Marlon Wayans once said, “Success is not a destination, but the road that you’re on. Being successful means that you’re working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dreams by working hard towards it. That’s living your dreams.” This quote means being successful is working hard to achieve your goals. The poem, “The Road Not Taken,” by Robert Frost, states that in life we come upon many decisions, and there are points where we have to let fate take the lead. “The Road Not Taken” uses two paths as a symbol of a life decision. In this poem we are introduced to the traveler and all his life decisions. This poem is and expression of life, because in life is about making choices, where it can be hard to find your way out of something, but there are many possible ways you can do it.

“Then took the other, as just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim” (line 6&7) are verses where we can clearly see that deciding between two choices is a decision into which he is putting a lot of thought. Throughout the poem, we learn that there are two paths to take, but the traveler, who we suppose is Robert Frost, is uncertain of which one to take.  We learn that this is really a life decision, and not just a choice between two paths. In the line, “I shall be telling this with a sigh,”(16), Robert Frost shows a sign of regret, meaning he made the wrong decision. Not all decisions have to be clearly thought out or over-thought. In our lives, sometimes we make some wrong decisions, too. Depending on time, we can’t always really lookup that why we made mistake. Furthermore, there are important decisions that go into making a big change.

The next subtopic is about a hard way to find your way out of something. In the poem, Frost should decide which way to continue traveling. In the poem “I took the one less traveled by” (15) this line in the poem talks about Frost of which path is the best one to take. One way he thinks that it has been traveled many times before and it is safer, easier route to continue down but Frost ended up selecting the path that was less traveled by, or the road that did not look convenient, to continue his journey. In the poem “had worn them really about the same” (line 10) the two roads by stating that both roads had not been traveled lately. Also, “Because it was grassy and wanted wear ;”( line 8) illustrates that one road is no longer being used. Lastly, I will explain about the possible ways of making choices.

Along with choices are the many possible ways of making choices. Having many possible ways of making choices. Possible ways of making choices is difficult for people because they don’t know which way to go or how to choose. In the poem, “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood” (line1). People need to make a choice and walk down one of these roads, leaving the other one behind. Also, in the poem, “Oh, I kept the first for another day!,” (Line 13) the speaker is no longer sure about his choice.

Overall, Life is full of choices, some predetermined, some decided on the spot. The road is really a metaphor explaining decisions that we make. Sometimes there are monumental choices that will affect the rest of someone’s life, whether they know it or not. The poem, “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is about one of those special moments where one choice will change the course of one person’s life. Others believes that depending on the road a person chooses, their life will turn out for better off for worse. In this poem in which we learn that sometimes we have to let fate take the lead. Life is a combination of decisions and fate. According to the author, the two paths symbolize the life of the traveler and all his life decisions. Every decision can really affect your life. My ideal world is deciding an option to take and it connects to my poem about the road that is diverged.

The poem, “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost states that in life we come upon many decisions, and there are points where we have to let fate take the lead. “The Road Not Taken” uses two paths as a symbol of a life decision. In this poem we realize that life is a combination of decisions and fate. The two paths symbolizes the life of the traveler and all his life decisions. This poem expresses life, because in life, there are important decisions that can make a really big change, sometimes it’s hard to find your way out of something, and there are many possible ways you can do it.

The poem, “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost states that in life we come upon many decisions and there are points where we have to let fate take the lead. “The Road Not Taken” uses two paths as a symbol of a life decision. In this poem we realize that life is a combination decision and fate. The two paths symbolizes the life of the traveler and all his life decisions. This poem expresses life, because in life, there are important decisions that can make a really big change, sometimes it’s hard to change, sometimes its hard to find your way out of something, and there are many possible ways you can do it.

7 points peer review

The stance that Nick could use that is different is when he stated ” I was able to learn a lot from being in that percentage.” He could state how many percent that he learned from the information that he found from his quote.

Reading as Recreation

Collecting evidence

reading

recording response

identifying audience and purpose

Positive:

1. Nick explains in depth his three subtopics in his essay
2. Nick uses examples from his experience from his past in the essay

Alex Chao

2/22/16

ENG 1121

Personal Narrative Essay First Draft

                                                 The Difficulties of Knife Skills

            “First knife skills then knowing how to control heat. Most important is choosing the right product.. the rest is simple.” Justin Quek. This quote explains how working in a kitchen using knife skills and different techniques. My difficulties in a kitchen is learning the basic knife skills. Not only culinary is stressful but also it helps me to procure verbal skills like knife cuts, how to hold a knife and learning how to cut properly.  

