I remember thoroughly this one project I was assigned to do in my first honors class during my junior year at Algonquin. We had to draw a map of the whole setting of the novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I could personally relate to this story and liked reading the novel because […]
Date: September 6th, 2021
It always looked so easy when my dad did it. He cutsmoothly, his shoulder leaning so close to the water that his body lookedparallel to the cool glass. I had been itching to be free of my yellow trainingskis and ski on my own. I wanted to learn to fly over the water just like […]
Date: September 5th, 2021
Shoulders throbbing, eyes aching, I held on. I kept on telling myself let go, but I couldn’t. Was it time already? My muscles were crying for relief. I finally did it. I finally let go: of both air and the vessel at my fingertips. I had done it at last… I had thrown life on […]
Date: September 3rd, 2021
“Welcome to McDonalds home of the Ronald. How may I help you?” I could hear the intercom screech back at me. “Yeah can I have four double cheeseburgers? One with just leaf lettuce and mayo, one with only ketchup, one with no onions, and one plain with barbeque sauce.” What Citation Formats Do You Support?We […]
Date: September 2nd, 2021
I hear the splash of the ocean waves pounding against the shoreline, feel the cool calm breeze against my skin, and take a moment to just breathe. Memories of my childhood come rushing back to me. It’s a brisk day at the beach and I am sitting on a bench with my mother, watching the […]
Date: September 1st, 2021
Because of its huge amount of fast food restaurants, America is the fattest country in the world. Americans spend more money on fast food than on magazines, movies, books, newspapers, and music altogether. The top four, billion dollar establishments starting with the most popular are Subway, McDonald’s, Pizza Hut, and Burger King. However, fast food […]
Date: September 1st, 2021
People always talk about others who influenced them in their lives. Whether it was god, ghandi or maybe someone famous, but I’d be lying if I said my teachers parents or anyone for that matter really impacted my life, but the truth is I don’t I can’t say I’ve genuinely met an extraordinary person, there […]
Date: August 31st, 2021
Do you ever feel you need to do the right thing but the motivation doesn’t come into play? Every day went from being a piece of cake, but now it’s a struggle? I have been through that rough patch in life. I think almost everyone has. Those are the moments in life that really teach […]
Date: August 31st, 2021
“Yixing! Stop!” my friend yelled. I stopped chasing and frolicking, and turned my head to see what had happened. Lu was sitting in the mud, bursting into tears; she was one of my good friends who had lived next to me for 10 years, played the same instrument I did, went to school together every […]
Date: August 29th, 2021
I was in third grade when I heard the news. I remember walking home from school and seeing Jackie’s car parked outside. I haven’t seen her in about two months and I was so happy to see my favorite sister. I dropped my backpack at the front door and ran to the kitchen where she […]
Date: August 28th, 2021
