OHSAA eligibility rules should be clearer for everyone to read I believe the Ohio High School Athletic Association's(OHSAA) eligibility rules should be made easier to understand. The controversies over the rules of accepting gifts in the last couple weeks in uncalled for. I think the OH...

My heart beat at a rabbit's pace as I walked up the cement steps to a small building set on a hill. I took a deep breath in an effort to allow even a sliver of calm to permeate the sense of dread that engulfed my mind and body. I stole a quick glance at my younger brother, briefly grateful tha...

School year of 2002-2003 was one if not the most significant experience in my so called life. It was the point of my life where I almost had to choose between life and death. I was in my third year of high school. And nevertheless my youth, I undergone through it. I had remarkably finished and pa...

Are We Really Ourselves? In the hustle and bustle of our crazy world we need to pause and ask ourselves if we are really sheep? In saying the word "sheep" I am merely referring to most people as followers that do not possess the quality of leadership. Introduction to "Rereading Am...

A True Friend "This can't happen to me!!! It just can't!!" I screamed. I ran out of my English class, towards the guidance office, but there they were waiting for me. I quickly did a 180, and dashed out the side door. I ran as fast as I could towards the little woods behind Greenwood High School...

On Friday afternoon, Penelope Shelley sat in the school cloakroom waiting for the other children to go home. It was one of her 'Plans to Make Life Easier'. If she was out by the school gates at the end of the day, the other children saw her. It was easier to sit in the cloakroom until they were go...

I had once watched an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show where Oprah Winfrey interviewed women who recalled the moment they realized they should always listen to their gut, their natural instinct that warned them of for coming trouble. It is an instinct that everyone naturally has that, in a way,...

A Day I'll Always Remember As a child growing up, I never thought that I could have done something that would change my life forever. I was your typical middle child that wanted to please everyone. My sister was older and had privileges that I did not have, and my brother was younger and th...

John Doe English 125-41619 Narration An experience that taught me an important lesson It was my senior year in high school and ever year we had a senior auction; we have to be slaves for one day, to raise money for our senior trip and to prove how popular we are. When they asked me to be in th...

Cloudy Morning The morning golden sky was surrounding me in a distant haze. The sun and morning haze had started to churn and mix together. I felt as if I belonged in a painting. The beauty struck me and made me catch my breath. It was like your favorite pillow; it comforted me and made my mi...

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the first son, and third of eleven children, was born in Daresbury (Cheshire), England on January 27th, 1832. Influenced greatly by his father - a noble captain, Archdeacon, Canon, and dually mastered in Mathematics and the Classics, Charles spent his childhood years un...

Don Miguel Ruiz was born into a family of healers and raised in rural Mexico by a curandera (healer) mother and nagual (shaman) grandfather. The family anticipated don Miguel would embrace their centuries old legacy of healing and teaching and as a nagual, carry forward the esoteric Toltec knowledge...

The transformation from a teenager to an adult often involves lots of emotions and events that are unforgettable in a person's life. The changes in emotions and behaviors are sometimes strong enough to temporarily push a person away from his/her normal life. I myself experienced quite an intere...

How Class can Determine Ones Social Identity Class is what every person in this country strives for. People spend their entire lives trying to improve their own social stature, and many times end up completely miserable. A person can work their way up a corporate ladder to find in the end that the...

Pre-Socratic Philosophy: ParmenidesParmenides (pronounced as: parmenidz) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and poet, as well as a leading figure of the Eleatic school of philosophy. Son of Pyres, Parmenides was born of an illustrious family in Elea between B.C. 505-515. Elea was a colony locate...

Scientology is a fairly new religion. Founded in the twentieth-century by a man by the name of L. Ron Hubbard. He began his studies long ago and wrote a book in 1950 called Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. He claimed that this book was one of the first tools used to solve the ...

The Breakfast Club was a movie about five very different characters, Claire, Andrew, Brian, Allison, and John Bender. Claire was a popular girl, Andrew was a wrestler (jock), Brian was intellectually gifted, Allison was a basket case, and John Bender was a rebel. On the outside they seem like very d...

As we begin the twenty-second century scientists are finally coming to grips with the fact that music, when applied correctly, can act as a stimulant to the brain's response system to enhance its performance. This enhancement to the mind makes the neuron's response more clear, crisp, and ...

A Successful Life Dr. Temple Grandin has a disorder known as autism. What this means is that words are translated into pictures in her mind. This disorder has made life into a struggle for her because she is not able to understand words very easily. Words are like that of a second language to he...

The theory of cognitive dissonance is something that I have often incorporated into my life with out even realizing what I was doing. When I have found myself doing things that do not fit with what I know I, or I have an opinion that does not fit with the other opinions I hold can sometimes cause ...

My view on "I stand here writing" Among the four essays we have read, obviously "I stand here writing" is the most difficult one. The first idea comes to my mind when I read this essay is it is particular weird. Different from others, although it is also a personal, autobiograp...

Ecotopia, a novel written by Ernest Callenbach in 1975, brings many new economically wonderful ideas to the minds of its readers. The ideas that are presented in this book are amazing, and allows its readers to think in an entirely new way of the world that surrounds us. At first this book is slow ...

The Country Husband: Who is Francis Weed? After a near brush with death in a plane crash, Francis Weed's life is about to change. In the short story "The Country Husband" we are led through a period of time in the life of Francis Weed, a husband, father, an...

The characters in Fahrenheit 451 live in a society ruled by a totalitarian government which controls just about all aspects of their lives. Firemen don't think about job, no one ever thinks about anything. In a world where firemen rush to start fires as opposed to stopping them, the society is ...

A Boy Named SueBy, Chris A boy named Sue can be summed up by the title alone, but it can be dissected much deeper to find a much more metaphorical meaning. The poem starts out discussing how a boy at the age of three became fatherless when his dad left him and his mother with nothing but an old gui...