National Coming Out Day

leadership principles and will relate them to leaders I have experienced in my career. Additionally, I will look at three of Lincoln’s stories and relate them to an experience I had in my career. Get Out of the Office Phillips uses this chapter to talk about Lincoln’s habit of wanting to go out and be with his people in the field. Lincoln felt it was…

family. With that being said, after about twenty years of blocking out my childhood memories, I was suddenly drawn back to my roots; I wanted to become a publicized nonentity and escape from everyone and everything. Dreaming of becoming your twenty-first century Thoreau, I sought to be alone to reflect and rebuild.…

This group is for women that has experienced sexual assault, either physically or mentally. The group’s purpose is a safe place for women to talk about their experience and come to acceptance with what has happened. Also, to grow from the situation instead of the opposite. We would have the group meet in a private room on campus. The setup of the room would be, have the chair in a circle so that no one will feel excluded. There will be a table with refreshments such as, cookies, water, and…

Shadow Traveler and Healing Light An average day in the life of Will Solace Will Solace is normal. The truth of this matter, of this entire story, is that Will Solace is just like any other student on the cusp of graduation, he’s just like any other boy at his age, he is at his very core, absolutely like every single one of us. This school day is not at all different from all the other school days. He wakes up at the crack of dawn. He brushes his teeth. He takes a shower.…

Cotton Candy You've always known about cotton candy. The fluffy, sweet circus treat everyone has always loved and looked forward to when they go to the county fair. Although it may not be as popular as chocolate, skittles, or your favorite candy, cotton candy has a unique history that many do not know. The main topics that are discussed, is the how was it made? How is it made inside the machines today? And how has the flavor of cotton candy evolved? Cotton candy may be simply mostly sugar, but…

“Land, land!” I was out playing with my childhood friend when we heard shouting. What we caught a glimpse of was the strangest thing we could possibly think. We were hidden behind the trees so that ‘it’ could not see us. What could they possibly be? As my curiosity grew stronger, I could no longer help it and went out to meet them. My friend tried to stop me, but was unable to, so he had no choice but to follow me in my adventure. Once they noticed us, they tried speaking to us in a language we…

wire electrified me, but it was really quick, so it did not hurt as bad as I thought. Then I saw a sign with a riddle on it. It had a riddle on it about left or right. I quickly derived information out of it, and I surmised that the right passage…

follows the journey of Alfie Byrne, and his theatre group at St. Imelda’s, as he figures out who he is in Dublin, Ireland in 1964. Given the setting of the play being in very Catholic Dublin, Ireland, especially in 1964 the lives of the characters are impacted in many different ways. The hold that the rules of the church have on them impacts all of their lives differently. Alfie doesn’t feel comfortable coming out as gay to even his closest friends and family. Lily is left waiting for Alfie to…

and can’t get anything to come out. This is why it is the scariest and most dangerous silence because there is nothing more frightening to humans than not being able to do or achieve something. The image above depicts a “silent scream” referring to the atomic bombs that were dropped in Japan. In this scene in the movie, the Butoh dancer is obviously showing that he is going through a painful and horrific event. While it appears that the dancer is screaming his lungs out, he can’t seem to muster…

It was a lot of soccer, but I jumped at the chance. It was raining, which was always more challenging, as the ground was slick and it was hard to stay on your feet. The only time games were called was if there was lightning, but that day there was just a lot of rain. We were in the second half with about five minutes left I was running down the right side of the field with the ball. None of my team was up with me, so I knew I was going to be taking a shot. A defender came towards…