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that it was supposed to be a joke? I decided to keep it to myself because they wouldn’t punish everyone. That would be unjust and unfair. Yet, I felt like not telling them was just as bad as what happened. I couldn’t decide what the right thing to do was. This guilt was making camp feel like a nightmare that I couldn’t wake up…

Interviewer: How was school like before the incident happened at Pleasant High? How do you like school after the incident? Which did you like more? Thomas Bishop: I loved school. I loved the way things were before the school shooting at Pleasant High. Ever since Dr. Henry Willner was hired as the grief and crisis counselor, things took a turn for the worse. Everything got stricter. I hated school after the shooting. Dr. Willner implemented new rules at the school that is just plain absurd. If…

How could there be no reports filed after what I had witnessed? I observed a man pull and swing an inmate to her knees! How could this clash not be considered the use of force? Questioning this sergeant’s authority is not something that I desired to do. Especially this particular sergeant, this RC sergeant had a reputation for not adhering to the rules, not reporting the use of force and creating the Greenwall in her unit. Standing there for what felt like five minutes, sweat beading on my…

day she studies and does homework for anywhere up to twelve hours. She is very dedicated to doing her absolute best in school rather than just skate by which is admirable to me. When we do homework together and I get distracted or am procrastinating she reminds me or helps me understand the assignment and I will do the same for her. Sometimes Gabby cannot see how wonderful and truly amazing she is and anytime she doubts herself whether is school related or a personal issue she is struggling with…

16 to 22 here as from verse 16 onward Qohelet introduces his new topic on judgement in a typical manner by using “I saw something” signaling another reflection. Although he mentions in v. 17 “a time for every activity, a time to judge every deed”, I do not see any significant connection of these verses with verses 1 to 15. In discerning the theology of Ecclesiastes, I note that within the book that there are tensions which are multiplicity of competing speaking voices with different ideologies.…

I am writing to you on the eve of my 45th birthday. I have been struggling with my values and spirituality lately. Maybe it has something to do with this milestone birthday. Ironically, I have a homework assignment to write my ethical will. A document to pass along key morals, values and life lessons. Grandma always told me that God hears the prayers that live in your heart, both the joys and struggles. And He answers them, you just have to listen. She also told me that struggles are…

I get goosebumps on my skin. Finally reaching the football field with two minutes to spare coach tells us to warm up. Getting in the usual formation, the teammates that were banging on the lockers finally show up and are a couple of minutes late. We do the usual warm ups we learned back in summer camp, while the coach made the late teammates run sprints down the field. As practice goes on I notice one of my teammates brand new gloves. I remember them from a store I went to earlier in the summer…

in a fight and verbally abusing another officer. As Phillips (1992), notes, there are not many leadership courses that would advise a leader to avoid a confrontation with another, instead, they teach the “can do” viewpoint. In Lincoln’s story, he describes how a man with bigger things to do, does not have time to quarrel, not to mention the consequences that come from the fight. It is simply better to avoid the fight from the beginning. Lincoln uses the dog as a metaphor for the fight.…

started marking Vs on the newbies foreheads. The red ‘V’ is for virgins, which we call anyone who is new to the show. Paul then instructs the crowd to swear an oath. Each virgin holds one hand up and puts the other over their crotch. “I, Virgin Scum, Do hereby admit, in front of all these people, that I am a Rocky Horror virgin, and that I wish to lose all my morals, and accept decadence into my heart, yay though I walk through the valley of heterosexuality, I shall fear no Republicans, in the…

instead, chose to. He had never planned on this, and yet, there he was- working a job he had never really expected, and never really wanted. He did this for twelve years, and eventually came to the point in his job where he was teaching people how to do the job. They listened to him, and he found that he enjoyed helping them. Then, later, another unexpected twist: When talking to one of his friends who was currently in college, Mr. Kaufmann decided that maybe he could after all, and, bearing the…