Time Creative Writings Samples For Students

- Write about a public place that continues to evoke powerfully, emotional memories for you.

I was never a fan of water fountains; fountains that we often see in movies as the hub of all romance. I did not find anything unusual in them. I mean, it is just the water that is going up and falling down from all places. Sure, it looks beautiful but only for a while. After that, it tends to get monotonous. However, my friend Julia was always researching on the internet and looking at pictures of gigantic water fountains all around the world. She was particularly a fan of those in Dubai where water shows are regularly held in the middle ...

The internet has become a limitless advance of space where individuals can write anything or be anyone. Information is not always valid, nor are the faces we look at. Virtually everything we see on the internet has the capacity to be doctored in some way. Essentially we could be hoaxed as many times a day as we dare to click our mouse’s button. Unfortunately, I have several stories involving internet hoaxes and the damage that they can cause in the lives of people who are unaware of them. One involves disinformation; the other involves dishonesty.

Four years ago, as blogs ...

History students would agree that the working population’s challenges became more noticeable during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century in Europe and America as compared to any other period in time. France relied on the close-by weave frameworks and corporate solidarity of working artisan trades. Nonetheless, urban growth did not stop bringing together traders with a much experienced way of doing trade leading to the reality of which a couple of specialists has judged it as a way of creating class and taste around French workers. History shows that a social affiliation inside trade bundles cannot speak to uprising in the ...

Introduction

It must be noted that strategic partnerships and alliances have become very important, particularly at a time where shippers as well as carriers increase their cooperation level. During the 2008 world economic downturn, many analysts predicted some gloomy future as far as the long-term supply chain relationship is concerned (Ernst & Young, 2012). The foundation of this prediction was based on that fact that all decisions would be made on the basis of lowest prices and underestimation of the increase of mutually beneficial collaboration that existed between the partners of supply chain partners. However, these forecasts never accounted to the experts ...

What would it be if singing birds don’t sing?

If sky is white and clouds are mellow green,
If shadows hide one human fellow’s sin.
How would he find his little wedding ring?
One day, I wish, I would come home from work,
And hear my little puppy scratching door lining.
I would hear birds so closely deeply sing,
I would hug my puppy, glancing at the clock

In light brown room, ignited only by the moon,

I sense that someone’s always watching me.

A pair of big owl eyes winking from the silent tree,

Assist my day from morning till the noon.
Owl winks and winks, and time is passing by.
One day I would wake up ...

Travelling is one of life’s events that one cannot do without it. Whether it is just for five minutes to get grocers or over ten hours to visit a relative, each one of us cannot avoid going around. Such an event can be more interesting especially if it becomes a hobby. Every time you feel bored or just have time for nothing, you think of where you can go out. Finding pleasure in seeing people go about their activities and the beautiful sceneries that nature gives is one of the best things that happen to me. Maybe it is just ...

My name is Jon Smith. I work as a lawyer practicing in the city of Portland Oregon. My sister lives in the same city and works in the south eastern part of the city working as a beautician in a plush salon. My sister and I have been close from the time we were little since we are the only siblings. My sister is a couple of years older than I, despite this fact I was the more responsible between the two of us, my dad married her mom while I was three and she was five. We went to school together and ...

Literature:

An ironically chilly summer evening
Paranoia and uncertainty cover the land as the surrender by the Germans and victory by the allies appear imminent and at this point more than certain
The war has raged on for five years and both sides of the battle field are reeling from the effect of the war with casualties tending to their millions both in terms of civilian lives as well as military personnel. The damage on the infrastructure is unmentionable at this time with entire cities being leveled to the ground such as the French capital of Paris which ...

Assignment #1: Usability AssessmentCRWR 213-002[Your first and last name][Your student number]

1. Describe the experience of downloading the app and using it to locate a Megaphonevendor downtown. Were you successful in finding a vendor using the application?
Downloading the application was an easy task since I clearly understood the stipulated instructions. I managed to download it and install on my smartphone within a short time. The size of the application was also convenient for the space on my phone as I was not obliged to delete any other features to accommodate it. Locating a vendor downtown gave me a hard time, mainly because it was my first time to experience such an application. Despite ...

