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 […]
I’m selecting to write down in regards to the video that was on show on the native artwork museum.That piece of artwork actually opened up my thoughts.I feel I watched it at the least twelve instances, and every time I got here up with a distinct which means to the video. The first time I […]
BACKGROUND: Okay, so I’m going to highschool within the dinky city of Chatsworth, GA. At my highschool we’ve got a bi-weekly program, obligatory for all college students, referred to as “Advisement”. Advisement is basically nothing greater than 55 minutes of state-sanctioned, glorified parenting (albeit a pathetic excuse for such) of the scholar physique by college […]
7 AM. I’m walking around the school with my best friend. She asks me if I know what’s happening at our friend’s house because there’s a bunch of cop cars and ambulances. I have no clue, but I get a terrible feeling in my stomach. I brush it off and hope it’s nothing. Third period. […]
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 […]
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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 […]
Crunch. My coronary heart stopped beating. My legs gave out, my head fell again, and my physique went limp. I fell to the bottom oblivious to what had occurred. I lay on the chilly floor of the world, feeling relaxed; a serene expertise that was lower quick by an immense surge of ache. Regaining the […]
“Seriously, Mom, I’m fine.” On a chilly March evening outside the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., my mother insistently nagged me to wear a sweater. Looking at everyone else in line for the concert, there was no way I was putting that thing on. I was sixteen years old, and if I chose to stand […]
In The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, the struggling protagonist of the novel, Edna Pontellier, is warned that, like a chook, if she doesn’t fly away from the ties of society and custom that she has been caged in, she is going to discover herself spiraling again right into a weak and damaged place. The creator […]