“It seemed funny that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset.” – Ponyboy referencing Cherry in The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton My bounty is as boundless as […]
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The Worst Nuclear Disaster since Chernobyl On March 11, 2011, the tsunami caused by the Tōhoku earthquake hit Fukushima. The tsunami caused various power and equipment failures at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, leading to the meltdown of three reactors. The nuclear disaster at Fukushima was rated a seven on the INES scale, the worst
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I arrived in San Luis, Colorado about two hours before sunset on Friday, July 25th, 2014. I was invited by an activist friend to the culmination of a month-long program called Move Mountains, a program designed to empower and enrich the lives of the local youth in this community. The program works to train young
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I was parking on Boulder Street the other day to go and have a coffee with Eric Stephenson and a woman said to me as I went toward the meter, “Make sure you put enough in. They’ll really get you on this street.” I thanked her but then saw she was going into a store
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I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man I’d sit on his lap in that big old Buick and steer as we drove through town He’d tousle my hair and say son take a good look around
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In the country’s fight against poverty, LIFT, a non-profit organization, effortlessly works to institute a new universal standard that will hopefully endure. Located in six major cities (Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.) across the country, it has 100,000 members. The organization assists poverty stricken people by partnering them with advocates
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