It takes a little effort to get up here. First I have to check to make sure the superintendent isn’t around (since I’m not really supposed to be up here). After the excruciating job of walking up five flights of steep steps, I get to the large metal door. After a nudge and a push, […]
I think I’m crazy. Sane people don’t do something that could potentially kill them unless they’re crazy. To put myself out there and to talk to strangers was almost like asking for a death sentence. I wasn’t one to talk to strangers. I mean, it’s the first rule you learn as a child. I honestly […]
My uncle began teasing me about it when I was seven. I was riding with him in his combine, watching stalk after stalk of corn slip through the heavy outermost blades, when he said, “You’re going to be one of them starving artists, aren’t you?” I denied it. Starving? Not me. But his words stuck […]
My feet were a blur to anyone who was watching. I was pedaling faster than a speeding bullet, flying down the road at a speed dangerous even for a NASCAR driver. With my helmet resting snugly on my sweaty 9-year-old head I was invincible, unstoppable, capable of anything. My hair was plastered to my forehead […]
When I was nine, one of my favorite things to say to classmates was, “I have rock-solid abs. Really, I do. Punch me in the stomach and I’ll prove it.” Few people took me up on this unusual offer, but those who did touch my abdomen were surprised to find that it was, indeed, unnaturally […]
It would be impressive to say that my most influential person was Gandhi or Mother Teresa. I could write a horrific, yet striking essay about Adolf Hitler’s leadership skills. I could tell you that my life was changed by the words of Dickinson, Shakespeare, or Thoreau. It might be moving to hear of a quaint […]
Disrespecting and Violent Attitude toward Women. It has been around three decennaries since hip hop emerged on the American cultural scene. The music genres which are associated with hip hop cultural phenomenon, particularly gangsta blame and R & A ; B are believed to specify “ street ” youth civilization. These two hip hop music […]
The most easily influenced stage of human life is early childhood, therefore it is encouraged that children listen to classical music. The researchers at Irvine recently found that preschoolers who had received eight months of music lessons scored “eighty percent higher on object-assembly tasks” than did other children who received no musical training. It was […]
Strange. How we express our love. “Why are you crying?” My ten year old heart thundered in my chest and my eyes furiously roamed over my little sister. Pale pink ribbons at the front of her dress were torn. My little five-year-old tweety bird, huddled in the corner of the bus seat. Tears spilled from […]
: Similar Yet Different Essay, Research Paper When one examines the similarities between Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, and The Giver by Lois Lowry, they may be baffled. They may believe that Lowry merely did a tally off of Huxley & # 8217 ; s extremely successful chef-d’oeuvre. The similarities are extraordinary, but so […]