The Second Coming

I did not know that I was about to hear the words that would change my life forever. It was just a regular Friday afternoon in August at around 3:30 pm. My dad had just come back from the Kellogg Eye Center; he was getting his eyes checked because he had a lesion leak making a cloud over his left eye. When he and my mom got home, he was lying on the couch looking very sad. I went into the kitchen and said “Wow, he looks really sad”. "Well, Hannah, he has stage four lung cancer, and he will…

Lincoln On Leadership Over the years I have been fortunate enough to attend several leadership courses. Some were really helped me to relook at the way I do things, while others were only marginal. In one way or another, they were all built around how to influence others to get the mission completed. Prior to reading Lincoln On Leadership by Donald T. Phillips I had never realized that Lincoln was truly an amazing leader. Phillips explorers Lincoln’s life through his anecdotes and his…

Mexican Coming of Age Rituals The Japanese term for coming of age is Seijin no Hi. On this day, once a Japanese citizen turns 20 they are considered an adult. The Mexican coming of Age ceremony is a quinceanera. A quinceanera celebrates a 15 year olds matureness and transition to becoming a young adult. Even though both Japanese and Mexican cultures celebrate a coming of age ceremony for young adults, they each have many similarities and differences in their rituals. The Japanese coming of age…

He opened his eyes to see that the forest he was once in has now become a dark room with vines protruding in many places. It was quite straining to see, the only light being the faint lights of gold and purple from the crowns of the superiors. The man started to speak, in an unnatural echoing voice, “Human, you have done something great and terrible for our realm. You have done a great feat, opened the faery realm into a portal in which we can devote our revenge towards the nonmagical human race…

Many people struggle with their deviant identities on a daily basis. Some people make choices to be deviant and others are born in a role that makes being deviant a requirement. For example some people are born with disabilities, some are born into an ethnic minority, and some are born homosexuals. They all have to deal with the role they have been dealt and learn how to interact with people in specific ways because of that role. About six percent of men have to deal with the role of being…

Everyone has lost their innocence at some point. Every child has to grow up to become an adult, right? Is this not the definition of coming of age? The definition of coming of age is when someone transformers into a better person. People takes steps in order to come of age. In the poem, “The Road Not Taken,” the short story, “The Reunion, and the novel, The Summer I Turned Pretty the authors show how characters come of age psychologically and emotionally when their own actions and decisions…

Unsurprisingly, Joe went against his doctor and Caitlin’s advices by staying by Barry’s side and not take the rest his body wanted. The event of earlier terrified him a lot more than Joe was willing to admit. Both Iris and Joe had been sitting on the hero’s bedside for hours, in a defining silence, observing any changes on the young man’s face. They agreed with Caitlin that it was probably best if there was as little people as possible in the room, people he knew for a long time, to make sure…

goal I had for Tom was to figure out how he wanted to or if he wanted to come out as gay to his family and friends. Support groups are imperative to helping youth questioning their sexuality to become more comfortable with the possibility of possibly coming out as queer (Sue and Sue, 2009,p477). These support groups have other individuals also questioning their sexuality and going through the same situation and thus could really be helpful to Tom when he decides what his feelings mean and…

warm a room the second she flashed her gorgeous smile. There was no such thing as a bad day to her because “every day above ground is a good day,” as she would always say. I had just entered the halls of Mulvane High School as a freshman. Everything looked and smelt brand new to me. I could feel the excitement and nervousness pulsing throughout my body. I had my good friends by my side and it was the start of a new and anticipated journey for the next four years of my life. My second hour…

mixed up. When the day came to the end, my teacher called me up to her desk and said that everything was doubled checked and that I am the valedictorian. She then congratulated me and said that I should start thinking about my speech since school is coming to an end; I said “Alright” and went…