Welty
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Essay # 3
I am going to mimic the work of Welty in this assignment, which wrote about a particular principle, but primarily was a teacher to every child who needed words of encouragement. I had a similar teacher when I was in high school that really inspired me to do the very best in whatever I put my mind too. Almost in the same way that Welty got inspired, Mr. Washmon pointed me in the right direction, when I needed some advice I was helped.
Imagine a short stocky man with a mustache gingerly walking down the hall with his head high because he is living a dream. He enters his classroom on the first day of school and says, "Welcome freshmen, you are the bottom of the barrel, you are the feeder dish swimming with sharks, you are the kids amongst adults." Yes, these were the first words that not only me, but also everyone in my freshmen World History class was told. The first day of school was one of the scariest of my life. I was big man on campus in junior high, and then I go to High School and I absolutely nobody. When I got to history I did not know that my life was going to be changed by one man...