I hold myself steady and cool as a rock. I breathe evenly and keep my facial expressions calm and controlled. I run my hands over the rectangles that hold my future. I flip up the corners of the cards again and look down at the odd, mismatched cards. Smiling gently, my adversary stares at me […]

“Basically! So what have you been up to lately?” I ask, eager to catch up with an old friend. Silence. I blink and look up from my sushi. She’s typing away on her phone. “What have you been up to lately?” I repeat, only mildly irritated. “Oh… sorry… well last week…” Our world has gone […]

Here I was, at what I thought was the end of a productive sophomore year full of acquiring new friends and focused on my commitment to high school athletics. I had spent months toiling in the heat of summer, and the bitter cold of wind chill under the Friday night-lights. I barely had time to […]

Tell us about personal, social or family challenges you have faced. How have you dealt with them and how have they shaped your thinking? What if this college essay was not our first impression? I wouldn’t know what you’d think of me if you saw me on the streets of Manhattan, or Brooklyn, or even […]

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 […]

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 […]

Leadership is a standard and fairly easy phrase however quite very tough phrase to outline as a consequence of its complexity and multifaceted composition. In accordance with Bass (1981) management could be outlined in other ways: It’s an act of influencing actions of an organized group in its quest to set objectives and in addition […]

“All women four×200 meter runners please report back to the monitor. All women working the four×2.” The final place I wished to report back to was the monitor. Actually, I assumed I used to be going to vomit. What am I doing? I’m not a monitor runner, and definitely not a four×200 meter runner. “Prepared, […]

Every eight-year-old girl has a dream. Many want to be princesses, some want to be cowgirls, a few want to be president. Me? I wanted to see the penguins. So, at a time when most of my friends were spending their money on Barbie dolls and colorful hair ties, I was saving for a trip […]

At first look, sure, I’m fairly strange. By no means have I written a New York Occasions finest promoting novel, nor have I visited the moist tropical rainforests of the Amazons and found an vital botanical ingredient for scientific research. As a lot as I want to study radiochemistry, I in all probability by no […]