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Six-year-old children do not make good doctors. This statement may seem fairly obvious, but my six-year-old-self was ignorant to this fact. Sitting in the middle of a carpet floor of a white-walled classroom, my best friend Gracie and I were using mechanical pencils to give each other ‘shots’. After cleaning our arms, hands, thighs and any other body parts that desperately needed medical attention with hand sanitizer and tissues, we traded turns being the doctor and administering the ‘shots’.…

Social networking helps kids who are very creative or talented and want to share their great experience with others. Christine greenhow states that “ students are developing a positive attitude towards using technology systems, editing and customizing content and thinking about online design and layout. They are also sharing creative original work like poetry and film and…

“2017 Motion “All or Nothing” July 27,2017, was a Thursday. The student ministry at my church traveled to Birmingham Alabama for the annual Student Motion conference. It was morning with a cool breeze when we all hopped on the bus. I sat on the bus with my friends; Hailey, and my other friends; Abby, Genevieve, Peyton, and Kaitlin sitting right in front of me. When we arrived we immediately were taken to our hotel and there, I found my room leader, Amy. Later that night we went to the…

Child Trauma What is the purpose of a childhood if your morning alarms are the sound of bombs, and bedtime stories, repetitive warnings? A Syrian refugee once said, “I grabbed the pen to write my misery, but the pen cried before my eyes did.” Hearkening a child, I repeat, a child, express such an eloquent, figurative statement should disturb the comforted and silence the disturbed. Child trauma has vigorously taken over Syrian refugees, for children have become victims of today’s…

Picture yourself in a desert. You are alone, left to your own thoughts and the sound of the wind blowing in your ears. I can close my eyes and experience this very feeling of lonesomeness and solidarity. Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth causes me to experience these feelings when I am left to myself to study the painting. Upon first look, one is immediately drawn into the girl, laying almost limp on the ground. One might wonder if she chooses to be this way or if it is due to a medical…

The novel The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald takes place in the 1920s when the Jazz age was popular, and there was prohibition. Gatsby and Tom both are similar and dofferent in the way they both love daisy, wealth, and personality. Both Tom and Gatsby love daisy, Gatsby met Daisy before he went to war Infact, he never stopped loving her. “No, we couldn’t meet. But both of us loved each other all the time, old sport, and you didn’t know. I used to laugh sometimes” (Page 131).…

Athletics have been a big part of the Saint Saviour community for many years. With the help of their coaches, students develop their athletic skills and achieve great success. As we get closer to saying goodbye to our talented senior athletes, here are three of the many who exemplify sportsmanship, hard work, and school team spirit. Sofia Rapisarda is a talented and competitive tennis player who strives to be her best. When she first picked up a tennis racket seven years ago, she fell in love…

of Power where he takes advantage of a peasant girl who is vulnerable to his riches; he says “you would choose a soldier over a king?” showing how he wrongly uses his power. A scene where he abuses power again would be when he begins feigning for Christine he has her soon to be fiancé sent to war, so he can be far away from her so as to increase his chances. Another theme…

Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. Martin Luther King had two siblings, Willie Christine and Alfred Daniel Williams King, he was the second oldest. His dad, Martin Luther King Sr, was a baptist minister and his mom, Alberta Williams was a teacher. During Martin Luther King Jr.’s childhood a lot of racism was going on. There would be different schools for black people and different schools for white people. Almost everywhere black…

The Future of Reading: The Handheld Book versus Digital Books In “Lost Books and a History of Reading Them” Stephanie Foote discusses her childhood experience growing up in a “dilapidated but much-loved house out in the middle of no where”(33). This was back before most people have Internet, cell phones, and cable TV, so books were the Foote Family’s entertainment. Foote remembers believing that her family had only a small collection of books that she had been constantly outgrowing, but as an…