All the signs point to the conclusion that I live in the past. Peace signs and Grateful Dead stickers decorate my car’s bumper, the smell of incense permeates everything I own, and Bob Dylan’s protest songs fill my iPod. My friends are always calling me a “hippie” and telling me I was born in the […]
Going into highschool, I used to be misplaced. I used to be hurting myself, shedding weight at a fast velocity, and didn’t need to be round anymore. I felt like there was nobody for me to show to, and all I heard from my therapist was: Melancholy, Nervousness, Consuming Dysfunction, Suicidal. The one factor that […]
Why I Will Never Be a Doctor by Z. O., New City, NY If there is such a phenomenon as reincarnation, I undoubtedly would have been a medic in some bloody war in a past life. Each day I would have encountered amputated limbs, innards strewn across the battleground and infected wounds. Otherwise, how can […]
“Leave him alone!” I screamed at a greasy, pudgy-faced boy. His face fell as I stared him down, daring him to say anything. The boy stuttered, shocked by my assertiveness. Afraid the next word he’d say would be his last, he ran off with his slender, freckled friend. The playground was a battleground for elementary […]
Living in the south there seems to be a certain code of conduct. You listen to country music, drink ice tea, talk with the Texan drawl, and go to church every Sunday. Though this stereotypical definition does not encompass everyone, it does describe many people I know. Like any good southern girl I love sweet […]
I walked into the stuffy authorities room. Rows of plastic chairs had been lined up in entrance of the rostrum. The fluorescent workplace lights flickered. A modest American flag hung within the nook, its stripes folded throughout its stars. As I walked as much as the registration desk, a receptionist jotted down my identify and, […]
This I Imagine “Music is three chords and the reality!” Music expresses your feeling by the phrases and rhythm! I consider that everybody wants music. I don’t assume anybody would have away to precise themselves with out music. Going to a funeral the music expresses largely everybody’s emotions. While you go to a funeral each […]
My brother has been one of the influential folks in my life. I’ve seemed as much as him as a job mannequin as an individual and as a Christian. He has at all times been somebody that I might discuss to about something and would Help me out with something. It was not till I […]
Music Makes Sense by N. S., Cranston, RI To most, those small black dots and lines on paper seem overwhelming and confusing, but to me they make perfect sense. Although complicated and challenging at times, music is a part of who I am. Between the music I play in the band room and the music […]
The Atlantic, what had beforehand been a predominately dormant ocean, erupted with a flurry of exercise throughout the latter portion of the 15th century C.E. with the first voyages of Christopher Columbus. With these got here an onslaught of intercontinental commerce, starting, clearly, with the Columbian change in the early 1500’s C.E. The expanse of […]