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open and slipped in. Her skin was a dark olive shade and she over an inch taller as she stood beside me cross armed. She wrinkled her nose, sucking in her curved lips, her eyes grazing over me with a smirk. “You must be Maricel” She said. I tried to move away from her to mask my discomfort as my body betrayed me with nervous gestures. “I am who I am,” I replied. She tilted her head. “So how is Lemuria treating you?” “It is a lot to take in” I replied softly, keeping my eyes on the floor,…

Joseph Mitchell’s Up in the Old Hotel published in 1992 contain a collection of the best of his writings for The New Yorker dating back to the 1940s. The four books include McSorely’s Wonderful Saloon, Old Mr. Flood, The Bottom of the Harbor, and Joe Gould’s Secret. The books are still renowned to this day for their precise and respectful observations and portraits of eccentrics on the outskirt of New York’s social scene. One of these characters was Joe Gould, a penniless and unemployable man…

Areeba Hasan Pictures of Hollis Wood A family is the most important thing in the world. However, many of us don’t realize a family’s importance. It’s the people in life that want you in theirs. It’s the people that accept you for who you are. These are the people that would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what. However, not everybody is blessed with a family. Such was a story of a girl named Hollis in the book called Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff.…

“Those books you read. Common Sense, Atlas Shrugged, all of them?” “Yeah?” “I had their contents stored in my brain when I was born. Every word of every book has been in my memory since I can remember. That’s how I knew they even existed. And also the location where the Mother Country stashed them. When I was fourteen, I broke open the storage unit containing them, and stole every single last one of them. The Unite was furious, but never made the heist public knowledge, and they never found out…

Held on the first Friday of every month, Just Bust is an all ages open mic held in downtown Madison. Individuals can dance, rap, sing, or perform poetry. It is free and open to anyone who is willing to listen or perform. Just Bust is led by the Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives(OMAI), whose mission is to provide innovative, culturally relevant hip-hop art programs to inspire engagement, learning, and activism for diverse communities. It is a safe environment to make yourself heard, since…

CAI 121 Product Id & Purchasing Unit 3 Lecture During this unit, we will compare and contrast the methods used in food preservation, name the various packaging materials used in food service, and emphasize the importance of product specifications. We will also look at the considerations made in conducting quality analysis, and explore the concept of make-or-buy. As we continue with the unit, we will examine the organization of staffing as it applies to food service operations, and cover what…

Hulga Hopewell of "Good Country People" is a unique character in O'Connor's fictional world. Although O'Connor uses the intellectual, or the pseudo-intellectual, in one of her novels and in seven of her short stories, Hulga is the only female in the bunch. Her gender, however, does not keep her from suffering the common fate of all the other O'Connor intellectuals. In every instance, the intellectual comes to realize that his belief in his ability to control his life totally, as well as control…

“Do you wanna, do you wanna be, happy” “Intro” by J. Cole Forest Hills Drive The sixth shot of Grey Goose burned my throat as I forced it down. I gasped, then laughed at the girl who threw up next to me. “Such a lightweight,” Arianna laughed. I was accustomed to drinking rum with my family and had become great at holding my alcohol. Being Jamaicana had it’s perks. The drive back to The Waldorf Astoria Resort Boca Raton Resort, from the concert was crazy and I needed to enjoy myself. More J.…

With each round of the seasonal carousel comes the holidays, which come and go like old friends. They bring memories of past, and promise of new traditions to come. Whether it is winter the incandescent branches of pine are adorned in glittering glass.. Easter, when children scatter in search of painted eggs. Halloween, where children come knocking late in the evening, or thanksgiving-- thankfully eating until you almost yack. Every holiday is filled with their own unique traditions from the…

Georgetown Cupcake was founded on February 14th, 2008, almost at the beginning of the economic crises. Two sisters who left their glamorous corporate jobs to go after their own passion-- Sophie and Katherine, run the store. The sisters are only a year apart and were raised in Toronto. Sophie Kallinis LaMontagne pursued a Bachelors of Arts degree in Molecular Biology from Princeton University. Katherine Kallinis Berman received a Bachelors of Arts in Politics from Marymount University in VA. What…