“When I read, I’m taken away,” my eight-year-old hand scripted in an early attempt at poetry. It is true that, as with Sara Crewe, The Little Princess with a big imagination, most of my seventeen years have been spent somewhere other than the world inhabited by my contemporaries. However, far from living another’s story, I […]
Wow! Life is so short. Who knew? People constantly told me this, I thought I knew what they meant. Yes, it is difficult to perceive and more than we can grasp but, that is the value of life. Truth is, I had no idea. Life is so delicately fragile and can just be snatched away […]
March 8th, 2006 was a day that changed my world. Jackson, my brother was in 3rd grade like any other kid in gym class playing basketball. In a blink of an eye, he dropped to the floor unresponsive. After a life-saving helicopter ride to Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, he was rushed into the surgery room, […]
Every person has a dream, but not every dream is turned into a reality, because people do not believe in themselves. I am different. If I put my mind to it, I can achieve it. One day I will be a restaurateur. I love cooking. I want my ideas to shine through and my voice […]
So, the place will you be subsequent fall Where isyour best choice Perhaps it’s best to make a name Counselors love tohear your voice Up North, down South, presumably out West Do youwant sunshine, rain or snow What location for you’ll bebest Huge college, little college, someplace in between Oh, nevermind, the scale of your […]
After the music stops, and the piano collects dust, only few will hear that glorious sound. Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, and Chopin continually ring through my ears. And once heard, the sound becomes unforgettable–just like him. The things he did always came off a little strange–constantly inventing thing, improving lasers, and editing picture. But, despite his odd […]
“One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty, until you try.” I couldn’t agree more with this quote by Sophocles, especially after an experience that I recently had. Walking through our nation’s capital with my family, I couldn’t help but notice the number of homeless […]
Ardrey Kell. Those two words, synonymous with new school,O made my stomach turn. Switching schools, in the middle of high school, was a nightmare. But in one of the nationOs fastest growing cities, Charlotte, North Carolina, I had no choice. New schools were being hastily scraped together everywhere, and I was re-zoned to a new […]
My palms began sweating as I looked at the homework board. It read like a danger sign posted in the front of a condemned building. “COLLEGE ESSAYS DUE SEPTEMBER 27.” Panic set in. I have never written anything about myself before. Where do I even start? I had no idea, and time was quickly running […]
She carried the objects that almost all troopers carried. The artillery that pulled on her skinny body and the arsenal of bullets outweighed her by at the least 20 kilos. Her commonplace situation fight boots have been all however fashionable and he or she felt the drab, camouflage uniform did nothing for her determine, however […]