Walking into a school filled with 1,200 other student, I couldn't help but feel insignificant. ... I sat with friends all from the same middle school. ... So I turned to my favorite teacher for help at which seemed at the time one of the most desperate acts of getting my essay done at the last minute. ... In return I would help her by occasionally teaching lower level classes demos, and helping around the class. ... Mrs Marcus as predicted agreed to help me. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Because the essay took him all night to write, he had no time left for another essay. ... Baker's teacher helped him change the way he felt towards English, and mine helped me to change my personality and to see things in a different way. ... Wiseburn help me academically, but also outside of academics. ... I recall that one morning I got to school early and sat down to eat breakfast in the cafeteria. ... She is an important figure in my life that helped shape who I am today. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

As I sat on the couch in my living room on September 11th 2001, and watched the second plane fly into the World Trade Center building, I was struck by a profound sense of wrongness. ... Two years later as I began to work on this essay for my University of Washington English class, I remembered this puzzling feeling. ... I remembered then, in Patricia Limerick's essay " The Empire of Innocence", Limerick had claimed "humans live in a world in which mental reality does not have to submit to narrow tests of accuracy"(417). ... Richard Rodriguez, author of the essay "The Achievement of Desi...

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