Infants reach several milestones from the very moment they are born up to the age of one year. During this time, babies change with regard to their reaction to everything around them and each day unique growth and development is noticeable (Martin 2008). It is imperative to not that each individual baby reach their milestones in their own unique way and at their own pace. Many of the milestones that they reach cut across and do not vary greatly (Meggitt 2006). There is a child I have seen grow and develop from one stage to another reaching these milestones just ...

Dear Mr. Pierre Lacour,

This is a letter just to recognize the attainment of my master’s degree program. It gives me great joy and satisfaction to have attained my outstanding performance record for my program.
This achievement does not come as a surprise to me since during the time of study, my lecturer, Mr. Pierre Lacour, a man that has a great passion for Economics gave his time relentlessly to see us understand everything we did extensively and ultimately pass in our exams. During our time of study, I worked very hard in writing my thesis. I had to conduct a thorough analysis before writing my ...

QUESTION 1

During the last years of High School, my grades were slipping and I was disappointed with the way my results turned out. I lost the drive to work hard and the enthusiasm to give my best shot at my projects and assignments. I was distracted by too many things and I realized that I have started ignoring the urge to perform better. I lost interest in my academic life. Therefore, I started organizing myself. I analyzed my strengths and weaknesses and developed a critique against myself. I set a goal to become disciplined, in my life as well as my studies. ...

Women have always been treated unequally. Often, they are viewed as intellectually inferior, which is why women performed domestic chores while heavy labor and decision making were often given to men. They were not allowed to vote and kept from acquiring education, among others. Following is a conversation between staunch supporters of women’s causes in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Mary Wollstonecraft (MW): I am Mary Wollstonecraft from London, United Kingdom. I am from the 18th century, the era that rated women as second-class people. During my time, women were taught to center their minds and time ...

Nice and peaceful. Just the way I like it.
I set the shovel to one side and wiped the sweat from my brow. I will just wash away the traces of dirt that smeared by face as the mud-stricken gloves accidentally brushed my flushed cheeks. I looked around one more time just to make sure that nobody saw me. At 3:00 am on a cold October dusk, I could never be sure. Teenagers nowadays stay awake nibbling on their laptops. It was hard work but well worth it, considering the consequences of not doing it. My hand reached for ...

EXT. STORE PARKING LOT - LATE AFTERNOONA YOUNG WOMAN, early 20's, stands in the parking lot of a shabby-looking grocery store. She has a haggard expression and wears a work apron below a puffy down jacket. She is just about to light up a cigarette when she freezes. Peering ahead, she sees a BLACK LIMOUSINE coming toward her. She recognizes the limousine and has a brief debate on whether to go back into the store or stay standing. Her hands are trembling with rage, and she stands in anticipation of what she predicts will be an explosive confrontation, for yet another time. CATHY takes a deep, calculated ...

Synopsis

A man stands blindfolded in a firing line. He is dirty, wearing rags, and looks as though he has been tortured. It is clear by his surroundings that he is being held at a type of military base. His skin color differentiates him from that of his captures, who wear cleanly pressed uniforms. Their expressions are emotionless and stern. The man shakes but remains where he stands.
A flashback takes place. We see the man’s home and himself as a child. His childhood home is small and modest. It is not dirty, but it is lived-in. His mother prays in ...

Introduction

It may have been just a cluster of words printed nicely in an almost card board like glossy paper. Numbers were written all over the face of the paper, accompanied by what seems like a cluster of vertical lines, a picture of an aircraft, and your name on it. Without that piece of paper, it is impossible for one to get his way to explore the clouds. What is being described here is the boarding pass. As simple as it is, boarding pass tickets holds a lot of stories of struggle and joy. The face of the boarding pass tells stories no one ...

