“It’s a hot and humid day in Swat Valley, Pakistan A young student boards the school bus since walking is no longer safe She sits, chatting with her friends after a long day of exams A man jumps onto the bus and pulls out a gun The last thing the girl remembers is the sound […]

The toughest a part of observational drawing is seeing the strains the place shadow meets gentle and unfavorable area meets optimistic area. 5 years in the past these strains grew to become tangible to me, as I drew an Ugg boot propped towards my bed room wall. I blinked, and it was now not a […]

In The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, the struggling protagonist of the novel, Edna Pontellier, is warned that, like a chook, if she doesn’t fly away from the ties of society and custom that she has been caged in, she is going to discover herself spiraling again right into a weak and damaged place. The creator […]

Rising up in a Latino family, I used to be taught each English and Spanish, and I used to be fluent in each. My mother and father would use English and Spanish in the identical sentence, and I developed an ear for thick accents and blended verbiage. After I entered my teen years, nevertheless, I […]

I used to be mad, upset, indignant, confused, harm, and most of all I didn’t know what to do. Dropping a member of the family can actually harm badly. The primary time I misplaced an in depth member of the family was the worst. I’ve had many members of the family go away in my […]

Imagine a long sheet of pack ice, recently broken off from the main sheet, floating through the North Atlantic Ocean. On it, you see a mother polar bear looking around on all sides, trying to find her young. Looking around she sees the top of a giant square clock tower sticking out of the murky […]

Heavy respiration. Locked eyes. Pounding footsteps. I watched the quickest runner in all of Arrowhead Excessive College’s historical past. He broke the document…Then once more. This was the vivid day when my mindset of the whole world remodeled. Work ethic was in my blood since a younger age, primarily based upon spiritual values and household […]

So right here I sit. I’ve completed every thing. These contains my Spanish, my English, and sure even my geometry homework. After all of the sweat and tears I’ve poured into my 4 hours of homework I can lastly say I’m accomplished, or am I? I’m lastly coming to the conclusion that by subsequent spring […]

Two years in the past symbolizes for me the primary time I heard and knew one thing about my faculty, the way in which it was described by my associates who attended summer season camps was an enormous faculty with totally different actions sports activities and army actions, with setting full of college students, lecturers, […]

The city is attention-grabbing. There’s a sprawling metropolis current the place PA state Route 18 meets 258, full with a Wl-mart, MacDonald’s, and Big Eagle. The college is just a few transient miles from the intersection. If you happen to go fifteen miles in the wrong way of the varsity, all of this disappears. It’s […]