2006 in film

As I read my strengths, I saw that being restorative, disciplined, focused, and an achiever can help me be more on top of things in regard to school and future jobs. As a person, everyone needs good skills in order to succeed in anything they do. In my situation, I need these skills in order to do better in school and eventually when I’m done with college I will need these skills for a job. Being restorative is a way of being able to solve problems and leading me to a solution. Being disciplined…

Illness It began on a Wednesday morning, I was doing my morning routing dropping of my children’s to school, daycare and from there head to work. I started to have a weird feeling, but decided to ignore it something that I had done for a decent while. Therefore, the night arrive I was heading back home from picking up my children’s from my mother’s house. The same feeling that I had in the morning got worse. Moreover, the feeling start off with shakiness, nausea, stomach problems, nervous,…

Intentional Prayer This semester and the last several years I have been intentionally praying for my great Aunt Colleen. She has many health issues including arthritis, kidney failure, obesity, and many others. My family has constantly been praying for her to be able to live a long time and be healthy. In the last few years she has been able to maintain a relatively normal lifestyle because of dialysis and water aerobics. She has always been directly involved in my life. She never married or had…

Although so much has changed and improved in rape culture, there is still so much growing that still needs to occur. Far too often, the victim blames his or herself. Regardless of the amount of clothing they were wearing, or if they were voluntarily on a date with the person, or if they were drunk, it is never the victim’s fault. This was very hard for me to understand, and over the past two years, my mind has been flooded with many contradictory thoughts. Was I raped? Of course not. You…

The lake seemed to stretch on forever as if the mountain was slowly draining into it and creating perfect copy of itself. Halfway across the world from my home in Massachusetts, the wilderness of New Zealand reached out to me. The hours before had been full of adventure as my father and I had trekked to both the Fox and Franz Josef glaciers. The final trip had not even been part of our plan, but as we drove through the quaint mountain town of Fox Glacier a blue sign signaled the route to the…

Rosy Red Petals BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP… Briana opens her eyes as she hears her alarm clock ringing in her ears. She then jumps right out of the bed before it flips her over. It is 6:30 A.M. and she needs to get out of the house by quarter till 8 at the latest. She is dragging herself into her shower booth, luckily the bathroom is already steamed up for her. She takes a quick twenty-minute shower and runs downstairs in her robe to start her kitchen to make her breakfast and lunch. She stares at…

Before this year, I had not attended school since 2007. I did not graduate high school but instead earned my GED. I moved at my own pace and sometimes I felt left behind or lost. I believe no one in my life understood how I felt soon enough to make a difference. I found my own motivation and created my own drive. English 101 inspired me with a strange and unexpected rhetoric. Every word uttered in that class was not a jest, but not all meant to be taken seriously either. In my opinion, all the…

I am not sure about all of you, but I have recently been hearing the phrase “it’s cuffing season” more and more often. I might be old-fashioned, but I had not heard of this before this year. So let me explain it for those of you like me who have no idea what it is. In simplest terms, when the winter months come, single people find themselves searching for a partner more than they normally would throughout the rest of the year. Studies show it has to do with the cold weather, the lack of daylight…

Narration Summer is when people have fun with friends, enjoy the hot, dry air, go swimming, and live it up. It is when they are finally out of school and feel free again because they have nothing to worry about for the next three months. However, if someone wants shoes as nice as the Mizuno Wave Inspire 12’s like I did, one has to do a little work. The shoes looked so light that when wearing them, it would feel like walking on clouds, and the color was a gorgeous Key West green. My uncle is…

“Sooo, Stella, how was your date yesterday?” As usual, Kira lacks any subtlety when asking about anything. “It wasn’t a date.” “You know it would break Gracie’s heart to hear that.” “I’m sure she’d live, because it was never a date.” She sighs dramatically. “Always crushing optimism for everyone else.” “We were working on a project, which you know, since you’re in our group.” “Hmm, maybe so, but you’re getting defensive, which means you maybe wished it was more than just studying?” “Are…