Happy Birthday to You

“One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want.” Proverbs 11:24. In “The Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank, there were people who displayed great selfishness and there were those who displayed generosity. Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl whose family went into hiding during the Holocaust. She wrote in her diary about all the events that went on in the Secret Annex. These events define each individual and show various changes in…

Carol as well as melancholy tunes such as Autumn Leaves and The Sounds of Silence. 
 Jessica shares her story about what sparked her path at the tender age of 13~ There is a magical moment in one’s youth that propels you into your destiny and that moment happens to be the week of my 13th Birthday when my parents surprised me to a night of Disco! I had a wrap dress, high heels, flawless makeup and fluffy hair I looked 18 easily. We went downtown to the Ipanema Discotheque across the street from…

University. Not being with my parents was a challenge I knew I could face head on; my parents raised me to be very self-sufficient. However, I did not anticipate how arduous it would be when I felt stranded while all my friends went home for Labor Day, birthdays, and long weekends. I was left with…

Drinking, and particularly underage drinking is a possibility that seems to flood your consciousness when you step onto a college campus like the University of Georgia. It’s pervasive, and everyone who’s anyone seems to be doing it. Of course there are conscientious objectors, medical abstainers, and those who decide to just wait until they’re 21, but at least in my experience it seems that almost everyone falls into the camp that imbibes. One of the first things I did in college was decide I…

We usually say children are angels, but not everyone has a happy childhood, some are blessed and some are alone. If children could choose their childhood, what kind of childhoods would they choose? At present, more and more parents are busy, so they have decided to let them stay with daycare or a babysitter. In the United States in 2007, 2.3 million children under age five were in daycare . The issue is daycare problem. Daycare is not beneficial for children under the age of five, and one parent…

their housewarming party. Sanjeev does not approve of these statues in his house because he is afraid of his guests judging him. When he threatens to take the statues to the dump, she says, “‘Don’t you dare.’ She stood up, letting the book fall into the water, bubbles dripping down her thighs. ‘I hate you,’ she informed him, her eyes narrowing at the word ‘hate’” (149). Although Sanjeev feels guilty while saying this, he feels as if the relationship is one-sided and therefore does not feel…

California(the bay area). All of my family on my mom's side had lived there my grandma, aunts, uncles, and lots of cousins. The sad thing though is that I had to move out of California and go to Colorado. My birthday was even the day that my family and I were moving so I had a sixth birthday party before we left all of my family was there. The next morning my uncle from Colorado came to California to help us move it was a sad day that day. When I got in the car I was crying my eyes out, I…

I walked downstairs. I could not believe it. I had no way of escaping it. It had to happen. I had to do whether I wanted to or not. Most people wouldn’t say that after someone revealed a birthday surprise. I repeated the question over one more time in my head “Do you want to take flight lessons for your birthday.” It all started with me being asked to be with my uncle for a week on vacation. I was excited until I was asked to FLY A PLANE. I barely slept the night before. My uncle had breakfast…

sixteenth birthday to receive a cosmetic surgery that she has been waiting for throughout her life. She awaits to transform into a Pretty so that she can conform to the societal standards of beauty and be included in New Pretty Town. However, a journey follows on where Tally realises the downsides to becoming a Pretty. The major argument the story explores is how society emphasises the importance of beauty and the idea about the importance of identity. I noticed how the Uglies “weren’t happy”…

On October 25th I visited a park called Discovery Green for the first time. The park is located downtown in the heart of Houston at 1500 McKinney St. This earth-rooted venue is has lots of space for you to enjoy yourself and is surrounded by lots of big trees. This looks like a fantastic park for families or parents that want to find fun activities for their children. The very unique park has art structure that represents Houston and interesting paintings, in which it gives a nice background for…