When I was seven, and apparently a handful, my grandma handed me an American Girl Doll catalog to keep me busy for a few minutes while she cleaned the kitchen. Full of detailed dolls dressed in complex outfits with hats …
When I’m in the woods, the Waldorf comes out. It brushes off the dirt I buried it in, slips out of the cell I locked it in, plucks away the cobwebs I smothered it in. It emerges and sets to …
My grandma is the reason I’m a night owl instead of an early bird. She’s the reason the light from my room shines through the crack under my door after my family is tucked away, snoring, in bed. I acquired …
My identity is always changing like the wind. There isn’t one identity that would truly define me. Just like the wind, the things I encounter are carried with me throughout my life. No matter what, my friends and family are …
Because of its huge amount of fast food restaurants, America is the fattest country in the world. Americans spend more money on fast food than on magazines, movies, books, newspapers, and music altogether. The top four, billion dollar establishments starting …
If you were to ask a number of kids at my high school to describe me in one statement, I bet you most would sadly say “lacking confidence”. While having no one relatively close to my age in my immediate, …
Chemistry in high school is an experience everyone lives through; few obtain pleasure from the experience most to never want to go through it again. I truly enjoyed it, and still I continued to make some mistakes. On the second …
“Things will get better.” I shrugged and looked down, unconvinced. “And you really believe that?” She merely looked back down at me with some degree of concern and care, despite the fact that her vantage point was nearly comical. I …
Ice cream can describe every situation. Problems should be attacked like you would eat a triple stacked brownie sundae in a waffle cone: from a strategic point so that everything doesn’t topple over. Life can also be described through ice …
She died young. In September of my senior year, I began working on a family history project for Studio Art class. Digging though family photos, I unearthed one that immediately caught my attention. It showed a young woman in a …
It’s a hot, steamy summer day in August 2010.Perfect day for swimming and relaxing, right? Instead I head to my annual physical and I expect the usual: step on the scale and go take a urine sample.No, this appointment was …
It’s a tool that listens when no one else will, mends pain, and does whatever we desire it to. There was something about it that lured me. At first, I would pick it up and play and practice. It started …
i never thought much about ny family except that i truly love them. it wasnt until recently that i started to find them very flawed in thier behavior. lieing,hurting,and never forgiving. my family is a gruop of artist, with no …
One in every one hundred thousand people is diagnosed with synesthesia. Many people don’t even know what this mental illness is. If they did there would probably be more cases of people coming out telling the world what they have. …
“In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.” This quote by Eva Burrows embodies the importance of family in my life. During my childhood many people …
My grandfather, a retired French engineer and fine wine-lover, once told me the secret behind a spectacular wine’s taste was its unique terroir, or the combination of the soil, gradient, and weather. Like wine, we are all influenced by our …
At 7 years old I had my heart set on becoming a hairdresser. Like many 7-year-old girls, I had experimented on the unfortunate plastic heads of Barbie dolls, streaking their platinum blond locks with food coloring and hacking off clumps …
There were 19 forks in my house, 10 clocks and 39 pictures on the wall. I was about eight years old. I could stand on my hands for 14 seconds, my longest hair was six inches long, and my favorite …
Throughout their lives, people accumulate experienceswhich shape them. These experiences lead many to hold contrasting views and topractice disparate ideologies. Differences can be healthy; people can learn fromeach other in spite of their differences. A major change in my life …
Riding four-wheelers through two feetdeep mudholes is what he does. ‘“If you aren’t covered in mud, you aren’t having fun” is what “chubs” would say. Some friends and family address him as “Joe”, but I call him Chubs, and/or bestfriend. …
Standing outside the church, I felt the cool breeze run past my face. There was something different about this breeze. It felt lively as if a hand was running through my hair. Flowers were beginning to blossom and they were …
Before my first day of elementary school, I had known what the expectations were: work hard, study harder. Nevertheless, when high school started, I was a nervous wreck. The idea of “everything that I did now counted towards college” made …
The wooden gym doors slightly creek open as I walk in hesitantly and nervous. Sweaty palms and cold, semi-bare feet tiptoe and make contact with the freshly waxed wooden floor. The leather piece of material wrapped to the bottoms of …
Wednesday is my favorite day of the week. At my school, Wednesdays and Thursdays are “block days” where classes last for eighty minutes instead of the usual forty. On Wednesdays, my last class of the day is A Cappella singing.Or, …
When looking at today’s modern society in business with corporate scams and tax fraud etc. People have turned there eye away from business. Why some would want to pursue a career in something that has a negative image to a …
If art is expressing yourself, a way to show your innermost emotions and ideals, if art is a way to draw people together, for a purpose or a product, then what is the art teacher? To not only follow these …
Going into my senior year at a new high school, there are many obvious details that most would expect me to obsess over. What will my classes be like? Will I like my teachers? And of course, who will I …
“There’s an epidemic in America, one that is stealing the future of our nation’s children, one that is suspending millions of adults in childhood, its name, illiteracy.” – John Corcoran The National Literacy Act of 1991 defines literacy as “an …
Essay 1 prompt: Other than fashion, what medium do you use for self-expression and why? It may seem a bit counterintuitive, but my means of self-expression is becoming someone else. As an actor, my ultimate goal is to engulf my …
One day my friend asked me a great question, what would be the worst thing someone can realize as an individual in his lifetime? I thought about it for several minutes, I always do when questions with any sort of …
The elevator doors open and an eighty-year-old woman wearing crocodile boots, and a full face of make-up steps out into a five-star restaurant. Ignoring the shocked eyes of her onlookers, she confidently maneuvers her way through the busy tables to …
In my advanced biology classes, students were taught to follow a strict hierarchy of predetermined, abstract criteria for labeling life. Something had to grow, organize cellularly, implement homeostasis etc. etc. (I honestly cannot remember all of the rules) in order …