Scott Said:

I have to write an English essay about the importance of forgiveness. I'm blank: Any ideas?

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Hi,
sounds like you need help with the layout/format of this essay. You basically need to use the I format when writting your story. You should use past tense, if you are having problems with writting in First person narrative. You can use this format.
Introduction: - Start by I remember the day as if it was yesterday.
Then insert your story - for example - I was sitting alone at my table when all of a sudden, my best friend walked up behind me and screamed in my ear. I was so startled that I spilt my hot chocolate all over my brand new laptop computer. My laptop made a sudden loud noise and then died. My assignment was due in 2 hours. I never wanted to see my best friend again.

Then go into the development:
1) Talk about what you did- screamed at them, told them to get lost, never want to talk to them again. Marched away, ignored them for a week. You miss your best friend because now you have to eat lunch alone.
2) Talk about what they did - they laughed, took off, didn't help or apologize
3) Talk about how you felt - angry at them, panicked over assignment, worried parents would kill you for breaking laptop, worried fail assignment.
4) Talk about how they felt- they didnt get why you were so mad, it was an accident, dont know why you won't talk to them, they don't know how to fix the problem
5)Talk about how you resolved it - you talked to them about what happened, and told them why you were so mad, they agree to pay to repair the laptop. You ahve your best friend back.

conclusion:
Restate your intro, and finish up by stating: it is important to forgive. Beeing mad only makes you miserable, and creates more problems than good.

hope this gives you some ideas.

by the way Wikipedia has some more information on first person narrative. Here it is:

First-person narrative is a narrative mode in which a story is narrated by one character, who explicitly refers to him- or herself in the first person, that is, using words and phrases involving "I" (referred to as the first-person singular) and/or "we" (the first-person plural). This allows the reader or audience to see the point of view (including opinions, thoughts, and feelings) only of the narrator, and no other characters. In some stories, first-person narrators may refer to information they have heard from the other characters, in order to try to deliver a larger point of view.

The intensity of such confessional intimacy can be overwhelming. First-person narratives can appear in several forms: interior monologue, as in Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground; dramatic monologue, as in Albert Camus' The Fall; or explicitly, as in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Since the narrator is within the story, he or she may not have knowledge of all the events. For this reason, first-person narrative is often used for detective fiction, so that the reader and narrator uncover the case together. One traditional approach in this form of fiction is for the main detective's principal assistant, the "watson", to be the narrator: this derives from the character of Dr Watson in Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories.

In the first-person-plural point of view, narrators tell the story using "we". That is, no individual speaker is identified; the narrator is a member of a group that acts as a unit. The first-person-plural point of view occurs rarely but can be used effectively, sometimes as a means to increase the concentration on the character or characters the story is about. Examples: William Faulkner in A Rose for Emily (Faulkner was an avid experimenter in using unusual points of view - see his Spotted Horses, told in third person plural), Frederik Pohl in Man Plus, and more recently, Jeffrey Eugenides in his novel The Virgin Suicides and Joshua Ferris in Then We Came To The End.

First-person narrators can also be multiple, as in Akutagawa's In a Grove (the source for the movie Rashomon) and Faulkner's novel The Sound and the Fury. Each of these sources provides different accounts of the same event.

The first-person narrator may be the principal character or one who closely observes the principal character (see Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights or F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, each narrated by a minor character.). These can be distinguished as "first person major" or "first person minor" points of view.

First-person narrative can tend towards a stream of consciousness, as in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. The whole of the narrative can itself be presented as a false document, such as a diary, in which the narrator makes explicit reference to the fact that he is writing or telling a story. This is the case in Bram Stoker's Dracula. As a story unfolds, narrators may be more or less conscious of themselves as telling a story, and their reasons for telling it, and the audience that they believe they are addressing, also vary wildly. In extreme cases, a frame story presents the narrator as a character in an outside story who begins to tell his own story.

First person narrators are often unreliable narrators since a narrator might be impaired (as in The Last Film of Emile Vico by Thomas Gavin), lie (as in the The Book of the New Sun series by Gene Wolfe), or manipulate his or her own memories intentionally or not (as in The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro). Henry James discusses his concerns about "the romantic privilege of the 'first person'" in his preface to The Ambassadors, calling it "the darkest abyss of romance."[1][2]

One convoluted example of a multi-level narrative structure is Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness, which has a double framework: an unidentified 'I' narrator relates a boating trip during which another character, Marlow, tells in the first person the story that comprises the majority of the work. Even within this nested story, we are told that another character, Kurtz, told Marlow a lengthy story; we are not, however, directly told anything about its content. Thus we have an "I" narrator introducing a storyteller as "he" (Marlow), who talks about himself as "I" and introduces another storyteller as "he" (Kurtz), who in turn presumably told his story from the perspective of "I".

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How to write an attractive application essay?

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Evelyn Said:

What are some good ways to prepare to write an English essay?

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for a best essay n writing hear are some tips you can use.
i always had the best essay at school but i don't know why..
idid these tips:

0.you could start it by a Q..or a sentece of a famuse person or poem and etc...
1.colected info about the subjact you knew .
2. use internet.libararies.or others exprienc if possiable
3. started to think about it then write your idas support it then make it more wide by explaining and writing related topics and things for that. it maks the essay seem complete. ofcurce it realy is.
4.so after u've wited your own idea in first paragraph.and the next related topics in 2d or 3rd paragraph.write a overall conclusion
(it could be advise,general idae,hopind and... depend on your topic)
5.after all edit the sentences and ..
6.make sure you have't forgoten anything.

hope it works

Sue Said:

How to get ideas to write an english essay?

We Answered:

Uhh something you think is easy for you to write about.....

Brittany Said:

How to write an english essay for college? Please help fast.?

We Answered:

Draw from your own experiences. Have yours let you go easily, or are they still holding your tuition over your head? Have you been asked to help foot the bill, or have they covered everything?