Answer the following question A male patient, who is a house painter and whom you have not seen in several years, presents with chronic fatigue and mild chest pain frequently relieved by taking a break from painting. He is married to a 47-year-old woman with multiple sclerosis and has two married children and one grandchild […]

What, in your opinion, is the most over-used ideaexpressed in a popular saying? It’s what starry-eyed lovers whisper asthey gaze at a Paris sunset, what 10-year-olds shout to their mothers as theysprint toward the already departing morning bus, and what teenage girls screamand squeal at their favorite Backstreet Boy. It’s supposed to be the deepestlevel […]

I was uneasy. It was my first cruise, and I did not know what to expect. The wind whipped through my hair and threatened the ends of my dress as I staggered after Ashley—the experienced cruise go-er—aboard the swaying ship. I admit that I can be socially awkward. Knowing this, I allowed Ashley to make […]

It was hard to accept, but the dreaded day had finally arrived. I still remember the tears welling up in my six-year-old sister’s eyes as she looked around the empty closet in wonder. The space once filled with his clothes was now only filled with loneliness and sorrow. This wonderful little child had come to […]

Susan Tedeschi, an American blues/rock singer and self-taught guitarist, has received five Grammy nominations. She has six albums to her credit. Three of them, Back to the River (2008), Hope and Desire (2005), and Wait for Me (2002) reached #1 on Billboard’s Blues Albums chart. Her music draws from a variety of influences including her […]

BEEP…BEEP…BEEP! At 5:45 am I drag myself out of the cozy cloud I call my bed, stagger out the door, and hurriedly turn on the heater in my car before heading off to state lifeguard training. I arrive at Huntington State Beach at 7 am with my peers, with no assumptions about the next four […]

I’m exceptionally good at focusing on insignificant things in life, like the shoes I wear. I have that pair of shoes I had to buy for Winter Ball freshman year, with the one-inch heel, because I absolutely could not be taller than my date. I have four-year-old cheerleading sneakers that have been through endless practices […]

She prefers to wake up to clouds, with heavy rainslamming against her windows, and the sky forbidding any light to cascade throughthe blinds. The sound and the smell coming through the open windows give her asense of life. Although sleep still drips from her eyes, the girl feels moreawake than ever. When she sleeps, she […]

To Whom It May Concern: Writing a letter of special circumstance is a bittersweet experience for me. On the one side, it’s a wonderful opportunity to explain why my grade point average isn’t where it should be. However, on the other, I feel as if I should just deal with the events and not try […]

Color is generally defined as the visual reflection of light off an object. For a maximum understanding of my essay, however, try to think about color as rather a feeling or a state of being. When a person is sad, we say he feels blue. The first color to come to thought with anger is […]