Leggings

Looking back at my childhood now, I realized that my parents taught me quite a bit about how males and females should look and behave. Whenever I would go to a park with my sisters, my mother would always tell us to not play like the boys since they played “not nicely.” According to my mother, girls know how to play nicely and share, not boys. Whenever I would play in my soccer games, both my mother and father would tell me to be careful around the male players since they were stronger and…

Elementary Politics Dressed in a neon shirt and pop art styled leggings, I sit down on the bleachers, slipping my homemade missing link mask over my face. While the rest of the student council finishes touching up their various alien costumes with copious amounts of foil, the student body files into the gym for another all school homeroom. My right leg bounces, giddy with anticipation. I am about to announce this Spirit Week’s extraterrestrial adventure movie theme, which we coined “Out of…

Unfortunately, Miami lost 0-1 to Florida International. I observed a young girl who looked about 9-10 years old. She had long blond hair in a ponytail and had glasses. She was wearing a soccer jersey (her own team, not a Miami jersey), capri length leggings and flip flops. Her whole team was at the game as well.…

when I was sandwiched between two four-foot tall fifth grade girls sporting clunky running shoes and skyscraper high ponytails framed by neon headbands. I sneakily glance at them while wiping my sweaty hands onto my bright blue t-shirt and sparkly leggings donning my school colors. Behind us, the high-pitch cheers from the spectators of the annual All Island Track Meet ring through my ears. Every year, fifth graders from the three elementary schools in our district flock to the local high school…

basketball seasons, cheerleaders wear their uniforms on game days. Two different squads represent these teams, and both of their uniforms consist of a short skirt. During football season, those cheerleaders have never been asked to put on pants or leggings to wear underneath the skirt. In the past basketball season, those set of cheerleaders had been asked to put on pants underneath theirs or they could not wear them to school. This defines discrimination towards the basketball cheerleaders…

Macbeth is a tragedy play written by the infamous William Shakespeare, in Shakespearean language, in the form of iambic pentameter. Macbeth is a play about a man named Macbeth and his wife, Lady Macbeth, the plot for Macbeth to become king and how he deals with the consequences of his actions. In this tragedy, Shakespeare uses many literary devices to convey the message of the story. One of the literary devices he uses are motifs, a literary device that is found in either a person, object, or…

splayed out and the asphalt around it has dark patches of what i can only guess is ... well. i'm staring at its head. there's a big dark spot forming around it like a halo. and here's the kicker: it looks just like me. same gray sweatshirt, same leggings. same tangled, unwashed hair i had when i left the house. all this, and the body's not breathing. it's not breathing, there's blood soaking onto the overpass asphalt, i'm floating a foot…

her classmates. She had long dark brown hair that was pulled back a hot pink headband with a flower on it. She had an identical twin sister that wore the same hot pink dress with white and pink leggings and sparkly pink shoes. The only difference between the two physically was that my child wore leggings that had hearts on them, while her sisters had stripes. This girl was very independent in every activity that she did. She showed a high activity level as she interacted with almost every peer.…

“hippie” or “peace” style. This brought popular items such as jeans, sunglasses, and tie dyed shirts. We wear jeans in most outfits now, just as they did in the sixties. You also find sunglasses on the faces of people on the beach or in sunny weather. Leggings are also very in style right now. This look came from the sixties. They took their bright colors and patterns into a thicker tight format. In the forties they usually had skin color and black tights to wear underneath their dresses, not as…

significant for it allowed me to strengthen in my faith and believe God created the Earth we live on. Foremost, the sky was foggy, and the air was chilly, with a brisk wind blowing around. Indeed, I had my hiking boots laced up and my charcoal leggings with my Columbia rain jacket. Lastly, my pink tinted water bottle was filled to the top, and I was ready to embark my ten-mile journey on the Mendenhall…