I was on my way. i was confused. I didn’t know if it was really wanted. I hoped everything would turn out okay. I never really knew. I just had hope. I woke up each morning thinking was that a dream. was it a nightmare. when will i ever know.?? i woke up each morning […]
I am on a plane. I don’t know where I am going or who the people around me are. In confusion, I look around and try to comprehend to what is going on. As I look, I am attracted to the oceans glorious blue color that I spot through a passenger’s window. While looking out […]
“When I read, I’m taken away,” my eight-year-old hand scripted in an early attempt at poetry. It is true that, as with Sara Crewe, The Little Princess with a big imagination, most of my seventeen years have been spent somewhere other than the world inhabited by my contemporaries. However, far from living another’s story, I […]
Throughout my life, soccer has always been a huge part of my existence. Starting at the age of four I began to fiddle around with a soccer ball and learn to love the sport for what it was.I had always admired older girls for their sportsmanship and had hoped to be apart of that one […]
“Los Angeles is becoming the great world city of this still new millennium, the place where the promise and peril of the modern world live most intensely. Ours is the most diverse city in the history of the planet. Groups – ethnic, religious, professional – must here learn to think beyond themselves and grow responsible […]
In my eagerness to pursue for the greatest achievements that I can possibly accomplish, I have been blinded by false interpretations for the meaning of fulfillment. I was petitioned in this country from the Philippines a month after I turned 13. 7 years prior to that, my parents sacrificed leaving their 3 children in the […]
In The Communist Manifesto, Marx describes how the capitalist bourgeoisie, owners of the means of social production, exploit the proletariats. A capitalist society only enables those with property, or those that own the means of production to succeed. Proletariats are affected in many ways by this abuse.When capitalism controls society laborers are nothing but “a […]
If is a word of the past and myself in general doesn’t really like the word itself. It reminds about the past and what I could have done to do something better and also makes me think about what would have happened if I did something, or if I had tried harder, or if I […]
Polar bears are so big that they can look elephants in the eye standing up. Being the largest bears on earth they can survive extremely cold weather and freezing cold water. They live in the countries/state of Alaska, Canada, Denmark, Norway, and the Arctic. Polar bears nicknames are the sea bears, since they are very […]
When I was thirteen years old, I held in my hand a crisp, new copy of the latest in the magical book series: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. My heart pounded, my stomach had butterflies, and I suddenly couldn’t stand still. I was holding in my hand the novel I had been waiting for […]