A Few Facts About Me and How Literature has had an Impact in My Life

Literature has had a major impact on my life. My essays, projects, and knowledge of new words have improved because of the amount of books I have read over these past few years. Literature plays an important role in improving one's command of language, helps us express ourselves, and more accurately convey our messages. Overtime, I have improved my ability to understand the books I read and have been able to make strong analyses based on simple quotes. 



In my "What Do You Value" word cloud I list all my values, including the ones I am still working on. Some of the important values in my word cloud are responsible, creative, and determined. I picked the word responsible because being responsible means that people can depend on you to get things done and it therefore brings you respect. Creativity is important to me because I believe that without creativity one will not be able to succeed and make progress. Lastly, determination is in my word cloud because it leads to achieving your goals and being successful. Although I am still working on being determined, it is one of my top values. 

A few of the most important words in my "Who You Are" word cloud are travel, dance, Netflix, and. sleeping. Traveling has been one of my favorite things to do ever since I was a little kid. I have always been excited to go on family trips during breaks and explore new places. I put dance in my word cloud because ever since eight grade I have become interested in dancing and it has become one of my favorite hobbies. Netflix is one of my words because during my free time I watch my favorite shows and movies. Finally, sleeping is in my word cloud because nothing beats a good night sleep after a busy day. 






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  1. AnonymousAugust 26, 2018 at 12:43 PM

    I think that your comments on how literature has changed your life and helped you grow really opened umps eyes to some new ideas about it. I really liked how you mentioned how it "helps us express ourselves, and more accurately convey our messages". It made me think and reflect on how it has done the same to me.

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  2. AnonymousAugust 27, 2018 at 8:26 PM

    Great job! I think you really explained why you incorperated everything very well. I liked how you starrted off with "Literature has had a major impact on my life." This is importants because of all the liturarture we did last year and all the years before that really did inmact all of us.

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