Not Courageous Enough To Take Risk Will Accomplish Nothing In Life Essay

Introduction Essay “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life,” wise words of Muhammad Ali. These are words I live by in my daily life. I apply this quote especially to my academic life. I believe that you get out what you put in. This quote applies to my high school english history, my academic goals, my personal pursuits, my post-graduation goals, and even my trepidations about the upcoming year. Last year for english I had Mrs. Shindle in Acc. English 10. I have been taking accelerated english classes since seventh grade when they raised me to the accelerated to give me more of a challenge. I’ve covered various pieces of literature including many works of Shakespeare. The most memorable piece of literature I’ve covered was To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I would argue that this is one of Harper Lee’s greatest accomplishments. Accomplishments as far as my writing goes is just from receiving good grades on papers I worked really hard on. Last year, for one of my classes, I put an extensive amount of work into one of my essays, and it felt like such an accomplishment to get a good grade on it. It was remarkably rewarding seeing 30/30 written at the top of my paper along with my teacher's comment “excellent!!” when he handed it back. I think that those are some of the most rewarding accomplishments even

I find that I make a lot of grammatical errors, and I am not always able to find them. It would be really helpful for me to work on learning some of the basic tools that can be used in the mechanics and grammatical parts of sentence structure. I also struggle with reading comprehension so analysis writing pieces can be a bit of a challenge for me. I find that it takes a lot of time and effort for me to comprehend and analyze text. Mainly working through that process and gaining the tools necessary to read and comprehend text will help me