Bullshit

Yoongi knew what a hangover was like and always assumed that being drugged was pretty much the same. Wow, was he wrong. The time between Jimin stealing him away from the five men to Yoongi being situated on the same man's couch was lost between a dizziness that made his limbs weak. Of course, still having at least a small bit of sense left in him, it was a given that he was going to be cautious around Jimin. His caution just ended up being little shoves to the man's chest in order to get…

“BREAKING NEWS” seems to be the consistent thing to read nowadays. I stare at the screen with the words in all-caps and red ink and think, Does this truly get people to read? Another life gone from racism and brutality. I begin to cry, remembering a December night two years ago. I was riding the local light rail to Phoenix for a show. There were a handful of people on board. Two police officers were walking around, asking for our tickets. One didn’t obey. One told the cops to mind their own…

Science is often proven by studies and theoretical factual evidence, but the same can be said for the Bible. The Bible does present realistic verification to support how certain events may have taken place. These events have been proven to correlate with historical text and depictions such as drawings and written record in assorted languages which have nothing to do with religion or Christianity. History has always been explained through testament, but will always require some form of…

We started as friends and we didn’t expect that we were going to be special to one another. It wasn’t planned at all, but when I got to know you I opened my life to you and that’s when I fell for you until it became okay and then it didn’t become okay because of situations. You are one of the people who make me the happiest and I say this without the slightest bit of exaggeration. Your jokes were so ridiculous that they always catch me off guard and have me laughing like crazy. In those rare…

“I know, I know, just bear with me for a minute. Whether we like it or not, the Common Core State Standards are here to stay. So, by a show of hands, how many of you know what the Common Core is?” Every hand in the room went up. “Okay, who would like to give me a thumbnail sketch?” Several hands rose excitedly. “Yes, you,” James said, pointing to a boy in the back row. “The Common Core is another blatant attempt by the federal government to take over control of public education, and centralize…

“Congratulations!!” read one post on a friend’s Facebook wall, the day after she landed an office job in her field. “So amazing!” read another. “Are you ready for your big-girl job?” asked a third well-wisher, accompanied by a GIF of Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope. “I can’t believe I finally have a real job” was the text she sent me a few days later, from the comfort of her desk, where she had been hired to do operations work for an organization she had once, a few years prior, interned for. It…

“By the 1960s, the first teenage generation free from conscription emerged in Britain. Young people were finally given a voice and freedom to do what they wanted. The parents of the Sixties teenage generation had spent their youth fighting for their lives in the Second World War and wanted their own children to enjoy their youth and be able to have more fun and freedom. By the early 1960s, teenagers were already significantly different to those of a decade ago.” This quote, from the article The…

In both "To live in the Borderlands means you. . .", by Gloria Anzaldua, and "Crying poem" by Jimmy Santiago Baca the authors use various unique stylistic techniques and figures of speech to not just tell the reader of their past, but to paint a picture of the circumstances they faced when growing and how they have affected them. In "Crying Poem", Baca uses the structure of his poem and various stylistic techniques to reflect the frustration and internal conflict he has faced having to "grow…

live in these rooms, who know each other's stories & share apples and granola bars because there was no food in the house after dad was arrested– We nod & smile back– Our secret knowing: Core is community Core is complex Core is connection. After bullshit banter, The suits slip out, sip bad coffee, fill out rubrics on clipboards. We close classroom doors, Proceed to spin magic uncommonly connected at the core. – Maureen Geraghty This poem was written by Maureen Geraghty, a teacher at…

Gentrification 's Insidious Violence; The Truth about American Cities Ever wonder what will happen if people band together to try to fix whole communities? What would happen if these cities now seen as blackened areas disappeared completely? What would happen to the infrastructure, and most importantly what would happen to those already living there? These very important and current issues are answered in "Gentrification 's Insidious Violence; The Truth about American Cities" written by Daniel…