Cookies

Norwegians celebrate Christmas like no other. Christmas isn’t a holiday in Norway, it’s a season. They start off the Christmas season by making a minimum of seven cookies. Then, like us, celebrate with Church services, concerts, and plays. Christmas Eve is where most families have a big feast and sometimes end with a visit from Julenisse (Santa Clause). It all comes to an end New Year’s Eve. The Syverson’s (Dad’s side…

My dad, Chris Forister, is a realtor, meaning that he sells houses, land and businesses. He also volunteers for Forks soccer and the Blue Mountain Youth Soccer League. My dad drives me everywhere and gets me where I need to be. He grew up in Hamilton, New Jersey and loved playing soccer and hockey. He has two daughters, me and my sister rosalie, and a wife (a.k.a my mom) named Michelle. I think my dad is heroic because he is hardworking, clever and selfless. I think that my dad is…

The coffee shop in Greer called Stomping Grounds is by far one of the best coffee shops in the Greenville/Spartanburg area. The atmosphere is comfy, cozy, and relaxing. The quality of their product is phenomenal as well. The atmosphere of the coffee shop is comfy, cozy and relaxing. There is a unique setting there. The design of the place gives off a peaceful, relaxing kind of vibe. There are dark ceiling with lights everywhere pointed at the walls. On these walls there are paintings painted by…

There’s nothing more invigorating as a dancer when it comes to competitions. The adrenaline coursing through your veins, the excitement exuding out your face, and those last, anxious footsteps entering the stage – it’s truly a one of a kind feeling. That is why being a part of these competitions (and many I must say), you begin to experience another type of culture – a culture that we all see today: Hip Hop. These competitions, primarily held in Southern California, bring in Hip Hop teams far…

Freedom or Indulgent? Brooke Rohlfing Ethics as an Introduction to Philosophy December 1, 2014 My thesis is that Cephalus is correct when he says that it is better to be free from bodily desires than to indulge them. The term free refers to acting as one chooses without being restrained by an authority figure. A bodily desire is defined as a want taking control of a person’s body. Indulge means to give into desires in an overly disproportionate way. Cephalus’ best argument for…

In 1994 then-president of the college Doug Orr sent a memorandum to the campus community announcing that all regular activities would be temporarily suspended in observance of three major events. MLK day, the college’s centennial, and the admission of Alma Lee Shippy in 1952, which he described as “a significant event in the history of Civil Rights and higher education in the United States South.” Two years before Brown v. Board of Education took place, Shippy’s admission, and the admission a…

Home is inexplicable, word defying and mesmerizing! It has a multitude of meanings - something different for everyone. Home for some is comfort, happiness, and contentment, whereas home for others is a, smells like a cake in the oven, fresh cookies, or for some like me home is a feeling, one that I get when I am with the little boy with the bright eyes. Aryan Roopnaraine is that little boy, he was born on January 29th, 2014 with lush black hair and mesmerizing eyes. His laughter, his smiles,…

Raw or unwashed foods share portions of germs in relation to our hands, so does the cutting board we use daily in the kitchen preparing some of our best memories during our lifetime. One leaf of lettuce that’s been washed or bake cookies coming out of the oven and hitting the floor have fewer chances of making you ill according to both science and family beliefs. So the next time, you pick up food that’s dropped to the floor know without a shadow of doubt the floor does have bacteria…

In the movie, Inside Out, the main character, Riley, who is an eleven year girl experiences emotions through the five emotions of fear, disgust, anger, sadness, and joy. The movie starts off as Riley as a baby. Riley experiences both happy and sad memories. Each core memory influences her personality. Riley goes through life with the help of Joy, but when she moves from Minnesota to San Francisco, everything changes. Core memories are objects of major importance in the movie. They represent…

We got our home made cookies from Dr. Schommer…yummy! and were engaged in a 2 or 3 groups exercise, for person 1 on how to describe a location from where we are now which is the classroom while the 2nd or 3rd person choose one of the following without revealing to no 1 person his or her choice. Either a blind, don’t speak English, deaf, can only travel by bus and so on. This exercise helped us to understand that we will meet a lot of people in our work field that may be experiencing any of this…