“Childhood is short and maturity lasts forever.” This is one of my favorite “Calvin and Hobbes” quotes. It’s not especially profound, funny, or clever, but it’s true. It’s something kids and teenagers tend to forget. I love reading “Calvin and Hobbes” because it reminds me that I’m still a kid. I have spent hours reading […]
One feature of the Mongols that definitively separates them from other empires of the time is their uncanny resolve for conquest that transcended stereotypically unpredictable generational barriers. It is rare that we see heirs to the throne bringing to fruition the conquistadorial initiatives of their forefathers. Beginning with the capture of Samarkand in 1220 C.E., […]
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 […]
My head swirls as I look for Orion and his glowing sword. I try to take in all the flickering, little lights in the night sky. Millions of stars gleam with vitality. My eyes sift through the sparkling dots above me. One dot moves towards me. Just when I start to think a star is […]
Bad Kid It was 7:45 a.m, geometry, second hour, dark outside, and I was facing the biggest ethical dilemma of my freshman year. Ninth grade…what can I say. It’s vital to the adolescent psyche, and yet we all want to forget it as soon as it’s over. I wanted to fit in, but be unique. […]
How will your presence enrich our group? An indescribable feeling overwhelms me as I sit three toes above the bottom, wind blowing previous me 30mph, and my solely safety is my stability. That is my life, 40 riders all-aiming for a similar purpose, to win. I evaluate myself to motocross as a result of it’s […]
I have a confession: I watch the Bachelor/ette. I had always wanted to, so when I heard a new season was starting, I decided to try it. Sitting on the couch that first night, my eyes ballooned as women spewed sharp whispers as another limo of women arrived, and I shook my head as one […]
“Days go by, And the spring flowers bloom.” I moved to Setauket in August of 1998, leaving associates I’d grown up with and locations I’d go to once more solely in desires. Like my subsequent door neighbor Kristina, who I hated simply as a lot as I cherished, and the dance studio simply across the […]
“A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry is a play centered around an African-American family on the Southside of Chicago set after World War II. This groundbreaking play was the first of its kind revolving around the race relations of the middle of the twentieth century. This play has won over many hearts and […]
I’m cocky. I’m, by definition, boldly and overly self-confident. I entice crude seems to be, and repel shy bystanders. Usually, folks decide me, and make fabricated assumptions. Being cocky typically will get a adverse notion. Although, who’s anybody to say, that it’s belligerent and offensive for me to imagine in myself extremely? Usually the offended […]