Write a narrative essay about a person you consider to be a hero. Share an experience that shows what you admire about that person and what impact he or she had on you.

(Remember that your audience is a person or group deciding whether to accept your formal application.)

Prompt

Martin Luther King Jf often spoke of a day in the future when he hoped that his children would be judged not by their skin color bus instead by their character. Write a narrative essay about a moment in your life when you were judged by something other than the content of your character. Use narrative techniques to develop experiences, events, and characters.

Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced

What do you think we can do as individuals and a society to address these challenges? Give examples from your personal experiences, or from our current challenges as a society to support your narrative

Write a narrative about an obstacle you have overcome in your life.

Tips:

- Be sure to follow an organized sequence of events.

- Consider beginning in the middle of the action and using flashback to give important background information leading to the conflict.

- Use sensory details like sights, sounds, smells, and feelings to describe the experience.

- To help keep events in sequence, use at least one of the following words in your narrative: first, then, next, after, before, last, later, ultimately, finally, suddenly, meanwhile, earlier.

Write at least 300 words.