Question: How will you enrich our community? Our Time to Shine The crowd went silent and the announcer spoke. All fifteen of us run out onto that ugly blue mat spiriting to the crowd. Our first time going to a national competition and our faces appeared as if we had just gotten out of the […]
The faculty search was in full swing to start with of my senior yr. It was the autumn of 2005, the Conflict in Iraq was on, Bush was leaving workplace, Barack Obama was campaigning exhausting to enter workplace, and I had simply completed my faculty essay. Sure, it was a candy and less complicated time, […]
I’m afraid that, at thetender age of 18, I’ve fallen in love and wish to get married. Oh, positive, myparents object, saying it’s irresponsible, and my buddies assume I’m insane, butI pay no consideration. I’ve discovered my sustenance, my lifelong companion and my bestfriend. Alas, there will be no ceremony, no exchanging of rings, for […]
The chance of winning the Lotto Jackpot is about one in fourteen million. The chance of winning the California State Lottery is one in eighteen million. And the sad reality is, that most of the lottery winners squander the opportunities that are presented to them. Many lottery winners wish they hadn’t won and hadn’t been […]
It’s cold and fluffy, sometimes slippery, and is always getting in the way. It is what our nation is known best for, besides the beaver and moose head of course. I am speaking of S word; Snow. Many Canadians dread the winter that our nation endures. Many other enjoy it for the break off the […]
“Oh my gosh, Mom! He’s drowning!” I exclaimed as my unshaved, fourteen-year-old legs propelled me toward the churning and bubbling sea. I had spied a lumpy, gray, human-shaped mass battling the water nearly fifty yards off shore. I called out to him, in fear of having his frail body gobbled up in the briny waves. […]
I’ve grown up stitched into the backdrop of the stage I call life. I’ve always blended in and played it safe. Risks were foreign to me; dreams were outlandish remarks my mind would sneer at me. I honestly believed my adult life would be wasted away in a nine to five gray cubicle prison. My […]
I never thought I’d make it far enough in life to write a scholarship essay-let alone an essay that asks for my life’s story. It’s not that I ever thought I wouldn’t succeed in my life, I was born with enough privilege that college was always an option. It’s more the fact that I’ve lived […]
I was curled up in the middle of my bed, a blanket clutched between clawed fists, sobs wracking my frame with so much force that the headboard clacked against the wall. In my head, a voice kept screaming, over and over, “Why me?” My angry fingers kneaded the unfortunate blanket, as if trying to pull […]
“Mother, why does it need to be Hyoung Keun?” my youthful brother began complaining. “Why can I’ve one more cookie than him?” My mom’s reply would at all times be the identical “You realize Hyoung Keun is three years older than you. You possibly can have what Hyoung Keun has three years later.” Because the […]