Prom

when I was the in the twelfth grade, she told me that she dropped out in the eleventh grade. I remember the conversation as it was yesterday. My mom and I were in the car going to the mall to get the rest of the things I need for prom. “I wish I would have went to prom.…

From cocktail dresses to prom dresses, stylish maxi dresses to mother of the bride dresses, Lexington’s favorite dress boutique, Bella Rose, carries some of the top designers in fashion today. You don’t need to go to the big city for your fashion forward runway looks. Customers who enter Bella Rose know it’s more than a dress boutique; it’s your personal stylist with a small town vibe. Southern charm mixed with metropolitan trends set it apart from other dress boutiques, and customers know that…

The arise of racial discrimination since the 1800’s has been a prominent and serious subject in societies throughout the world causing public unrest and violence. There have been marches, protests, charity events, gatherings, and many more attempts to try and abolish racism, but racism is not an obstacle that can just be completed with and forgotten. Racism is a disease that is spread rapidly and is impossible to erase entirely. Many individuals believe that racism is a choice people make, but…

A young, white boy, just four years old, turned and asked his mother “Who is the tan man?” His mother happened to be Jodi Picoult, an author and journalist for Time Magazine. She was completely caught off guard by the question and answered her son in the way she thought was best. She says of her response, “I told my son that although people came in different shades, we’re all the same. I told him I was colorblind, and he should be too.” Picoult’s answer to her son was clearly a result of the…

The girls were in their senior year of High school and shared the same background; all of them are Mexican Americans, but only two of them had proper documentations. A couple of months before the prom night all the four girls had ambitious aspirations for a university education, and a career that matches their ambitions. Growing up in Denver which, at that time, became a traditionally home for many Latinos, all the four girls were together since…

Rustic Pathways is an organization that provides high school students with opportunities to work on international service projects as well as allowing students to see their ability to change and impact more than their everyday world. The school I attend requires all sophomores and juniors to complete a 70-hour internship during the summer before junior and senior year as well as travel abroad once before graduation, so Rustic Pathways seemed perfect for killing two birds with one stone. But what…

about having curfew times. One reason curfew should be longer is, lots of people argue that they don’t have enough time to hang out with their friends. Teens want to be able to do things like go to the bowling alley or skating rink. Some teens go to prom parties that usually last longer than the curfew and they don’t want to have to be rushed on time to get home. Teens like to be able to hangout as long as they want. “In an age where people say young people spend too much…

People say that February is the month of love, but if anything for me it didn’t start out like that. The day that I thought the boy of my dreams and the boy I had been crushing on since the first day of my freshman year was finally going to ask me to prom. I was shocked to find out how that day really ended. It was a month before the dance. I had planned everything out. I had the perfect dress that…

educated, lower class of ways speaking and low class appearance flower girl, named Eliza Doolittle into an ideal woman of a Victorian society. Freddie Prinze, who agreed upon a bet by his good friend to take any girl from school and transform her into the prom queen in the span of 6 weeks despite her homeliness. There is also a clear influence between the attitude of Higgins and Zack who think they can do accomplish anything in terms of how confident and cocksure they are to transform them into…

Kay, It would appear that most people are aware of melanoma than any other types of skin cancer. Which is great, in the sense that it is the most dangerous type of skin cancer. I noticed that when I researched all of the types of skin cancer on The Skin Cancer Foundation website, that prevention is the same for each type of skin cancer. They should just state, "Stay out of the Sun!" to get their point across as to how damaging the UV rays from the sunlight are to our skin. However, tanning beds…