Analysis Of Prefontaine

“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.” - Prefontaine I live by this quote on my personal life because it's inspiring. The overall meaning is if you have a gift or chance don't sacrifice it and act on it. Don’t ruin your chance and just do it. I try to live by that to always try my best on whatever I do to get the best grades and acquire the most knowledge. Over Junior has been my best year yet. I got out of my comfort zone by doing different thing and tried to be more out there. I believe I did, I joined Various clubs involving me into the overall community of Godinez. Clubs such as Red Cross, CSF, Key club and very recently ASB. Set back I believe would be more in sports because although I did perform I wasn’t

It made me a better person because as captain I had to accommodate everyone's request to try to come up with the best workouts. When the coaching staff was not there I had to get everyone together and organize then into what we were going to do. For example, since our Track coach had worked during modified days I had to take charge of both the guys and girls team and organize them until the coach came in. However, an area I believe I need a lot more improvement is a responsibility to education because in a way I gave up the second semester. I felt like i was way to overwhelmed with AP testing that after I procrastinate on my homework. It got to a point where I have a lot of missing and late work. As you can see I need a lot more improvement and am starting to again, I turning in my later work. An ESLR that I believe I have mastered is the characteristic of Critical and Creative Thinker appreciate originality and aesthetics in all the project that I have done. For instance, I once spent all night redoing a Scholar In Me Project because I thought the previous one was not as nice as it could be and I created a pretty impressive project. I created an apple tree with the apples being the research that i had done and a cropped picture of my face in Isaac Newton face, in the end I was pretty satisfied with my work. On the contrary, a

This simile state how important it is research is to college it's the only thing keeping it together. It is true, research and good research skills as greatly needed as a backbone is to your body. Meaning that yes, if i am not pretty much a pro in researching I will suffer slot during college. Another rhetorical device I used greatly during this essay was encoders such as in paragraph 3 and 4. They were mostly anecdotes of the areas I could improve on from my junior year. There purpose was to make this reflective essay by actually stating stories of where the information was relatable. For paragraph 5 in the second sentence I had used both ploysidenten and Irony because I stated that i believed that I was really mature yet, go on just repeating the conjunction “and” over and over again. Which is usually a characteristic of someone that is mature. The rhetorical devices were to present that fact that yes, I feel that I have matured, but I still need room for improvement. Like i have stated before, yes I was on top of my work, but as soon as second semester rolled on by I just lost focus and began to stalk