A Different Story

The next line is “Or fester like a sore-- And then run?” This is another rhetorical question that is used to answer the first question. Imagine that you have a sore on your arm. You want it to become dry so that it will heal quickly and correctly, but instead the sore starts to fester or run, this means that the sore must have become infected. This will take much longer to heal now. If your dream become infected by a setback you are going to have to wait longer to achieve your dream. Once you…

Truth Essay- The Time I Performed In Orlando This is a story about my trip to Orlando in May of this year. Before I begin, I will provide you with some background regarding how I ended up going there. From an early age, I have been interested in drama. I loved going to see plays, where alternate realities would form and come to life onstage, whisking the audience into a different world. It exhilarated me, and I wanted to be a part of it. However, I was not able to get involved in the…

There are three causes of ADHD: Heredity, Structural Differences in the Brain; specifically in the frontal lobes, cerebellum and basal ganglia which play an important role in controlling motor responses, planning, motivation and behavioral inhibition, as well as reduced brain volume and Environmental Causes such as prenatal, and postnatal factors. “The essential feature of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder is a persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that is…

seriousness, God made us differently, and everyone being different obviously people think different things. Which is why people have different beliefs, and opinions on different things. I guess all we can really do is accept that not everyone thinks like you or will get along with you. In class, I learned something important near the beginning of this school year, in religion class. We learned about boats, and how boats could represent different people. A motor boat could represent someone who…

Shunning, by definition, is to “persistently avoid, ignore, or reject (someone or something) through antipathy or caution”. During the earlier centuries, the use of public punishments not only allowed convicts to be humiliated in front of others, people used it as a way to make society fear the consequences of bad actions that went against society’s faiths and morals, thus leading to shunning. Now, shunning is growing rapidly all across the country and the world. Popular forms of 21st century…

It is often interesting viewing your world and reality through the eyes of other people, listening as they decipher and make assumptions, none all that accurate, about the facts, while you 're left to live those facts. Americans have a lot of opinions about Haiti and about as many questions too. As soon as people know that I’m Haitian, I get flooded with questions that I highly doubt they want the answers to: “Why is Haiti so poor?” “Do you do voodoo?” “Where does all the relief money go?” “Why…

difference, a conflict will begin to form. The idea of conversation is what keeps relationships on good terms, it easy to say men and women have different ideas about conversation. In Deborah Tannen’s article “Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers” holds key information about how important a conversation can be. Throughout the article Tannen forms different scenarios where a couple may or may not have conversation problems. This article pushes the idea of how each person wants to talk…

Childhood and innocence are things that are seen as sacred to those who have outgrown the first and lost the latter. However, these two concepts are less linked and more complicated than one would prefer to believe. Metaphor is often used to translate difficult to describe experiences and concepts into forms that those unfamiliar with these experiences will find easier to understand and more relatable, to make the indefinite definite and the intangible tangible. The purpose of metaphor and…

I believe Washburn values diversity in many ways. There are many different kinds of people on campus and Washburn is just really friendly in general. Throughout campus, there are many people of different religion, culture, background, etc. Most won’t know this about others unless they take the time to meet somebody new or even meet them in a club here on campus. The most important part of the diversity statement to me is that they honor people of all kinds. They aren’t going to discriminate on…

Well okay it might have been a little helpful but still very different. With my own kids I never want to see them struggle. So I feel like I am constantly trying to intervene on their lives. I never want them to be upset or hurt because then it feels like I am not being a good mother, which can be very hard at times…