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...

Maria after the death of Gino and the birth of her baby Gino, sitting outside on the veranda of her parents house nursing her baby Gino. (Quiet Voice) Oh why Gino? Why did they have to kill my baby brother? He never did anything wrong!! I just don't understand!! All because of his name, Gino...

"Revision is a logical craft...it is not a matter of correctness...it's the matter of discovering meaning," said Donald Murray in his essay "Making Meaning Clear." This was the aspect of writing and revision I did not understand until reading this essay. I've always thought of revision as some...

I remember the day I met Jennifer there she was - standing there - with dimples that made my heart jump. She was the captain of the cheerleading squad and everyone knew her in school. I couldn't stop looking at her. Thoughts raced through my head. What is her name? Does she have a boyfriend? Do...

The poem from Home and Away, seemed to start off on such a nice soft note, but it then becomes increasingly harsh? I'm not sure if I am using the correct words to properly describe it. When I read the first few lines, I thought this was going to be a "feel good" kind of poem. But as I kept reading ...

The tools that Covey says that we all have are Self-Awareness the ability to stand apart from myself and observe my thoughts and actions Conscience I can listen to my inner voice to understand right from wrong Imagination the ability to envision new possibilities and Will Power the ability for us to...

Emerson's Individualism Emerson's "transcendentalism" is essentially a romantic individualism, a philosophy of life for a new people who had overthrown their colonial governors and set about conquering a new continent, in hopes of establishing new and unique views. Though Emerson is not a tradit...

2001 A Space Odyssey Like so many fiction writers, Arthur C. Clarke always tries to offer the audience a few suspenseful moments in his novel. The key for such success lies in the human's perpetual appetite for mystery. It doesn't take long for a writer to create an eni...

Earth may look like a wonderful place, but is it as wonderful as it appears to be. Today's society focuses on things that are not really important; things that we can live without; and we are all about personal gain, instead of helping others. Being human in 2004, is just as Peter Menzel stated...

Online Love The first time Jack and Sandra saw each other face to face was at the New York International airport. This was the place where Jack lived. They had actually met one night while online in a chat room six months before that, and had become lovers through their computers. After meetin...

In the sonnet XIX-When I Consider How My Light is Spent, John Milton explains his feelings when he blinded. He feels sorry for not being able to use his talent to serve God. After losing his sight he couldn't create anything but he is sure that God ordered him to serve. When he fee...

Family Emergency. My brother and I were standing in a white room where people were franticly running around. I looked at this man being wheeled by lying on a blood soaked bed. His eyes were swelled shut and he was moaning in excruciating pain. I took a closer look and realized his skull was e...

Relationships are such an important part of the human experience and of the natural progression of continued communication. I have chosen to expand on how this most integral and often confusing human experience can become a source of extreme pain as well as pleasure. How we can fall in love and out ...

The scream of a wild hyena woke Margot as if it was laughing at Francis. A cold morning draft sent chills down her body as she remembered her mission for the day. She wipes the sleep out of her eyes and finally realizes it is time to get up. The morning temperature was chilly and Margot knew she...

The Insignificance of Words A man walks down a dimly lit street; the bright red lights above the hospital’s exit are now just a faint glow behind him. As he staggers along the city blocks back to his quiet row home, he ponders the tragic news he has just received regarding his mother’...

The Insignificance of Words A man walks down a dimly lit street; the bright red lights above the hospital's exit are now just a faint glow behind him. As he staggers along the city blocks back to his quiet row home, he ponders the tragic news he has just received regarding his mother's...

My mom always told me if you are doing something wrong it comes and bite you right back. That Saturday morning it went in one ear and out of the other after she go through lecturing me after finding out my cousin was pulled over by the cops with out la license or insurance. A smirk came across my ...

I really hated the sound of that alarm clock, that piercing, irritating repeated beeping. After a second or two I slowly started realizing that it was not just another day, it was the day. I felt the movement in the bed as she reached for the clock and then the beeping stopped allowing m...

Bam! It hits you like a brick. You never now when it is going to happen, you have no clue who, where, how, and why. Until right then, everything in your life seemed so easy. Losing a friend for the first time is one of the worst things that can and does happen to a high school senior. I am Hugo Con...

When I first read the title of this poem, I was thinking of a romance. I thought this poem would be about a couple finding A Common Ground during their relationship. Quite a few thoughts went through my mind, and I pictured my parents, my sister and her husband, my brother and his wife, my newlyw...

According to Robert Philmus, in Gulliver's Travels, Swifts authorial voice is rarely detectable and instead provides the reader with Gulliver to narrate. This enables Swift to show the reader Gulliver's ironic view of humans after his encounter with the Houyhnhnms'. Gulliver acts as...

The book I read is called Insomnia, and it was written by Stephen King. I thought this book was very enjoyable. The way Mr. King writes is extremely descriptive, allowing the reader to feel as if he or she is really there. Many of the passages are so real that the reader can experience all the sense...

The Monkey Trial A famous quote "Great minds think alike". In the small town of Hillsboro there wasn't much to think about that is, the bible was the main source of the citizens. There were laws to think otherwise, such as the right to have your own opinion on how the world ca...

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard This school immerses its self in continual learning and growth experiences and considers the practice of reflection as significant to its work as the training experience. Rather...

As a representative of our Youth Group, I was asked to share my thoughts and reflections on this week's readings as part of the World Youth Day. I appreciate this opportunity and celebrate this example of our parish's willingness to listen to the youth of our faith community (even though ...