Down two points in double overtime, I’m on the sideline waiting to e subbed in. One knee to the floor, weat trickles down my face as I anxiously clench the collar of my damp jersey. Pressure is beginning to build in my gut, and my heart is pounding faster by the second. I nervously glance […]
The city I grew up in, sarcastically referred to as the “Circle Metropolis” for it’s form, is a cruel cycle of “distinguished” faculties, one-day gross sales, and individuals who look to Saturday Night time Stay for political perception. The identical folks rent unlawful immigrants to mow their lawns regardless of supporting deportation of undocumented aliens. […]
Multiculturalism may be thought-about as a political philosophy that has lengthy been enormously admired and repelled, researched and fought-over within the historical past of Canada. This time period didn’t actually exist till the 1960’s when the Royal Fee popularized ‘biculturalism’, having changed the time period ‘cultural pluralism’. Previous to that point, immigrants and minority teams […]
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 […]
Over 50 miles from the nearest gas station and a five-day paddle from any sort of infrastructure, I stepped out of the canoe, waved good-bye to my fellow “leaders in training” and entered the unknown. Armed with my pocket knife, a tarp, 20 feet of rope, a fishing rod, a Bible, a journal, my sleeping […]
Again in the time of Shakespeare, performs have been a type of leisure for the folks of London. They’d not solely be seen by the wealthy, but in addition by the lowest member of the social scale. Shakespeare’s globe theatre was open to the public, and the solely perk about having lot of cash was […]
Walking through the hazy streets of Guatemala to the mission team work site, puts life in America into perspective. The kids eating garbage were the same kids who helped us work on the house we were building, with smiles on their faces, ready to help. That made me completely rethink my life back in the […]
When I came to the United States, I was a foreigner. I didn’t know English and I didn’t dress like everybody else. I could still remember my first day in third grade – arriving with my mom and having nothing in which to carry my books home. Kids my age stared at me like I […]
“I know you can” was written on the pitboard as we came racing past my brother who was standing on the sidelines. One person stood in the way of my winning first overall at the Binghampton Amateur Motocross Nationals, and I wasn’t going to let him stop me. As we raced down the straight, I […]