I remember thinking why was this happening to me my solid foundation was getting cracks. Over hearing the whispers around me as everything slowly changes. My house was getting split into two, and I had to grow up faster than expected. When my parents decided to split up, I became confused and lost. Nothing seemed […]
Last week, I tripped and fell onto the banana tree that grows in the middle of our foyer. I had long before decided that I hated banana trees—we’d actually grown multiple over the years, caring for them as a fond reminder of tropical South India, where my parents had been born and raised. Each year, […]
It’s been with me, this flaw of mine, for eighteen years, or a minimum of of what I can assume by observing the present severity of this incapacity. As soon as an issue, at all times an issue, proper? It has grown with me, developed into a facet of my life that I can depend […]
A profitable scholar. Each college desires multiple of them. However what does it imply to achieve success? The dictionary says success is “the accomplishment of an purpose; a triumph.” The small, personal college I attended till I used to be fifteen outlined a profitable scholar as one who match into their handmade mould. I by […]
The primary basketball sport that I made a three-pointer was after we performed in opposition to Laurel. Once I received on the bus it was form of a cool morning the temp was in all probability within the mid 50’s. I keep in mind getting on the bus at Columbus Excessive College to move to […]
My breath: quick. My feelings: limitless. My tears: welding. I can’t maintain it in anymore; I start to softly sob. “I’ve most cancers,” she mentioned. “I used to be identified about two months in the past. The docs say I’ve one month to reside.” I can’t say how I really feel so we cried collectively […]
In the poem Beowulf, Beowulf is recognized as the ideal hero because Beowulf’s attitudes and actions reveal him to be the strongest and most gifted warrior around. He is the main character of the epic – a Geatish hero who fights the monster Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and a fire-breathing dragon. As a youth Beowulf represents […]
“Carpe Diem” I sincerely believe that everyone one has one chance to live so they might as well live it to the fullest. I am very inspired by the people around me, and influenced to make the right decisions, so they are the ones who made me look at life this way. My sister’s close […]
“Mom, I don’t want to go!” In Inchon Airport, on a hot and humid mid-August day, people were busily moving as always. But when the girl cried out, people stopped moving and turned towards the scene of the girl and her mother. Her mother shook off the girl’s hands that tightly held her sleeves, but […]
In today’s world, fear is to be feared. The Information Age seems to have rescinded the hopes of a smarter, more independent population. Man now relies on a proportionately smaller and smaller number of people to decipher this complex world. Unfortunately, once humans stop translating the world themselves, they are doomed to tread in darkness. […]