"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...

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...

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...

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...

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'...

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...

Power Within It seemed like yesterday when my parents put me on a plane and shipped me to Minnesota, for my highly protested Outward Bound experience. Leading up to the fourteenth summer of my life, I guess you could say my actions were a little out of place, and misunderstood by m...

"Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming. Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, o'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming. And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Ga...

Have you ever experienced that feeling of a complete adrenaline rush? Or that feeling like your stomach might just escape your body through means of your mouth? If you know what I am talking about, you know all about it. It is the most breath taking experience you will probably ever feel in you life...

Days on the Lake It was a fairly overcast Friday afternoon. My friends and I were out on the lake trying to tough it out through the weather. It really doesn't matter how bad the weather is, we can always have a good time on the lake. At the beginning of the summer, a couple of friend...

Since the day you left, my life has been filled with pain. I wish I knew what to say to hold you again, Cause me without you drives me insane. As I sit and reminise the time we shared, I realized the finest days I ever knew, were the days I spent with you. It drives me crazy everyday, ...