Featured Example College Application Essay Language is a powerful tool, often taken for granted. It can be used to create world peace, and it can be used to start world wars. The power of language is in the beholder–the communicator. What then, is the universal language that will be understood, and in turn influence,
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Creative Writing "The Dream Sender" Ch. 2 The Harvest Festival By the time she reached the gates of the city, it was already well past noon and Mist thought that, next time, she’d try and leave a bit earlier. She wondered what sort of events she’d missed by not arriving in the morning, but she
Creative Writing "The Dream Sender" Ch. 1 Her first month, she was Amy. Without a memory in her head or any knowledge as to who she was or what she was doing in the little stone cabin along the river, Amy had chosen not to be scared. There was a settled sort of calm in the cabin,
Creative Writing "Infinite Loop" I have to say, before we begin, that I am terrible with memories. My head doesn't carry events to be recalled in a linear fashion, but a haphazard collection of feelings and sights that last for a split second and no more. In fact, for some of them,
Featured Creative Writing "Her" Her name was something simple – Kimberly Jones, Kimberly Anne Jones. Kim, Kimberly, Kimmy, and sometimes Anne when she just didn't feel like being Kimberly anymore. Her name drove her crazy in its simplicity, in its normalcy; so common, so boring, she never wanted to be boring. She wanted
Creative Writing "Fall" All the world is a crackle of leaves. Crackle, crackle, and a rustle, and the wind pushes and pulls the trees, attempting to rid them of their orange-and-brown adornments, and the sound they make is like the hearty laughter of the earth, the planet hasn't a care in
Creative Writing "Cities" Like a million eyes watching, waiting in the night - silent and hazy at a distance but up close, so alive. A life within life, an entity all its own, the city breathes and the city lives. Its heartbeat is the footsteps, the frazzled array of sounds that twist and
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Thoughts & Opinions: Are you actually Pro-Life? Do you believe that life begins at conception? Okay, that is a philosophy that is true to many people's hearts. Life itself is a definition constantly changing, so take comfort in whatever definition you can find. So, life begins at conception. And you believe every being has a
Example Lesson Plan: Advanced ESL Concept / Topic To Teach: Reductions - Recognizing and Using Common Reductions General Goal(s): After completing this lesson, students will be able to recognize, identify, and correctly use reductions in every-day conversation. Specific Objectives: Students will be able to follow patterns of reductions in order to fill in the information
Creative Writing "The Vase" I was the perfect amount of broken for you. My pieces were jagged and messy but you could still visualize the whole of me even if I couldn't hold myself together just yet. I wasn't quite so shattered that minuscule bits of clay turned to dust
Creative Writing "How to Destroy Yourself" Develop a thick skin to soften the blow when the sting of a sentence has the same impact as a Molotov cocktail. Sharpen your tongue and place yourself on a pedestal so that you are resilient and unreachable, above and alone. Put all your faith in somebody who wouldn’t
Featured [Freeform] Poetry "An inadequate poem" A poem falls short; I'd like, instead to draw a single line from me to you and watch it curl into a word so beautiful it's still unsaid – or press paper to the window pane so that the day might saturate a note that brightly warms
Poetry "The Meadow" There is a little meadow, just along the way, full of grass and marigolds, where all the children play. In this little meadow, children laugh and sing, about the world's great wonders and all the happiness they bring. This meadow is so lovely! All green and gold and
Featured Poetry "For Lack of Something Better" Spinning, twirling, acrobatic and that's not how it goes tripping, tilting, systematic quick erratic shows falling, failing, faintly flailing a little high and lots of low wishing, wanting, forever daunting ready, here we go! It's not right, something's amiss seal it with a single
Featured Creative Writing "You Poor, Darling Soul" Dear lost child, my unfortunate dreamer doomed to imagination, You're just a little girl, wanting to be anything but what you are. Jamming to the happy songs in your heart and dreaming of anywhere but here, wishing to fly away through time and space and see it all
Creative Writing "The Music" The musician's music was so beautiful, so glorious while the notes floated through the sky, that the Sun himself refused to sleep, for fear that some nuance from the songs would be missed.
Creative Writing "Moths" (Alternate) He kept by her through everything, he loved her more than life itself and it was tearing her apart because she knew every fit, every one of her episodes broke his heart just a little more.
Short story Featured Creative Writing "Moths" Life was cruel to good men. It silenced them with poverty, demeaned them with homelessness, and rewarded them with nothing for all their offerings of everything.
Featured Example College Application Essay This essay was written for an application to physical therapy school.
Featured Example Statement of Intent Miscommunication is inherently human; the behavior of language being constantly in flux echoes the perpetually fluid nature of human identity. That is to say, while hollow maxims are pretty, I have found in my life that the realities of miscommunication and being misunderstood are far messier and consequential than can
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