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My twelve year-old self bolted out of the Carteret Middle School doors and into the icy cold. I had thirteen minutes to make it across town to the library where I would begin my first job as a tutor. The shiny, slippery ground mocked me as I stepped cautiously forward. It seemed to be willing me to fall, to give up. My father would have driven me had he not been in the hospital or rehabilitation center off and on for the past two years. I continued walking as fast as my legs could safely carry…

For our table clinic we decided to research Marden-Walker syndrome. Marden-Walker syndrome is a rare inherited connective tissue disorder (3). This disease involves the oral cavity, facial features and other body parts. This disorder has distinct facial features that can allow you to differientiate this disease from others. Marden-Walker syndrome is a very rare disease. It affects males more often then females (4). There have only been twenty reported cases of this disease (4). Specific…

down to one, and with each number they count, you’ll go deeper into trance. Ten… Starting at the top. Nine… starting to relax. Eight… Just listening to the sound of their voice. Seven… Letting all the stress and tension fade away. Six… feeling your eyelids getting heavy. Five… feeling completely relaxed now. Four… going deeper and deeper into trance. Three… feeling very very good. Two… almost there… and one. You are now feeling very relaxed, and feeling…

The Heart of Prejudice Prejudice is a two-headed serpent. When prejudice exists, it is never one-sided, and it is driven by fear. In The Heart of a Samurai, by Margi Preus, one sees the dual-sided fears that create prejudice. Fears of unfamiliar customs, differences in religion, and personal appearance issues created prejudices exhibited by the Japanese and the “barbarians”. The Japanese people called Americans the “foreign devils—the barbarians” (4). Fear was created in the Japanese because…

Throughout the world, many renowned writers have left their mark in literature such as, Christopher Marlowe and Robert Greene, but none more revered than Shakespeare. In his lifetime, Shakespeare composed many great plays with distinctive plots and story lines; however, one of the most notable plays with these characteristics is “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. Some of essential reasons this play is timeless and continuously resonate with people is because of the construction of the cosmic…

In the story “The Picture of Dorian Gray” has many interpretation of the meaning of art and responsibility of an artist. For Basil Hallward art should only represent beauty and the artist should only be the bridge allowing people to see the beauty of the world. “An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.” (Page 68) Yet…

A citronella candle puddles away in a bucket, its sharp, warm scent hanging in the air. It smells like the old world—smells of summers long ago that were fresh and green and full of promise and those nights Robin had spent out on the porch with Jim, a few beers, and a guitar they passed between each other, plucking out the opening riff to “Stairway to Heaven” over and over because they never learned anything else. Robin closes his eyes. The old man does what he can for his shoulder, cleaning it…

In the novel, Turtle displays a number of characteristics such as being bashful, unusual, and lifeless. Turtle’s past life in which her mother dies and a person or possibly more abuses her results in traits that a typical child would not have. Clearly, Turtle begins by being bashful who often refuses to communicate or interact with people around her. “‘Are you a girl or a boy?’ I asked the child. It had a cereal bowl haircut, like pictures you see of Chinese kids. She or he said nothing.”(20)…

Media for most is a way of self expression. A way of showing our changing America and what the world looks like today. Sadly, Hollywood is not doing a very good job as showing what America truly looks like. Minority groups such as African Americans, Native Americans, Asians, and Hispanics are not represented in media and if they are shown, are portrayed in a negative way. Researchers of the University of Southern California conducted an experiment stating that of the top 100 films in 2014 73.1%…

Since a young age, the question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” was constantly thrown at me, forcing it to be a topic of importance even in my childhood. Growing up, I had extreme care for others; whatever I put my mind to, I was sure to complete with great passion. While narrowing down what career path I wanted to pursue, I was certain I wanted to pick something in the medical field, hoping to positively touch and change the lives of many. Optometry has had an impact on my life ever…