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There are many that congratulate me and compliment my work, work ethic, and accomplishments once they hear where I am going to college and my plans when I get there. I do normally go along with the compliment and take credit for my successes, in part because compliments make me recoil, and explaining the extent to your influence would be too expository and frankly unnecessary in some situations. Your effect on my life goes beyond what I could ever expect, or even consciously like, and your…

Jakiyah...I would be able to see & feel when you didn 't want to be with me. I could feel the unhappiness or awkwardness in between us. I knew that you didn 't like kissing me even when you texted me , you felt love but in reality felt nothing. Touching me was another Obstacle for you , I know you didn 't want to do anything physical. That 's why that Friday was special to me because you were actually getting close with me. If you forced yourself to get close to me well I 'm sorry for making you…

College Essay by; Keishawna Foster Lying is not acceptable and that people shouldn’t do it and that it does justify in our society. I think that if someone is lying for a good reason and an important reason then it will be ok. But if people are just lying because they don’t want to tell the truth or they got stuck in a situation where lying was the only thing that they could do and they don’t know how to tell the truth because they are so used to lying that they just keep lying to keep the…

The Dress Looking at myself in the mirror, I felt beautiful for the first time in a very long time. This was it! I knew I had found the dress of my dreams. How could this dress be so important to me? Others did not understand at all, but I knew I just had to have it. It was the first dress where I felt comfortable in my own skin. I looked back into the mirror, and I saw the most beautiful red dress that hugged my hips and had just enough beading to make me feel like a princess. I didn’t believe…

hang out after games and go bike riding after school, we did a lot together. A few weeks later we were doing drills. Coach Jose would hit the ball to us, lets us catch it, then throw it back to him within five seconds. the ball came in a little too hot and smacked into Blake’s lower stomach. He was knocked to the ground and could not get up. He was so hurt he did not show up to the next practice. When Blake came back there was a change in the ambiance. He was no longer fun,he would talk back to…

Throughout my life I’ve known plenty of people, and quite a few of them ended up being rather toxic. This particular debacle began over vacation on the cusp of autumn. My sister and two of our friends were together on a trip to Newport, Rhode Island, and on the two hour car ride there, one friend, I’ll call her A (I don’t want to use any names), threatened to reveal a long-time secret kept between her and another of my friends who was also my boyfriend, J, which had the codename of “Muskrat.”…

Gilma Burdge and the Disease Gilma stared in disbelief as her mother coughed up blood. She ran to the kitchen and grabbed a cold washcloth. When she got back to her mother’s room, she had collapsed on the floor. Gilma picked her up gently and laid her on the bed, placing the damp washcloth on her forehead. She looked at her mom’s fragile figure and whispered, “Don’t worry momma, I’ll keep you healthy.” She got up off the bed and walked to the phone, quickly dialing the clinic’s number. It rung…

Out of all age groups, teenagers are most commonly labeled as going through phases.Its true, at the end of the day, I am just a young 18 year-old girl. I think that I know everything, but the truth is I have an entire life ahead of me. I am still learning the ways of life each and every day. That doesn't mean, however; that I don’t know what it is that I want for myself in this time and moment. Don’t tell me that I want tattoos and piercings just because my friends have them, only because it is…

“I’m not good at stories, Pidge. Why do you need one?” “Because I’m having the anxiety of a lifetime for the testing we have tomorrow.” “You’re smart, you’ll do fine. Go to sleep.” “Ah, come on Hunk, bore me with one of your stories!” Hunk signed, plugging in his lava lamp for extra light, “Alright, fine. Uh, the story takes place in New Orleans, 1930.” “No, no, no! Do the flapper days of the 1920’s!” “Okay, okay! New Orleans, in the 1920’s. With a man named Keith, who is in his early twenties,…

From the coast of Caliifornia, the safaries of Africa, the Big apple New York. to Abingdon, Virginia...Never heard of it? Me neither! Oh by the way im Payton. I guess I could tell you a bit about myself. I was born October 31- yes halloween- gives me another reason to love October. My parendts are Nathaniel adn Brandy O'Connor. By the last name sure you can tell its Irish. My dad's from there but my mom is nowhere close, she's from new York. The way they met is like in the movies. It's so…