Long Beach City College

This is Miss Rebecca Daisy from Little, Brown publishers! My boss, Mrs. Gowdy, was skimming through some stuff I placed on her desk, and she came across Mr. Ashton’s story and –” Mark abruptly opens the sliding glass door. Looking long and limber, Mark asks who I am talking to. “Miss Daisy,” I whisper, with the phone turned away. Mark chuckles as he walks to the kitchen, asking if she sounds hot and if she knows when Morgan Freeman to coming to pick her up. I unwittingly answer his…

alcohol dependence, and cancer. Among all cirrhosis deaths in 2011, almost 50 percent were alcohol related, and in 2009, alcohol-related liver disease was the principal cause of almost 1 in 3 liver transplants in the U.S. Every year, roughly 1,800 college students (age 18-24)…

incriminating to hold him. He was released on his own recognizance. (Bundy later said in an interview that the searchers missed a collection of Polaroid photographs of his victims hidden in the utility room, which he destroyed after he was released.) Salt Lake City police had later been placed Bundy on 24-hour surveillance, and Thompson flew to…

Growing up in a community concentrated on diverse cultures that deviated to form a melting pot, I easily fit into my surroundings. West Palm Beach, Florida was the ideal place to find a sundry of backgrounds. Notably, my home was surrounded by families from Mexico, Bangladesh, and Argentina to state the least. As a Cuban- American, I assimilated with the cultures and thrived during my trips to Cuba. Each trip classified my identify to one I wished to not hold, but soon grew to love. I aspired to…

the sake of the project, I chose right here in Glendale, AZ. Other places I considered were some places in California, since I love the beach, or somewhere really exotic, like Rome or Venice in Italy. But, I do love my home and the Arizonan environment, so for right now, I’ll be thinking of Glendale. But why here? Wouldn’t you think that by the time I’m out of college I’d be sick of this place? Maybe, but for now, there are a lot of things that I enjoy about Glendale, Phoenix, and the whole of…

task force of individuals from the Chesapeake Fire Department, Hampton Fire Department, Henrico County Fire Department, James City County Fire Department, Newport News Fire Department, Norfolk Fire Department, Portsmouth Fire Department, Poquoson Fire Department, United States Coast Guard – Sector Hampton Roads, United States Maritime Administration (MARAD), Virginia Beach Fire Department, Virginia Department of Emergency Management, Virginia Pilots Association, Virginia Port Authority, and York…

could eat all of the food I wanted for free! I decided to take night time classes since I had trouble waking up in high school. My first class of college was at one o’clock in the afternoon located in the West wing of the school. Mr. Johnson was my professor’s name, and he taught calculus. This had to be one of the hardest classes i’ve ever taken. In college, I roomed with my friend Brandt McClain. We have been friends since the third grade. I brought a t.v. and a mini fridge and he brought a…

Mary, was born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas. Being the daughter of a railroad attorney she spent her childhood in various towns, including Atchison and Kansas City, Kansas and Des Moines, Iowa. She spent the winter months with her grandparents, Alfred and Amelia Otis, in Atchison and the summers with her parents in Kansas City, Kansas. Her mother and sister, Grace Muriel, visited her while she stayed with her grandparents, but she rarely saw her father during these years. At the age ten,…

bore” these lyrics are the ones that came screeching out of my throat as I hastily clean the kitchen in my tiny apartment in Dublin City. Cillian, my best friend was on his was to my apartment after visiting my brother hospital, he’s done this every Friday since Simon was sent to hospital. This has become the routine over the past two weeks for me, walk home from college, do some work and wait for him to arrive so I could make dinner and watch Netflix until we couldn't keep our eyes open. I…

roaring sea. Bloated rivers, sunken cities and settles down on a signboard with the inscription “Welcome to Lagos Nigeria: The Land of Aquatic Culture”. Moves on from there to settle on another sign “Welcome to Ajah Eti-Osa LGA, Lagos. The destruction of the earth is no longer a myth about how God destroyed the world with water and only Noah and his family were saved. The real Bible story is here with us today. 2 The image rolls out the names of sunken cities all over the world. The statistics…