Lists and Paragraphs

List A
1. Family
2. Friends
3. God
4. Honesty
5. Soccer
6. Education
7. Working Hard
8. Staying Positive
9. Tell people how you feel
10. outdoors
11. running
12. rollerblading
13. beach
14. home
15. candy
16. ice cream
17. tennis shoes
18. palm trees
19. Colts

List B
1. rude people
2. people who only care about themself
3. snakes
4. cats
5. bugs
6. not talking to people
7. not talking to my family
8. being alone
9. salad dressings
10. chips
11. people who focus on the negatives
12. exams, tests
13. make-up work
14. Dallas Cowboys

11 A is like 8 B
Running is like being alone because when I go running, I am usually by myself. I never realized that one of the things I love to do and one of the things I hate to do relate so closely to each other. Running is the only time I can say I enjoy being by myself. I am a huge people person so I am rarely by myself. If for some reason I am alone though, I tend to go running because I have no patience at all. I always have to be doing something. While I am alone, running, it is my time to myself where I can think about whatever is going through my head. Most people like to just sit and thing by themselves, whereas I enjoy running while I think.

4 A is not like 5 A
Honesty and soccer are not alike because sometimes you have to do unhonest things on the soccer field to succeed. When your winning one to zero and there are only a few minutes left, you might have to kick the ball really far out of bounds on purpose to waste time. Or in other cases, you might throw the ball in even when you know it is not your throw in, or purposely cheap shot someone. Cheating and being unhonest are very similar to me. When you cheat, your are being unhonest, but sometimes you have to be unhonest to win. When playing competitive sports, players do everything in their power to win, including being unhonest. During practice, we always say, "If your not cheating, your not trying."

5 B is like 7 B
Bugs are like not talking to my family because they both make me feel very uncomfortable. I hate being around bugs, just like I hate not talking to my family. When I see a bug in the house and someone doesn't either put it outside, or kill it, I feel uncomfortable because I don't want it to come by me. At the same time, I feel uncomfortable not talking to my family because I do not know how they are or where they are.
Bugs are also black and ugly, just like some of the arguments me and my siblings get in. Lastly, bugs are like not talking to my family because I would never talk back to my parents, just like I would never touch a bug.

Final Paragraph
After looking over my lists and paragraphs, it seems as if I I am a happy, easy going person because everything I listed and said was quite positive. I never got to critical or mean about the topics I disliked because I seemed to put a greater focus on the good in everything. Throughout the paragraphs, I constantly used the words "I feel" showing that I write a lot about my emotions, and the things that have happened directly to me, rather than other peoples generalizations and thoughts. Most of the things I write are based on my past experiences because I am able to add personal touches to the work. Because I was in the experience, I am able to add my thoughts, emotions, and details as I portrayed them throughout the memory, rather than guessing how I would have felt, or what I would have done.