Teen Ink Magazine, May 2010 Edition
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Articles from this Issue
College Guide
College ReviewsBerea College 
College ReviewsColorado College
College ReviewsPenn State Hazleton
College ReviewsUniversity of Toronto
College ReviewsColorado College
College ReviewsPenn State Hazleton
College ReviewsUniversity of Toronto
Hot Topics
Community ServiceGifts of the Soul 
Community ServiceMany Thank Yous By Yuri B., Phoenix, AZ
EnvironmentA Better Earth Starts at Home
EnvironmentJust Tossing It
Letters to the EditorAnti-Fairy Tale
Letters to the EditorBehind These Sunglasses
Letters to the EditorConformity/Nonconformity By Stephanie Y., Brooklyn, NY
Letters to the EditorGetting Published
Letters to the EditorI Should Switch to Decaf By Lindsey T., Cincinnati, OH
Letters to the EditorOur Generation's Woodstock
Letters to the EditorThe Blind Side
Pride & PrejudicePlease Tell Your Mother What I’m Saying?
Pride & PrejudiceWho Is A Korean

Community ServiceMany Thank Yous By Yuri B., Phoenix, AZ
EnvironmentA Better Earth Starts at Home

EnvironmentJust Tossing It

Letters to the EditorAnti-Fairy Tale
Letters to the EditorBehind These Sunglasses

Letters to the EditorConformity/Nonconformity By Stephanie Y., Brooklyn, NY
Letters to the EditorGetting Published
Letters to the EditorI Should Switch to Decaf By Lindsey T., Cincinnati, OH
Letters to the EditorOur Generation's Woodstock

Letters to the EditorThe Blind Side

Pride & PrejudicePlease Tell Your Mother What I’m Saying?
Pride & PrejudiceWho Is A Korean
Nonfiction
After Nine Years 
My Brown Eyed Girl By Anonymous
Celebrity interviewsInterviewing the Interviewer By Eliza E., New York, NY
Celebrity interviewsJournalist Nicholas Kristof By Eliza E., and Alicia H., New York, NY
Celebrity interviewsOne Experience
Educator of the YearDebra Johnson-Dahrouge, Composition, Neptune High By Morgan M., Ocean Grove, NJ
Educator of the YearMelody Lundy, Geography, Cleburne High
Educator of the YearStephen Haggerty, Math, Holy Name Central By Nick B., Worcester, MA
HeroesActivists Budi and Peggy Soehardi, Zach Hunter, and Shane Claiborne
HeroesMother Jenny Y.
MemoirFather Knows Best
MemoirI'm A Zebra
MemoirMilk, Saltines, Laundry Detergent By Anonymous, Glendale, AZ
Personal ExperienceDreams Deferred By Shavonne K., Hull, MA
Personal ExperienceRunning Stars
Personal ExperienceThe Question
SportsGreen and Gold Family By Ben H., Rice Lake, WI
SportsThe Ring By Quang N., Seattle, WA
Travel & CultureBroken Barriers in Spain By Dale F., Dummerston, VT
Travel & CultureLeaving a Life By Sara D., Wyckoff, NJ
Travel & CultureUnder the Veil of the City

My Brown Eyed Girl By Anonymous
Celebrity interviewsInterviewing the Interviewer By Eliza E., New York, NY
Celebrity interviewsJournalist Nicholas Kristof By Eliza E., and Alicia H., New York, NY
Celebrity interviewsOne Experience

Educator of the YearDebra Johnson-Dahrouge, Composition, Neptune High By Morgan M., Ocean Grove, NJ
Educator of the YearMelody Lundy, Geography, Cleburne High

Educator of the YearStephen Haggerty, Math, Holy Name Central By Nick B., Worcester, MA
HeroesActivists Budi and Peggy Soehardi, Zach Hunter, and Shane Claiborne

HeroesMother Jenny Y.

