Loyalty, bravery, and community service are the core beliefs of every member of the Boy Scouts of America. Helping others succeed, while at the same time bettering your leadership and commutation skills is why I love scouting. The ability to help others even when they may be reluctant to ask for help, to help others […]
The person that has made a significant influence on my life would have to be my best friend, Chayce. There are many reasons that he has made a huge influence on my life. He was one of those people that was always able to put a smile on your face, and he was always there […]
My pendant burned like a scarlet letter as the autumn leaves crunched beneath my feet. I dashed into the forest behind my house, journal in hand, trying to escape my thoughts. I was haunted by my inability to keep my parents together; to quell my friends’ anxieties; to better the world. Nature had always been […]
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 […]
My palms are not sweating as I type this. I’ve never lied to my parents and said I was doing my homework when I was instant messaging friends, and then flunked an English essay as a result. I’ve never handed in work that was “just good enough” or disagreed with a teacher about a grade. […]
I am a genuine person. My heart is full and fragile and for a young woman in high school, that isn’t always the ideal personality to possess. For a long time, I let others walk all over me which led to an ongoing depression leaving me empty for the entirety of my junior year. While […]
Please inform us concerning the explicit life experiences, abilities, commitments, and/or pursuits you’ll carry to our campus that may enrich our group. First day of observe, a nervous junior, I really feel the glare of my senior teammates urgent onto the again of my head. “How did he make it?” one senior whispers to one […]
A scenario that has had an affect on me: A supposed heart-wrenching break up on the age of twelve, some shallow mates and a house with one absentee guardian; this was all it took for me to be subjected to some of the traumatic experiences of my life: an Acute Porphyria assault. On the age […]
“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 […]
2:16pm. The skinny woman in front of me had just bought two carts, $416.23 worth of food, half with a government aided food stamps program. I totaled it out, tapped sign off twice on the keyboard in front of me and ran straight into a shopping cart being loaded by a first day bagger. Singing […]