Day 1

Assertion
Last week, my friends were arguing about whether or not there was a sale at Forever XXI going on. I told them that I had already checked online and that there was no sale going on. My friend said that there HAD to be a sale because it was Spring Break and they had to have a sale during Spring Break. I told them that we should go and find out for sure. When we got there, my friend's assertion was proven wrong when she asked the sales representative what was on sale and the sales representative pointed at the clearance rack. Nothing was on sale, just as I had said.

Clarity
As I've grown up, I've begun to see the clarity in things that I didn't understand before. My parents always gave me their talks about the bible and about our beliefs but I never quite understood what it was that made everything they told me so important. It wasn't until I grew up and started experiencing everything that I already have that I saw the clarity in what my parents always tried to make me understand.

Coherent
My AP English Teacher, Susan, would always tend to tell me that the points I was making in my esssay weren't coherent to my topic. For some reason the point I was trying to make didn't always connect with what the topic was. After a lot of practice, I've gotten a lot better at connecting my points in my essays and now they're a lot more coherent to the topic that was intended.

Eloquence
A couple of weeks ago I went to a fundraiser for The Woods Project, a summer program that I participated in for two consecutive years. I was told to give a speech at the event and as soon as I was done, the founder of the program and leaders of the program came up to me and told me that I had gained a great amount of eloquence in my speaking since the last time I spoke to them. I was glad that they thought my speaking skills had improved and I was thankful that the Debate team had taught me so much.

Emphasize
It has been extremely difficult to emphasize to my family how difficult the last 6 years have been for me. Seeing as I was the only one in my family to ever go through something like Chinquapin, it was so difficult for me to make it clear and let it be known that Chinquapin was a hard experience. These last few months, things have gotten a bit more for my family to know how difficult of an experience Chinquapin has been without having to stress to them the difficulty of things.

Rhetoric
A pet peeve of mine is when people use a huge amount of rhetoric in their speaking or writing, incorrectly. The use of exaggerated language in an incorrect way is probably the worst thing someone could possibly do. That's one of the reasons for doing this. I don't want to fall into my own pet peeve.

Integrity
When a person is completely honest and does the right things, it's easy for them to protect their integrity. But, when someone constantly lies and does things that aren't very acceptable, their integrity begins to lessen more and more.