Passion In the Form of An Essay

I've been trying to maintain my feeling of passion lately. I have found that my fiery feeling of passion is dying out. So, in the midst of my daily life I've been trying to find books, videos and the like to keep it lit. My last major feeling of passion came from the book, Beloved by Toni Morrison. I expressed this at the beginning of class this semester in our passion class. Born out of that passion, fiery passion ignited with this book, came this essay assignment for English 4 last semester. This here is the best essay I have written. This essay was not only my passion and my call to the Black African-American community but it was a success story for me. Before writing this essay, I found it difficult to finish an essay, before writing this essay I had never received an A on an essay, before this essay I had never passed an English class with an A. This was my stamp of success on something I have struggled with in my life for years academically. I found that even though I could write poetry and express extreme thoughts and concepts verbally I had a hard time putting it in essay form. When I would go to write an essay, I'd be filled will this idea and the more I wrote the more it got jumbled, confusing and blocked. This caused me to get to a point where I felt I would never pass and complete my English classes without the pity of a teacher resulting in a pass. I did this, and I did it on my own this pass semester. I was able to do it because I found a teacher, Mr. DeWit, who saw  or sees passion and potential in his students and he attempts to construct ways to fan their passions and potential and help them bring them forward, make them known, and set them into play.

The point of sharing this essay is to show what pursuing your passion can lead to. It is also to share the concept and passion that I have developed and believe that we as Black African- American people should consider, understand and put into action in our lives to overcome this extreme burden that still weighs on your community till this day.
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