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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

Fiction


The Masked Women of Kabul By Kelsey F., Carbondale, CO
A New Chapter
And Lucy
Silence

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

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

Opinion


Embracing Banned Books
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"

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

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

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