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    identify a personal experience that impact my life as the topic for this paper. After days of thought about the assignment, I sat down to write, but I ended up staring at a blank computer screen for a long time. I thought to myself, I am struggling. This thought prompted me to think of all the times that I had struggled in my life. I remembered struggling in basketball, school, and everyday life. As I thought about them, I realized that I got through them and benefitted from the experiences. Pushing

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    My family and I just arrived at Dunroamin Park in Caledonia, Minnesota. We attend our annual family reunion campout here every year. My siblings and I went straight to the pool after we finished setting up the camper. I was playing in the pool with a bunch of my cousins and having a good time when my older brother tapped me on the shoulder. “Do you want to go to the arcade with me and some of our cousins?” he asked. I jumped out of the water in one swift move. “Yes!” I shouted with sheer excitement

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    My paintings are a reflection of my personal experiences and my imagination. My aim to paint is not just to master the technique but to feel and connect with the subject. By balancing the art of memory and personal experience, I create works that narrate a story. I believe my works are just like novels. Each painting is a different chapter from my life. These visual compositions may not be the exact representation of the particular event but they do symbolize the incident. I create with daily, recognizable

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    Approximately 37 million people speak both English and Spanish in the United States and have experienced a feeling of discrimination or rejection. Richard Rodriguez’s memoir called “Aria: A Memoir Of A Bilingual Childhood” demonstrates this with a personal experience. This memoir was taken from the book “Hunger Of Memory” which was originally published in “1982”. The events in this memoir occur specifically in the 1900s, when the author was a young boy, entering an American school for the first time. One

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    what their expectations are during the act, and where love comes into play. Both speakers are memorializing their past experiences, the experiences between the two are exceedingly different. Both poems have very similar intentions,

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    An experience is a personal involvement or observation of an occurrence by a person. Every day, various people experience different events of their lives and learn from these many undertakings. People, however, cannot experience everything, but rather only experience what they undergo. Nevertheless, for others to distinguish different accomplishments that they cannot be a part of, many learn from the experiences of others. In the book, A Thousand Splendid Suns, written by Khaled Hosseini, characters

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    Reasons And there are many reasons as to why someone is or is not in touch with their personal power. This can relate to: the kind of childhood one has experienced; how one responded to their childhood; the friends that one has and the people they have come across; how resilient one is and many other factors. There is also the social aspect here and how mainstream society's often discourage ones personal power and actively foster dependence on the

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    affects us in every aspect of our lives. Rose emphasizes the value in the experience of education beyond the value of education for the purpose of custom or intelligence; he explores the purpose of going to school in terms of how he defines himself and his personal growth in the stages of his academic career. In Rose’s exploration of the purpose of school, he also reflects on his personal experiences and how those experiences gave him tools that are applicable to his daily life. Mike Rose’s Why School

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    the cake step by step. Looking at this shared knowledge shapes your personal knowledge and next time you might not need the recipe because the recipe would be part of your own personal knowledge. If shared knowledge is knowledge that has been received from people or sources around you then personal knowledge is knowledge that is gained directly through firsthand experience or observation . Shared knowledge usually shapes personal knowledge. Even when an inexperienced cook has a recipe, they might

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    my Life Experience is a key to knowledge. It is a type of power one can simply acquire by observing, encountering, or either undergoing an event. It is a type of power that I have used throughout my life. Expert power. The process of experiencing is when one obtains a skill or a piece of knowledge from an event in their life which can later be utilized in their life. As we gain experience, we become experts in a specific role to which we can help others meet their goals. Experience doesn 't just

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