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Every Friday night the cashier at the Chevron gas station food mart on Eagle Rock Boulevard and  Avenue 40 offers us a discount on all the leftover apples and bananas. To ensure the best selection  possible, my mother and I pile into our 20-year-old car and pull up to the food mart at 5 p.m. on the  dot, ready to get our share of slightly overripe fruits.

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No one wants to get out of there  faster than I do. I’m embarrassed to shop there, and I’m deathly afraid of running into someone I  know." She is letting the readers know that she doesn't like shopping out in public because she will get embarrased.

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Anecdote- One day my mother suddenly realized that she had maxed out  almost every credit card, and we needed groceries for the week. The only credit card she hadn’t  maxed out was the Chevron card and the station on Eagle Rock Boulevard has a pretty big mart  attached to it.

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Personal Experience

I never need to be asked to help the checker bag all the items. No one wants to get out of there  faster than I do. I’m embarrassed to shop there, and I’m deathly afraid of running into someone I  know. I once expressed my fear of being seen shopping at Chevron to my mother and her eyes  shone with disappointment. I know that I hurt her feelings when I try to evade our weekly shopping  trips.

the flexibility keeps her from being ashamed of the way my family is different from other families.

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Example: Grocery shopping at Chevron has its drawbacks. The worst is when we have so many items that it  takes the checker what seems like hours to ring up everything. A line of anxious customers forms  behind us. It’s that line that hurts the most—the way they look at us.

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ancedote-  One day my mother suddenly realized that she had maxed out  almost every credit card, and we needed groceries for the week. The only credit card she hadn’t  maxed out was the Chevron card and the station on Eagle Rock Boulevard.

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Anecdote -  My mother  would carefully prop it up in the cart’s child seat and frown as she entered each price. Since the first  days of the calculator’s appearance, the worry lines in my mother’s face have only grown deeper.

It allows to understand the struggle they were having.

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Every Friday night the cashier at the Chevron gas station food mart on Eagle Rock Boulevard and  Avenue 40 offers us a discount on all the leftover apples and bananas.

this shows that they are extremely tight on money and have to go to the gas station to get these fruits

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anecdote: one day my mother suddenly realized that she had maxed out  almost every credit card, and we needed groceries for the week. The only credit card she hadn’t  maxed out was the Chevron card and the station on Eagle Rock Boulevard has a pretty big mart  attached to it.

Showed that they struggled with money.

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One day my mother suddenly realized that she had maxed out  almost every credit card, and we needed groceries for the week. The only credit card she hadn’t  maxed out was the Chevron card and the station on Eagle Rock Boulevard has a pretty big mart  attached to it.

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personal experience - I never need to be asked to help the checker bag all the items. No one wants to get out of there  faster than I do. I’m embarrassed to shop there, and I’m deathly afraid of running into someone I  know. I once expressed my fear of being seen shopping at Chevron to my mother and her eyes  shone with disappointment.

she doesn't want to be seen at the gas station because shes embarrassed that she doesn't have a lot of money

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Anecdote - Every Friday night the cashier at the Chevron gas station food mart on Eagle Rock Boulevard and  Avenue 40 offers us a discount on all the leftover apples and bananas. To ensure the best selection  possible, my mother and I pile into our 20-year-old car and pull up to the food mart at 5 p.m. on the  dot, ready to get our share of slightly overripe fruits.

This gives us some background on her experiences

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STATISTICS - Every Friday night the cashier at the Chevron gas station food mart on Eagle Rock Boulevard and  Avenue 40 offers us a discount on all the leftover apples and bananas. To ensure the best selection  possible, my mother and I pile into our 20-year-old car and pull up to the food mart at 5 p.m. on the  dot, ready to get our share of slightly overripe fruits. 

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STATISTICS - Every Friday night the cashier at the Chevron gas station food mart on Eagle Rock Boulevard and  Avenue 40 offers us a discount on all the leftover apples and bananas. To ensure the best selection  possible, my mother and I pile into our 20-year-old car and pull up to the food mart at 5 p.m. on the  dot, ready to get our share of slightly overripe fruits. 

