“Flight crew put together for takeoff,” the captain of the aircraft proclaims over the loudspeaker. Right here I’m with my seat within the upright place. I’m on a 4 hour flight to Dallas, Texas, en path to the nationwide debate event. The Dallas Ten. That’s what they name us. After months of tryouts and practices, […]
In a guide means forward of its time, Aldo Leopold wrote a group of essays framed round ecological understanding and relationship. A Sand County Almanac, written in 1949, first will get the reader to love nature and see magnificence in even the smallest creatures and vegetation. Progressively, Leopold brings extra of the harms from human […]
“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 […]
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey Quote: They put the graphite salve on his temples. “What is it?” he says. “Conductant,” the technician says. “Anointest my head with conductant. Do I get a crown of thorns?” (Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) Bromden and McMurphy are led to the electroshock […]
Speaking about future, the modernization is all the time a sizzling situation for folks everywhere in the world. Because of this, lots of people have a snug life, no cares, no worrying, simply achieve success whereas others are conversely in an terrible life. So what makes that variations is the previous, the previous might make […]
Picture a cul-de-sac, wide and sunny, surrounded by light-colored two-story houses. Now picture two pairs of sisters. Maybe the older sisters create art together on a white driveway, like Picassos with sidewalk chalk. The younger two are more active, jumping their scooters and bikes over curbs and wielding popsicles like swords or lances. Perhaps they […]
I remember thinking why was this happening to me my solid foundation was getting cracks. Over hearing the whispers around me as everything slowly changes. My house was getting split into two, and I had to grow up faster than expected. When my parents decided to split up, I became confused and lost. Nothing seemed […]
Last week, I tripped and fell onto the banana tree that grows in the middle of our foyer. I had long before decided that I hated banana trees—we’d actually grown multiple over the years, caring for them as a fond reminder of tropical South India, where my parents had been born and raised. Each year, […]
Unfamiliar experiences? Yeah, I guess I’m the one who always hesitates before trying a new adventure. There is one major event that comes to mind when I think of the many things that I have accomplished. Rock climbing. Yes, you’ve read correctly, rock climbing. Fears concerning unfamiliar experiences are feelings I wish to overcome during […]