They say time does not last, but a memory will. Unfortunately, a memory does not always serve the positive requirements that we burden upon it. My memories serve only to haunt me of who I once was, and who I never will be. Home videos are the only trace left of the happy extrovert I once had known ...

Things Only Get Better "Evan." My eyes examined the words, "Evan Evan..." I repeated. It was written all over her binder. Not one centimeter without a heart or something else. I knew right then that she was in love. Riley and I have been best friends ever since I can reme...

My Dearest Emelye, You have only just left my chamber a short time ago, but I can still smell the essence of you lingering in the air. I can still feel your caring hands caressing my face and arms as you tried to bring comfort to me in these last hours. The ghost of your presence soothes my soul ...

Proactive. Covey tells us how we should be taking more initiative and control of our lives. We are the only ones that have control over our lives. Covey uses the story of Victor Frankl to explain the total control we have to shape our own thoughts and feelings. Victor was a Jew held in a German ...

Dear Mom, I think you\'ve probably already noticed the length of this letter and are probably thinking that you won\'t have time to read it and that it\'s not important. Just so you know, this is not one of those letters with a joke and a funny picture at the end. This is something I want you to re...

Andrea Kehler Humanities I 3/5/01 Thoughts of Nausikaa (With a twist in the story) "The man of my dreams, wow! I wonder what he will be like. Oh why does Athena fill such thoughts into my head? What if I never get married? Or maybe her dream was a sign saying soon I will meet the man I a...

Proactive. Covey tells us how we should be taking more initiative and control of our lives. We are the only ones that have control over our lives. Covey uses the story of Victor Frankl to explain the total control we have to shape our own thoughts and feelings. Victor was a Jew held in a German deat...

A Day in the Life of an Actress "Lights, Camera, and Action." To live a day in the life of an actress is one dream I had growing up. On August 22, 1995, I had the chance to make this dream become a reality. My name was pulled from a drawing to win a trip for two to Los Angeles and se...

Most people try to forget the past especially the bad things. When you look back you think of all the good that there was, but with the play "Our Town" it makes you think back to that one time when you ask your mother how pretty you are and the reasons you ask it. In Thornton Wilders play "Our Town"...

Grow old along with me the best is yet to be.I love you not only for what you are,but for what I am when I am with youAs we grow older together,As we continue to change with age,There is one thing that will never change...I will always keep falling in love with you.For, you see, each day I love you ...

As Rudyard Kipling once stated, "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." This is true throughout history. The ability to communicate through words has made the human species the greatest that has ever occupied our Earth. Even today we communicate throughout our day more tha...

"Linda, why don't you meet your boy friend today?" "Oh, Amy, Are you crazy? Meeting a jerk like him right before my birth day is like a nightmare." "But still'' It's your 20th birth day. Why don't you just call him then?" My boy friend, John, he has been acting like a jerk since when we were young. ...