to extend my range of knowledge. The honors program here at Fairfield is the perfect opportunity for me to grow and develop as a person. In high school I was a member of the National Honors Society, which required extra service projects and activities during the year.

I have a lot of adolescent memories but this one I will always remember. After my freshman year at Faulkner state university I moved back home to stay back with my mom and I attended Bishop State Community College. During that time I didn’t have my own transportation so therefore I had to use my mothers’ car to get to and from school. One day I was running late and not to mention I was not that good of a driver two years ago. I pulled up at school and there wasn’t anywhere to park.

“What doesn 't kill you makes you stronger” Kelly Clarkson. That is saying you can learn from everything. Challenges make you stronger because you learn from them and you gain more experience. An example of, challenges making someone stronger by giving them more experience is Eragon in the book Brisingr, by Christopher Paolini.

My writing skills improved more than I thought, but still had some bad sentence structures. By the end of the year I got a B in the class, but the problem still remains and can be solved. Lastly chemistry was the hardest to understand due to the fact that there were so much explanation going on that it took the whole period just to answer one question. To top it all of the teachers didn’t really explain the sequence well enough. The course wasn’t really taught well, but I still managed to pull through and get A on the regular chemistry and a C in a college level class.

Everyone could go home after school while I would be stuck at an after-school program to help me with my reading. My sixth grade year I would not do my homework. I was self-conscious of getting answers wrong while others would get perfect scores. Also, during this time I was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism which affected my concentration and learning. In junior high, I found a way of studying that works well for me like, watching videos about the subject and making flash cards.

The school classes were set-up a little weird and we didn’t have a set English class; instead, we had a “Writing” class. Teachers would line you up at the end of class and walk you to next one on the schedule. When walking, I would pass other grades