“It’s a hot and humid day in Swat Valley, Pakistan A young student boards the school bus since walking is no longer safe She sits, chatting with her friends after a long day of exams A man jumps onto the bus and pulls out a gun The last thing the girl remembers is the sound […]
1:03.59. The numbers flash in my mind. It is the time that will prove my efforts were not in vain. It is the time that will decide if I end up on top. It is the time that will make me a winner. 1:03.59. The numbers flash in my mind once again. I am ready […]
My eyes lock in on the rim. The ref says, “One and one, play it off the miss.” I feel, put this one in to seal up the sport. It’s 63-60 with 18.9 seconds left. One, two, three dribbles. The shot goes up. That wasn’t a very good launch, it’s off. It rims out. The […]
Welcome again to the black-hole time-sucking wasteland often called Youtube, HipsDontLie6969! It’s been an eternity since we’ve final seen you. What, a complete two days? Unacceptable. You will have 53 movies piled up in your subscription field– a document excessive! How have you ever managed to outlive with out observing Michelle Phan slap make-up on […]
When my life was shortly falling out of my arms and actuality wasn’t inside attain, I felt helpless. I wanted to discover a method out by some means, somebody or one thing to affect me in a greater method by serving to me out of the most important gap I had dug myself into. All […]
At six years old, I thought I was the next Dr. Seuss, so I stapled some computer paper together and wrote a story with less than subpar illustrations—I’m pretty sure the main characters were pigs, but they probably looked a lot more like blobs with curly tails. With bubbling excitement, I gathered my mother and […]
There was not a single, shining moment of clarity in which I suddenly understood the importance or working hard for my education. I did not lose a loved one. I did not have a near death experience. I did not visit a museum or a national landmark. I did not read an inspiring book or […]
Consider a major expertise you’ve gotten confronted and its influence on you: Ramsay Corridor, in London, England, was flanked by hospitals. I grew to become used to the screeching sirens. On Thursday, July 7, 2005, I didn’t discover it uncommon to listen to so many. It wasn’t till that evening when the town was silent […]
Diversity is living in Chinatown and having dim sum with my Chinese speaking parents every Sunday morning. Diversity is going to school and having Korean, Bengali and half Dominican and Polish friends. Diversity is eating Halal food from street stands, dining in fancy Italian restaurants and simultaneously enjoying a McDonald’s cheeseburger. But diversity extends far […]
“I love you so much Kerry, how did I get so lucky to have a cousin like you?” The day my cousin Laura said this to me I was reaffirmed at how much this statement is true, yet in regards to her. Laura is beautiful, carefree, excited, and has a disability. In 1968 a healthy […]