"I can't breathe Mommy," gasped my six-year-old daughter as she held her hands securely over her nose and mouth. Immediately, I removed her hands, looked into her mouth, and listened to her breathing; she seemed to be just fine. Catching my own breath, I noticed a couple sitting on the ben...

Early childhood is the best time to start children with an enriched musical background. The earlier the child starts to hear and learn about music, the more fulfilling the child's experience with music is going to be. A child cannot receive the full benefit of music and will not learn as much or a...

Expose the Noise: Music Through Time Rock and Roll has been apart of peoples lives for an extremely long time; classic rock, modern rock and hard rock can be classified by development of their lyrics over time. There lyrics are similar but very different in there own way. With Classic rock having...

The movement I picked for Bach was, "Cantata No. 82" the movement included such instruments as, oboe, violins, viola, cello, and a tenor voice. The movement started with an oboe solo, leading to the tenor voice. The strings in this movement played the harmony, while the voice and oboe play...

Imagein a skateboard with to big wheels one in front and back. Now imagein a motor on the back and handle barsin the front. This odd sounding vehicle was my ride around town many years ago. Now they are being outlawed because of people miss using them but not me. I had a purpose besides great fun. I...

AWESOME When I woke up in the morning I knew that today is the day for meeting my best friend Radar. Radar looks absolutely gorgeous. His black expressive thoughtful eyes are always slightly sad. His moistened nostrils puff up, that is usually followed by sniffing. He breaths snoring, someti...

Living through Others' Experiences! Randall Jarrell was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1914. Jarrell earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Vanderbilt University. In 1942, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps, but soon left the Air Corps for the army experience, which provided m...

The Awakening Just as a child comes out of its mother's womb and takes its first breath in open air, Edna herself is taking her first breath from her awakening in Chopin's novella The Awakening. Chopin describes Edna's water experiences as if she was a new-born baby coming into ...

Why My Car Sucks Some people have lots of money to fix their cars when things go wrong. But because I am unemployed, and I have no funds, and my car is slowly getting worse. Luckily, my mechanic dad fixes things to keep the car running. Little problems make my car suck. First, the exterior and...

The Voice Message As I lay under my warm cotton flannel sheets that Sunday night, I pondered the reason why my cell phone had not rung the entire day. I had a strange premonition that something wasn't exactly right, so my instincts told me to investigate. I struggled getting out of the comf...

A CLOSE CALL The bell finally rang after a long day of school, and everyone was excited to go home. My friends and I wanted to go out and get something to eat before our big soccer game against Brookwood. I didn't know something was going to happen to me that would...

Every year there is a tournament that my friend, Cassie goes to. It's a tournament held in different cities (this year in Chicago) where teams from different cities in Illinois and even some cities out of state come together to compete in Soccer and Volleyball for the girls and Football and Basketba...

Saving the best for last On this night, not unlike a few others I've had, I was awakened by the patting of rain drops on my roof top. Usually, I love it when it rains. Especially in the pitch black and dead of night. The rhythm of rain drops as they tap dance on my window's ledg...

Deep Trance Drums beating in hypnotic rhythms. Taking you away from now. Taking you away from your worries. Taking you away from reality. Floating away on waves of music in a trancelike state. Through dreams you fly effortlessly with no worries and no troubles. Wind. Soothing wind ...

A Man Named Dave, by Dave Pelzer is the story of hope and eventual love and how a child called "It" finally found himself as a man free at last, after early childhood experiences as the son of a brutal, alcoholic mother. When his father is dying of cancer, Dave attempts to reestablish con...

MIT students by the hundreds pour into their student center--not to the fifth floor library, but to the second floor sanctuary. Instead of checking meter readings with their lab partners, they speak of how their work is being used, how they are being used. In recognition of their manipulation by a ...

My trip to the Dominica n Republic I was to leave to the Dominican Republic at 10p.m. on a Thursday night. My flight was with Tower Air and it was leaving John F. Kennedy airport. I had to be there three hours before departure and I wa...

Charlotte and I had been together for quite sometime. Our love grew stronger and solid as time went by and we cherished every moment spent together. We did what normal couples would do and we had a world of our own. Being the best looking boy and most gorgeous girl with excellent scores as well, we ...

Sherwood Anderson's, "I Want to Know Why" tells a story about how a boy's innocence was lost when the realization of life and mankind's grim realities were discovered. The boy told this story as a narrator with a first person point of view. As a boy, the narrator grew u...

Disappointment, disbelief and fear filled my mind as I lye on my side, sandwiched between the cold, soft dirt and the hot, slick metal of the car. The weight of the car pressed down on the lower half of my body with monster force. It did not hurt, my body was numb. All I could feel was the car hood'...

I say a prayer. My fingers quickly find their place again and race to type my thoughts as they flood in. One sentence; two sentences; wait, no, not going to work. The passion of the idea seeps out of me as quickly as it arrived. Delete. "God, please help me out. What can I write about? What sh...

Tom Nicholson Film 202 Blade Runner is a movie based on the future. Harrison Ford is an officer that is in charge of destroying robot humans, replicas that have gone bad. The style of the movie is one of the last movies that didn't use computer graphics. This is a big hurdle to overcom...

Automobiles- Their Effect on our Lives If we didn't have automobiles, then our lives would be very different and maybe even difficult. If we didn't have automobiles, then you would probably have to walk and it would be longer getting to where you wanted to go. Automobiles also put...

DRIVING TO CANBERRA I heard a loud buzzing noise and opened my eyes. It was three in the morning and I had to wake up. Our family was going on a holiday to Canberra and we had decided to drive. We had decided to go early, so we could get through the city easily and be halfway to our destination b...

Freedom to Breathe Running here, running there, doing this, doing that, arguing, listening, talking, working, what about me? Like millions of people I have a busy life. It's hard to find time in a day just to breathe, collect my thoughts, or just relax when I'm always spending tim...