Dear reader

Born a man amongst the rolling ranges of Washington, my name was dubbed Jason by those that delight in me. I was born on October 21, 1988, I grew up in Marysville, Wa most of my life and through the time I spent their I began to respect life. When I was young the forests were green and now so much I knew has been wiped clean. The home I loved was stolen by this, taking the land from the poor to expand upon the rich. It was while I was young that I decided I needed to be somebody so I could right this. My grandmother was much of my inspiration to try to excel beyond the previous generations that never went to college and had seldom graduated. Though through much of my high school years I had put forth hardly enough effort to graduate, but miracles do happen every now and then. Lung cancer took my grandmother from me right before graduation which caused me to stray off the educational path for about 4 years. It was after the loss of another loved one that I had realized I needed to get back on track if I were ever going to amount to being more than a homeless person. My family needs me to help them so I want to be successful for them. The road of life had brought me here, to Everett community college which helped my goals become clear. I’ve spent much of my time pondering on why there is any importance to succeed when, in the end, everyone meets the same inevitable conclusion. Then an epiphany occurred, it was that the time we have is only a blink of an eye, life is much more enjoyable when you have more than a box of rocks to work with.

My ability to write at an analytical college level has improved from the impoverished state it was in. Through expanding my vocabulary and improving my punctuation I have found that writing resumes have become a simplified thing. At one time I couldn’t properly put comas, though its complicated, time has helped with those problems. My discussion skills too have improved because in high school everything I wrote made me sound inferior on an intellectual level. An example of my critical thinking is I have clearly been able to understand the themes in books much better. After I read the two novels “three cups of tea” and “the absolutely true diary of a part time Indian” I found that I could identify themes on a larger scale in books, by seeing the courage, strength, and willpower, which it takes for real individuals to succeed.

To show my readers how I have improved there will be four pieces used as examples to demonstrate such. The first will be a major writing assignment piece titled “Bigfoot: the most elusive prey of all” which entails in existence of Bigfoot. The next piece will be based on my ability to write analytically and the title of this assignment is “Two ways of viewing a river” which shows my interpretation of the writers work. My following assignment is based on my ability to write effectively which is a paraphrase titled “four is not enough” I believe it demonstrates my ability to reinterpret information accurately and soundly. For my writers choice I chose an assignment titled “The unexpected” which shows how I used different sentence structures to convey my story of a personal experience. To anyone reading this I hope my e-portfolio is found mildly interesting.