Question

Living to Learn
by Paige Turner

Answer 1

Living to Learn
by Paige Turner

My friends and I went to our favorite coffee shop after school yesterday. We drove down St. Charles Avenue, a street that happens to be lined with beautiful old oak trees. “Those are Southern Live Oaks; they can live over 500 years,” I told my friends. From the back seat came the inevitable question: “How do you know that?” I had to think for a minute, and then I knew; in first grade we started learning about seeds and plants, and how things grow. I remember sitting in my dad’s car telling him what I had learned, and he told me about the old oaks that lined St. Charles beginning with a small acorn.

My friends are always amused that I can hold on to information for such a long time. My ability doesn’t impress me though. What astonishes me is that learning grows from itself, like the seed that, with a bit of nurturing, takes root and grows into such a magnificent tree. Knowing one thing—plants begin from seeds—led to my learning about something close to home, which led me to learn about when the oaks were planted, by whom, what changes in New Orleans those old oaks had witnessed, and why they remained when so many other things had changed. Learning is like that—you get a little bit of it and it grows.

When I think about going to the University of California at Berkeley, about leaving the old oaks of St. Charles Street and the city I’ve known and explored for my eighteen years, I am filled not with fear but with a budding excitement. Living and studying with peers who are all in the same pursuit of academic growth, who are all adding branches to the oldest of old trees—human learning—would be the realization of my life’s purpose. We are all born to learn; I look forward to the rarefied enrichment of Berkeley’s academic soil where I can continue living to learn and growing into the person I am meant to be.

Answer 2

What is the function of this essay? Explain what the essay intends to accomplish.











Analyze the form of the essay.

How does the introduction support the function of the paper? Provide supporting evidence from the paper in your response.









How do the body paragraphs support the function of the paper? Provide supporting evidence from the paper in your response.









How does the conclusion support the function of the paper? Provide supporting evidence from the paper in your response.









Overall, how effectively does the essay meet its intended function? Use examples from your analysis of form to support your response.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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