It is 10:30 pm, and I have far passed my bedtime. But a magazine spread on Egyptian mummification lies before me, blocking the clock from view. All I can see is what the yellow ochre light from my nightstand has to offer. My petite fingers grasp it like a lifeline. My young eyes soak in […]
There are three popular ways to gain an education: public school, private school, and home school. Out of all three, public school is the most popular. It has many opportunities that are important to most teenagers like being social with peers, extracurricular activities, and chances to get out of the house. But is public school […]
So right here I sit. I’ve completed every thing. These contains my Spanish, my English, and sure even my geometry homework. After all of the sweat and tears I’ve poured into my 4 hours of homework I can lastly say I’m accomplished, or am I? I’m lastly coming to the conclusion that by subsequent spring […]
On June 14, 2008, my sister referred to as me from upstairs in her normal irritated tone. I slowly trekked up the steps, questioning what I had carried out this time to harass her (was it my pigsty of a room? or did she discover out concerning the headphones I someway forgot to ask if […]
A Chinese football player. A Bulgarian sumo wrestler. A Ghanaian skier. An Indian ballerina. All of the above can be broadly classified as contradictions. While the general public recognizes the Chinese for their superb intelligence and talent in classical music, American football isn’t usually considered a forte. Most would assume that the Bulgarian sumo wrestler […]
Imagine being stuck in traffic waiting to cross an intersection. You have an important meeting to attend and an absence may revoke your chance of promotion. This particular traffic light takes longer than average to change green. As it finally turns to green, the cars ahead of you ease from their brakes and slowly accelerate […]
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 […]
What does the second modification say? It states that “A effectively regulated Militia, being essential to the safety of a free State, the proper of the individuals to maintain and bear Arms, shall not be infringed”. The way in which I interpret that is that once you bear arms, you bodily carry a weapon in […]
The highlight of my nonexistent acting career occurred at age four. That was the summer my parents enrolled me, a puffball-haired pixie with a vivid imagination, in a week-long acting class at the local children’s theater. Our production was “The Fool,” an Indian fable about a man who is bamboozled by (and ultimately outsmarts) a […]
It was October 9, 2007 within the metropolis of Lehi, Utah. At house, Marianne Watson contemplated on the ever-nagging Question Assignment; what’s for dinner? A sigh escaped from her mouth, in addition to her coronary heart, as she realized it might be inexperienced beans once more for dinner. Her weary toes in some way discovered […]