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Kyrie Irving There is fifty-four seconds left in game seven of the NBA finals. The game is tied, series tied. Kyrie irving steps back and drains an unbelievably deep three over Stephen Curry! The Cavs now have a three-point lead over the Golden State Warriors and are going to win the NBA Finals (Azarly). Kyrie Irving has won his first NBA Finals after coming back from being down 3-1 in the series. Kyrie Irving is one of the most clutch players in the NBA and also one of the best point guards.…

The film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty follows an unimpressive white-collar man as he finds his life thrown into scenarios he would otherwise only have imagined. Walter Mitty goes from working as a negative assets manager in a crowded workplace to swimming in shark infested waters and climbing the Himalayas. Undergoing such a drastic change, over the course of the film, Ben Stiller employs a variety of directorial choices to further enhance how Walter Mitty had to isolate not only his mind,…

Personal Statement 1 As I got off the public bus I made my way towards the physical clinic at San Diego State University. Before walking through the doors I hadn’t realized how privileged I was that my school gave me the opportunity to internship here. Growing up all I had ever known were gangs, drug addicts, alcoholics, and high school dropouts. A high school diploma is rare in the world I come from, which makes a college diploma nonexistent. I never imagined that I’d be able to walk on the…

Part 1: Socialization and Social identity... The way the human brain takes ideas and creates shortcuts to meaning is through information processing. This is done daily when someone processes what they see, hear, feel, and think. As this happens, the brain is taking in a large amount of information and then sends it through filters in order to make sense of what is being interacted with. How this is done is by using shortcuts. This means that a person is either accepting information or ignoring…

Welcome back to part three of this instalment about my experience with being bullied as a teenager and how it carved a pathway to empowerment. It is an early Friday morning and I am boiling some water so I can prep myself to sip on Lemon and Garlic tea as we begin this blog post. In the last two posts I wrote about what it felt like to feel hopeless and then delved into the process of how I discovered critical lessons that helped shape my destiny. In this written piece I would like to invite you…

Growing up, my parents were never really around because they were always at work. I was raised by my grandma, and was never taught the importance of healthy eating. In elementary and middle school, I ate a great deal of unhealthy Italian food because my grandparents owned a restaurant, and when I didn’t have food from the restaurant, I would love to eat microwavable corn dogs (I would eat like 4 in one sitting). Even though I ate a lot of junk, I was very active. I played almost every team sport…

For as long as human beings have existed, everything we have done has been to attain an altered state of consciousness. We make relationships to feel love; we go to the gym to feel good about ourselves; we binge television shows to live the lives of others. Another means toward this end is that of drugs. Some drink coffee to feel alert; some smoke marijuana to feel relaxed; some ingest psilocybin to escape to another world. Human beings of all cultures have been using and respecting drugs for…

Damien Echols’ experience as someone who has had the system flip on him and later guaranteed that it was going to kill him shows that one has a significant amount of time to reflect that’s practically forced since there are no other options in the last years before execution. Echols had shown repeatedly in his book said that he is constantly under stress and there’s not that much of an escape to his situation. His point-of-view may have changed since he had written much of the book in prison and…

Shakespeare’s Ideas of Identity William Shakespeare questions identity throughout his works, but this theme is especially apparent in Henry IV, Part 1. Typically, Shakespeare will have characters question themselves and their importance to show identity; however, he expands on this in several ways in this play. This struggle relates to the society that Shakespeare was accustomed to, yet this struggle is still faced today. Identity is something that people still struggle with because of the…

Name Story Jackson. I do not know where it comes from or why I was given this name. In English my name means the son of Jack. However, I am not the son of a Jack and have no relatives with this name. I decided to solve the mystery and asked my parents how they chose Jackson. It seems it was the result of a compromise. My father wanted Atticus (because he admired Atticus Finch), and my mother liked Logan, because she thought it was unique. They both liked the sound of Jackson. They also thought…