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I was sceptical at first when I began reading Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, because I always judge books by their covers, even though I really shouldn’t. I have also found that as I got older I’ve had less and less time to read during the day, so finding time to be able to sit down and read the entire book book was a little bit of a hassle. While I started reading this book I slowly fell in love with it, because It just gelled with me really easily. I figured out the genre as teen fiction…

The bell sounded throughout the classroom and building. All around me, kids hurridly packed up their backpacks and scurried out the door. Everyone wanted to get out of this dull school as fast as they possibly could. I took my time. The white classrooms and halls of school existed as my only relief place; it was the only place I could relax. At home, real stress weighed down on me. “You’re really in a hurry.” I glanced up from my assignment book to see my Algebra teacher, Mrs. Read, smiling at…

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don 't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”-Lao Tzu. Often humans don’t like sudden changes and being out of their comfort zone. We go through changes all throughout our lives, and often we learn to accept that change or at least adapt to it. Positive changes can help us with life’s situations and negative changes can help us learn to solve situations and…

What really makes us happy? Many people believe it is wealth, family, and fame. Do those factors really affect happiness? Studies have shown that excessive wealth (over $75,000) has no additional effect on happiness, and along with fame may, in fact, decrease it. What really does make us happy? I have been happy when doing volunteer work, spending time with friends, and while working on an interesting project. The definition of happiness that I get from examining those experiences is this:…

Who don’t wants to see his/her family happy; everybody does, and we work hard for that as well, but somewhere in the corner of our heart we know that we are falling behind. There are some habits that drive us away from our happiness and from our family lives. These are the practices that kill our mindfulness and bring stress. No matter how many times we try until we vanish these, it would be hard for us to live happily. Let us explore these Habits Through this Article Wakening up In the…

Could you ever imagine waking up one day and everything was different? Not being able to be sprawled out in your perfectly good bed each morning, but waking up in various locations for protection. Having to carry some sort of weapon every time you go outside just in case you run into a pack of zombies looking for fresh flesh. This all seemed too much and it was only my first year at Missouri State. A zombie apocalypse was not something I expected from college, especially to be one of the few…

What is the purpose of education and how students can be reformed by it from our society? Students are consistently asked what they want to do with their lives pressured to fit in and decide in this short amount of time. The real question isn’t “why” or “what” you want to do here in college but is it important to yourself. I’ve seen countless examples of peers explaining how they only go to college to make their parents proud or they don’t have a passion for their major but instead just making…

Luckily, I have both of these in my life. Even though I do not always get along with my family, I still love them, and they love me. We all want what’s best for each other. The same goes for friends, my friends and I could spend every hour of every day together and it still wouldn’t be enough time. I could not imagine going a day in my life without any one of the people that I love. "A friend is a second self" (Aristotle). Every time I laugh or smile, I’m always either with my friends or my…

My views on young relationships are a polar opposite to my views on friendships. I see that too often, far too often we cling to someone who isn’t good for us just because they offer the occasional comfort. We are scared that we won’t ever be able to find someone like the person we are currently into. But truth be told there will be and we need to find someone who is really right for us, not simply convenient at the time. We need to be able to let go more quickly of relationships that don’t make…

Usually Rainbow and Twilight spent time together in the living quarters, but never anywhere else in the library; and it was mystifying to the pegasus since the library had more than three floors. Fret not, though. Twilight had insistent that Rainbow join her on the wooden balcony—illumed by the brilliant white moon and the star-painted—where they could both endure the spectacular night together, and talk about the thoughts that were on their mind. When the two ponies reached the balcony, only…