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Non-Fiction
Beauty
At age 18, I found out that beauty existed. I have often been told that beauty exists in everything, flowers, streams, even a dirty hobo. I found all of this to be completely ridiculous. Physical beauty is nothing more than a temporary state. I found that absolute beauty does not exist in some object that can simply be viewed whenever one chances upon the feeling. Beauty is the raw and passionate exhibition of emotion, the...
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Non-Fiction
It's unsettling the thoughts racing through my head of days gone by. Of times that will never come again. Of things that have happened but will never happen again. That life as I knew it won't ever be the same. Nothing will ever repeat itself...well almost nothing.
I wonder if there is something I could have done better....
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Non-Fiction
“Just another day of the thing I call a life” by Someone
I got out of my brother’s car and started for the school’s double
doors. Man I was tired. It was 6:50 am and I had to go to school one
hour and ten minutes before it even started. But for a reason. You see,
my brothers in this thing called early bird where instead of talking
gym, you take this marathon class to get more credit. I did this every
b-day. I was ...
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Non-Fiction
Future Letdown, Final.
Hand Drying Systems.
Having a hot air hand dryer on the bathroom wall is the same as having a sign saying: "Dry your hands on your pants, germophobe." Unless you want to take the full 6 minutes to see each bead of water roll off of your hands, these units are a farce, like wrinkle free pants or self cleaning ovens (also future letdowns).
It is respectful when they give you a choice and t...
05/14/2008 | 67 Hits | 2 comments |  (3 votes) | Read more...
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Non-Fiction
Future Letdown, Pt. 2
Babies have let us down.
While men have been creating the smaller mp3 player each year, and women have been dipping various food products into deep fryers to improve our cuisine, babies have done squat.
Babies have added nothing to the future, leaving it just as cuddly yet retro as always. They have been the most disappointing demographic according to BAN’s calculations, adding noting to the field of s...
05/09/2008 | 50 Hits | 3 comments |  (2 votes) | Read more...
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Non-Fiction
Where the Heck are the Lasers?
This is the future. According to Terminator 2, we should be being taken over by skeletal governors (who use lasers) by now, GI Joe promised giant battles full of weapons of mass destruction, shooting giant lasers without anyone getting killed, and then there was Star Wars, with the multi lasers buzzing overhead and even swords that could be used as a laser stick to beat your least favorite f...
05/07/2008 | 119 Hits | 9 comments | (7 votes) | Read more...
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Non-Fiction
Chapter 1: The Coming
(Based on True Story)
The sun shone, a new day for Mandy. She opened here eyes as the rays of sun touches her soft face. She quickly grabbed her teddy bear and walked out of her room. "Good Morning sweetie!" Her mom said to her as she carefully walk down the stair steps. "Hurry up, it's tme to eat breakfast. Your dad and your sister will be here in a minute." Her mo...
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Non-Fiction
The stifling heat of the crowded gymnasium stood out in sharp contrast to the biting cold just outside the doors. People were milling around, some with an air of confidence and purpose, but most of us just looked confused. I certainly was. Abby grabbed my arm as I stopped to stare just inside the doorway, not just because by the look in my eyes she probably thought I was going to turn and run away, but because there were still ot...
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Non-Fiction
This Is A True Story!
I never expected it to happen. Life had led me to be untrustworthy of many. I joined the Army a couple months before him. We didn't meet until March of 2007. We were both Private(E-2)'s. He caught my curiousity not only because he stuck out because of his persona but also because he was Native American. Something I rarely saw in my journey through training in the first eight mon...
04/28/2008 | 194 Hits | 1 comment | (2 votes) | Read more...
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Non-Fiction
I will not see the light of tomorrow <<< those are the words we most commonly heard when some of us break down and lose hope.
its all over <<< those when we lose something related to work or relationship
Thank You <<< when someone is kind to us and we appreciate them.
Life has many ups and more downs. To us its never satisfactorial. we are always luring towards materialistic things forgettng the ble...
