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              ¹ One reason is that it is the month of my birthday, and who doesn’t like their birthday? It’s the day that marks the anniversary of your birth, and reminds you that you’re ² going to get any younger.  Your birthday is also the day that you get free cake and presents, and the only day that is all about you.

Another reason I love October is because of Halloween. Halloween is the best holiday because people get to dress up in costumes and pretend to be someone they aren’t. Kids enjoy free candy, teenagers enjoy loud parties, and adults get the satisfaction of spending their money on candy to give out. Though, one can never outgrow candy, no matter their age. 

Also, I love October because it is in the fall. Fall means the beginning of a new school year, a new setting, and new people to meet. Fall means football season, tailgates, pep-rallies, and cheerleading. Since I’m a cheerleader, it makes sense for October to be one of my favorite months. ³

Since October is in the middle of fall, the weather is neither too hot, nor too cold.  It’s the perfect weather for jeans and a t-shirt. The leaves are still on the trees, and they’re all different shades of yellows, reds, and browns. Not one tree looks the same either, it’s a nice change from the sea of green we see in the spring and summer.

1. Periodic Sentence- Pulls in the reader to find out why I love October

2. Emphasis – “never” has emphasis and sarcasm because you will never get younger

3. Rhythm – this sentence has rhythm and also rhymes

Being the extremely indecisive person that I am, picking a favorite color has never been an easy thing for me to answer or choose.  I can remember when I was young I was super girly, and loved anything and everything pink.  Thankfully I grew out of that “girly princess” phase and now I don’t like the pink at all.  I can never decide on what my favorite color is, because my “favorites” change with my mood……I guess.¹

I know it sounds weird, but if it’s rainy and dark out and I was asked, I would probably answer purple, blue, or black.  But if they asked me on a warm sunny day I would say orange, white, blue, yellow, red, light purple, teal, coral, gold,  etc.²   However clothes wise, I LOVE neutral colors and hate wearing bright colors.  I love the simplicity of tan, blue, gray, black and white, because you can accessorize so easily with them.  Plus, if I was ever in the mood for a pop of color I could add bright red lipstick, or a pastel colored necklace.  I think picking a favorite is also hard for me because there are also different SHADES of colors.  How can you only like ONE ³ with so many out there? It’s all too much for me.

All over my favorite color(s) depend on the situation I’m in, or what I’m doing.  As you have read, once again, I’m very indecisive so Im just going to end saying that I like all the colors in different situations/moods……I guess.

Blue
If you asked me right now what my favorite color was I would have to say hands down blue. But although deep down in my heart blue has always been my favorite color, I still live with the guilt of knowing I used to lie and say it was red. When I was about 4 years old I met the little boy across the street from me that happened to be the same age. He was my first friend and from that point on we were best friends. So after being friends with him for a couple of weeks or months he finally admitted that his favorite color was blue and asked me what mine was. I felt guilty copying what he just said and at the time we were in an imaginary war so I had to lie. 1. Off the top of my head I lied to my friend and said my favorite color was red. It may have been the biggest mistake of my child hood. I went to kindergarten the next year and eventually the entire class was asked their favorite colors. 2. I had my best friend in the class and once again I lied to him, lied to the class, and lied to myself, saying my favorite color was red. I lived this childish fantasy until about middle school where I finally was able to let out my true feelings for the color blue. Blue is peaceful and calming. 3. Blue makes me feel, makes me think, makes me believe that everything will be ok. When you look at the sky or sea all you can see is just miles of blue covering the entire landscape. I like that feeling. The feeling of being completely absorbed by something, the feeling that no matter how big any one person may be, there are still things like the sky and sea that will always overpower any one human being.

1. Rhythm- This sentence has rhythm and a rhyme scheme which makes it fun to read and flow nicely in the essay.
2. Nuclear Emphasis- In this sentence I break it up so that the final thing said is my favorite color is red. This adds emphasis to the fact that I lied about my favorite color.
3. Periodic Sentence- In this sentence I delay the final clause with three separate phrases, this helps to emphasize my point at the end of the sentence because it uses three different phrases to describe it.

