My Silenced Marathon… My Life…

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Silenced Marathon – “Best Draft”

Posted by: Anne on: April 16, 2008

Note: If you saw a lot of errors in this earlier… I fixed it! Yay! I’m going to delete the previous one, that is on here.

Silenced

Marathon

It Hit Me like a Speeding Bullet; It Changed My Life

Anne

April 16, 2008
Art of Expression
Memoir

(“My Most Perfect Draft”- HW11)

Note: Nothing in this [...]

MEMIOR DRAFT 1 For Conference

Posted by: Anne on: April 9, 2008

MEMIOR DRAFT 1 For Conference

On 4/9/2008 4:08:42 PM
Note: It is really long.
Very DRAFT! I need to CUT, CUT, ADD…

Silenced Marathon

It Hit Me like a Speeding Bullet; It Changed My Life

By: Anne

March 9, 2008

Art of Expression

Memoir Draft

Silenced Marathon

Intro
For eighteen years in the hearing world in which I lived I thought [...]

More Information

Posted by: Anne on: April 9, 2008

More Information (HW

On 4/8/2008 1:58:53 PM
Sorry, it took a while to get this up and posted. My interviewees had to take their time, going down memory lane.
1. Interview
Dad-
1. When I was a child, you thought I had speech problems?… please explain. ….
On Mother’s Day 1988, you said your first word, “Mama.” But [...]

Black White and Jewish

Posted by: Anne on: April 9, 2008

Black White and Jewish :

(Homework for blog, about reading)

On 4/7/2008 2:28:55 PM

Black white and Jewish – Autobiography of a shifting self. By Rebecca Walker

Walker begins the story by telling us as the readers things that she remembers in the past, about her childhood, growing up in the south, her family, friends, and most of [...]

Off / On / Off

Posted by: Anne on: April 9, 2008

Off / On / Off

On 4/6/2008 12:49:26 AM
- Off / On / Off -
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My world is silent.
My world is full of sounds.
My world silent.

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I wake up and take a glance at the time.
My alarm vibrates; it makes no sound.
It is late, I feel my stomach rumble.
The bear in my stomach [...]

My True Love

Posted by: Anne on: April 9, 2008

My True Love

On 3/30/2008 11:11:17 AM

Sometimes people think I’m crazy because I run, but they don’t understand. Sometimes people tell me “Wow, I don’t know how you can run when it is that cold!”, but I don’t know either! in the past, I have had a few times when I thought I would [...]

Continued Part of Draft

Posted by: Anne on: April 9, 2008

continued part of draft

On 4/6/2008 12:27:13 AM

When I began my senior year of high school, it was my last season of running on the high school cross country team. While my friends were working in classes, and waiting for college acceptance letters, I was facing a different ordeal that changed my life, [...]

Silenced Marathon

Posted by: Anne on: April 9, 2008

Silenced Marathon

For eighteen years in the hearing world in which I lived I thought “deaf” was the worst insult anyone could fling at me. When a doctor told me in the fall of my senior year of high school that I would become deaf at some point in my life, I responded, “yeah, maybe [...]

The First of many times

Posted by: Anne on: April 9, 2008

The First of Many Times

On 4/6/2008 12:39:11 AM
The First of Many Times
3-19-08
For this assignment, I am asked to write about a memory before age ten. I have a lot of different memories from my childhood. Many of them are scattered, random, bits and pieces from events, but just not enough to write a good [...]

Idea Generators blog

Posted by: Anne on: April 9, 2008

idea generators blog

On 4/6/2008 12:36:26 AM

Anne
Arts of Expression
March 24, 2008
Memoirs – Idea Generators :

Free writing (2-3 minutes each)

A key moment in my life was when…. I realized I no longer have the hearing that I once did. It was total shock, and denial, then learning to accept change, since it all happened [...]