Change is a common phenomenon and an essential part of human life. Change affects the survival and growth of an organization in terms of time, duty, work, pay, technology, structure, authority-responsibility and many others. It helps to adjust with the forces of the external environment. Since the environment of business is dynamic, it is vital for organizations to be dynamic by identifying, accepting and implementing changes at the right time . Change refers to the creation of difference or imbalance in the existent pattern of dealing at work. It is a base for growth and development as it offers plenty of opportunities. ...

[Date (January 1, 2014)]

It was Friday morning; the busy shoppers were doing their last-minute errands for Halloween. The store was bustling with chattering people, enthusiasm was in the air. It was cold and windy outside but the warmth inside the grocery store provided a relaxing heat for a comfortable browsing of candies that would soon go on sale as quickly as the occasion was over.
One family got their carts full for the day. It was a cheerful lot except for one tall and pale-faced girl wearing a smug expression on her face, her full attention on texting. She was a very ...

A Reflective Essay

A clicktap tap tapback spacetap tap taptype ‘I think’
Life beyond college is just as confusing and indecisive as that essay I am desperately trying to formulate. Your college education is supposed to prepare for that, they say. But the truth that I realized recently is that it is not the college that should prepare me but my own consciousness. With the waves of lectures and homework and party invites that always seem to end up with everyone passed out, it would be so easy to drown in the present. I did drown once. But then, what? Contrary ...

The Seagull by Anton Chekhov and “Chekhov for Children” by Philip Lopate.

Chekhov's The Seagull is known to reject the conventional dramatic subjects that dominated the theater at that time. The intensely dramatic events are not seen on stage, and The Seagull brought about a fundamental change in not only how the plays were written but also how they were acted. Chekhov for Children by celebrated writer Phillip Lopate is an inspiring reflection about his experience with the child actors and how he teaches them. This is an assessment of the nature of childhood and evokes the question as to how does one demarcate between experimentation and self-indulgence. The choices made by ...

Who am I? What am I? What is my name? All these questions do not matter for me. I am neither a man, nor a monster. I do not live, I survive. How did I get to it? Let me tell you my story and you will understand everything.
My story begins somewhere in the nineteenth century. I woke up tied on the table. A man in a white coat was standing over me. For the first time he was smiling, but in a moment his face became contorted with a terror. I did not understand many things that time, but I felt ...

Last weekend I was at home doing nothing and I felt so bored because there was nothing much I could do. I had spent the whole morning sleeping and so, wanted to do something to keep me busy in the afternoon. I then remembered I needed to catch up with sports and news on my favorite channels. I love sports because it is entertaining and best of all, I get to know what is happening in the world of sports. I also love news because they keep me updated on what is happening around the country and even the ...

Classic English Literature

Abstract
Charles Murray’s Are Too Many People Going to College addresses the concern of many who question the theory of whether too many students are going to college. By engaging a number of experts in the discussion, questions such as the effect on the economy if the number of students attending colleges increased substantially, who would or should pay for the students who attend college, and how do the costs of going to college outweigh the benefits of employment and so on are considered. Murray’s view that ten to fifteen percent of the nation’s youth has ...

Tuk. Tuk. Tuk. The sound of the watchman beating his stick on the pavement fell upon Neal’s ears. The sound stirred his sleep. He thought as if his own heart was pounding. Was he getting a heart attack? The sound became louder and he was scared stiff. He was perspiring. He pushed off the blanket. The sound became louder. It was followed by a shrill whistle. It was faint at first, but slowly became louder and louder. When he heard the whistle, he realized that the sound was made by the watchman, beating his stick as he made his rounds. ...

2 Main Character Sketches
Character sketches #1: Kara. Single mother. She prides herself at shopping at rummage sales and thrift stores to cut down costs. When she goes to the grocery store, she always spends $50 and plays a game with herself to try to see how much many meals she can procure for only $50. Kara comes from a family where she had an alcoholic mother, but a hard-working father. She credits her father with raising her into the adult she is today. She is not entirely sure who that is, but she works and takes care of her child, ...

