University Memoir: A Memorable Incident on the Last Day of School

This assignment presents a personal memoir written by a student, recounting a significant incident that occurred on their last day of school in 2012. The memoir details a conflict that arose when school authorities confiscated food, drinks, and mobile phones. The students, including the author, organized a protest, which led to the return of their belongings and a valuable lesson in standing up against injustice. The memoir highlights the author's pride in being part of the uprising, emphasizing the importance of perseverance and challenging wrongdoings. The assignment adheres to the guidelines of a memoir assignment, including word count and formatting requirements, and is accompanied by an analysis of the memoir addressing several key questions about the writing process.

Running head: MEMOIR
Memoir
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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A Memorable Incident on the Last Day of School
I am a 25-year-old person now. However, in all my 25 years of age, I have had all
kinds of experiences in my life. Some of these experiences are good, while the others not so
much. However, I can say I have learned a lot form all the experiences that I have gathered in
my life. The experience that I am going to talks about in this instance is an experience of
change which I came across during the last day of my school life.
The incident which I am going to discuss in this section took place in the month of
December in the year of 2012. As mentioned before, this particular day was the last day of
my school life. Naturally myself and all my friends had the plans of having a picnic as a
means of saying goodbye to each one of us and wishing the best of luck to everyone. As
planned, each of one of us brought certain foods and drinks (non-alcoholic of course) to the
school. It was all fine and dandy, and we were having the last feast of our school life, when
suddenly, the door to the classroom burst open and entered the Principal of the school along
with a few teachers and the non-teachings staffs. What was even more shocking to me was
the way in which they started snatching the food packets as well as the cold drinks and the
mobile phones which were playing music in the classroom and stormed out, without
providing a reason for their actions. Later, we got to know about the fact that the foods and
drinks on the school premises would not be allowed even on the last day.
This, naturally did not go with the members of the class and myself. We all decided
that we must get back our food packets and the mobile phones as well. Luckily, we found a
few juniors who were supportive of our cause, and then it started, “the revolt to get back the
food and the mobile phones (also the drinks). Needless to say, that it was of course violent in
nature, although violence was inflicted only on the furniture and stuff (no living organism
was harmed in this revolt mentally or physically, I swear). After about an hour of breaking
things (including broken glass panes, basins, tables and chairs) as well as boycotting the

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teachers in the staff room, out came the Principal, with the expression of a bulldog, which
immediately changed to that of a kitten on seeing the expressions of the students.
No sooner he came out than the students surrounded him and demanding the return of
the food packets. Seeing no other options he had to return not only the food packets and the
rest of the staffs but none of us had to pay a penny for the damaged property itself. Imagine
the joy of the opposition party when they realized that they have secured a victory over the
tyrant who stole their dear foods and mobile phones. The rest of the day passed without any
trouble after that, and we had the greatest farewell of our lives.
I really feel proud now to be a part of that uprising because it had taught me two most
important lessons of life – never give up and always protest against wrongdoings.