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I believe that I am not the same person I was a year ago. A year ago I was timid, shy, and hardly ever stood up for myself in most scenarios. Now I have become more open to trying new things. I use to hate meeting new people, but now I'm almost eager to meet someone new or make a new friend. I no longer allow people to speak for me, I have my own voice and I speak up for myself. Five years ago I was 14, and I have definitely grown a lot since then. I'm the same five years ago regarding my looks…

To begin with, life is full of obstacles and to overcome them you just got to tell yourself your not afraid. Humans have distinct thinking and there is at least one thing that makes us scared. Eminem’s hit rap song “Not Afraid” points his struggles and battles with decisions and choices he made to make him bigger and better. Eminem says, it is hard not to be afraid of anything, but you have to be strong and wise. This song has lots of meaning and motivation to strive for the best and don’t fall…

Something Gladwell did not manage to point out was the distance the information given could reach. Yes, social activism has a bigger and more direct impact on the people, but what about the numbers of people that can be reached by it. Gladwell solely focused on quality, but never mentioned quantity. What if the person expected to influence lives half away across the world. You couldn’t just travel there and back way back in the past, but today you can. Thanks to social media and applications…

My funniest moment comes with some background information so that anyone that reads this doesn’t take it the wrong way. Since I was about sixteen years old I have said that the day I turn thirty years old, that I want to die in a shark attack. I don’t say it in a way meaning I don’t want to pursue my life, and it’s not meant in a way that I’m not happy with my life either. When I say it, I don’t really mean it, but it is my way of dealing with the things that life has dealt for me and my future…

Generally, it is hard to accept the change. We all know that, change makes a huge difference in our life. Sometime it occurs when we do not expect it. It takes some time to get used to it. When we cannot accept the change, we try to adjust with it and that is what Shin and many other North Korean defectors do. When they escape from the labor camp or from the North Korea, they have no idea about what is outside of labor camp or the North Korea. They are not aware of outsider world and they do not…

When pencil and paper are brought together, the result can be a magnificent black and white masterpiece. Across the vast expanse of white paper, the lead of the pencil creates varying shades of gray and black. Each stroke of the pencil creating the next line of a story in this work of art. This story is known to all show stockmen on show day. This work of art was brought to life by Amanda Raithel in 2011. As it is titled Pit Crew, it refers to the fitters hard at work on the cattle on show day…

CAST Freddie Harris: A blue- or pink collar worker in her late 30s. She’s somewhat passive, and often exhausted by life in general. For years, she’s simply been going with the flow, because trying to resist it more than she already does by simply existing seems impossible. Her partner recently died from a chronic illness; unable to afford continued treatment and live comfortably, she chose to let herself pass. As a result, she’s feeling lower than she has in a long while. The Stranger: An…

I grew up quickly last year and realized that I don't get to control the consequences of my actions. One of the other big things I learned as well is that I don't get to choose the consequences of other people's actions either. I learned things about myself that I'm glad I know but it was difficult for me to come to terms with until I had n choice but to face the deepest and darkest fears in my life. I Learned what it meant to be a grown up and I realized that I was vastly unprepared and scared…

I Define Who I am, Not my Culture Ever since I was a child, I feel like I struggled with my identity. To me, I was seen as no one in the eyes of many. I knew I had so much potential but I did not think people thought the same of me which was bad. I have always felt like I was walking between two different cultures all my life. As I grew up, I always had two sides of me: this is my African side and my American side. Overtime, I had to accept the fact that I was always going to be different…

My life is plagued by trivial and constant problems that I have often allowed to completely blind me from anything else. I must wake up for school before the sun even rises. Sometimes it takes me an hour just to figure out what to wear and I will never have enough clothes. I can’t decide what to eat in the morning and the school I go to, in an understatement, is less than perfect. I have countless tiny problems and a habit of complaining about them daily. Ignoring how many positive things there…