Native Americans are amongst the earliest inhabitants of the United States of America. This community has been living in the country for centuries even before the arrival of the first English settlers. One of the distinctive aspects of this community is that in spite of rapid modernization, the community has managed to hold on to a majority of its cultural values, norms and practices. There are however some cultural elements that have been lost over time. For instance, some Native American holy grounds such as worship centers and burial places have been lost in time, and some of these holy ...

A Summary of My Observations

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Context and Focus

This documentation includes two parts of my observation. The first one is observing class and its students while taking their Speaking Class. I paid attention on the behavior and how the students responded during the discussion of their assignments in the class. The second part of this documentation is to look at the other side of the fence, that is, from the perspective of the teacher. I observed how the teacher conducted her class, what her approaches are and how the students responded to her methods. Based from this, I will ...

InstitutionUnderstanding Lifestyle Modification: My Personal Experiences in Managing Chronic Back Pain through Healthy Diet and Physical Exercise

A. Personal response
However escapist I may sound, I did have a host of factors contributing to my poor eating habits and lack of exercise. On top of being a mother of two small kids (2 and 5 yrs old), I am working part time and studying in school full time. Due to busy schedule, I have little or no time for exercise and paid no attention to healthy eating regimen. On and off, I did attempt to follow healthy eating regimen, but intrapersonal challenges made it hard for me to adjust and stay with healthy eating habits.
Perhaps ...

PART I. Bonnie and Clyde

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Champion Barrow are probably the most romantic and famous gangsters’ couple who lived in 1930th in the USA. That historical period was a time of mafia’s and gangsters’ prosperity as economy was in depression. However, none can be born as a criminal (perpetrator). Crime is a personal decision and responsibility.
Bonnie Elizabeth Parker was born on October 1st, 1910 in Rowena, Texas. She grew up in the suburbs of Dallas with her mother and grandparents as Bonnie’s father died when she was four. She was very slim and pretty young lady who loved to write ...

I’m going to die someday, I thought to myself one day. I was laying in bed, waiting for sleep to come, when I suddenly realized that one day (decades and decades from now, if I am lucky) I would go to sleep one day and not wake up. This thought terrified me, and I jolted out of bed just to make myself feel alive. After a few moments of panic and deep breathing, I felt myself overwhelmed with a distinct sense of calm and peace. Yes, I’m going to die someday, I thought. But I’m not going to ...

My response:

Introduction
The website stickiness or visit duration is an important performance metric for the website managers and is the direct indicator of visitor loyalty towards the website . Stickiness is defined as the ability of a website or a web page to hold a visitor’s attention .

Methods to Create Stickiness

There are different methods to create website stickiness. One of the most common methods to increase website stickiness is to re-organize the website content and structure in a fashion that each action by a user on the website may always lead to the other and there are no dead ends . Other popular methods to promote website stickiness ...

Starbucks is the largest coffee shop chain in the world and has the longest queue of customers waiting for iced drinks too. Starbucks employees and customers endure long queues when the weather is hot and people seek icy Frappuccinos. Starbucks iced drinks require more preparation time than regular hot coffees, the prep time plus the demand on hot days is what causes the long queues. According to a Starbucks spokesperson they did not anticipate that people would be ordering blended icy drinks like Frappuccinos on a regular basis and therefore their cold beverage stations are not large. Besides the delay caused ...

My dearest brother Selden – I hope this letter finds you safe and sound, and that you have not been apprehended by the authorities as yet. We meet you at a time of considerable danger, as not only have you started to draw suspicion around Baskerville Hall, a series of gruesome murders has begun to take place here! Naturally, I dismiss any suspicion that the responsibility may fall on you, as you are my brother and I know you would not abuse such a sweet chance for freedom. To that end, however, it is my wish to inform you that you may be ...

