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empty, and Nina frantically swimming after it.
I knew I should help but I was petrified and hung my head in shame as I let my friend brave the
treacherous rapids and haul the canoe back onto the gravel bar, while I stood by cravenly.
Then came the scream. Startled, I glanced up to see Nina, both hands over her eyes, dash off the
gravel bar and back into the water. I gazed down into the canoe to see, coiled in the bottom of it,
the unmistakable, black-and-brown, checkerboard-pattered form of a copperhead snake. It had
evidently been sunning itself peacefully on the weeping willow branch when we passed by
underneath.
I don't know exactly why, but the supposedly inborn terror of snakes is something that has passed
me by completely. I actually find them rather charming in a scaly sort of way.
Nina was still screaming, near hysterics: "Kill it!" But I was calm in a way that must have
seemed smug. "We're it its home, it's not in ours," I informed her. And gently I prodded it with
the oar until it reared up, slithered over the side of the canoe, and raced away terrified,
itself into the underbrush.
Later that night, in our cozy, safe motel room, we agreed that we each had cold chills thinking
about what might have happened. Still, I learned something important from the ordeal. I know
that, had we encountered only the rapids, I might have come away ashamed, labeling myself a
coward, and had we encountered only the snake, Nina might have done the same. And I also
know that neither of us will ever again be quite so apt to brand another person as lacking
courage. Because we will always know that, just around the corner, may be the snake or the bend
in the river or the figure in the shadows or something else as yet unanticipated, that will cause
our own blood to freeze.
Sample "4" essay
Courage can be shown in many ways and by many kinds of people. One does not have to be rich,
or educated, or even an adult to show true courage.
For example, a very heartbreaking thing happened in our family. It turned out all right but at the
time it almost made us lose our faith. However, it also taught us a lesson regarding courage. In
spite of his father's and my repeated warnings, my son Matt went ice-fishing with some friends
and fell through the ice
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into the frigid water beneath. He is prone to do things that are dangerous no matter how many
times he's told. Fortunately there were grown-ups near and they were able to throw him a life line
and pull him to safety. However, when they got him onto shore they discovered he was
unconscious. There were vital signs but they were weak, the paramedics pronounced him in
grave danger.
He is his little sisters (Nans) hero. He is 16 and she is 13, just at the age where she admires
everything he does. When they took him to the hospital she insisted on going that night to see
him, and she insisted on staying with me there. My husband thought we should insist she go
home, but it was Christmas vacation for her so there was no real reason. So we talked it over and
she stayed. She stayed every night for the whole week just to be by Matt's side. And when he
woke up she was there. Her smiling face the was first thing he saw.
In spite of the fact she was just a child and it was frightning for her to be there beside her brother
she loves so much, and had to wonder, every day if he would die, she stayed. So courage has
many faces.
Sample ''3" essay
Courage is not something we are born with. It is something that we have to learn.
For example when your children are growing up you should teach them courage. Teach them to
face lifes challanges and not to show there fear. For instance my father. Some people would say
he was harsh, but back then I didnt think of it that way. One time he took me camping and I had a
tent of my own. I wanted to crawl in with him but he said there was nothing to be afriad of. And I
went to sleep sooner than I would have expect. He taught me not to be afriad.
There are many reasons for courage. In a war a solder has to be couragous and a mother has to be
no less couragous if she is rasing a child alone and has to make a living. So, in me it is totally
alright to be afriad as long as you face your fear. I have been greatful to him ever since that night.
Sometimes parents know what is best for there kids even if at the time it seems like a harsh thing.
I learned not to show my fear that night, which is an important point to courage. In everyday life
it is important to learn how to be strong. If we dont learn from our parents, like I did from my
father, then we have to learn it after we grow up. But it is better to learn it, as a child. I have
never been as afriad as I was that night, and I learned a valuble lesson from it.
Sample "1" essay
Courage is important in a battle and also ordinary life. In a war if your buddy depends on you and
you let him down he might die. Courage is also important in daly life. If you have sicknes in the
famly or if you enconter a mugger on the street you will need all the courage you can get. There
are many dangers in life that only courage will see you through.
Once, my apartment was burglerised and they stole a TV and micro-wave. I didnt have very
much. They took some money to. I felt afraid when I walked in and saw things moved or gone.
But I call the police and waited for them inside my apartment which was brave and also some
might say stupid! But the police came and took my statement and also later caught the guy.
Another time my girlfreind and I were in my apartment and we looked out the window and there
was somebody suspisious out in front. It turned out to be a false alarm but she was scard and she
said because I was calm it made her feel better. So courage was important to me, in my
relatinship with my girlfreind.
So courage is importand not only in war but also in life.
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Sample "6" essay
I believe that writing, at least the kind of basic composition needed to be successful in college,
can be taught. The most important factor in teaching a basic composition class, which usually has
students who have been less than successful writers in the past, is a simple one: that the student
be asked to write about something that interests her, that her writing have a context and a purpose
beyond "English class," that the student be made to want to learn to write.
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For students who have fallen behind for one reason or another and that reason is many times a
poor education in the early grades it's difficult to see a writing class as anything but an exercise
in plummeting selfesteem. Many students believe that writing well is a mystery only those "with
talent" can understand, and that "English class" is just something to be gotten through, like a root
canal. The first thing to teach them isn't the rules of grammar but that writing has a purpose that
pertains to their lives.
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The teacher must appeal to their emotion as well as to their intellect.
I believe the best approach is to ask students to keep a journal in two parts. In one part, grammar
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