December 2002

October 14, 2014--the days are counting down and not a day spent at practice that we are not preparing for this game. The feelings can never replace a time, a place, and a team. As the days went fast, and what seemed to be the night that almost felt like it wasn’t real. The bus ride seemed to determine where we would go from here. We all knew where the bus was taking us, Spring Grove placed 6th whereas Kingsland placed 11th. The game everyone wouldn’t miss, yes due to the loss of every game we…

What is it about music that draws us in? Is it the beat, the lyrics, the artist or is it the type of genre the music is in? Could it even just be what we happen to be going through at the time we hear a specific song? For me most of these questions apply to specific times in my life where music helped me out of pain, stress, loss and even despair. There are a few of these times that stand out more than other because they have had a harder impact on me. For instance January of 2007 when my…

In every commercial you see about America, what do you see? You see farmers working in their fields, you see doctors tending to young children with their mothers smiling in the background, you see large cities with buildings so high they pierce the clouds, you see people dancing in the streets, children sitting at desks learning from large projectors, you see scientists working with the latest technology, you see the perfect ideals. However, America is not just given, it is made. This ideal is…

Passion, it has many different meanings, the most common one being where we are physically showing affection and love toward someone or something very strongly. Passion is a very strong feeling about a person or thing. Although the dictionary definition is, “A strong and barely controllable emotion,” it is so much more than that, so much more than people realize. They just need a little nudge to push them over the edge, to unlocking the true meaning of passion. To me, passion is when you feel…

The Key To Happiness! Everyone wants to be happy but people aren’t always great at predicting what will make them happy. When we are asked the question what makes us happy? We jump to a conclusion really quick without actually knowing what happiness really is. We all have different definitions of happiness and that is good because no one’s is going to be the same. For instance, someone’s happiness could be finding a shoe sale or watching the sunset at the beach another could say getting married…

Not All Ghosts Say Boo After reading the Ghosts and seeing the live production, my ideas and thoughts about some of the parts of the play changed dramatically. As a reader, I was only seeing it through my eyes, but after watching the performance, I can the play in a different light. My ideas on Mrs. Alving, Engstrand and Regina changed, the way that I saw the antagonist and protagonist changed, and my thoughts on who burned the orphanage changed. The production of Ghosts differed in multiple…

Let me first of all say that I’m Nigerian and how big a deal and normal it is for at least 7 out of 10 Nigerian parents to continuously nag their children about how many relatives are watching them and waiting for them to succeed. Most times the children including myself have no idea who most of these extra relatives are because previously we only knew a handful now members of the community and church attendees who we once said hello to because our parents accidentally bumped into them after…

There are two different types of college kids, one with grit and one without. Grit plays a major role in college. Grit can be defined as a determined or goal driven person. So what makes a college student with grit different from a college student without grit? Even though a student without grit still has a plan to finish, they do not always do whatever it takes as a student with grit would. There are several differences between the two. Some of the differences are determination, not…

Opening with David, the young protagonist, as he enters study of Professor Hobby, the blue fairy is nowhere to be found. Calling out in hopes of finding someone to help, David notices another boy, an exact copy of himself, reading a book. Moments pass as David is helplessly trying to comprehend how this child could be the “real” David when he is standing right there. Overwhelmed, David smashes the other boy to bits in a fit of hatred. This scene from A.I. leads me to wonder if John Keats is…

“Don’t lose heart. There is a force within you that is more powerful than any adversity or problem you face.” This quote is absolutely right. Every single person on this planet sustains a strength that outweighs all of their adversities. Everybody should understand and remember this quote throughout their life. People believe that their heartbeat and their life are related. People also believe that if their heart beat didn’t go up and down they would not be surviving. Then why do they expect…