Persuasive: Final Draft

Walmart has the lowest prices. It tops a lot of stores. Have you ever wondered how you were going to pay for something? Well with walmart everything is pretty affordable. For low income families it’s cheap, it has a lot of variety ,personal checkouts. What else is better than that? I really like Wal-Mart because anyone can shop there and get what they need and be happy for how much they spent.

There’s better service there than any other stretchers always a helping hand. You get a lot of help and when you need it. Because there’s a lot of employees so there’s always someone to help you. It’s a twenty four hour service. So you can go there anytime of the day or night. So you can get what you need at the time. The employees of Wal-Mart acutely care about there customers because they go around asking if you need help with anything they just don’t pass you by.

There’s more quality and variety. They have all kinds of different brands.Theres kinds for people that cant afford name brand things. They don’t have at target. You can get food in big quanties.So it makes it less expensive by a few dollars and that adds up. You can get the cheapest entertainment at walmart.At target things are ten dollars to p to hundred dollars more there. They have pretty cheap movies that comes in the big packages too.

They have a lot different checkouts you can self check out so you don’t have to go and wait n a huge line. If your shy or get claustrophobic you don’t have to talk to the cashier’s less time consuming just ringing up the items your self. Most of the time it takes less time anyways.As long as you know how to work a computer there’s a lot of self check outs at walmart.Just not one or two like target by like five or six’s a better way to get out quicker.If your in a hurry and just have to run in and grip the item you need.

If you don’t want to waste money then shop at walmart.You can get high quality that you cant get any where else. It effects my life because I don’t have a high income so with people who don’t have much money Wal-Mart works best for them. You can get nice things with affordable price. I think you should go with Wal-Mart so you can be happy like Wal-Mart’s logo.

Ashley

Narrative: Final Paper

It all started one day when my dad decided to relapse. I couldn’t take him shooting up in front of my sisters and me. He used for twelve years of my life. Then when I had my sixteenth birthday everything fell apart. My grandma Marilee Hall died. That’s when my journey all began and I became an alcoholic. My dad started using everyday. I didn’t know my dad as Todd Hall. I knew him as a drug addict doing anything to get his next fix. He gave up his own family for a forty or an eight ball. Just to be high for a couple hours then he would come down from his high. He would say sorry then do it all again. Then one day gravity hit him and something tragic happened I walked in the bathroom and my dad was laying on the flour with a needle in his arm over dosing. I knew I had ten minutes to call the ambulance or he would be dead. I was in complete shock. I waited in the hospital for four days hoping he’d be okay. Drugs have ruined my life and my dads. You never know when it’s going to be too late. You can take a drug for two years then stop and try to take it again and overdose. You’re just taking a chance with losing your life when you do drugs.

I finally started falling into drugs and my old habits. After my dad started using again. I just fell apart my whole body shut down. I started self harming myself. And that’s when my dad and me started to have problems. My dad said “he wish I would of did it right the first time”. That’s when I went out and started using alcohol until one night I got a alcohol ticket. My family said I needed help so they had the cops take me to D.T on one charge. After that the judge sent me to O.A for observation. I was so lost and confused all I wanted to do was to go home with my family. It was so hard seeing my family once a weekend and not being able to leave with them.

After I went to O.A I went home it was one of the happiest days of my life. Just to finally be home again and have a home to actually go to. Then the state came in and took me out of my house. I went to rehab and that helped me get off coke and I haven’t done it ever since. Eight months being of coke will make you crazy. I still crave it to this day. But I still have a alcohol problem and that is still something im working on everyday. I’m trying to take it second by second instead of day by day. They let me out of rehab. But they said my home was too dysfunctional. They wouldn’t let me go home. I felt I did all this progressing for nothing. I was feeling really disappointed that I went through so much so I could see my family everyday. But then I couldn’t see them because they wanted me to go to a different program. I got really depressed and got back into alcohol because when I went home it was still the same and I changed and it was too overwhelming for me .Because when I was gone my parents didn’t get help. They finally decided to do something different.

They sent me into foster care on my six year old sisters birthday. I had so much hate toward the state for taking me out of my home for so long. Then taking me out again. Her and me are so close and because of foster care we were falling apart. I feel my whole family is falling apart and that it’s not making things better its just making things worse. My dad started using again once I got in foster care. I started all my old behaviors up again. I feel I’m ready to just go home. I would do anything for my family now. I would never put my friends before my family again.

