The mirrored walls further illuminate the studio and I feel the light scrutinizing my sorry attempts at a pas de bourrée, while capturing the organic fluidity of the dancers around me. The sprung floor soaks up the checkerboard of sunlight piercing through the colonial windows. Three years later, seven-thirty in the morning meant I was nervous. It meant standing up straighter, pushing a little harder, “Yes, sir” and “Yes, ma’am”, celebrating birthdays by breaking boards, never pointing your toes, and familiarity. Three years ago, seven-thirty in the evening meant I was a warrior. Master Pollard gave a brief command greeted with a unanimous “Yes, sir” and the thud of 20 hands dropping-down-and-giving-him-30, while the “winners” celebrated their victory with laps as usual. There was no time to celebrate, not in the traditional sense at least. Pivoting my right foot, I snapped my left leg, aiming my heel at her midsection. I sidestepped - only to almost collide with another flying fist. “Ready spar!” Her arm began an upward trajectory targeting my shoulder, a common first move. She approached me, eyes narrowed with the trace of a smirk challenging me. Silhouettes of roundhouse kicks, spin crescent kicks, uppercuts and the occasional butterfly kick danced while we sparred. Night had robbed the academy of its daytime colors, yet there was comfort in the dim lights that cast shadows of our advances against the bare studio walls. We also include the original prompt where possible. Note: the essays are titled in this post for navigation purposes, but they were not originally titled. If you’re looking for school-specific guides, check out our 2021-2022 essay breakdowns. We’ve grouped these examples by archetype so you can better structure your approach to college essays. Most of the essay prompts fall into 8 different archetypes, and you can approach each prompt under that archetype in a similar way. In this post, we’ll share 16 college essay examples of many different topics. Reading examples of successful essays, however, can help you understand what admissions officers are looking for. Habitat: Low Water use, requires full sun, likes dry, poor well-draining soil.Most high school students don’t get a lot of experience with creative writing, so the college essay can be especially daunting.Crinkly leaves give off a sharp aroma when touched and they can cause a skin rash. Their native habitat includes fields, thickets, swamps, rich sandy woods, scrub, gravelly hills, flats, chaparral, and roadsides almost throughout Texas. General: Native to Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Mexico this perennial shrub has red orang and yellow blooms.Flowers colorful, red, orange, and yellow, tubular with four flared lobes in dense, rounded clusters with a leafy bract subtending each flower, at the ends of long paired stems usually extending beyond the leaves, appearing from April to October. Leaves opposite, up to 2 1/2 inches long, broadly ovate, pointed at the tip, flattened at the base, upper surface rough to the touch margins coarsely toothed, teeth broad, pointed or rounded. Young twigs nearly square in cross section, covered with short hairs visible under a 10x hand lens. Bark light gray to light brown, tending to flake off. Frequent in brushy places and in woodlands. How to Identify: A spreading shrub, much branched from the ground upward, branches sometimes with prickles.Host To: Provides nectar to all butterflies but no one species host plant.Because the larvae feed on milkweeds, the chemicals derived from those plants make adult butterflies extremely distasteful to predators. Males have a small black spot along one vain on the hindwing above while females do not. Nonmigratory populations can be found breeding year-round in areas like Texas and Florida. This means that the monarchs that “return” to the wintering grounds have never been there before and they somehow are able to find these traditional sites by instinct alone. No one individual is likely to make the complete round trip, rather it is done over several generations. The last brood of the summer starts to move south, forming big concentrations at some coastal and lakeside points on their way to central Mexico. Their offspring continues north also pausing to breed, and by summer the next generation has populated most of the continent. In early spring they begin to move north, pausing to breed where they can find milkweeds. Millions of monarchs from eastern and central North America migrate to spend their winters in mountainous forests of central Mexico. General: This is the most famous butterfly in North America and is likely to be seen in any open habitat from southern Canada southward.Host plants: Tropical Butterfly Milkweed, other milkweeds.
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