Profiles

Small decisions change what people decide to do with their lives, what they study in college, what job they apply for, etc. Everyone is different and finding out more about people's lives and their decisions can guide someone in their life decisions.

I debated between a few different people of who to interview:

• Robert Huerubin: A vet who works at the local VFW who is a family friend. He would have a lot of interesting stories and would be fun to interview.
• Nancy Theis: a worker at my high school who used to work at my elementary school. She helped me through a lot of tough experiences and remembered me even after not seeing me for over eight years!
• Shona Campbell: A friend of mine who moved here from Scotland. I would have liked to know some of her experiences from when she moved here and her experiences from moving here.

Nancy Theis happily works with kids of all ages. When working with individual classes, the kids always remember the bond they form with her. On her birthday, with the help of their teacher, the kids give her a gift that makes her cry: a poster for her favorite sports team. The kids bring her so much joy, and working with them makes her happy enough. She spreads her joy everywhere she goes and makes sure to help everyone else as much as she can.

"Museum Missionary" exemplifies a profile essay because of the aspects of inquiry, motives, a unique subject matter, the structure of a story, with sources of information, which all incorporate different anecdotes of that person's life. Right away, Ballenger explains the importance of lobsters and the impact they made on David Mills's life. He answers the question of how he became interested in them (with an anecdote) and tells the story of Mills' life. He examines why Mills' works with lobsters and his interest with them, in general. Ballenger tells the story of Mills' life by focusing on his interest in lobsters.

"Museum Missionary" hints at Mills' religion in the second paragraph when Ballenger includes how Mills' referred to the bible and how the lobsters took God's word seriously when he said "to be fruitful and multiply" due to the mass of eggs under the female's tail.

I think that I would like to incorporate some of the experiences that I have had with her. She helped me through a lot when I was younger and I find it amazing that she remembered me and my name eight years later when I got to the high school.