Robbie Williams

The small isolette was my home in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for five months and three days. I was born at twenty-four weeks and one day, four months before my due date on January fifth. I was not alone, however. My twin brother was born on January fourteenth—we were nine days apart. See, my story is not a difficult one to tell, but it has changed slightly over the course of my seventeen years. I could go on to discuss how I’ve had sixteen extensive surgeries. How I only have one working vocal cord. Or even that I was given about a ten percent chance of survival. There were wires upon wires protruding through almost every visible inch of my fragile, almost translucent looking body. Gratefully, during this vulnerable time, I had a top-notch support system, even if one of my supporters hadn’t been born at the time until nine days later. This support system has remained continuous, never faltering once. My twin brother has taught me joy and shown me true companionship. My parents have been the ultimate support system, whether it be hospital trips to the NICU as a baby, going to every early morning soccer game throughout elementary school, or being involved in copious amounts of bake sales and band concerts throughout middle and high school. My family has been there through it all; they have shown me unconditional love. Through these events, I have found independence and strength. I have learned how to find my voice and how to feel pride towards who I am and what…

She saw where she had started up ahead of her, where the mold needed smell wasn’t as terrible as it was before. When she came to the opening, she saw that the children that were not there with her to begin with were standing together and not running. Some were getting yelled at, but they didn’t say a word in response as if they were unable to speak, and Blur knew that they were. There weren't very any children that decided not to run, but it was enough to be noticeable. Blur looked around her at…

I remember seldom things in life. Maybe my horrible memory can be attributed to the thousands of Diet Coke I drank as a kid and their alleged nasty side effects to memory. Maybe it’s attributed to my tendency to focus on the minute details and not the whole picture. Or maybe it is just a personal choice, a personal decision to ignore what life has brought me and to somehow use the bits I can recall to construct some fairytale. I wish that this process would have happened when I felt like I was…

Never Too Weak To Stand For Yourself “CREAK”, the bus door opened and I waited as I watched all of the children struggling to get out. There is only one way I feel… I don’t want them to go. Every day I see them get off the “special needs” bus and get laughed at and see the fingers pointed straight at them, it’s ridiculous. You would have thought that tenth graders would have learned by now that bullying and harassment is childish, but apparently not. It’s amazing how much potential the…

Being one of the only latino families in the community of Medford, I grew up aware of the fact that I wasn’t as similar as my classmates around me. By the time I had been old enough to understand this, I had already received subtle hints and jokes that referred to my race. It didn’t bother me then, until I was aware of the assumptions that came with it. In the summer before 2nd grade, the most talked about event was “Sign Up Day”. It was a day in which we could go and choose our extracurricular…

Prince EA, a reform artist saddened by society in this day who is hopeful for a better future, released a rap video called “I Just Sued the School System” in which he personifies the school system as an person and puts it on trial in a courtroom. The audience in the room is mostly made of young students who the school system greatly effects, however; his intended audience for the video is for the people who make up the many boards of education that create standards by which teachers are forced…

Finding Nemo Formalism Analyses In the movie Finding Nemo Marlin follows the cycle of the hero's journey because he gets called out to adventure, has a mentor that uses her humor to overcome her weakness and faces many tests on his long journey. The author possibly send Marlin on a adventure to show that if a person really cares about something they should do anything to achieve even if is the biggest fear that you have. An example of that is Marlin takes the leap of faith he overcomes what was…

In Death of a Salesman by, Arthur Miller, Willy has a desire to be a good father to his son were his dad was not. Willy believes that if he can instill the correct values into Biff so he can be like himself or more successful. The problem Willy is confronted with is that he cares too much as if he is trying to emulate his life in Biffs. Compared to Willy Charley takes a position of hands off while still teaching Bernard to be a good student and by working hard because it will pay dividends later…

knowing what celebrities went through to get there. With that being said, what do you value most in life? Is it the little things that can be by the past or the important things? In life people tend to put so much value on the little things. For example, like William Carlos Williams hold his red wheelbarrow to so much standards. He feels as though so much depends upon it. When we focus on the little things, we tend to get side-tracked as William Carlos Williams shows in his “Red Wheel” poem and…

simple man was William Carlos Williams. He was born in America as a Puerto Rican-American who then with hard work and determination became a well-practiced doctor. He however is better known for his works of poetry that challenged the traditional way of writing poetry. In Williams’s book of poetry, The Wedge, is prefaced by an introduction that introduces his readers to his controversial ideas concerning poetry and what it should represent in today’s modern times. He wants his readers to break…