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Non-Fiction
Loyola High School Names High Point Academy Student as2008 Reverend Charles R. Gagnan, S.J. Scholarship Awardee
14 - year old Conrad Ukropina, an eight grader at High Point Academy in Pasadena, is the 2008 recipient of the Reverend Charles R. Gagnan, S.J. Scholarship Award for Loyola High School. Conrad was the highest – ranking candidate from over 800 students considered for the $2,975 scholarship and one of two recipients ...
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Non-Fiction
"So, what is it that you want to do?" my
mother asked me, her voice stern and strained. Her eyebrows bent inward
so that a crease formed between them.
I remained silent, silently pondering and silently broken.
"August, you know we can't help you if you don't know what you want." She clenched her hands onto her skirt.
I don't know.
"Why is it that whenever we ask you questions like this, y...
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Non-Fiction
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I wrote this article a few years ago for a magazine aimed at people interested in getting as close to a totally self-reliant lifestyle as they could without wearing animal skins and painting on cave walls. Since then, it has made the rounds on the internet and angered a lot of animal lovers. Federal legislation has been passed closing down the last three meat packing plants in the US that processed horse meat. Oh, and untold ...
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Non-Fiction
As a historical figure, Thomas
Jefferson is widely respected and admired. He decided to do what was considered
wrong, to do what he thought was right, to form our nation. "As
our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can
fight like men also." (Jefferson,
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/thomas_jefferson.html) A man of many occupations, Thomas Jefferson
was a large factor in the sh...
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Non-Fiction
J.R.R. Tolkien was an amazing writer and artist who wrote numerous books. Some of his works are: Unfinished Tales of Numerior and Middle-earth, Silmarillion, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and Farmer Giles of Ham. He liked to base his characters after himself and other people he knew. For instance, he once wrote, “ I am, in fact, a hobbit, in all but size. I like gardens, trees, and unmechanicized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like g...
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Non-Fiction
I wake up this morning thinking I'm free. Only I find out I'm still a slave. I'm in my own nirvana. I feel nothing, I am nothing. I'm a slave to nothing. No, I'm just a slave to nirvana.
When I was open and honest about my feelings for her, I was angry. Atleast I felt something. Now I feel nothing. You know there are people who want to aspire to feel nothing, to be nothing. Why?
I only wish she could see into my...
04/13/2008 | 220 Hits | 7 comments | (4 votes) | Read more...
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Non-Fiction
Snap
By Sophie Huchet
Snap. That sound, it haunts my dreams and has me lying awake in my bed at night, again and again. Snap. The sound of bones crushing, ligaments splitting, vertebrae compacting. Thump. Crumpled body on the ground, life defeated. The images wreak havoc on my waking hours and desiccate my sleep. The colors. The reds of the blood, the white of bone as it rears its ugly head through pulverized flesh. H...
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Non-Fiction
Disavowing my feelings for her was easy. Living without those feelings is difficult. I can't feel with out those feelings. My indifference, my appathy is soothing, but at the sametime it's agonizing. I've reduced myself to no more than a shell.
I don't care anymore. I care nothing about my school work, my friends, my family, myself.
Waking up in the morning is both easy and hard. A part of me wakes up knowing I'm no longer a s...
04/12/2008 | 147 Hits | 5 comments | (3 votes) | Read more...
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Non-Fiction
4th January 1967
Standing in the cockpit of the boat as she's pushed back from the jetty, I can see them all looking at me. I catch the eye of Frank from the Daily Mail, he smiles guiltily at me. Christ that man's been giving me hell this time.
"Only doing my job, Don old boy." He pointed out to me last night as we played cards.
"You wrote that I'd lost my nerve." I repl...
04/08/2008 | 155 Hits | 3 comments | (4 votes) | Read more...
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Non-Fiction
I wish I didn't feel like this, but I do.
Somebody once told me that "you are the happiest you will ever be when you are in love." I have to say thats bull.
I'm in love and I'm not happy about it.
I've known her most of my life. We grew up together. I'm best friends with her brother. I've always had a thing for her. Until recently, though, I have developed feelings. Feelings I don't like, but...
04/03/2008 | 176 Hits | 5 comments | (4 votes) | Read more...
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