Bring Me the Horizon

down to me from my father, who also learned it from his father. For three generations, my family has been hunting ducks on the same lake I grew up on. Come the first Saturday of October, my father and I, along with our yellow lab Molly would venture to the backyard with the crisp morning air inflating our lungs. Surrounded by darkness and using a spotlight for vision, we would take a short but quiet ride in our camouflage boat. As we approached our blind, a sense of peacefulness overcame me. As…

The symbol that I chose is Fire. Fire can describe different emotions from burning passion to destructive anger. Fire consumes, lightens and brings warmth alongside with death. Fire represents a big part of Hell, an eternal fire that burns people repeatedly for their evil deeds. When I was reading Elie Wiesel’s Holocaust book named Night many fire symbols were described. The first representation of fire I found was religion. The image I chose was a picture of Heaven and Hell. Every religion…

A Glimpse into the Soul of Taylor Foster Bold, athletic, and outgoing are a few words to describe a girl I happen to know very well. That girl is me, Taylor Foster. I am a junior attending Alpena High School; a few things I enjoy in my spare time are playing my guitar, running, and playing basketball. Sports take a huge part of my day to day schedule, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. My true passion is running hurdles in track and field, and I love it so much my plan is to run throughout…

the economic wealth. In The Tale of Sinuhe, pharaoh rewards Sinuhe a small pyramid and luxury living condition. “I was appointed to the house of a prince, with costly things in it, with a bathroom in it and divine images of the horizon.”2 “A pyramid of stone was build for me, in the midst of the pyramids.”3 A pyramid in ancient Egypt was extremely costly. It requires massive amount of labors and resources to construct. Pharaoh’s simple judgment can easily utilize large amount of resource without…

examples of music from many different backgrounds, I have come to realize and appreciate the diversity present in the world of music. When I was asked to select one piece of music to analyze, I was faced with a difficult decision. It was challenging for me to decide on one piece of music that I could analyze given the abundance of music. After many countless hours of searching for one piece of music that I could focus my time on to analyze, I selected a piece named October by Eric Whitacre. Eric…

Writing is a tool that should be used to push limits, and expand horizons and challenge cultural norms. Unfortunately, not all personal writing challenges the reader however, the majority of good writing will. Writing is not inherently political, but it is one of the most direct ways to express political beliefs or push a specific agenda. Creative writing however is also shaped by an authors political belief thus making it a much more political form of writing; therefore, the more political the…

whirlwinds never ceases to amaze me. The face of my whirlwinds is the thoughts that consume my heart with my Nigerian culture as the culprit. The immense pressure placed on me after my father died forced me to fill the role of the head male as the first born is destined. Our distinct culture altered my views on love, pride, and my mother. The constant need to flee from the fire of culture, the constant need to search for myself, and the constant need to find balance has allowed me to perceive…

After reading Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me I firmly believe there are many positives and negatives that both challenge and support the Dexter Southfield mission of “Our Best Today, Better Tomorrow”. The challenging factors this book offers include whether Dexter Southfield celebrates is diversity enough and if Dexter Southfield students are able to achieve our mission through focusing their time on what interests them. Not simply going through the motions daily; bored and…

now. There has been too much put at stake for me to give up now. We can’t give up. Not for myself, not for the country, not for anyone. I can’t bear to admit that I did. I can’t admit that I was wrong. Even frozen still in ice it seems like a colder fate to admit failure than to give up now. Frost bites at my hands, men are dying of scurvy and other diseases brought on by the cold,…

in mechanical engineering came, not as an epiphany, but as an evolutionary process. I realized that engineering with a focus on efficient transportation was the heart of my home country’s economy, Thailand. Automobiles became a point of interest for me. I would spend almost every weekend at an automobile repair shop near my home. I would help the mechanics in doing their job, and as my skills developed, I came to understand the role of the engineer - to design intricate and reliable machinery. I…