My favorite month had always been December, for obvious reasons, but just incase you were unaware, it’s my birth month. I was born on December 3rd, 1993 and for 17 years of my life, it was my most favorite month. I mean who wouldn’t love their birthday month? Getting presents and cake and spending time with your family. I loved the snow white Christmas and holiday cheer. Well senior year definitely changed that. Now the only month I can’t wait for is June, June 10th to be exact. Why you ask? Because it’s official Graduation day! The day every senior has been waitting for from the start. Everything will be just wonderful on that day; the weather, everyone’s clothes, all the girl’s make up and hair, and the feeling of getting our hands on that high school diploma acknowledging the advancement to our next step in life, college. This certificate of achievement is what every individual in the senior class has been working towards for all four years of their high school life. The summer vacation in June will also give all the more reasons to celebrate before going off to VCU, for me. Personally, I had the best experience over Preview day at Virginia Commonwealth University. I got a chance to meet new people, and experience the International Festival VCU was hosting with them too. College is definitely the main thing on my min, I can’t wait!

Five, just say it, Five, it clings off the tongue with such finesse that it can hardly be associated with the coldness of Math its self. It was a springs day, the flowers were booming and the sun was shining, the warmth of the sun hit with a feeling of warmth and safety thorough the window as I was stuck in the cold lifeless school. Then I saw it, the number 5. My teacher added two of the biggest numbers I knew, 2 and 3 and then I popped out like a butter fly from a cocoon or a chick from its egg, it was simply a thing of beauty. After that five and I had a bond that couldn’t be broken, we were going to take over the world I thought (being 4 and thinking 5 is biggest possible number). This love survived even as I grew older and learned about even bigger numbers and more complex ways to find them. However, one day discovered a number that blew 5 out of the water. It was the platinum choice of numbers, the crème de l’crème, the apex in class and style, the number 64. Now this was a magical number. I has so much might by being so large, but not too large and it’s practice too. Now only does is it even so it’s simple to divide, but it also has this magic ability to be divided by 8 and make 8. Being 8 at the time, this blew my mind. For the past decade I have held my love for 64 but I fear our love is dying. Being in much more advanced math I’ve discovered much more magical numbers with even freakier tricks. Yet, I am hopeful. Like every great relationship out love will concur through the treachery of life and all its temptations. 64, I swear I wasn’t fooling around with 345.894.

1….2…..3….4…..slowly with pauses is how we used to count numbers as young kids. There are tons of numbers to choice from as a favorite number, but as a child we pick our favorite number between 1-10.  As a child most of us were only able to count up to certain numbers and we stop and start the cycle of counting again. ¹

In elementary school, it was my duty to find a favorite number. At first I wanted to be 3, simply because 3 is a lucky number. People advertised 3 to be this marvelous figure which I fell for. The shape of 3 was perfect; it looks like a heart connecting. ²   3 was known for the 3 stooges, the 3 wise man, the 3 musketeers, red white and blue. It was also in my favorite books, the three little pigs and everything was 3 in Goldilocks. Did I mention 3 appeared in one of my favorite movies Charlie’s Angel (3 angels). I stuck with 3 for a while bit, but I moved on to 4. I picked the number 4 to be my next favorite number, because it was my dad’s favorite. That didn’t last a very long time all.

Soon again I changed my number, this time for ever. My favorite became 9 as I was in the 3^rd grade. I loved 9, because it was my older brother’s favorite number. My brother started playing soccer before I did and his jersey number was 9. When I myself started playing soccer, I always choose the number 9. You see my brother’s favorite soccer player was Ronaldo a famous brazilin player. ³

1)      Nuclear Emphasis- I used the word soon for my nuclear emphasis at the end of the first paragraph. I put it at the end of the first paragraph to make it sound dramatic.  “I need a number soon” or else I would not have a favorite number forever.

2)      Rhythm- For rhythm, I use the same rhythm pattern and pause for that sentence and the next sentence. This gives the reader a pause before the rest of the story.

