"Tuesday night again. Time for another band practice", I thought to myself as I ate supper. You see, I'm a member of a community band that I joined a few years ago after leaving high school. I figured it would be a good way to keep up with the music that had been such a big part of my life at sch...

"This has got to be the most boring thing in my life" Michelle said as her and Cassy followed the band around the museum. "I totally agree and I always thought this place would be interesting." The girls had been literally forced to follow the band around that day at the Rock and Roll hall of Fame. ...

With an exhausted sigh, Dirk Crozier unlocked the door to his business office at exactly 8:53 to begin another night of work. As he walked through the doorway, he threw his hat in the general direction of his coatrack. It missed, of course, but Crozier didn't bother to pick it up. He car...

I say a prayer. My fingers quickly find their place again and race to type my thoughts as they flood in. One sentence; two sentences; wait, no, not going to work. The passion of the idea seeps out of me as quickly as it arrived. Delete. "God, please help me out. What can I write about? What sh...

I could smell the vodka entering my lungs, surrounding my body in its evil presence. I held my knees close to my body, and rested my head upon a kneecap. The shattering glass echoed in the background, filling my ears with the calls from hell. Tears ran down the sides of my cheeks, as I tried to ho...

Part I: The Tao Of Dani Time is an illusion because there is no real truth to it. It has never been proven to exist. It was made up by the Romans or the Babylonians thousands of years ago so farmers could meet on a hill top at 1 in the afternoon because one farmer's wife had a ...

Chapter 1 I awoke. There was a crash on the main deck. I heard a loud crack from above. I ran up the stairs and what I saw shocked me. The small wooden boat was completely in flames! "Help, help, somebody please!" I slowly moved toward the sound being careful not to get ...

Finding Your IdentityKnowing the fact that no human could be perfect, my determination to accomplish the impossible was merely unstoppable. I would never be satisfied with any of my accomplishments for they were never perfect enough. Instead of giving myself a pat on the back for the amount of effor...

Finding Your IdentityKnowing the fact that no human could be perfect, my determination to accomplish the impossible was merely unstoppable. I would never be satisfied with any of my accomplishments for they were never perfect enough. Instead of giving myself a pat on the back for the amount of effor...

It's always said is good to make peace with your past. Well for me that's not the case. It's too hard to let go a painful past and all the things I went through. From the early 1930's through mid 1940's leaving in Germany were years that no one would ever forget. Through ...

Lilies Last Forever"Diiiiiiing Dong!"Lily's eyes slowly fluttered open. She glanced at the alarm clock, which said 11:39 a.m. Getting out of bed, walking slowly down the carpeted stairs which tickled her tired feet a little, and rubbing the sleep out of her eyes, Lily went to the door. When she o...

"American Beauty"1. Impression ManagementImpression management is a way to get people to see you any way you want them to. To achieve this one would wear a certain type of clothes, for example, to give off a certain impression. It is all about image, and managing the impression you give off. If y...

My Lifestyle Changes Paper will include the six components of wellness, that being Physical, Emotional, Intellectual, Spiritual, Interpersonal and Environmental wellness. It will include my goals, my weaknesses as well as my strengths to the components of wellness as well as a plan for myself to ma...

Love: Is it a Fairytale?"Love is...an all consuming emotion that encompasses your entire being.... love is pain and regret and contentment and overjoyment and friendship...love is the sweet and the sour.... love is the one thing that we as people all have the capacity to feel...love is the one pure ...

It happened for as long as I could remember. I was ten and my sister was four. I am middle- height with light brown hair, which goes blond in the summer. I have pale skin, and when the heat and sunlight touch it, my skin develops in to a sea of freckles. My sister has brown hair like mine. She is sh...

What is truth? I think, everyone has asked this question at least one in his life. It has been the main problem of many works of art. Well, "What is truth" can also be called the key problem of the novel "To kill a mockingbird" by Harper Lee. Here all the events in a small town i...

The DreamFinal PaperPraxis ISahna CarmonaIt was late December, the drifts were piling up in collusion against the rails of the porch. Little could be discerned above the sound of the wind, wrapping itself around the northeast corner of the house. Restless, it continued to bully what remained of th...