To my future parents, Hi my name is Kara. Would you be interested in being my parents? I'm looking for fun, loving, caring, down-to-earth and an open-minded happily married couple who will understand my point of views and relate to my problems. A parent who teaches about life and support my dreams...

Man is a very complex creature. He is ironically both good and bad at the same time. More often than not, good overcomes evil, but as Edmund Burke once said, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Mankind has many qualities that portray the good n...

Change Pace (Transition from HS to college) The bell rang, my fifth period government exam was over, and school was officially out. My last summer of high school had started and I was soon to become a freshman in college. The only thing on my mind was relaxing and having fun wi...

Throughout high schools all across the country, there are multitudes of different attitudes towards the completion of every night homework. From dedication to absolute apathy, these viewpoints run amuck in the minds of teenagers everywhere. Every youngster has a different idea concerning his homew...

I decided to attend college because I wanted to further my education and because if I stayed in Suffolk I would have gotten involved in the wrong lifestyle. At home many people don't go to college after high school and make their money by selling drugs and for a while, that kind of life appea...

The American Dream What exactly is the American dream? Most people have never really thought about this before even though deep down inside they have an idea of what their personal dream is. Ever since the first settlers arrived in Jamestown to set up a new colony in this vast new world, it sto...

Graduating from high school and moving on to college is a huge step in anyone's life. This past August, I gathered up all my belongings and moved to a different state where I would begin a new life as a college student. Leaving from home and exploring ones own dreams are a very important part...

 The many problems we face today as a society seem to become more and more overwhelming. I believe that respect for one other is a big social issue we face today in our generation of tomorrow. We see this problem in teens, in so many places. For example, in school there is a lack of respec...

College Teachers That Don't Care About two semesters ago, I had a teacher at Modesto Junior College that went by the book and didn't make it interesting for the students to learn. I'm not much of a book person and it was very hard to pass that class. I eventually had to drop the c...

It was Worth Waiting For................ Becoming apart of any group can always be complicated, especially in these times. In today's society people, especially teenagers, can be very cruel to one another. Every teenager in America wants to become apart of that one special group in high school and...

True Identity. Does being an individual require having a green Mohawk and a pierced nose? I see so many kids walking around trying to act punk. Not because there escaping the conformists that plague society, but because they want to fit in. Then once the person is in the group they exclude ...