MemoirFather Knows Best

MemoirI'm A Zebra
MemoirMilk, Saltines, Laundry Detergent By Anonymous, Glendale, AZ
Personal ExperienceDreams Deferred By Shavonne K., Hull, MA
Personal ExperienceRunning Stars
Personal ExperienceThe Question

SportsGreen and Gold Family By Ben H., Rice Lake, WI
SportsThe Ring By Quang N., Seattle, WA
Travel & CultureBroken Barriers in Spain By Dale F., Dummerston, VT
Travel & CultureLeaving a Life By Sara D., Wyckoff, NJ
Travel & CultureUnder the Veil of the City

Opinion
Embracing Banned Books 
Land of the Free?
School Days Off for Muslims By Anonymous, Wexford, PA
The Know-it-all Generation
The Pyramids
Land of the Free?
School Days Off for Muslims By Anonymous, Wexford, PA
The Know-it-all Generation

The Pyramids

Reviews
Book ReviewsBridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding 
Book ReviewsFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Book ReviewsLetter To My Daughter by Maya Angelou
Book ReviewsOlive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Book ReviewsTears Of A Tiger by Sharon M. Draper
Book ReviewsThe Help by Kathryn Stockett
Movie Reviews500 Days of Summer By Michael R., Nashua, NH
Movie ReviewsDear John By Jennifer A., Phoenix, AZ
Movie ReviewsThe Proposition
Movie ReviewsTitanic
Movie ReviewsYouth in Revolt By Francesca R., Glendale, AZ
Music ReviewsAtmosphere - "You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having"
Music ReviewsMarianas Trench - "Masterpiece Theater" By Anonymous, Thorold, Canada
Music ReviewsMayday Parade - "A Lesson in Romantics"
Music ReviewsMika - "The Boy Who Knew Too Much"
Music ReviewsThe Backstreet Boys - "This is Us"
Book ReviewsFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Book ReviewsLetter To My Daughter by Maya Angelou

Book ReviewsOlive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Book ReviewsTears Of A Tiger by Sharon M. Draper

Book ReviewsThe Help by Kathryn Stockett

Movie Reviews500 Days of Summer By Michael R., Nashua, NH
Movie ReviewsDear John By Jennifer A., Phoenix, AZ
Movie ReviewsThe Proposition
Movie ReviewsTitanic
Movie ReviewsYouth in Revolt By Francesca R., Glendale, AZ
Music ReviewsAtmosphere - "You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having"

Music ReviewsMarianas Trench - "Masterpiece Theater" By Anonymous, Thorold, Canada
Music ReviewsMayday Parade - "A Lesson in Romantics"

Music ReviewsMika - "The Boy Who Knew Too Much"

Music ReviewsThe Backstreet Boys - "This is Us"

Art / Photo
A Life in Between 
Aero Sky
Alien Me
All Alone By Alexis H., Douglasville, GA
Amanda Color
an untold story behind his eyes
Analysis of the Mind
Autumn
Banana Mint Pudding
Bike Ride
Biker By Maria S., Jamaica, NY
Bittersweet Memory
Blissful Innocence
Books
Boy in the shrubs ( wild child )
Busy Bee By Rachel A., Proctor, WV
Chemistry Gal
Easter Bunny
Eleven Eleven
Ellyn
Face Of Midnight's Glow By April L., Lubbock, TX
From Boy to Bird: A Catastrophic Birth of Gallant Intent
Girls
goodnight By Emily Marie H., marshall, MI
If I were a mouse
In The Clouds
It's too early By Erin H., Carrollton, TX
Lifted off his feet By Daniel W., croton-on-hudson, NY
listening
My Mime
Pattern By Gracie G., St. Louis, MO
Silence is the loudest scream
Simple Joy By Samuel R., Fairway, KS
Stessed
Summer!
Summer!
The Alley
The Exit
Those days By Megan O., Jacksonville, FL
Tree Hugger
Walk From The Sun
Aero Sky
Alien Me
All Alone By Alexis H., Douglasville, GA
Amanda Color
an untold story behind his eyes
Analysis of the Mind
Autumn

Banana Mint Pudding
Bike Ride
Biker By Maria S., Jamaica, NY
Bittersweet Memory

Blissful Innocence
Books
Boy in the shrubs ( wild child )
Busy Bee By Rachel A., Proctor, WV
Chemistry Gal
Easter Bunny
Eleven Eleven
Ellyn
Face Of Midnight's Glow By April L., Lubbock, TX
From Boy to Bird: A Catastrophic Birth of Gallant Intent
Girls
goodnight By Emily Marie H., marshall, MI
If I were a mouse
In The Clouds

It's too early By Erin H., Carrollton, TX
Lifted off his feet By Daniel W., croton-on-hudson, NY
listening
My Mime
Pattern By Gracie G., St. Louis, MO
Silence is the loudest scream
Simple Joy By Samuel R., Fairway, KS
Stessed
Summer!
Summer!
The Alley

