A Little Deeper

I took another trip to Pao Hall of Visual and Performing Arts to see the Senior Exhibit. I was quite impressed by the artworks that were displayed in the Patti and Rusty Rueff Gallery. As I walked around the West Gallery, there was an artwork that I kept going back to. I reckoned it was a sign. An art student named Congdi Wang used a single instrument, a ballpoint pen specifically, to draw Deer in Forest (Figure 1). Compared to my inept and appalling ability to draw or doodle anything noteworthy…

room was dark and it was raining as soft music played in the background. However, it wasn’t just raining outside because tears were also raining down my face in what a weatherman would have affectionately called a heavy down poor. Beth March, from Little Women, had just passed beyond the earthly realm into the pearly gates of heaven. And, as a fifth grader for reasons I could not tell you at the time I was crying my own personal rainstorm in my bedroom while it rained outside my window.…

Today, every aspect of our civilized world is connected. You can call, text, message, chat, and video chat family in New York when you 're visiting Melbourne, or you could be in Bolivia and friend someone on social media that lives in St. Petersburg. The technology that we have today allows us to stay in contact with the rest of the world 24/7. Because of our advanced and technologically connected world, a new issue has arisen in our world of communication and relationships with others. While it…

Emily Little wrote an article titled “Too Dependent on Technology?” and she talks of how things are different in the present state compared to twenty years ago. “Twenty years ago, the world had no Facebook, no Google and no YouTube. There were no electric cars, no smartphones and no wireless Internet,” Little states. While this may be an obvious statement, it is a statement people often look over and not think…

Do you ever get the feeling that God has a sense of humour? Most of the time, I find it in life’s irony. The little things popping you are hopelessly trying to avoid, and seemingly insignificant people doing extraordinary, earth-shattering things. Initially I’ll be frustrated and angry with God (imagine inner tantrums and kicking and screaming), but after some time, especially when it is reoccurring, I finally get the point; the point that I have absolutely no control over this life, and that…

attached to a million futures, no definitive length only indefinite time. So in every moment we begin again, continuing to mold our stories. Just another once upon a time. Learning is so much more than school to me. The typical system of education has little value in my eyes. We grow from reading between the lines and infusing passion into our environments. I couldn’t tell you in a neat format about my influences and learning stories, but I can tell you all about how I experience life because…

Or you don’t even have to jump at all, it’s up to you.” I had to think for a little bit about this. The history here is a little bit deeper than I would like to admit. I had only started hanging out with Mikayla’s friends since the beginning of the summer. Zach was definitely a person I could trust, but I was still a little skeptical about jumping with him. This was my biggest fear that we were talking about here. This was the obstacle that haunted…

It began with an insecurity and grew to be much more because I was never told that it was not okay and no one ever noticed. The lack of people caring for me during that time made me fall deeper down the wrong path and would take longer getting out of it than what it did to initially begin. I have realized during this course of my life that many girls have the same problem that I experienced and where unaware of the other options out there…

Shyanne Padgett As Amber intered room she felt a coldness enter into her slender body causing shivers to run up her spine like the feeling of thousands of baby spiders running across your flesh. The room was dark and creepily colder than all the other rooms in the house. Immediately, a thought entered into her mind, “His name is Skotádi.” She looked around the chilling dark room and could feel the evilness seeping into her. She then saw what seemed to be a dark figure in the coroner. He…

I didn’t have a compass, so I couldn’t tell which direction I was going. My legs were aching and my feet were numb. I couldn’t even see the ally anymore. I was getting deeper into the city, which meant more crimes here. I had my go money ready, but that was for emergencies only. I looked down at my stomach. It was gurgling so loud I thought all of the world could hear it. I looked up to find a skyscraper hotel with big…