After School Parties: Good or Bad? Would you stay out late and have sex, get drunk, or do drugs just to get out of homework or bad family situations? After school parties are just like this. They have little or no supervision, get out of hand and kids will stay out too late. When you stay out...

After high school there are numerous things I want to do and accomplish in my life. My admirations aren't much different than the average person, but it will still take a lot of hard work to get to where I want to be. I have many goals, but to accomplish these goals I have to get through the ma...

"Bag Lady", an original musical composition was composed and created, not for hire, by Erykah Badu words and Dr. Dre music (original melodies and sequences sampled). Erykah Badu describes her hook as "Baduizm"; all about shedding emotional baggage and holding onto you. Craig Se...

I used to have a very special pet, back home, in my country, Lebanon. She was a very cute cat. My dad gave it to me for my birthday. I named her Gucci because she was as cute as the clothes. Gucci was very beautiful. She had white fluffy fur, one blue eye and one green eye, she had a littl...

I was 15 years old and completely in love. Jeff was my first real boyfriend. He was everything I wanted: fun, cute and utterly devoted to me-practically from the moment we met. After our first date, he wanted to be with me all the time. We spent every minute together. I didn't have to worry that h...

Sometimes waiting seems to be the best way to view life. Sometimes people believe the best way to understand what is going on is to step to the side of reality and watch from the outside. But is this the best way? It can't be too good for a person to stand in one place and watch their life go by. I...

Everything's a River "We will not die trying to stand up: we will live that way: standing up" (361), states June Jordan in "Many Rivers to Cross." Addressing women, this excerpt shows the feminist point of view of Jordan's essay. This is the theme of the entire ess...

Fireflies To manipulate someone is to influence or control them shrewdly or deviously, in a way that benefits the manipulator. In an excerpt from The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan called "Fireflies", the narrator is easily manipulated by a fellow student named Simon. The excerpt b...

If you are at all like me, you are asking yourself the age old question of, "why does school suck?". Well, since the ancient beginnings of education in the early Roman empire, this questions has been asked.....and not answered, even now. School sucks because it is a rotten institution where you ar...

There are many different types of girls in the world. There are always those girls that you try so hard to get but can never get them, then on the other hand there are girls that you can never get rid of no matter how hard you try to. Almost all girls always have a great personality about them but ...

We are made to believe that life is what you make of it. To say that is wrong, for we all must go by the predetermined rules set by fate that cannot be changed. We all must go through our first walk, our first day of school, our first kiss, our first job. With this we gain a perspective that hel...

We all know how hard it is at times to follow through on every if not most of the things someone of higher authority demanded that we do. Sometimes we do these things even if it's not what we may have believed in. Why then do we do it anyway? Imagine being told that you have to send 100's...

When I think of significant experiences, I think of every thing that I have done up to this point in life. There is not one, but thousands of significant experiences that have helped to shape me to be the person I am today. When I first think of myself and the experiences that have helped shaped ...

The Guide: How to Surf Audience: Thrill Seekers and Extreme Sports Enthusiasts The ocean is a wonderful and powerful thing. The force of the ocean has been known to erode sand dunes, crush cars, and even demolish buildings, yet it is home to countless sea-life and a popular attraction fo...

Even tough I love dressing nicely and by now I'm used to dress codes; sometimes it's kind of boring and annoying to follow those kinds of rules. When I was a child, I always wore what my Mother or Lucy, my nanny picked for me; then catholic school came by and I remember that even when we w...

I believe that George did do the right thing by killing Lennie, because if he didn't do it, than Curley and the other men would have made Lennie's death much worse. The way George approached the situation made the atmosphere more peaceful, under the circumstances. George told Lennie about the...

9/11: One Year Later It has been one year since the attack on the World Trade Center, but it seems like it only happened yesterday. They say you'll never forget where you were when you first heard the news. I was in my first period class at Donna High School. There were about ten minut...

The story, "A Worn Path", is about an old woman, Phoenix Jackson, who makes her way out into the woods to a nearby town. We are made to believe that it is a far distance for a woman of her age to walk. The story starts with describing her and the path she takes, all the while mentioning ...

I walked into his room slowly. It was musty and dark, but I could see well enough to recognize the figure I knew so well, lying motionless in the large bed. He seemed as if his extremely tiny figure would sink deep into the mattress and disappear. I had never seen this once strong and health man,...

The Chrysalid's is a novel based on the despair of our own society in the past, present, and future. John Wyndham's give the opportunity to see mankind not in the ideal way as most would like, but in a quite realistic way. The story takes place hundreds maybe even thousands of years aft...

J I mmy 's T r I p "Wait!" was the first word that came to Jimmy's mind when he found out about the new life ahead of him. This is his story. Jimmy was born and raised in the country. His mother died when he was young so it was just Jimmy and his dad. At school Jimmy was...

My Brief Writing Days (On What Prompts People to Write?) I don't know what inspired me to contribute lately some write-ups in the newspaper? Is it because of a terrible ennui I feel in my life nowadays? So to fill up the gaps in my life I have to write. Is it therapy for a tired and ov...

We live in the patriarchal dream. With all that has happen in the last two weeks, it's made me think. Is the dream that I have created worth it? In four short years I will be at the forefront of the patriarchal dream. However I do not do it for the "...pursuit of power, production, presti...

A Separate Peace 1. My reaction to Finny's death was very appalling and astonishing. I would have never expected Finny to die mainly because I saw him as a main character and I thought that by making Finny die they ended the story at that specific point. I now think that this was a very appr...

How to Pick up Chicks In all my years of experience I have broken down the art of picking up girls to a science. In my book there are three ways of getting the girls interested in you. I only follow one of the methods, but I figured I'd give you the options so that you can choose what works ...