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Time, time, time, never enough or too much, it speeds by in a flash of numbers and gets lost all in itself, as well as to everyone else. There was never, and will never, be enough to go around; this is a fast paced society, people needed results and they needed them then and now. High demand, high expectations, and high outcomes, it was always too high, so high, it was always nearly out of reach. Bobby Singer felt as if he was rushed more than he would dare admit, he may have been older but he…

and trap the beavers inside their lodge (Cavendish). A beaver’s dam does more then just provides shelter; it creates new habitats for many plants and animals. It also completely changes the landscape, making it unrecognizable. Dragonflies, turtles, raccoons, ducks, frogs, and otters are just some of the animals that benefit from the new pods and wetlands that the beavers create (Cavendish). Sometimes, beavers are the only way these new waterways are…

Could you imagine your favorite childhood movie is a lie? Most people remember that The Disney film Pocahontas was about the Native American young girl with long brown hair named Pocahontas who fell in love with an English settler named John Smith. However, the film was ultimately based off of the events in Jamestown, Virginia. Jamestown was the first permanent settlement in the Americas and is known to be one of the biggest struggles known to man. Nevertheless, it was the spark that ignited…

What does it mean to be a senior? To wonder what it’s like to be a senior can bring multiple thoughts to a person’s head. To be a senior means stress. From the workload, college searching, jobs, parents, relationships, friends and most importantly, MCGEE. It’s the constant worry of what life is going to bring. The excitement of finally being on our own, not always being told what to do. Or as Brooke Seidel say, “having a severe case of senioritis.” While most of us seniors when we’re asked…

tell you, it happens to men as well from their female spouse as well. I had a good friend that I played on the base installation softball team. We’ll, one day my friend showed up for practice and I noticed he had two black eyes and looking like a raccoon. As team mates, we like to poke fun with each other and I was teasing him and I noticed it really bothered him. So, I went over to him and started asking him some questions and finally he opened up to me and told me what happened to…

There are many ways that people get reminded of their childhood memories. I get to visit the largest memory from my childhood almost every single day, considering that it is the barn that I grew up visiting and working at. It holds plenty of my childhood memories and holds many stories; happy, sad and everything in between. To me this place is the epitome of comfort, safety and privacy and is always a solid, never changing, good place to go when you need to be alone and thinking about issues…

In our world today, rabies is a disease that is still alive. “Over the past one hundred years rabies cases in the United States has changed dramatically, more than 90% of all animal cases reported annually to CDC now occur in wildlife, however before 1960 the majority were in domestic animals and deaths went from more than 100 annually to 2 to 3 per year” (www.cdc.gov/rabies/). “Ninety-nine percent of people who have rabies have been bitten by a rabid dog” (www.heathline.com). “Forty percent of…

The primary difference between Vampires and Zombies is that Zombies are able to walk in sunlight while vampires have to hide away until the sun is finished setting. Zombies eat flesh while vampires drink blood. Vampires come in hordes while zombies usually prey by themselves. Vampires have super strength and speed while zombies run with a limp at average human speed and can lift approximately 130 pounds. For example, in the show Vampire Diaries you never knew when a vampire would pop out of…

In a Modern American History course, it is a given that one would learn about the history of the United States from an American perspective. In 1936 America we were towards the end of the depression, attempting to avoid war, and becoming familiar with Adolf Hitler. However, in 1936 Germany, Edith G. McClure was born. Recently I had the opportunity to sit down for an interview with Edith, a woman who spent the 1930s and 40s as a young child in Germany. Born Edith Kröger, my interviewee was…

Calms, Cooling,Communication,Self-expression; jade:Concentration, unconditional love, concentration, fidelity, harmony; jasper:Stability, healing, balancing emotions & stress; pear or clear quartz crystal. February's animals: duck, eagle, otter, raccoon,…