The Exit
Those days By Megan O., Jacksonville, FL
Tree Hugger
Walk From The Sun
Poetry
A Bleeding Heart 
Begin Again
Black Hole
Creeping
Descending Marriage Tree
Eternal Sentinel
fort hood
Jane Austen Heroine
Limitless
Many Diaries
Micro Troops
Not Applicable
Ode to My Shoe
Only a Statistic, Only a Child
Shoulds
Springtime By Naveen Q., Hemet, CA
That Was I
Too Lazy
Me Through a Lens
They Cannot Understand By Rebecca P., New City, NY
A Late September Morning
A Rhyme of Madness
A Snowy Morning
A star twice the size of Jupiter
After By Anonymous, Easton, PA
An Observation
An Untitled Aspiration
Atlas
Beads
Biology Lesson
Book
Broken Moments
Carolina
Childhood
Construction of a Life
Conversation
creativity, where are you?
Dad and the Slingshot
Days & Nights
Definining Definitions
Downfall
Driver
enjoy the little things
Falling By Anonymous, Whitby, Canada
Falling
Fast Poetry
First
Fresh Bread
Good-Night
He approached me
Heaven & Haiti
Here's To You
Home
How Come?
I Am Standing
Indecision
Journey By Anonymous, Newton, MA
Listen
Lost in Tranquility
Martin Luther King Jr to President Obama
Musician in Concert
My Face
Name Definition Pain
nostalgia
Oblivion
Out in the World
pears
Peek Peek
Raw meat
Rising like a Winging Gull
Science Class
Searching for Because
See Hear Speak No Truth
September
Smelling Cursive By Anonymous, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Steam
Tears and Heartbreak
Teen Routine
Teenager
That Place By Anonymous, New Canaan, CT
The bee in my bonnet By Ashok S., Omaha, NE
The Fight By Jean S., Lakewood, WA
The Fog By Samuel R., Fairway, KS
The Istanbul Grill By Anna B., Fairfield, IA
The Last Conquest of a Dead Man
The Last Stop
the morning is quiet
Theory of Man
Version 2.0 By Emanuella R., Brooklyn, NY
Wallflower
What's-Your-Tea Saying?
You Move Me
Your Name is Who? By Anonymous, Lilburn, GA
A Common Exchange
Failure
Today Gone Be Aight
White is a Color, Not a Definition
Begin Again

Black Hole

Creeping

Descending Marriage Tree

Eternal Sentinel
fort hood

Jane Austen Heroine
Limitless

Many Diaries
Micro Troops

Not Applicable
Ode to My Shoe

Only a Statistic, Only a Child

Shoulds
Springtime By Naveen Q., Hemet, CA
That Was I

Too Lazy

Me Through a Lens
They Cannot Understand By Rebecca P., New City, NY
A Late September Morning
A Rhyme of Madness

A Snowy Morning
A star twice the size of Jupiter
After By Anonymous, Easton, PA
An Observation
An Untitled Aspiration
Atlas

Beads

Biology Lesson

Book
Broken Moments

Carolina
Childhood
Construction of a Life
Conversation

creativity, where are you?
Dad and the Slingshot
Days & Nights

Definining Definitions

Downfall
Driver

enjoy the little things
Falling By Anonymous, Whitby, Canada
Falling

Fast Poetry

First

Fresh Bread

Good-Night

He approached me
Heaven & Haiti
Here's To You

Home

How Come?
I Am Standing

Indecision

Journey By Anonymous, Newton, MA
Listen
Lost in Tranquility

Martin Luther King Jr to President Obama
Musician in Concert
My Face

Name Definition Pain
nostalgia

Oblivion
Out in the World
pears

Peek Peek
Raw meat
Rising like a Winging Gull
Science Class

Searching for Because

See Hear Speak No Truth

September

Smelling Cursive By Anonymous, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Steam

Tears and Heartbreak
Teen Routine

Teenager
That Place By Anonymous, New Canaan, CT
The bee in my bonnet By Ashok S., Omaha, NE
The Fight By Jean S., Lakewood, WA
The Fog By Samuel R., Fairway, KS
The Istanbul Grill By Anna B., Fairfield, IA
The Last Conquest of a Dead Man

The Last Stop
the morning is quiet
Theory of Man
Version 2.0 By Emanuella R., Brooklyn, NY
Wallflower
What's-Your-Tea Saying?
You Move Me

Your Name is Who? By Anonymous, Lilburn, GA
A Common Exchange
Failure

Today Gone Be Aight
White is a Color, Not a Definition







