My Writing Odyssey
As far back as I can remember I have always been told by educators that I'm a very creative writer. My first year of high school was an
interesting time to see where my skills in English would take me. For some reason every semester in High School my progress in English would
fluctuate. Some professors assumed it could be better, some assumed it could be no better. For my first year of High School,l I attended
Jamaica High school. I can remember on the first day of English Class the Teacher handed out a book entitled "The Odyssey" by Homer, which
was translated by Samuel Butler. The homework later that day was to make a short story of our own little odyssey, and I did just that.
I wrote a story relating to the amerindians, which were people that were living in South America before the Europeans arrived, and acient
women who were sent to exile for performing certain tabu's (since women didn't have much say in ancient societies)......
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