The Second Coming

How many of you have heard this Microaggression used in your daily life? I have experienced another Microaggression recently which happened this Semester which involved a friend of mine making a Facebook Status about Coming Out. I saw the post on Facebook and wrote a comment expressing that I was happy for them and that I support them. Hours had passed and then I found out the status was a joke written by friend number two on friend number one’s account. Friend one also…

Holden Still Many people refer to their high school days as their glory days or the worst four years of their life. In the coming-of-age novel, The Catcher in the Rye, by JD Salinger, Holden Caulfield struggles with the realization that he is growing up. While spending a long weekend in New York City by himself, he encounters and contemplates his life and the world around him. Holden’s inconsistency makes him neither a child nor adult, rather he is a confused, immature adolescent. Holden wants…

It’s always the hardest thing in the world to let out a secret that you’ve been holding in your whole life. The day I first told my biggest secret, in that exact moment, my mind couldn’t decide whether it was the best or worst decision of my life. It was January 1st 2014, the beginning of a brand new year. Usually when theres a new year approaching, people feel as if they need to change something about themselves. Change can be a new style of clothing, to a different hair color. But no matter…

Fear, lust, and deception. Three things that can completely destroy a human. These three feelings and actions that if compiled in the correct way can bend a person to do anything. Most importantly though, deception, the lies that create false hope and a brighter future. In Joyce Carol Oates’s, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”, we watch as a young girl named connie falls victim to Fear, lust, and deception through a man named Arnold Friend, who she encounters while hanging out with a…

Evil has gone on since the beginning of time and it doesn’t stop at any point. If there is a God, then why would this God allow evil to come and ruin many people’s lives? In my paper, I give out the explanation on how God and evil can coexist with one another because good can triumph over evil through perseverance. This goes on with the relationship between justice and vengeance and how the two can’t live without the other. Though it may be hard to actually consider this, there are many forms to…

Homosexuality in the 1960’s wasn’t as open and fortunate as it is today. The same time period where Alison Bechdel and her two brothers being raised in west Pennsylvania in her graphic novel Fun Home, Her father Bruce and self were going through sexuality identification problems at the same time. Although it is not forwardly said but with evidence from the text, Bruce may have committed suicide in result of holding his true identity from the public, his wife Helen and family and covering up his…

Openly Straight exhibits the destruction unfavorable labels can inflict upon individuals. While readers attempting to cope with their sexual identity may find this novel enlightening as they endeavor through the process of removing themselves from the pigeonholes other’s have relegated them to. Rafe’s belief that the only way for him to succeed in this world is through the concealment of his sexuality: proving to be the weakest point of this novel. Whereas Rafe’s English teacher is truly the…

Imagine your son or daughter coming home with a very worn out stance. Their head is down, and they go up to their room. You just think they had a rough day, so you do not pay any attention to it. Dinner time rolls around, so you go to their room to procure them, but you see an empty bottle of pills. They will not wake up. You look on their desk after looking at their body, finding a note explaining everything. What would you do? Almost half the world is accepting of the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay,…

that I have faced, the biggest obstacle that I have overcome was when my mom developed breast cancer. It was back in the year 2010, I was back in 5th grade and I can still remember certain pieces from the exact day I found out. My brother and I were coming home from school, seeing as it was a typical school day. Some years before, my grandma had been diagnosed with the same breast cancer but was cured so I didn’t think it would be genetic, seeing as I didn’t know everything about the world at…

Unbroken is a story by Laura Hillenbrand about an extraordinarily brave and courageous man by the name of Louie Zamperini. Throughout the story he endeavors many inhumane hardships and challenges. Louie is in fact, unbroken. He did not give up regardless of how difficult the issue was he was fighting through. There are thousands of people, all over the world, who have incredible survivor stories similar to Louie’s. These stories vary from abuse of any sort to war stories identical to Louie’s.…