After everything I have went through it made me become a better person by being more aware of my choices and how it would effect everyone around me. Because before I didn’t care about what happened or what the outcome would be. I couldn’t go an hour without taking a shot and now It’s just so overrated to me. I learned what is important to me now that wasn’t important to me a month or a year ago When you have lost everything that is important to you. That wasent a year ago then you’ll start changing. You’ll start to think if one drink is worth it for a four hour buzz. I learned that people you think are your friends there not they’ll turn around and stab you in the back just to get high. I’ve learned who my true friends are now. After everything that I’m going through now and what I went through with my dad has made me a stronger person. I know how to deal with problems that I’m faced with everyday instead of using.


Ashley

Narrative Paper: Introduction

It all started one day when my dad decided to relapse. I couldn’t take him shooting up in front of my sisters and me. He used for twelve years of my life. Then when I had my sixteenth birthday everything fell apart. My grandma Marilee Hall died. That’s when my journey all began and I became an alcoholic. My dad started using everyday. I didn’t know my dad as Todd Hall. I knew him as a drug addict doing anything to get his next fix. He gave up his own family for a forty or an eight ball. Just to be high for a couple hours then he would come down from his high. He would say sorry then do it all again. Then one day gravity hit him and something tragic happened I walked in the bathroom and my dad was laying on the flour with a needle in his arm over dosing. I knew I had ten minutes to call the ambulance or he would be dead. I was in complete shock. I waited in the hospital for four days hoping he’d be okay. Drugs have ruined my life and my dads. You never know when it’s going to be too late. You can take a drug for two years then stop and try to take it again and overdose. You’re just taking a chance with losing your life when you do drugs.

Ashley

I like to do all sorts of fun things .Before I started getting my life on the straight and narrow. All I knew how to do was party it up. I thought that was the only fun thing to do in life. Then I went to rehab and got rid of all my old friends. Then I started finding out where the real fun was at. I found it in cars, going cursing down Main and State Street, drifting down dirt roads, Racing other cars, and meeting new friends. Also I like going camping, playing glow in the dark hiding seek, roasting Starbursts, and listening to music . My friends and I like Taking my dirt bike through the river going fast racing through there splashing puddles on each other. I like Going horseback riding with my family jumping poles. I like going clubbing to dance with some of my friends to have a good time. I like to go car suffering with my best friend josh. I like to just goof off and jam with people who can play drums with me or an instrument. I also, love to do anything with the ending board. Just having fun doing tricks, playing in the water and snow, and cursing down the street.

Ashley H

There are a couple people who truly are important in my life, for all different reasons.

My Mom- the most important out of anyone because she’s someone who can kind of relate to what I’m going through. She has helped and took care of me was I was little until I got older now I can take care of myself. I also talk to my other parents. Well that’s what I refer to them as. They took me in when my whole life was just a mess. It has been a long bumpy ride but they have helped me through it. It has been the first foster home I have been in that I felt like part of the family and I love it.

When I need legal help I talk to my dad he knows a lot about the law. He and I are exactly alike in so many ways. So he can understand how my mind is set. And he gives me advice on what I need to do. When I just need someone to talk to other than an adult I will call my friend josh. Because he completely calms me down. He has been there for me from the start. He is one of my first friends that actually showed he cares about me when I was into drugs. He helped me get clean and sober. He protects me like his little sister. I think of him as my big brother.

Fernando because he cheers me up when I’m sad or just having a bad day. And when I’m mad he encourages me to calm down. He’s someone I just can relate towhees just one of my peers I trust as summit I can tell him anything. And there’s never a dull movement with Fernando.Hes one of the couple of my only true friends.


Ashley

5 Goals

Goal one: To graduate from high school with a 4.0.
I want to graduate so I can get a good paying job to show that I can be independent and take care of myself. I also want to so I can not only be street smart but also book smart too. I’m going to graduate by going to class on time everyday and doing activities at school. I’m just going to make this my best year ever.

Goal Two: Is to stay clean and sober and have fun the right way.
I want to do this because DRUGS have done nothing but screw my family and my life up. It’s really important to me because people change when they’re on drugs. If anything I learned in foster care is that it’s not worth it. I just have hurt the ones I loved the most. I’m going to stay clean by staying away from negative influences. And just talking about my struggles in drug therapy.

Goal three: Is to go to MATC and get my CNA
Because I want to be a nurse I was an N.A. before and I loved it. I just love the feeling it gives me when I help people. I’m going to do this by getting in the class in September. And by just studying to finish it up and get it.

Goal four: Is to go home in December or before that. Because my mom needs my help the most right now. I miss being home with my family and my little sisters. I’m going to do this by following all the rules in my foster home and just doing everything I’m suppose to.

Goal five: My goal is to go to college and get my LN in the summer.
Because I want more money than minimum wage. School is really important in my life. I want to be the first to graduate in my family! I’m going to do this by studying in school and graduating high school.

-Ashley