            The first difficulties is learning the basic knife skills and cuts. Working in a restaurant knife skills are important because you want to cook all the food at the same time for example if your cooking chicken one piece of chicken that you cut is bigger than the other it will cook different times. Another reason why knife skill is important because it helps reduce waste while they are cutting vegetables or any other product. Reduce waste can be left to make stocks. The basic knife cuts are chopping, mincing, julienne, Batonnet, different types of dices which includes Brunoise, Small dice, medium dice and large dice. Also there is a cut that is called chiffonade. The knife cuts have different sizes chopping is like cutting up foods into small bits and they will cook evenly, mincing is a very small cut that is useful and it gives flavor throughout the dish, a julienne cut is also called a “match stick” and the measurement is 1/8*1/8*2, a batonnet cut is like a French fries the measurements are 1/4*1/4*2inches cubed and many more knife cuts.          

The second difficulties is how to hold a knife properly. A proper way to hold a knife is point facing down by your side if you are walking to another place. If you are holding a chef knife you want to bring your hand up so your thumb and pointing finger are higher up on the handle of the knife. If your knife drops on the floor never catch it step away and let it fall on the floor then pick it up as the same procedure as I stated before.

            The last difficulties is learning how to cut properly. There are different ways of how to cut properly is holding the food steady and curling your fingers into a claw and tucking your knuckles underneath. Place the tip of the blade against the cutting board with the flat of the blade resting against your knuckles. While cutting you should do the rocking motion and the knuckle of the other hand that is holding the food will help not to prevent from cutting yourself.

            People think culinary is stressful but they need to learn different knife skills and many more other skills pertaining in the culinary field. An ideal world for me is when people should be in a peaceful, quiet and should help each other when they are struggling with their knife skills.  

Alex Chao

2/22/16

ENG 1121

Personal Narrative Essay Final Draft

                                                 The Difficulties of Knife Skills

            “First knife skills then knowing how to control heat. Most important is choosing the right product.. the rest is simple.” Justin Quek. This quote explains how working in a kitchen using knife skills and different techniques. My difficulties in a kitchen is learning the basic knife skills. Not only culinary is stressful but also it helps me to procure verbal skills like knife cuts, how to hold a knife and learning how to cut properly.  

            The first difficulties is learning the basic knife skills and cuts. Working in a restaurant knife skills are important because you want to cook all the food at the same time for example if your cooking chicken one piece of chicken that you cut is bigger than the other it will cook different times. Another reason why knife skill is important because it helps reduce waste while they are cutting vegetables or any other product. Reduce waste can be left to make stocks. The basic knife cuts are chopping, mincing, julienne, Batonnet, different types of dices which includes Brunoise, Small dice, medium dice and large dice. Also there is a cut that is called chiffonade. The knife cuts have different sizes chopping is like cutting up foods into small bits and they will cook evenly, mincing is a very small cut that is useful and it gives flavor throughout the dish, a julienne cut is also called a “match stick” and the measurement is 1/8*1/8*2, a batonnet cut is like a French fries the measurements are 1/4*1/4*2inches cubed and many more knife cuts.          

The second difficulties is how to hold a knife properly. A proper way to hold a knife is point facing down by your side if you are walking to another place. If you are holding a chef knife you want to bring your hand up so your thumb and pointing finger are higher up on the handle of the knife. If your knife drops on the floor never catch it step away and let it fall on the floor then pick it up as the same procedure as I stated before.

            The last difficulties is learning how to cut properly. There are different ways of how to cut properly is holding the food steady and curling your fingers into a claw and tucking your knuckles underneath. Place the tip of the blade against the cutting board with the flat of the blade resting against your knuckles. While cutting you should do the rocking motion and the knuckle of the other hand that is holding the food will help not to prevent from cutting yourself.

            People think culinary is stressful but they need to learn different knife skills and many more other skills pertaining in the culinary field. An ideal world for me is when people should be in a peaceful, quiet and should help each other when they are struggling with their knife skills.  

“First knife skills. Then, knowing how to control heat. Most is choosing the right product.. the rest is simple.” Justin Quek. This quote explains how working in a kitchen is difficult using different materials. My difficulties in a kitchen are learning different materials. Not only culinary is stressful but also it helps me procure verbal skills like knife cuts, how to hold a knife and learning how to cut properly.