Public speaking has always come easily to me, without the stuttering and nerves that affect most people. It segued into joining the debate club freshman year, an extracurricular that I have come to love more than any other. Over time, I became synchronized with the rhythm of debate tournaments; I memorized the length of each […]
Date: July 19th, 2021
My grandma is the reason I’m a night owl instead of an early bird. She’s the reason the light from my room shines through the crack under my door after my family is tucked away, snoring, in bed. I acquired the habit of staying up into the small hours of the morning during my annual […]
Date: July 18th, 2021
The scene opens in a coffee house. Smoke mixed with the bitter scent of mocha clouds the air, creating a misty, ethereal atmosphere. Slowly, it dissipates, and the room comes into focus. The camera pans across the room, not stopping to focus at the countless young professionals, pounding away at their laptops writing their brilliant […]
Date: July 17th, 2021
All my life’s a circle, Sunrise and sundown.Which Citation Styles Can You Handle?We get a lot of “Can you do MLA or APA?”—and yes, we can! Our writers ace every style—APA, MLA, Turabian, you name it. Tell us your preference, and we’ll format it flawlessly. The moon rolls through the nighttime, ‘Til the daybreak comes […]
Date: July 16th, 2021
I specifically remember the winter day when I was fourteen and received a brochure in the mail for the local Catholic high school, Holy Family. I gave one look at it, laughed, and threw it away. It’s amusing to me now that I didn’t give that brochure more than ten seconds of my time. Little […]
Date: July 15th, 2021
I tried to block it out, but my brain would not let me forget the inevitable, I was going to die. My palms were sweating, water poured from everyinch of my body. The people below me would have to get umbrellas to keep from getting soaked. All I could concentrate on was the man at […]
Date: July 15th, 2021
“You are fourteen?!” one of my bewildered classmates asked. That was me, the short, scrawny kid. I could relate to how the ugly duckling must have felt. He did not seem to fit in with everyone else; something was different. It was almost like a piece of a jigsaw puzzle that could not be given […]
Date: July 15th, 2021
As long as I can remember every Sunday has been the same, waking up with the smell of breakfast ready and sitting on the couch with our pj’s still on. Mom and Dad cook breakfast in the kitchen as us kids watch a show that we can never agree on. After filling our stomach with […]
Date: July 12th, 2021
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Date: July 12th, 2021
Manystudents in my school excel in sports such as soccer, cross-country and football.But my activity is uncommon for young men my age. It is gymnastics – a complexyet invigorating sport that, as I have learned over the years, not onlychallenges one’s physical state, but also one’s mind. Gymnastics has taught meself-discipline and given me confidence, […]
Date: July 10th, 2021
