My Voice Essay

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Telling your stories and allowing your voice to be heard defines who someone is. Someone that let’s their self be vulnerable while telling their stories, so that a reader can connect to the writer’s feelings. When you think of a great leader, you think of them as a great speaker. With them speaking they must have a voice in something influential to have a following. Their voice speaks to people in a way that connects to them. That’s what I wanted to do with my stories and voice.

“Our stories, our voices”, one of the first words I heard my first day of college. At first the words didn’t click to me or even mean anything to me, they were just words. Now understand what those words meant to the TLC made it connect to me, much more than it did at the beginning of the semester. I’m very grateful and honored to be able to be a part of this amazing experience you call a TLC. The day it came to schedule my first semester for the college during my orientation, I was told about the TLC option. I was intrigued by the descriptions that was given …show more content…

I went into that class thinking it was going to be more like a history class and I was excited because I love history. Although it wasn’t the history I expected to be going into. I still thoroughly enjoyed the course and our instructor made it even better. Kim was outstanding, better than most of the high school teachers I had. In that class, I felt as if I was free to express who I was. One of my favorite assignments in that class we had was the American dream essay. Why? Well because I put a lot of work into that essay, because I felt so passionate about it. In that assignment, I could give my story of my younger days and give my voice of what I thought the American dream was. We had many more fantastic assignments that I liked in that class such as the micro essays we would write and the group projects we did, but by far the American dream was my favorite in that class and probably in the whole

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