Personal Narrative: Creating An Ocean Guitar

We had a great…… brunch, Bryce had bear claws and of course the residents were happy.

One sunny day an eighteen year old girl was enjoying the view from the docks at Oxnard, CA when she slipped and fell into the ocean. Thankfully no one had noticed what happened and she slowly made her way to the beach underneath the docks. When Oceania finally made it to the shore she was so tired that she passed out from exhaustion. When she woke up an hour later Oceania started to get up only to discover that instead of legs she had a fishtail. As she was trying to get clear of the water, she was discovered by the owner of Seaworld. As soon as he spotted her, he quickly called his crew up and they caught and transported her to Seaworld. Once there they placed her in with the dolphins and told her what to do for a performance with the dolphins.

I did some research before constructing the layout for my bottle rocket in order to help me come up with the perfect design. I looked up many different types of fins so that I can find a good design that may benefit the flight. While most of my classmates chose to have a triangular shaped fin, I used a more abstract shape that almost resembled a rectangle. My teacher gave me a very helpful tip by suggesting I shave down the sides of my fins with sandpaper, so that the brims of the rectangle were pointed instead of smooth. My nose cone was made out of paper rather than a plastic funnel which caused me to become very nervous that it would not work out. I wasn’t given a specific amount of weight to use so I just used an eraser, but even then I

Starting this project, I had a general knowledge of the design process that I’d used in many of my earlier projects, as well as other knowledge and skills from specific projects. The prosthetic arm project taught me how to make a functional product on a slim budget, as well as important aspects to consider when designing a prosthetic, such as comfort and ease of use. From the Rube Goldberg project and the edible car challenge, I learned how to work through problems and improvise solutions. When the mousetrap couldn’t launch the marble high enough because of the limited space, we mounted it onto a ramp. When my edible car couldn’t roll well, I used a different design, and then another design when that

Sea or Xavier? That was the question that I was losing sleep over in eighth grade. At the time, it was the biggest decision of my life, the decision that would decide not only my home for the next four years, but the future. Thinking back, I wasn’t simply deciding between two schools. St. Joseph by the Sea High School was only a couple minutes from my house and all my friends were planning on attending. I knew that I would be happy at Sea as it was the comfortable option. Xavier, on the other hand, was very different. Xavier is in Manhattan, a whole new world for a young boy from Staten Island. I would be the only student from my elementary school attending and I knew that the curriculum would be much more rigorous. Xavier was in no way, the

At the end of the day Reef got into Franks truck and head off to the rehab center to say goodbye to Leeza. Leeza hadn’t been the first one Reef had to say goodbye to, Alex left the home to go be with his parents, Scar off to university with the scholar ship she received after graduating high school, Reef had been proud of Scar, she was smarter than the others and proved it,

I had arrived for a two-week stay at the transit barracks of Camp Pendleton in California. We would stay here temporarily until we flew to our overseas base destination. They had told us that we were not allowed to leave the base prior to our flight. They probably believed that some of the newer soldiers might get themselves into trouble in Oceanside, or head for home with cold feet rather than leaving the United States for the next year.

On September 1, 2012, I walked into my fifth grade teacher’s classroom for the first time in my life. Mrs.Cullen was standing in the front of the door with open arms ready to welcome her new fifth grade students. As I made my way to my desk and sat down next to Charlie Schutt and Quin Timmerman, I got the feeling that middle school would be a time of talking to some of my best friends and cruising through classes. As the school year progressed, and classroom seats changed, my thought of how Middle school would be changed as well. On the first day Mrs.Cullen explained our schedule, Homework detentions, and demerits. After about fifty questions, she sent us off to our first class, and the first step of our Middle School journey. The fifth grade

It all started when the shipping container we were riding in from the United States to England fell overboard. It plummeted into the ocean floor and busted open when it crashed into the flattest part of the ocean. We floated up through the three ocean zones to the surface of the ocean. On our journey from the Midnight zone to the Sunlight zone, we saw fascinating ocean creatures and various plants. Starting from the Midnight zone we noticed fewer plants and animals than the Sunlight zone due to its cold temperatures. Most of the animals looked like as if they were to belong here and there was absolutely no sign of plants. But, we also noticed fewer creatures which adopted very well to these cold and freezing temperatures. Most of these temperatures happen in the deep sea trenches, Abyssal plain, and the Continental rise.

I am known to be extremely clumsy. With that, it’s expected that I often end up in awkward situations. In the past I have called numerous teachers “Mom,” fallen down while walking up stairs, almost fallen off a cliff; and it can be assured there were many more instances where my embarrassing clumsiness had led me into awkward, sometimes life threatening, situations. One moment that stands out in particular takes place in every marine animal welfare activists’ “favorite” place, Sea World.

For me, Islanders Aquatics has been more like a family than a team. We always have been a very close-knit group, and strong bonds were continuously formed throughout the years. The members of this team became some of my closest friends; not only did they help me become a better swimmer, but a better person. I’m extremely thankful that I was given the opportunity to be a part of this team.

The film The Sea Inside shares the heart warming real life story of a man named Ramon Sampedro. At the young age of twenty-six he suffered an accident while diving into shallow waters of the ocean that left him a quadriplegic. Now at the age of fifty-four, Ramon must depend on his family to survive. His older brother Jose, Jose’s wife, Manuela and their son Javi do their best to take care of Ramon and make him feel loved. Although Ramon is extremely grateful to his family and friends for their help all these years, he has come to see his life as aggravating and unsatisfying. He wishes to die with the little dignity he has left in his life. However, Ramon’s family is dead set against the thought of assisted suicide and the

I spent the begining of Friday finishing up my rain drum by putting in "channels" and the top on the box. The purpose of the channels is to make it harder for the smaller pieces to get through causing there to be a variations in the sounds. The channels look like little mountains for the smaller pieces and a square with a hole in the middle for the larger pieces. After finishing up the ocean drum I began brainstorming with Adam again and we decided that I should continue with percussion instruments. I decided on a variety of shakers that are transparents and have different lengths. I put nuts, bolts and tacks into the different shakers so they all had different sounds, and taped the ends. At the end of the day I began working on a

I have many whales, yet I struggle with one Moby Dick and that would happen to be holding on to the past. While I was watching Moby Dick I noticed a little of myself in Captain Ahab. While analyzing the passion he has to get his revenge on Moby Dick because of the past is somewhat of the way I am with the past situations in my life. For example, holding onto the past was something I found myself doing when a future situation would occur in addition to not being able to leave what has happened in the past to move forward in the future. Lately I’ve been consequently stuck in the past that I miss out on so many opportunities that could be beneficial to me. For instance Captain Ahab, he is was so focused on what happened to him in the past that he doesn’t realize that his future will be transient trying to get revenge on something that happened to him

I was a little annoyed at first right when we got to finally load up in the water. My canoe partner (Loren) and I waited in the water for easily an hour. It was miserable because I felt I was being teased. I was so ready to begin our canoe journey and we were just in the water loaded and we couldn’t because we had to wait for the people in the cars to come back. Watching all those boy scouts leave ahead of us made me nervous. The competitive side of me instantly wanted to make sure we got to the campsite before them. Loren was my canoe partner and we were off to a rough start trying to figure out how to steer. Once we got the hang of it we did well. I was in front as the turbo and she was maneuvering the canoe. On the way, there it was