Essays on Personal Experience

Emotional Intelligence: My Personal Experience “If you can change your mind, you can change your life,” American philosopher William James once said. A lack of personal self-awareness marked my teenage years. Indeed, as a teenager, I’ve found myself in positions where I’ve had to decide whether or not what I’m…

Simon Wiesenthal recalls his experience as a concentration camp inmate. He describes the camp’s living conditions, especially an incident in which he was taken to the deathbed of a Nazi SS officer who begged Simon’s forgiveness. Karl, the SS soldier, outlined his atrocities against Jews and begged Simon’s mercy for…

The aim of this project (II) is to write an inquiry essay and review its structure, writers, audience, and material. Pico Iyer’s post, Living in the Transit Lounge, explores the author’s experience traveling around the world as a lounger. He vividly recounts his life since he was a child, often…

The Universe is Changing Around Me is a memoir, but it’s a story based on a personal experience. This immediately places the speaker, Dany Laferrière, in the role of a witness who owes it to his audience to narrate and reflect on events that are true and historically verifiable. The…

Hemingway’s short stories, Soldier’s Home and Big Two-hearted Rivers are epic works of literature that best illustrate modernity. Aspects of sophisticated poetry, subjectivity, and detachment from social structures will be explored through the examination of these two short stories. It is clear that in both novels, war is fundamental to…

I have to well known that there is a massive difference between the United States and my native country, Philippines in almost everything. From culture, language, the administrative structure, economic, ambition, social and monetary development and the attitudes of Americans towards immigrants. On the positive side, I have appropriate memories…

When my dad took me to the port, at the same time, I was nervous and overjoyed. That was going to be my first trip on a cruise. My pal Tony has come along. My dad had offered to take me to the dock the night before, saying he wanted…

This article of reflection is on my latest trip to one of the most beautiful sites in the world, Athens, and Delphi. The tour consisted of four days, from Thursday the 1st of June to Sunday the 4th of June, and it was like the sky, like all the good…

Childhood memories have a huge impact on one’s adult life. This interaction may be either negative or positive. As a result, there is a strong connection between an adult’s behavior and their childhood memories. For example, studies have shown a correlation between teenage exposure to chronic violence and a number…

It is generally assumed valid that thoughts dictate if at the moment we try to return to it, we will recall remembered memory (Rapaport, 2007). As opposed to an event that did not spark any unique feelings, an emotionally fraught situation is always recalled (Reisberg & Hertel, 2004). Once one…

Three major side effects of addiction A story of teenage drug addiction Author My burden or challenge life? Addiction and its impact. I started with taking pills, smoking weed and alcohol at a very young age. I was at risk of drug abuse as a teenager thereby easily influenced to…

David Sedaris’s Me Talk Pretty One Day offers a description of his impressions as a 41-year-old man returning to college to learn French. The author’s classroom experiences have had a profound impact on his life outside of the classroom. He transforms from an outgoing person to a withdrawn person who…