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After all the tragic had happen Curley and Carlson invited George to go get a drink. We were walking and saw them two guys were just sitting down and eating. Everything in that moment seem strange because of what had just happen and I was all scared and nervous for everything that would be coming more ahead after me killing someone important in my life. I decided to call Curley and Carlson to get closer to me. “Can we get out of here” I whispered. “ I feel everything strange around here”…

Life is rough. Not a multitude of people can deny that fact. Life is one colossal challenge that can be difficult to push through. It can be a struggle to find a reason to jump out of bed in the morning. However, the optimistic thought of an exceptional day's possibilities often pulls me to my feet. What drives me is hope. Hope that tomorrow the sun will be shining brightly and has the potential to be so much greater than today. People have dreadful days, but with hope, they can rise out of bed…

Continuing story of Cougar in the Hunt 2: Did You Really Say 21? Is the power of intense attraction a force of nature or a force to be reckoned with? As empowered, free, a liberated women, how do we balance personal discretion and our myriad of choices? Appreciation from a suitor, especially with a broken heart, is intoxicating and for me this reach was far beyond addiction. It was a rip-current literally pulling my body further out to sea. Swimming against the power of this current, for the…

The first time I knew I was exceptional at hiding when I attended a birthday party at three years old. In my first hide and seek game, I had hid under colorful blocks for more than ten minutes, not moving and not flinching. My rendezvous with those colored blocks had took place unbeknownst to even the adults at the party for a while after the seeker had found everyone else. The second time I knew had occurred when my English teacher assigned a personal essay about nonconformity. She had said,…

Harvey began the day after I moved in, so it really changed the atmosphere of the campus. Usually there would be many activities and giveaways on campus after the students move in, but it had to be cut short because of the hurricane. I was stressed and scared throughout this whole experience. My parents decided to go back to Houston that Friday which caused me to get worried about their safety. It was also going to be my first time experiencing a hurricane without them nearby. I tried to remain…

One summer day a girl came to talk to me on the playground, her name was Judy; noticing right away the stylish dress complemented with a red vest. Immediately sharing a bit of her life, her father a doctor, they lived on the other side of town within a nice neighborhood. Slow going is the friendship, although, moved along, she did all the talking, I have never seen her in a class or at lunch, only on the playground. However, this companionship on the playground was brief, after I showed her a…

In addition to the physical problems and realities of people lacking basic necessities for life Salva is also is facing emotional and physiological issues with the loss of his family and the isolation within itself. In these incredibly tough times salva has shown how hope can be as important than food and water can be. It’s amazing how someone can survive in those circumstances, but much more how he found the way to want to survive, that requires finding a source of determination, hope, and…

When I was about nine, I went through a period of extreme depression. Getting out of bed was a struggle, and I wasn’t living, I was surviving. I was not living a life. Fast forward to age twelve, I found self harm, destroying myself every time I felt like I was losing myself. By thirteen I tried to overdose, the lowest point of Mariana’s trench I had ever been in my life up to that point. By fourteen my life had flipped yet again, losing my grandmother sent me into a spiral I had no way of…

Timothy Walt, a seventeen - year old boy scout had one big survival story to tell after his ordeal in climbing the Clavender Mountain in Aspen, Colorado near his hometown. It was June 22, 2017, a group of boy scouts assembling in the foot of Clavender Mountain for the “4th Annual Winter Survival. Timothy Walt was very excited to participate in the prestigious event. Timothy watched at the beauty of the mountain and it was magnificent – sharp peaks, stony slopes and serene ponds expansive to the…

To begin with, it happened in the 7th grade and had a group of friends that consisted of four of us. We all went to Canyon Hills Junior High School, met in the beginning of the year. Around the middle of the year, one of them started to act a little distant, but I thought nothing of it. For weeks, I noticed she became more distant every day. One day, she did not sit with us in lunch. We were all concerned because we knew she was in school and did not leave. We looked for a while before “…all at…