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Statistics-Before the times of the Chevron food mart, there were the times of the calculator. My mother  would carefully prop it up in the cart’s child seat and frown as she entered each price.

It sets up background information

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Anedote-And that is why I hold on to the idea of flexibility so tightly. I believe that being flexible keeps me  going—keeps me from being ashamed of the way my family is different from other families.  Whenever I feel the heat rise to my face, I remind myself that grocery shopping at a gas station is  just a twist on the normal kind of grocery shopping. I remind myself that we won’t always have to  shop at Chevron—that just because at this point in my life I am struggling does not mean that I will  always struggle. My belief in flexibility helps me get through the difficult times because I know that  no matter what happens, my mother and I will always figure out a way to survive.

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anecedote- One day my mother suddenly realized that she had maxed out  almost every credit card, and we needed groceries for the week. The only credit card she hadn’t  maxed out was the Chevron card and the station on Eagle Rock Boulevard has a pretty big mart  attached to it.

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Anecdote-  One day my mother suddenly realized that she had maxed out  almost every credit card, and we needed groceries for the week. The only credit card she hadn’t  maxed out was the Chevron card and the station on Eagle Rock Boulevard has a pretty big mart  attached to it.

this shows a little bit about her life and backround

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Anecdote- One day my mother suddenly realized that she had maxed out  almost every credit card, and we needed groceries for the week. The only credit card she hadn’t  maxed out was the Chevron card and the station on Eagle Rock Boulevard has a pretty big mart  attached to it.

it gives us a short story and some background on her an her moms experiences

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Anecdote- One day my mother suddenly realized that she had maxed out  almost every credit card, and we needed groceries for the week. The only credit card she hadn’t  maxed out was the Chevron card and the station on Eagle Rock Boulevard has a pretty big mart  attached to it.

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"Every Friday night the cashier at the Chevron gas station food mart on Eagle Rock Boulevard and  Avenue 40 offers us a discount"

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Ancedote-Before the times of the Chevron food mart, there were the times of the calculator. My mother  would carefully prop it up in the cart’s child seat and frown as she entered each price. Since the first  days of the calculator’s appearance, the worry lines in my mother’s face have only grown deeper.  Today, they are a permanent fixture.

it talks about how when he was in the food mart while his mom counted the money of the things they where going to buy so they didnt spend to much money

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ANECDOTE- One day my mother suddenly realized that she had maxed out  almost every credit card, and we needed groceries for the week. The only credit card she hadn’t  maxed out was the Chevron card and the station on Eagle Rock Boulevard has a pretty big mart  attached to it.

It tells a brief story about her life that helps you understand what was happening in her life at that time.

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STATISTICS- Every Friday night the cashier at the Chevron gas station food mart on Eagle Rock Boulevard and  Avenue 40 offers us a discount on all the leftover apples and bananas. To ensure the best selection  possible, my mother and I pile into our 20-year-old car and pull up to the food mart at 5 p.m. on the  dot, ready to get our share of slightly overripe fruits.

It sort of starts to show her status of money.

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I will see things as inconceivable to me today as a  moon shot was to my grandfather when he was 16, or the Internet to my father when he was 16.

He states the ages his father and grandparent were when they saw these things; he creates a sense of excitement of the things that could happen when you are 16

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1. Please re-read "Finding the Flexibility to Survive" in our essay packet.  You can find the essay in this assignment:  https://classroom.google.com/c/MTUyNTM2NDYxMDQ5/a/MzEzODc1NzI5NjU3/details

2.  Select one short moment in the essay (2-8 lines)  where you see the writer using a personal essay technique.  Here our notes on techniques to help you:  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11898aj2Tp06oHyZ1PG1LJD_coU_seeUARh48i33on70/edit?usp=sharing

3.  Cut and past your selection into a post.

4. In the title of the same post write WHAT TECHNIQUE you see in that selection.

5. Under your selection in that same post write THE EFFECT THAT TECHNIQUE HAS ON THE READER.

5. I have posted a sample on this padlet to help  you.

Counts as a 0/100 support grade for today!