I sat in front of my computer struggling to come up with an idea for my AP Studio Art concentration. I wanted to pick a topic relevant in today’s society, while managing to stay true to myself. In addition, I wanted to avoid the ever so popular teenage angst ideas. Including, but not limited to: […]

The bleak morning of Sunday, October 4th, 2010, discovered me huddled in opposition to my mom’s automobile, the climate far too chilly for my sweatshirt and denims ensemble. A espresso cup, too small to make a dent in my sleep debt, was clutched in my fingers. I used to be inspecting the reflection of my […]

Surfing With Death by Michael Miller, Bay Shore, NYOver the past five years many people, places and things have influenced me. One particular experience gave me a renewed zest for living and a different perspective on life.It was during the summer of 1995. I rose from a long sleep to find the sun gleaming in […]

The moment I stepped off the plane I knew I wasn’t in “Kansas” anymore. I wasn’t even in North America. I was stepping out of my well known world onto foreign soil, actually an airport tarmac. I was eleven at the time, naive and green, white and horribly American. I was now to live in […]

After many centuries of solitude, the Individuals opened their land to the Europeans, who marched straight on in. Then like ants coming right into a picnic basket, the opposite international locations adopted. The Aussies realized they had been lacking out on the enjoyable and got here hopping in like kangaroos. As standard, the straggling Asians […]

On a regular basis, I carry issues with me to wherever I go, whomever I meet, no matter I am doing. Metaphorically, and actually talking. Bodily, to highschool I by no means fail to carry my pencils and papers, pockets and keys, lunch and cellphone, and a numerous variety of different objects. In my coronary […]

The Stranger by Albert Camus is considered one of his finest works. This novel tells the story of a person, Meursault, who’s a moralist. Nothing appears to matter to him and his or anyone else’s actions makes no distinction. Camus’s use of language permits readers to find the temper and which means being conveyed via […]

Some issues with variety amongst Rutgers college students have lately been the topic of 5 o’clock information channels in all places with the tragic demise of a scholar whose privateness wall was shattered when a video explicated his undercover sexual orientation. That is solely the fault of some ignorant individuals and has not, in any […]

Diversity is living in Chinatown and having dim sum with my Chinese speaking parents every Sunday morning. Diversity is going to school and having Korean, Bengali and half Dominican and Polish friends. Diversity is eating Halal food from street stands, dining in fancy Italian restaurants and simultaneously enjoying a McDonald’s cheeseburger. But diversity extends far […]

“Days go by, And the spring flowers bloom.” I moved to Setauket in August of 1998, leaving associates I’d grown up with and locations I’d go to once more solely in desires. Like my subsequent door neighbor Kristina, who I hated simply as a lot as I cherished, and the dance studio simply across the […]