There are many reasons that artists choose to create art, but one of the many reasons that they choose to do so is to encourage the persistence of cultural or personal memories. While not all artists paint, sculpt, or recreate memories from their pasts, many artists do use elements of memory and memories from their past to create works of art that memorialize and speak to the past. This may be a personal history, or it could be a cultural or global history-- many of the works of art created after the first World War, for instance, are concerned with the ...

It was Tuesday morning in July. For a unknown reason she felt like putting on her purple shoes that she did not wear for some time, maybe for several years. As she put her left foot into the corresponding shoe, she understood why she felt like wanting to wear that pair of shoes. Inside the left shoe there was something that tickled her foot, so she removed her foot and turned the show face down. A little rhomb-shaped earring fell down the shoe and she remembered.
Her eyes filled with tears right in the moment when she lifted up ...

Education Reform

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Inequality is an inevitable truth of our society. We see inequality everywhere, whether it’s between rich or poor, powerful or suppressed, strong or weak. What bothers Rousseau is that how and why such inequalities evolved in our society. The very first question that strikes of ‘Jean Jacques Rousseau’ is his question about inequality in two terms those are natural and political. He asks in the very first part of his work of ‘dedication’ that, he states that how equality is natural, and inequality is man-made, something that is introduced by men. Further talking about equality, he ...

Young adulthood

Individual development involved how a person passes through various stages in life from his or her birth to his old age. Michael Williams is a 72-year old living in Texas. His lifelong development has proven resilience and persistence as he has moved through the hierarchies of poverty to develop a rich life to himself. During his young adulthood, Williams developed strong physical body muscles. He undertook many exercise activities, which made him masculine and well built. He was also tall, developing from 4ft upwards to 5.8ft by the time he was 22 years old. There were no observable changes in his physical functioning. ...

Road rage is a situation in which there is a form of violence on the roads. As the words suggest, it is clear to understand the meaning of the two words. Independently, they bring up no meaning close to the one that they have when combined. In a nutshell, one cannot term as a road rage, any rage incident that happens away from the roads.
As it happens on the roads, the incidents in most cases involve drivers. It is, for example an offense to drive above the speed limit in many countries such as America and Saudi Arabia. There comes a time ...

In my reading of Niedecker’s Poems, her use of sounds manifests largely in almost all parts of her literary work. In this regard, she makes of use of sound devices such as repetition, assonance, alliteration, consonance, rhyme, Onomatopoeia and Idiophones. It is significant to note that, it is due to the effect of these devices that my reading is enhanced as follows;
Niedecker’s poems are rich in repetition. More than often, I find that she constantly repeats some statements or special words. In essence, the repetition gives the text a lyrical lilt. As a result, I find myself ...

“I have always held close to my heart the belief that true leadership is an art whereby an individual possess the ability and capability to socially influence his or her subordinates towards the realization of a common end or objective. As a leader, I am expected to be in a position to inspire other people to willingly pursue certain desired goals. All in all, I understand that leadership is not a one step undertaking; it involves a continuous process of learning. Good leadership has not been easy for me to nurture; it is a product of a multiplicity of factors which include in-depth study, strict discipline, ...

My name is Stephen Bild. I turned twenty-eight last January. I still remember that day for it was unlike any other I had experienced in my life. This night would change my life forever. Lying on this bed, I cannot tell whether my life would turn out better or worse.
I was partying with three of my female friends at an uptown pub in Philly. I had not told anyone at work that it was my birthday, save for the receptionist Lucy and Johnny, the janitor. I doubted those two would show up anyway. Lucy did not like ...

