Portland

dialog is just so for the various characters -- although all Our Heroes are perhaps a bit too literate and arch -- and his settings are lightly sketched but with enough shading to allow us to build a good-enough mental picture. (Some familiarity with Portland, Oregon is helpful.) The tone is light enough that you'll figure the author wasn't taking this all that seriously, and perhaps neither should you. This isn't a bad thing; some more ludicrous thrillers I've read took themselves very…

Have you ever thought that your school started too early? As a matter of fact, I am always tired in school because my school started before sunrise. In addition, when you grow older and your kid has to wake up really early, this might affect their health. School should start later because it interferes with sleep and leads to higher rates of obesity, depression and motor-vehicle accidents among teens. School should start later because of sleep deprivation. Sadly, teens are getting enough sleep…

Anonymous (OA) meeting at Woodford’s Congregational Church in Portland. The contact person for this meeting is Susie, though the person leading that night’s meeting was Edie, a recovering compulsive overeater herself. This was an open meeting, held biweekly, and had an attendance of thirteen people, Mariah and myself included. The feelings I had leading up to this meeting were very mixed and fluctuated a lot during my hour drive into Portland that night. Besides observing a few minutes of a…

In 2010, American singer-songwriter Lady Gaga gave a speech in Portland, Maine about the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” The speech, titled “The Prime Rib of America,” went viral online and changed many lives. Following the speech, the act was repealed after seventeen years since it was put in place. The effect of Gaga’s speech was changing the future to better the lives of the members of the LGBT community and to foster love. Her speech was monumental because she had a large audience willing…

There is 324,910,116 people currently in the United States of America, with a child being born every eight second. According to the National Alliance of Mental Illness, one out of five Americans are diagnosed with a mental illness. That’s 64,910,116 people just in the U.S. with a mental illness. However, many are still un-treated or not given the medical assistance they need. Many more are still In order to solve this problem, an Act should be passed that guarantees health care/insurance and…

After sitting comfortably at #3 in the Eastern Conference for a month, the Boston Celtics have hit a little bump in the road. With 11 games remaining in the regular season, the Celtics are now tied for the third spot in the conference with the Miami Heat and the Atlanta Hawks. Another .5 games back is the Charlotte Hornets at 40-30 with 12 games remaining on its schedule. With three more teams (Chicago Bulls, Indiana Pacers and the Detroit Pistons) within 3.0-3.5 games of the Celtics, a…

I was born in June 1992 at Saint Vincent’s hospital Hillsboro, Oregon. From the stories I’ve been told my grandparents and my two siblings were at the hospital with my mother, and my father was at a job site and called my mother to tell her that he was not going to make it because he was too tired to drive. That is what I know of my birth and that we moved around quite a bit in the first two years of my life before we moved into my grandparents. From the beginning I do not know if I was…

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Are you having second thoughts about a nursing career because of something a friend or relative said? Don't abandon your dreams before you know the truth. It's easy to become discouraged when you hear myths and rumors intended to dampen your enthusiasm. Unfortunately, many misconceptions about the nursing field are accepted as common knowledge, but they're relatively easy to debunk. Some of the most common are listed below. A Nurse Is Just a Doctor's Gofer Some people mistakenly believe that…

was a preeminent poet in his day and even if time has contrived to show that he is something less than the remarkable artist, he never claimed to be, we can still fondly read his work, which epitomizes 19th century. Born on February 27, 1807 in Portland, Maine to parents, Stephen and Zilpah Longfellow, Henry, from the start, had a reputation for being studious. Furthermore, among other accomplishments, including being fluent in Latin at age 6, he published his first poem at age thirteen. In…