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Observe death carefully, sympathetically
Write a narration about your experience with a person or an animal whose actions you have observed carefully, using a first-person point of view to present not only your own observations of your subject but also the details of that subject’s experiences as you have sympathetically understood and interpreted them.
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“Death is stronger than I am”
Narrate the specific events of an experience from which you learned that “death is stronger than I am.”
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Death of an Animal
Write a narrative account of your experience of the death of an animal, using specific details to show your readers why this death was significant to you.
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Uncontrollable
Write a first-person narrative account of an experience in which you felt helpless, providing a detailed treatment of those aspects of the experience that seemed particularly uncontrollable.
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Storm
Write a first-person narration about a storm that you have experienced, emphasizing not only the details of what happened but also your responses to the experience.
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Loathed Activity
Narrate an actual (or perhaps imagined experience) where circumstances made it necessary for you to be involved in a particular activity that you had always loathed.
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Surprising Change
Recall a personal experience when a surprising change took place in your life. Write a narration of the experience, showing your readers what happened and why it is important to you.
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First Job
Write a humorous narrative account of events which occurred during your first work experience.
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Reluctant to Admit Virtue
Recall an experience when a member of your family or a friend, who had no sympathy for an activity or work that you found rewarding, “reluctantly admitted there must be some virtue in it.” Write a narration of events leading up to this change in the person’s judgement.