I was approximately three-quarters of the way through when that familiar numbing feeling began to kick in.My feet were on fire, my legs felt drained, and my arms became weights.In that moment of displeasure, I thought to myself, “Why am I doing this?”From there I turned my undivided attention from the backside of the competitor […]
The school was not formal, or exclusive, or neat; it was knowledge’s humble house. We passed under the archway, and the humidity outside gave way to a sea of eyes, observing the foreign visitors. When a voice in the back shouted “Gringo!” the room erupted in laughter. I nervously grinned and crossed the room. Taking […]
All I remembered about the house was it smelled funny. It wasn’t a good sort offunny, like grandma’s perfume or a musty basement, but a different sort. I wasstill undecided whether I liked the pungent smell of mothballs, fish and mustysalt spray that filled my grandparents’ summer home on the Maine coast. Butnearly 13 years […]
Give us a brief chapter of your autobiography. Rebecca S. F. was born to the strains of Pachelbel’s Canon in D. Her mother, a musician, thought the music would calm her newborn. She was wrong. For the first five years of her life, Rebecca was a terror. Granted, a cute, curly-topped terror with huge brown […]
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 […]