Has there ever been someone in your life that you are supposed to care about, but you find it hard to get close to this person because of his or her decisions? In the short story "Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin a similar story is told about a brother who finds it hard to care for an...

Dear Mom, I think you've probably already noticed the length of this letter and are probably thinking that you won't have time to read it and that it's not important. Just so you know, this is not one of those letters with a joke and a funny picture at the end. This is something I want you to read ...

Proactive. Covey tells us how we should be taking more initiative and control of our lives. We are the only ones that have control over our lives. Covey uses the story of Victor Frankl to explain the total control we have to shape our own thoughts and feelings. Victor was a Jew held in a German deat...

first expereinces always stays in mind: It was about three years ago when my family and me moved to Canada. My older sister went to Brock University to study one day after we arrived to Canada. She seemed happy. Two weeks after, my younger sister went to school. The only person left at home was ...

Proactive. Covey tells us how we should be taking more initiative and control of our lives. We are the only ones that have control over our lives. Covey uses the story of Victor Frankl to explain the total control we have to shape our own thoughts and feelings. Victor was a Jew held in a Germa...

The world was shattered by the cowardly attack on the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. On this dreadful day, thousands of lives were taken. During this period of bombing against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, there was a response of anger, fear, and pain. This was an att...

Chapter One: "We're moving" I come home from school, put my torn, ready to be thrown out blue school bag down on our round "island" in the kitchen and storm outside to enjoy the very first day of summer vacation. The air is warm and the sun is shinning brighter than ever....

My Life My life in a small town, well as you know small town's can be boring. This town wasn't any different, or was it? My story will begin, well back when things got exciting. Basically I taught myself how to ride a bike, which in my opoinion at the time was very great. You see I alw...

Cameronized Denver! There are no words to describe my love and passion for the city of Denver, Colorado. The mountains, the skyline there is nothing like it. No city is quite like Denver. The most important part of why I love Denver is because I was born and raised there for 7 years. I hadn'...

Should we all be farmers? My first impression of Wendell Berry's book, The Unsettling of America; Culture & Agriculture was "What could this possibly have to do with me?" I first thought that Berry wanted us all to be farmers, ...