Things Not Seen

I have opted to donate some of my time to give back to my community that I live in. In Mt. Zion Illinois, lays an assisted living facility known as the “Glenwood.” When I went into their office to ask them if it was permissible for me to do volunteer work, they made me aware that this is an organization is a for profit organization. That means all the employees are getting paid to do all of the work that they do, and the price to live here is going to be more expensive for the residents due to…

The Little Things “Mom what’s a pillow fort?” I looked at my Mom sitting on the couch next to me,”Allison you don’t know what a pillow fort is?” She looked at me smiling and said,”We’re gonna build one ok? Lemme me move the couches…” I remember at that moment being so excited, just thinking “Wow! I’m going to have my own fort!” I ran around the house helping my mom get all the blankets and pillows needed for my little sanctuary. When it was all said and done it looked a lot worse than I had…

time, dreaming is worth it, they give people something to work for, having dream’s can help anyone through tough times, and it can help everyone realize new things about themselves and help to move forward in life. It is worth it to dream because dreams are something to work for. This can be proven with this first piece of evidence, The…

I feel like we practice this more in our history classes we learn of what these great people did for America and all the things they had accomplished and we honor them by teaching about them and the importance of them. Now others may have had more achievements than some, but when a friend of yours gets a high test grade we don 't discourage them we celebrate and say good job…

right place for me. I loved how he talked about how most majors don 't determine what job you could have after college. There are so many possibilities and different directions you can go in with the different majors available here at Coe. That is one thing that scared me about choosing a major, because I felt like it determined the rest of my life. From Dave Carson’s talk, I realized that there are endless of possibilities and jobs out there and it doesn 't necessarily matter what specific…

that will be cut short and you don’t want to have any regrets. I really agree with the point of view of this text. I’ve always liked traveling, not so that I could tell people how they “need to go visit this place” because of this that in the other thing, but for my own personal reasons. I’ve always tried to live life in the moment and I think that people really should stop worrying so much about their futures, sure it’s something that I think about but it’s nothing that I dwell on because I…

getting interested in books. “There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine to make a women stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.” (48) This book was also very enjoyable because of its unique characters and original plot. The characters were total opposites and the setting of this story was from a futuristic world. IN the beginning of the story, Montag and Clarisse have zero things in common. Clarisse likes to be outdoors and enjoy…

crying. She was taught how to breastfeed and I was taught how to change diapers and at the end of the day we had to say our goodbyes and I had to head back to Bismarck and finish out the school week before I could go back home and see them again. Good thing it was a wednesday and I didn’t have to wait long before I could go back to Minot and see Abby and Connor again. By the time I got back they were out of the hospital and we were all back home…

Often we find ourselves reliving memories of loved ones through people we meet along the journey of life. This happens to one of the main characters, Caia, in the book Me,You, written by Erri De Luca. This story takes takes place on Idyllic Island off the coast of Naples, Italy in the summer of the 1950’s. In this book, a young boy goes to his uncles to work for him during the summer. While there, Nicola, local town fisherman, taught the young boy how to fish as well as shared memories with him…

As more things around him started spinning out of control, all he could do for the moment was becoming a spectator in his own life. His mother took everything in stride, but his father took every opportunity to keep them all grounded from what he believed were the trappings of the good life. It seemed funny to him that the only person he actually made his effort to insure this remained true was for him and he wanted to end his relationship with Anna. That was always a very short conversation…