Till We Have Faces

As we sit here today, our middle school careers are coming to a close right before our very eyes. The next chapter of our lives lies ahead of us, and looking back on our past three years, I feel confident in saying that we definitely are prepared in facing whatever obstacles we may face during our journey through high school and through life. Middle school was no doubt a long and tough journey. I started here at St.Cletus 9 years ago with Mrs. Walton as my preschool teacher and up till junior…

Trekking from one side of the globe to the other, I have been in search for answers and meaning to my life. I was determined to seek the answers and find the paths which would lead me in the direction of my calling. Much to my surprise, the answers had been in front of me my whole life. I discovered that my calling was to help others heal through the gifts of shamanic practice. In this essay, I will be exploring and giving my personal testimony and experience on the journey to becoming a…

What Mortals Want Gods and celebrities alike are held on a pedestal [untouchable] my mortal men. Some mortals even have shrines to commemorate these higher beings, but as stories and history has shown these higher beings have very human qualities and emotions… So what sets [them] apart? Clay Routledge, a social Psychologist researching how people view themselves has an impact on their lives, writes an article To Feel meaningful is to Feel Immortal. Scott Barry Kaufman, is a psychologist who’s…

paragraph in my essays. PIE includes point, information, and explanation, and it can make our essay to be clear. In my second essay about education, I wrote about what struggles that the students face to in college. In the one of the body paragraphs, I wrote about one of the struggles that the students have in college are culture and language as one of the main points. After that, I quoted one of the passages from the article “ The Human Cost of An Illiterate Society,” by Jonathan Kozol as the…

be a part of everything we did from a weekend picnic at the park, to going to see the grandparents, someone drinking and getting drunk was the norm for me since a very young age. By the time I was eight, drinking had drove a wedge between my parents and they were heading down an ice covered slope towards divorce court. My parents separated, and for many years my mother was always at a tavern. She worked the morning shift as a bartender and spent her night drinking till the bar closed. This…

The people dealing with prospects are being delusional that their future may be one of the greatest achievers in the whole world. We, the people of the earth are so curious of the outcome that will be the best they deserve. “Horses of the Night” by Margaret Lawrence and “The Painted Door” by Sinclair Ross are the two short stories that show the remarkable ways in dealing with uncertain and ambiguous cases of the impending outcomes. “Horses of the Night” shows Vanessa thoughts of Chris’…

We arrived at the lake mid-afternoon. It was one last hoorah before we all separated, to go to school. I ran into the cabin with excitement. I claimed my room first. There was no way I was getting last pick. Last time I can to the cabin with the wrestlers, I had to share a room. By the end of the weekend it smelt like stale urine. Never again! I claimed my room then, headed into the living room to find Hunter Cole sitting on the couch. I hate him! Personally he didn’t do anything to me, but he…

I still went to my instructor and friends to fulfill my curiosity. The answers ranged from a teaching assistance to a student who just wanted to be part of the class and yet they were only a piece of the answer. I didn’t know the real explanation till the day I applied to the fellow program. The word “fellow” actually means a lot to me today. It is not only one of the reasons people recognize me on campus, but also something I am very proud of. The role of fellow helped me learn lots of useful…

Reading and analyzing Anne Bradstreet’s poem “To My Dear and Loving Husband” as well as Sharon Olds’s story “I Go Back to May, 1937” we can terminate that they are both genuinely different pieces of literature that will help understand one another. One deals with a happy marriage and the other one is a daughter talking about her parent’s unhappy marriage. In the poem “To My Dear and Loving Husband” Bradstreet expresses the enormous love she has towards her husband Simon Bradstreet to whom she…

The masculine technology was much more visible than the feminine technology and in its own ways trying to reach out to consumer especially boys. The consumer world has become diver in that the masculine technology are no longer have male consumer and increase in female consumer. For instance, the Fisher Body Craftsman, they intending to advertise to high school teenager and college undergraduate around age 12-20 featuring that usage will become a promised and mature man, who take on responsible…