History forms an essential part of our lives. It is from this that we make references to what happened and our future expectations. In conjunction with a group of archeologists, we discovered a time capsule of 1960s. It became of interest to us hence we opted to dig it up. I was given the role of digging up the capsule. In our study revelations, upon investigating the capsule, we discovered the following pertinent items. A tattered newspaper piece titled, ’Anti-war movement’, a cover page to a journal titled ,’Why Assassinate our political leaders?’, a piece of paper with inscriptions of ‘Feminine Mystique,’a cover to ...

In the second month of autumn in 1937 a short story by John Steinbeck ‘Chrysanthemums’ was published in Harper’s Magazine. It was not serene and stable times but on the contrary, the elections of the President were just held and Franklin D. Roosevelt gained his position of the Head of the country for the second time. The Great Depression laid its grave mark on the economy of the United States and both hardly started to recover. Significant changes touched upon a social sphere as well, meaning that now it was time for women to emerge as equal members of the ...

Personal narrative

I am an African American, the first born in a family of two brothers. My family is athletic and everyone is or has been involved in various sporting activities. My mom is a former track star who represented the United States in several track events. She started her career in track events at the University of South California. My dad is a former European professional football player and attended the East Tennessee State University. Personally, I have been involved in track events since high school. I ran 110 meters hurdles for two years in both junior and senior high. Currently I run ...

“I never loved him,” I said; and at that moment I felt free as never before.

Those four simple words were very hard to say. For the latest weeks I had been saying them in my mind all the time. There they did feel right, but did not anymore when I said them aloud.
Tom regarded me with that piercing gaze of his commanding eyes. I knew this gaze; it always got me weak and incapable of making my own decisions. And that both firm and tender intonations in his voice, when he began reminding me of our sacred memories, I knew it too. I always felt weak near him. In fact that might ...

During the last three months, I have been engaged in several community service projects related to developmental psychology, especially child psychology. As a volunteer, I worked with many children and adults dealing with a wide range of issues: learning disabilities, anxiety, depression, behavioral problems, trauma, and abuse. Through my experiences, I have learned to apply the material learned in the psychology classroom to real life situations. I performed the following four good deeds in the past three months: volunteered as a tutor to provide after-school tutoring and homework assistance for a child diagnosed with Attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), volunteered to provide weekend care ...

Emory Junior chamber Orchestra review

The Emory Junior Chamber Orchestra came up with quite a brilliantly varied orchestral programme conducted with panache and style by the versatile Georgia Lambros Ekonomou. The first work on the programme was Franz Josef Haydn’s Symphony Nr 13 which is not usually often on concert programmes. The orchestra was delightful in its inflexions and its arrangement by Thomas Laloie was particularly ravishing with the players contributing to an excellent performance all round.
Next on the programme was another rare work, William Hofeldt’s ‘Lullaby’ which was composed in 1951. Yet again we had the orchestra players particularly the ...

The moon rises high in the sky, its silvery light creating an eerier aura, as the screams of a woman echoes through the landscape. The creature turns its head attracted by the sounds of pain and fear as it rips through the veil between the living and dead. “The night of Samhain,” it thinks, “the perfect night for escape.” As the time when the veil between the living and dead is the thinnest, Samhain is the time signally the end of lightness and the beginning of darkness. Exhausted creature slides down to the Earth, the first time it had been ...

Art is one of the most important elements of life and humanity – without it, we are unable to express our true feelings. Art is used to convey emotions and make statements; it can say anything from the personal to the political. To me, music is the genre of art I admire the most, especially as a medium for messages on the nature of art and war alike. Music, through its complex nature and its versatility, can often say many different things about the nature of art and war.
Music, as an art form, has the incredible potential for complexity – ...

There are some figures that are such a permeating part of the collected consciousness that writing about them in a different light is a risky venture since readers have already established an opinion and preconceived archetype of the images. Figures like The Buddha, Jesus, George Washington, Hitler, and Abraham Lincoln all fit characters whom everyone who has engaged with the world or gone to school is familiar with. As such writing about them in a different way, or writing about a little known fact about the figure is risky writing business. Louis P. Masur in his article for the New York Times, “Lincoln Tells a ...

