Lacrosse

I discovered Colorado College (CC) from one of my closest friend named Cooper. Cooper is participating in varsity lacrosse at CC, at could not wait to tell me all about the college after he committed. Hearing the new that he committed to college I texted him and invited him to get lunch. During our lunch Cooper made it his job to recruit me to CC and it worked. His enthusiasm and love for the school was contagious, when I got home I could not stop ranting to my parent about how I had to visit CC…

tried to make it resemble a spider. The back end of the puppet ballooned, which made the head very small. It was the color of lilacs with a powder pink nose and bright yellow antennae. I named it Bugsy, and he lived at my grandparent’s house in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. My little fingers couldn’t fill the enormous leg holes or the head hole to play with the puppet. Instead, I would carry it around like a stuffed animal. Until one day, Bugsy came to life. He was still a puppet, but he was…

Millbrook 's world was a whole different world than I had ever been exposed to. We had a very strict schedule filled with school six days a week, community service, sports, and study hall. Continuing with Weber’s “work hard achieve success” way of thinking, I put all my effort in each and every one of my classes. I worked hard in every aspect of my life and barely had a chance to take a breath. Four days per week, for a total of 2 hours, students and faculty devote time to service. Respect,…

Violence is King Anyone can go watch the local news and that someone got into a deadly car accident or someone got shoot or stab. The local news live off of these type of news story so people will watch their local news over another, the sayings is “If it bleeds it leads.” The question is, is all of this violent media harming the children, this argue has been heard millions of times before. With quote on quote experts on what parents should do with their children about violent media. People…

There aren’t too many stories of little Jewish boys navigating their way from the Big Apple to any level of basketball fame and fortune. Well, Yanni Hufnagel is the nice little Jewish lad who has managed to build himself into one of the most respected assistant basketball coaches on the NCAA major college level. Hufnagel started out with high aspirations to be a basketball player, but in spite of all his hard work and dedicated diligence, he was cut from his Scarsdale, New York high school…

and girls become emotional. This mixture, if you will, leads to problems with very serious consequences. Underage children find themselves in situations that they windup regretting for the rest of their lives. For example, the scandal with the Duke Lacrosse team which involved three players accused of sexually assaulting a female while she was passed out, during a frat party. Although the allegations turned out to be untrue, there are still lessons to be…

Italy’s Culture Ciao! - Hello! Italy is a very beautiful country with various landscapes. Italy has a wide range of regions from valleys to flat plains and rolling hills. Italy’s daily life is about Italian food, spending time with family and relaxing. My family has faded away from the Italian culture a lot. I like being Italian and learning more about its culture. Italy’s population is about 59.83 million people. Italy’s climate varies on where you are in Italy. North Italy is gets cold but…

blood pressure, and there was something wrong with my heart rate, I took an EKG. My doctor said that the results of my EKG were abnormal, and I was referred to a cardiologist. I was then diagnosed with borderline QT syndrome. I had to stop playing lacrosse and taking my pill for my ADD. These limitations made school harder for me because I was off my pill. It was harder to concentrate at school. Academically, my grades went up and down, and I was emotionally tired and stressed. I was taking an…

Iroquois Confederacy Iroquois Confederacy was an alliance between the six nations, and it served as the foundation for the Constitution of the United States of America. Even though this nation was founded on the basis of Indian principles, students are not being educated today about this significant treaty and the people associated to it known as Hiawatha and Shantay. Iroquois Confederacy is a vital component of the American history; therefore, the different aspects of their lifestyle will be…

The Silent Killer It’s small, quick and hungry. It weights less than an ounce, and is about ⅛ inch to ¾ inch long (Mosquito, 2015). There are over 3,500 different species around the world (Mosquito Facts-33, 2014). This creature travels throughout the globe sucking blood from thousands of innocent people and leaving behind welts and taking lives. What is the most dangerous animal in the world? The mosquito. The mosquito can live in many types of environments, reproduce quickly, and can bite you…