Narrative Essays

At the moment when I got pregnant, I could not imagine that I would make a courageous step to give birth to someone, and more so, to give birth to someone naturally without any external interference. Throughout my pregnancy, I was reading a lot of accounts of women who have...

The two most vivid memories I have of the day I changed my mind about dogs are related to smell and touch. I remember the smell of the dog that attacked me. It was not the stereotypical dirty wet smell, even though the dog in question was an outdoor dog...

We often hear sports build character and while that may be true in case of some people, there are also cases that prove otherwise. In fact, I know this from personal experiences as part of high school soccer team as to how sports may sometimes bring out the worst in...

During my last school holiday, I had the chance of visiting Pocatello for the first time in my life. It was a family visit where we went camping in the bush with a Recreational Vehicle (RV). The experience was memorable and one that I would forever in my life cherish....

The accident’s case number is 12. It occurred on February 2007 at 22:51. Moreover, the accident killed one passenger. The accident involves two cars and takes place at the southbound lanes of the north or south division roadway. Because of the dry weather, the straight road, the grassy median road...

Our parents and teachers often give us advices laced with good intentions but those advices may understate the complexity of the real world. I was taught at an early age we can achieve anything if we work hard and people who don’t succeed often have themselves to blame. I took...

Like most recent high school graduates, I was invincible. Nothing could stop me. My parents knew and never tried, as they were once in the same position. I had a car, friends and freedom. I had plenty of money, thanks to my generous mom, and a summer to waste. Even...

The time spent in the Medical Surgery unit provided me with insight into patients’ lives, into their respective diseases or illnesses, and into meaningful and constructive ways to establish a relationship with them that helped me attend to them with more compassion and more understanding. My first patient, a 71-year-old...

Two years ago, as I 16-year old individual, I decided to go for regional try-outs in math competition in my home country. It was one those warm fall days, when the sun was still burning, and I was walking home full of personal thoughts. I was the best math student...

I remember being ten years old when I was first confronted with photographs from the Kosovan war. Ever since then, I feel as if images and representations of war have had a profound effect on my life. More than anything, I found myself desperate to understand how the acts of...

The first sensation I feel when going into the basement is a kind of fear because, even on the stairs, the smell is overpowering me. It is a wet, rotten smell, filling me with a sense of decay and loss before I even discover the extent of the flood's damage....

My mother has always told me that “life is a collection of moments so make the best of each and every moment of life.” This advice has helped me to think about every moment as being great but some moments truly stand out as being among the greatest. Considering this,...

Childhood experiences stay with us all our lives even the bad ones that we underwent trying to make it in life. Right now, I am seated in my office that is well-furnished with huge mahogany table and a nice comfortable swinging chair. When I try look back at what I...

I had never considered myself a shy person. I was always outgoing, had alot of friends, and had no difficulties making new ones. That was in the old school. When my parents told me that we would be moving to a new school, it never occurred to me how differently...

On September 19, 2015, at approximately 07:15 am, an officer was dispatched to 221 Wakefield Drive, Anytown, Virginia to answer to a response. It was a sunny morning, and the rains had not fallen for several days causing the ground to dry. On arrival, the officer knocked on the door...

As I reflect on the difficulty I had in one writing assignment, it seems to me that communicating in writing is often not perceived correctly. That is, we understand that we have ideas to express and that clear writing is the most effective means of accomplishing this, but then we...

A couple years ago in May, I was trying leave my house. My parents owned a white three bedroom home, olive green shutters and trim outlining the house. As beautiful as the house looked, my morning felt ugly. My alarm never went off and by the time I woke up,...

When my brother was younger he had a really bad temper and got into many fights with me, my dad, my mom, and with classmates in school. Once he graduated high school, he ended up in jail a couple of times for his behavior towards both of our parents. Even...

Sitting in the back corner of the smoking section at Denny’s it was possible to see everything that was going on; it was the perfect place for people watching. Just as the day crowd has a certain type of people who are more apt to come in, so too does...

In the summer of 2012 at the age of seventeen, I began my first job at a locally owned bookstore. It was in the heart of downtown on Main Street in the small town in which I was born and raised. Given the fact that it was not one of...