Storybook

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Need to rewrite my draft as a children’s book.

Revision: Storybook

: Rewrite the story of your formative event/memory as a children’s book. Consider what you want to emphasize to this new audience and how best express that idea. Use description, dialogue, figurative language, character development, POV, ets.. to express ideas. Also, you need to include a 200-400 wordy reflection that details the rhetorical choices you made in this revision and how those choices reflect and affect this rhetorical situation.

Assignment Goals:

· Work with a variety of genres to understand how meaning is made, communicated, and debated

· Use flexible strategies and appropriate technologies to generate, revise, and communicate.

· Communicate with and to multiple and varied audiences

· Reflect on connections made among ideas within the course and their own academic and personal, social, and professional lives

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Music is my life

If there is one word that can summarize my life and define its destiny, it is music. Every person on this earth was created for a purpose and I have a conviction that music was my reason for existence.

It was not easy being raised up in a middle class family. We had to stay with my cousins because their parents were unemployed and had no income. From the time I was young, I had been trained to accept and appreciate the little that came my way. It is significant to note that my parents were devoted Christians; thus, they emphasized appreciating the small things in life. Life in high school was not easy either and this led me to perform poorly in most of the subjects hence my grades were low. My parents were disappointed with my performance and they did not grant me free time to play. The reasons why my parents took these drastic actions were that the friends I was spending life with were failures in their own measure.

The confinement at home made me to have a self-search of my sole and it is when I realized that my talent was in music. It was indeed during this period that I later realized that I was wrong and that my parents were right. While I meditated, I thought of going back to school and start my studies with much exalted energies. At this time, I remembered the flute my mother had brought me. She plays piano for the worship choir in our local church and she is a great writer and composer of classical music. Whenever I felt low, I always played the flute and this cheered me up to a level that I developed immense creativity. During holidays, I teamed up with my mother and played music for the entire family. It was such a grand moment and everyone was filled with joy on such occasions. Every time I play the flute, I feel some sense of gratification which leaves me with much joy. Nevertheless, at no point had I thought of playing the flute or specifically music to be my future and only career had never crossed my mind.

It is true that music can be quite soothing and a good pass time activity that is not hazardous. As I started playing music instruments at a more serious level, I forgot my trials and tribulations for quite some time and I was able to experience a heavenly moment. However, my class teacher convinced me to go to the university and study music. I think as a mentor he had noted that I could make it in life if I concentrate in music. My application to the university in spite of my low grades was made easy by the awards I had attained in music under the guidance of my mother.

Despite the fact that my school teacher insisted that it was too late for me and that there was nothing that could be done, my parents were so inspiring. Back to the school, I started hanging out with likeminded brains and indeed realized that education was not as hard as I had previously thought. As I approached my second last year in high school, I was able to improve in my weak subjects and continued to perform outstandingly in music. This achievement therefore gave me a chance to apply for an opening in a first-class college. I continued to perform well and my last year in high school was full of success. I managed to secure a place in one of the renowned universities in Korea. Transforming my attitude towards education is my greatest achievement.