3)      Periodic sentence- For periodic sentence, I put it at the very end of the essay. I put it at the end simply because I wanted to tell the readers that 9 was forever going to be my favorite number.

Your favorite color should change depending on what period in your life you are going through. When I was really little, my favorite color was pink. I think this choice originally had something to do with ballet classes and Hello Kitty. I wore tutus around the house. The white walls of my bedroom were painted a pale pink. After my Grandfather died, I adopted his favorite color: purple. To him, it represented loyalty and royalty, but to me, it represented warmth and security. I moved out of the pale pink room that I shared with my little sister, and I moved into the guest room. I painted the white walls lilac. Towards the end of Middle School, I was extremely close to my mother. Hoping to be like her in every way, I adopted her favorite color scheme: pink and green.¹ To my mother, and 80s “prepster” at heart, the combination of the two colors were fun and youthful, but to me, they represented poise and strength, because those are two traits I associate with my mom. Unfortunately, my parents refused to let me paint my walls pink and green. In the seventh grade, I lost my grandmother. She was a spunky woman with a big heart and with big ideas. ² She never had a favorite color. She was convinced that colors weren’t meant to be ranked or judged, but they were to be enjoyed and appreciated.³ Can you imagine a world without color? That is why your favorite color should be an ever changing decision. It should depend on the day or on what is currently happening in your life. Now, my room is painted sky blue. I’m not really sure why, but I kind of like that there isn’t a reason. One day, not long from now, I’ll move out of my room into a room in a new home. When I get there, I’ll paint my walls a new color.

There is a collection of two numbers and a letter that may seem entirely random but in fact have served a great purpose in my life. They are, in my opinion, perhaps the greatest group of numbers and letters that exists. 3, C and 24. I’ll start with the letter first. This one is easier to understand in its purpose in my life. With my two letter initials being CC I learned at a young age to love that particular letter after having to write it on school art projects. Thus the curly cursive C that is so wonderful to pen became my favorite letter. Now the love of the number three has in fact been a mystery to myself. Perhaps it’s that C, my favorite letter, is the third letter in the alphabet. Or maybe it came from enjoying darting away whenever someone yelled three in a race. Or even just simply deciding one day it was my favorite letter when asked all those years back and I faithfully stuck by it. In any way I’m not really sure. What I am sure of though is that three is the best number out there, 24 of course being right behind. Luckily the story behind 24 has a little more sense. The day of my birth is on the 24^th of the month of November. It may be a little unoriginal to have your second favorite number be the date of your birth but it wasn’t until recently that I had some justification to this. Caught in absolute unawares, breathless in utter astonishment and most pleasantly surprised I came upon the realization that my name composes the same amount of letters as the date of my birth, 24. This of course, was a great finding in my life and quite frankly made my day. Overall I would say I find myself lucky to have the best of all numbers and letters perfectly choreographed into my name and thus being. 3, C and 24, I could never ask for more!

Periodic sentence: 1) “Caught in absolute unawares, breathless in utter astonishment and most pleasantly surprised I came upon the realization that my name composes the same amount of letters as the date of my birth, 24.” 2) By placing the noun “I” near the end and “24” as the final clause following two previous dependent clauses, this creates a periodic sentence. 3) Having this order forces the reader to wait for what caught me by surprise and builds the wanted suspense that makes the sentence more interesting.

Rhythm: 1) “They are, in my opinion, perhaps the greatest group of numbers and letters that exists. 3, C and 24.” 2) By spacing sentences with ten or more syllables in difference beside each other, the first being 22 and the next being five, this creates rhythm. 3) Rhythm here improves the sentences because it allows the reader to pause and puts more emphasis on the short sentence for greater impact.

Nuclear Emphasis: 1) “In any way I’m not really sure.” 2) By placing the word “sure” at the end of the sentence it naturally puts nuclear emphasis upon it. 3) The emphasis on the word sure makes the reader sense the actual uncertainty and hesitancy about how it came to that conclusion.