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It was 6 in the morning when I unzipped my sleeping bag, ready to start my first day at Mataguay Scout Ranch. I put one leg out, and I cringed. It was so cold that I immediately zipped myself up again, ignoring the sounds of other Scouts getting ready outside. Sooner or later, I thought, I had to... - Opinion > Current Events / Politics“Feel the rainbow, Newt,” yelled an attendee at an event in Minneapolis after he dumped a Cheez-It box full of glitter on Newt Gingrich and his wife, Callista. Gingrich and his wife, who were against gay marriage, were signing copies of “Rediscovering God in America” when they were “glitt...
- Nonfiction > AcademicNew York City recently enacted a law which required the sex education course to be taught at all public middle and high schools. Not long after, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York criticized the new law, claiming that it is the parents’ responsibility, not the schools’, to educate child...
- Nonfiction > All NonfictionYou and your friends stare in shock as three men load all the school’s vending machines into a truck and leave the campus, taking with them your favorite snacks. Later in the day, during lunch, you notice that the cafeteria no longer serves fried chicken or pizza, serving healthier things like ch...
- Reviews > Book ReviewsA Farewell to Arms, a novel written by Ernest Hemingway, is a classic semi-autobiographical work which describes the Italian campaigns during World War I from the perspective of an American soldier named Frederic Henry, who served as an ambulance driver for the Italian Army during the war. Frederic...
- Fiction > Realistic FictionI wonder what it’s like to have parents. I don’t even remember what my parents looked like. They probably abandoned me right after I was born. That’s what I was told. I was one of those poor infants who were left on the steps outside an orphanage by a woman who didn’t have enough mone...
- Nonfiction > HeroesMy idea of a hero may be different than yours, but that shouldn’t matter. Everyone has their own hero to look up to. To me, a hero isn’t someone who can fly, turn invisible, or see through walls. A hero is someone who I admire. A hero is someone who leads me in the right direction, out of tr...
- Opinion > Points of ViewSecrecy is a sure path to corruption. It is depicted in George Orwell’s book 1984, where the dominating totalitarian government that brainwashed its citizens to separate them from reality. In the book The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Reverend Dimmsdale lies time and time again about an...
- Fiction > Action-AdventureI played a lot of video games with my best friend as a child, and the games that revolved around war were our favorites. Out characters in the games were more powerful than we actually were in reality. When I joined the army, I learned that these war games didn’t prepare me for anything. Althou...
- Fiction > Realistic FictionGeneral Herst swung his two muscular arms and slammed his two enormous fists onto his flimsy cast-iron desk, which trembled under the force of his physical outburst. “You’ve FAILED?!!” he roared at the top of his lungs. My legs felt like wet noodles. “Yes, sir,” I answered. He stood up ...
- Fiction > Realistic Fiction“An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind” ~~Mahatma Gandhi~~ Why can’t all men treat each other with respect? If contempt, scorn, and selfishness were expelled from this world, there would be no reason for war or conflict. Why can’t men jus-- “MOVE!!” It was near midnig...
- Fiction > RomancePlease read "There She Is (Part 1 of 2)" before continuing on with Part 2. Thank you. :) I couldn’t believe my eyes. My eyes said “Her house is on fire.” My brain said, “Shut up, this can’t be happening.” I was frozen in shock and I didn’t know what to do. After a momen...
- Fiction > Romance“Hey, look over there,” a girl passing by my locker whispered to her friend, “There she is.” Her name was Kalynn Cleveland. She was a 15-year-old sophomore who transferred from Lakecrest High School in Utah. When I saw her standing at the front door of Woodley High, my legs felt like wet ...
- Poetry > All PoetrySo I would like to ask you, Teenink, a very simple question: Why does it take so long to get my work approved? The burning annoyance is spreading throughout me like a very bad infection. As of now, I have submitted four pieces of writing to your –almost- awesome website. And every time I ...
- Reviews > Book ReviewsThe Scarlett Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, was first published in 1850. It is a classic American tale of human sin and guilt. The theme was very interesting to me because it isn’t introduced in many other books. The author wished to display this theme through a woman driven by simple h...
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Guide > Program ReviewsMy hotel phone rang. At 5 o’clock in the morning. “Wake up call”, cooed the male voice on the other line. Great. A prank call. “I’m gonna get you back,” was all I managed to mutter, and I hung up on my friend CJ, who was probably snickering with his roommate in his suite two floors ... - Hot Topics > Community ServiceThere’s nothing better than the feeling you get when you know that you have helped someone a great big deal. That’s what I felt when I helped out at the Midnight Mission, a program devoted to meeting the needs of hundreds of homeless people in downtown Los Angeles. The Midnight Mission, loca...
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