The dozens

The first thing I noticed when I stepped out of the car was the heat crashing down on me like a burning blanket, making the air seem heavier with every breath. Still, this was the only day we had to visit the park. I pulled down my baseball cap and straightened out my hair, trying not to make any accidental eye contact with strangers as I followed my friend, Celine, to the ticket stand. Even before entering the park, I could hear the intimidating shuddering of coaster tracks and the terrified…

In reality it has been over a year. I've always heard people say, "I have not talked to so and so in years but we picked up like we had never parted." That is what RAGBRAI and TeamLIVESTRONG is like for me. Many of the team from last year and a dozen or so virgins. It was complete chaos and perfectly organized at the same time. I imagine this is what it may be like in a bee hive. Everyone all moving around apparently in circles but also very productive. Yep, for me the last 365 days…

Thomas Jefferson’s rhetoric is effective. His thesis is expressing that all people have the right to split up and be free, if they feel as though their God given rights are being infringed upon. Jefferson’s thesis, in the Declaration of Independence, states that we the people have the right to be independent. I am persuaded by the thesis, because as a human being my rights are important to me; they symbolize the equality that I withhold in comparison to everyone else. In my opinion, Jefferson…

I read the memoir, A Man Who Couldn't Stop by David Adam. This novel told the stories of how Adam and many other people live with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Adam clarifies what a mental illness is, especially OCD, through his use of examples about various people. The memoir uses many anecdotes demonstrating the specific aspects of different mental illnesses. I believe the beginning of the memoir was very interesting because the author reveals a very compelling situation of a girl eating a…

American history professor, Patrick Allitt, in the essay, “Should Undergraduates Specialize?” published by the Chronicle of Higher Education, argues that the American education system differs greatly from the British system in order to advocate for reform in America. Allitt supports his assertion by comparing his daughter, Frances, experience in college in America to his in Britain. The author’s overall purpose was to describe the differences between his college experience and how the average…

12 percent of boy football players take drugs the most common type is weed ,cocaine,and steroids. Too many kids do drugs that are students athletes and the have a choice. The people that are involved are the coaches,parents,other kids and the government. The connection to the constitution is that it is the students athletes rights because it is the student's body fluids. My position is that we should make the students athletes do drug test because if they have not done drugs then they have done…

Timothy D Francis - Chiropractor, Educator, and Writer A member of more than a dozen specialized medical organizations, Dr. Timothy D Francis chiefly focuses his professional efforts in the fields of chiropractic, kinesiology, acupuncture, homeopathy, and naturopathic care. He has operated his own private practice in Las Vegas, Nevada…

A NASA shuttle orbiting Jupiter has hit another tangle. The space office said Wednesday that Juno identified an issue, went into protected mode and close off its cameras and instruments hours before it should disregard Jupiter's thick cloud tops. Juno rebooted its installed PC and can speak with Earth, yet its exercises are restricted until designers analyze what turned out badly. "It's too soon to take a figure," however the issue isn't brought on by the exceptional radiation belts…

Linnton with a couple of cabins and the beginning of St.Johns. After about another 2 hours you would be in Portland with a population of about 400. Just about everyone you met would be promoting a townsite. During the years around 1850 there were a dozen townsites along the lower Willamette River. They wanted to see which of the 12 locations would become the main city. Migration into the Oregon Country was increasing very quickly. After the first wagon train in 1842 it brought about 100…

1st century Palestine was a special time for the Jewish faith, after the death of Jesus, and as much as they didn't like it Christianity was on the rise. However this wasn't the only thing, Judaism at this time was spawning all new sub-genres of faith. They split into four groups: The Pharisees, The Sadducees, The Zealots, and The Essenes. They all believed in YHWH, but they had different ideas and ways of how to praise him. The Pharisees, which translates to separated ones in Hebrew, are known…