My mom likes to tell a story about a letter she received from the state of California following her decision to keep me out of the public school system when I turned six years old, electing instead to become my teacher herself. She wrote to the education department requesting specific guidelines for keeping me on […]
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You simmer In my synapses, You boil In my blood– If I had to Pick a word for it, I might just call it “Love.” *** Magnolia Cook is a writer from the Colorado Springs area.
Becoming a better person isn’t always easy. I remember looking back to identify the negative attitudes and thoughts that used to contribute to my unhappiness. My behavior was governed mostly by the feeling that I was owed something. I would become frustrated and irritable, going out of my way to do anything that would not
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MGMT’s first appearance on the music scene was as unexpected as it was uncompromising. Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser showed up at a Wesleyan University college party as an inauspicious duo called “The Management,” playing nothing but a continuous loop of the Ghostbusters theme song for hours. The idea was to mock the pop culture music scene, mostly through the
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News pundits, politicians, teachers, and parents all report that the upcoming generation will grow into a world where the Internet and social media have fractured and divided communities into mass groups of isolated individuals. The likely truth is that we have reached a point that surpasses all others in recent memory in terms of community,
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“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” –Nelson Mandela Millions of Americans are still unaware of the problems surrounding the current environmental crisis. Although eco-consciousness across the country seems to be steadily growing, we have to wonder why more people aren’t actively posing more questions about these issues?
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My name is RoseMarie LeBlanc, and if you think I’d planned to be taking orders, taking up dirty dishes, or taking complaints all of my life, you’d be wrong. I’d wanted to be a beautician. Not a stylist. Not a salon operator. Not a barber. A beautician. I wanted to have the kind of shop