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Music: Heavy in your arms & Lungs (b-side) Florence + the Machine Is there somebody who can watch you? by: The 1975 Fitter Happier Leo’s POV He stood up, smiled at me, and walked back into the front lounge. I sat there for a few minutes before walking into the front lounge. I started walking down the front steps when Vic called my name. “Leo?” “I just need some air,” I said before stepping off the bus and into the crisp cool air. I walked down the sidewalk until I came to the park. I…

Diagnostic Essay In the days that followed the deadly Paris attacks in the fall of 2015 Texas Governor Greg Abbott decided on his own volition to respond to the events that had occurred by sending an informative letter to the president of the United States as a means to publicly announce to the Obama Administration to hold back any executive decision to accept more immigrants. As governor he would petition any migration of Syrian refugees to the state of Texas because it would be dangerous to…

I woke up with a pounding head. I tried to move my hands, to find out that they were tied behind my back. The same with my legs. My wrists were rubbed raw by the ropes that bound them, and I felt weak due to lack of sunlight. I checked my surroundings. I was tied to a wooden pole in the center of a dark tent, the only light was from a lantern, and based on how I was feeling, only sunlight helped me. As if on cue, a big burly man opened up the tent flap and walked in. The light that shined…

Everything felt like it was going in slow motion once I walked into the doors of the hospital. Doctors were running from one end to the other without skipping a beat while families were crying over losses and tragedies. Everything felt so overwhelming, but I knew what I had came to do. My heart began to race as I approached the reception desk. "Can I help you?" the woman asked. I could hear the words she was saying but I couldn 't find anything to say back. She looked at me again and asked…

Have you ever stopped for a second to analyze your life? Many times when someone struggles, it is because of their outlook. Being negative about the obstacles that are faced in life is no way to get by. Taking a second to analyze, and possibly regroup, is never something that anyone should be ashamed of. I believe that with a positive outlook on life a person can do whatever they put their mind to. For the past few weeks, I have been going through an obstacle in life that has not been easy for…

Chapter One I find it very odd how humans disagree over thing, and it then throws the entire world in a war. “I suppose it’s my turn to pick up the groceries,” I tell my mother. I walk outside, being very cautious of the bombs that might all any second. I walk, not being aware of the ground, into the biggest hole I’ve ever seen (at least in my experience)! I seem to fall for minutes upon minutes. How strange, I thought. It seemed deep, but not enough to be falling for what is about five…

Time stands still, frozen like New York in the wintertime. And all I can hear is the fast da dum da dum of my palpitating heart. Adrenaline spikes in waves through my clammy body. I look straight at the brown wooden door in front of me and pretend it is the audience. Taking a deep breath of the musky air, I envision myself bold and confident. My voice loud and clear, the words of my testimony flowing like a rushing river without a stutter or voice crack. The silence breaks as I feel a light tap…

I sat appalled, not daring to drop my gaze. His eyes were dark similar to mine when I would become enraged. Deep and hollow, no life in them. After all those years singing to a mirror or my shower head, those harmonic tunes...the owner of the song was just meters in front of me. The frigid water would cascade down my back to the point I knew it was time to leave the shower. I knew I was a terrible singer, just ask my pet goldfish - which died. I shuddered at the remembrance of the funeral I…

I nestled in the suffocating sheets of the bedding in my room, the room I had been confined to since the tragedy. The tragedy that twisted my once perfect life into a tumbling spiral of pure sorrow that I couldn't grasp. I breathed raggedly peering into the complete blackness of the room. I listened to the constant echoes of the machines that pumped medicine into my fragile body. I felt that I didn't deserve it because of the misfortunes that I caused. Feeling my mood dimming down to an…

Exhaling a soft sigh she placed her right hand against her back, messaging it gently as her head tilted from side to side. She had been on her feet for a little over 4 hours already performing a heart transplant surgery, and would soon be heading into her next surgery. Inhaling a deep breath she dropped her hand from her back and lifted it to stretch across her chest, she dropped that arm and did the same with the next one. “I don’t know why I thought I’d be able to do this… you know with out…