Choir

This year, I will be receiving Confirmation. Confirmation is important to me because I am able to renew my Baptismal promises as a teenager with more understanding. I am also able to choose a saint to inspire me. I hope Confirmation will draw me closer to Christ. The sacrament of Confirmation is an important part of the Catholic journey. You renew your Baptismal promises. This sacrament strengthens us by giving us the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Confirmation deepens our relationship…

Center stage. A single actor in a pool of white light, his jaw opening to sing the first note of “Santa Fe” from the musical, NEWSIES. That is the director’s main goal, in my opinion; to captivate audiences within the first couple of seconds. One of the director’s main roles is to help guide actors during rehearsals. When I was younger, nine or ten, my elementary school teacher told me that I could be an excellent teacher. That has stuck with me through the years. A lot of the teachers that I…

Racial integration is the goal of leveling barriers to association allowing and enabling equal opportunities for all races. In the 1950s, despite many efforts to keep a segregated world, nine African American teenagers took a step to help create an integrated society. The novel The Lies We Tell Ourselves examines the lives of nine African American teenagers; in particular the life of Sarah Dunbar. Sarah Dunbar was one of the first black students to attend a previously all-white Jefferson High…

Adolescent Interview The adolescent I interviewed was my brother, Nathan Brown. He is a 17-year-old young man that just finished his junior year of High School. Nathan overall seems like a normal adolescent, but there are several things that make him slightly atypical. In the interview it impressed me how mature and thoughtful his answers were about school, friends, family life, himself, and his goals. He seems like an uncommon adolescent because he does not feel the need to rebel and he does…

The more a soldier seeks solace in the trenches, the more the earth of his mind becomes riddled with trenches and scarred from fallen shells. When a soldier returns home, he leaves the battlefield, but the battlefield has scarred his mind, and his head remains foggy with gas. Erich Maria Remarque, Ernest Hemingway, and Wilfred Owen documented the harsh reality faced by a soldier. These poets and authors words describe how loss is not just physical for a soldier. Each work describes how through…

Kenyon Neal Clutter, at the age of fifteen, passed away in his childhood home on November fifteenth nineteen fifty-nine. As many people know Kenyon along with several of his other family members was killed by being shot in the head. Kenyon was born on the twenty-eighth of August in nineteen forty-four. He was delivered in Garden City and lived all of his life in Holcomb, Kansas. Kenyon attended the Holcomb consolidated schools. He was very intelligent and had great grades. Unlike many boys…

The assigned Emily Dickinson poems seem to have a theme connecting death with God. I believe Dickinson sees the world through the lens of loss. Grief seems to consume her poetry. It is as if Dickinson ruminates on the subject of death analyzing it from many angles. Her poetry also hints at her attempts to reconcile her thoughts and feelings about death and her relationship with God. I think in the grief-filled aftermath of loss, Dickinson’s contemplates the role of God in life and death as…

Some of the similarities of Ralph and Jack are they both are older boys who are quickly establishing to be the leaders of the island. They both agree that rules are necessary for their survival. They differ because Jack is so focused on killing a pig he forgets about the most important things, like survival and shelter. Ralph and Jack disagree what is important. Jack says, “you need an army-- for hunting. Hunting pigs--”(32). Jack thinks too much about himself and glory of killing a pig. Ralph,…

book in my locker and I had to get it. For some reason, the people that I talked to did not like the math teacher for his or her own reasons. Another one of my teachers I did not like was my choir teacher. One year she said I was off pitch and told me to mouth the words for solo and ensemble, which are choir competitions. She also told me to do that at the last concert of the year. Seventh grade I started taking ADHD medication. I did well when I was put on it. My grades significantly improved…

underlining or taking notes, and after an hour or so of service, there was pause, someone in the back lowered the lights on the altar, the Pastor stepped aside, a soft music started playing and a dance group walked in front of us, ready to perform. The choir started singing and the dance group started dancing. Again, at my Church, we do have the beautiful, happy songs, even the clapping in some of them, but we do not do the…