Would you believe if someone told you that long time ago nobody eat tiramisu, although it was already invented? In fact, nobody even tried to taste it and enjoy the delicacy of this dessert. It was used for an absolutely different purpose by ancient Romans from a small Italian village Spoleto, and later – by the whole country.
At that time all Romans lived in peace, everybody loved and respected each other. Moreover, there was a river called Peace in Spoleto, and there was a little secret about that river only few Romans knew – in the evening it could turn milk into ...

Part I

Leonard Michaels was born in January 2, 1933 and died on May 10, 2003. His birth place was New York and his parents of Jewish background with his father coming from Poland. He was an American writer who mainly wrote short stories and novels and even essays. He got his B.A. from the University of New York while his M.A. and Ph. D were earned from the University of Michigan. Among other short stories, Michaels has to his name a short story titled “Crosssbones.” His stories mainly embrace the use of couples who are violent just like in this case, ...

When we encounter stress in our lives, we find ways to get back at peace. We seek support and solutions from our environment. The solutions we find help us either to adapt to the situation or change the situation or our ways. Coping is the way in which we adapt ourselves to handle stress while social support system comprise of people in our lives who help us manage stress.
Stress associated with say loss of a close family member can been dealt with by adapting. When we lose people close to us, we are forced to living without them ...

My mother is the best gift I have ever had. Our relationship is of many dimensions. She has been my companion, my helper, my mentor, my hope and everything one can expect from a selfless person. I am saying this because there are very many people out there who have never had a chance to experience even a fraction of what I have experienced with my mother. Needless to say, I have a reason to smile whenever the thought of my mother crosses my mind.
My mother had to take 2 years leave so as to make sure that I had the ...

The cover displays a rough cave like rocky texture with plenty of “caveman art”. The art implies the evolution of man from more primitive forms walking on all fours to intermediate forms with a bent back to the more evolved upright and seemingly complex modern man. The piece is intertwined by a haunting creepy theme broken up by frantic, sound interludes that tend to grow darker and darker as man’s spirit sinks lower and he nears his imminent destruction. The work basically depicts man’s journey from primitive forms to more evolved intelligent forms to the enslavement of fellow men and ...

The World Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida is like a heaven-sent land, where children’s dreams and fantasies seem to come true. Just like you are living a very personalized fairy-tale and a much appreciated perpetuating youth once you are all grown up!
I visited the Disney World ever since I was a 6-year-old and my divorced and remarried father used to take me and my brothers there, alongside our step brothers and sisters, for ten consecutive years. We would always go on October and what I do remember from back then is the smell of sun tan wafting. So many ...

Mondays aren’t usually known for their sunny weather and bright blue skies, but there they are. I also wasn’t known for wide smiles on my way to school, but there it was, too. A grin played across my face from the backseat of my mom’s convertible as I watched the neighborhood houses slide by with their freshly manicured green lawns and pops of colorful flowers. Somehow, what had looked like a suburban dungeon the day before didn’t look so bad this morning. With the top down and the breeze in my face, I didn’t even ...

'I wish I could spend more time with my five year old son, but since he lives two hours away with his mother and I only get to see him on the weekends, I simply cannot.' His mother and I have been separated since he was two years old. Basically we went out fishing early this summer and I taught him how to fish. He’s a stubborn little guy, so it took me a little bit to get him focused, but once we overcame the initial hurdles, he took to it like a natural.
My main objective was to spend ...

Despite the intergenerational gap, my relationship with my grandmother has been both meaningful and powerful. I guess there was some “good fit” or correct “prescription” that enabled us to build a strong relationship. Even though my grandfather has been equally friendly and loving, my grandmother has always shared in more activities with me, and perhaps that is why I consider her my “closest” grandparent. Perhaps it is because we are both women, considering my elder brothers and even my dad are often out and about with my grandfather. Despite the fact that I have been playing the role of a romantic partner ...