2023 Teenager Experience
Being a teenager in 2023 is complicated, to say the least. While you can't say if it was better or worse in the past, you can say it is still a weird experience.
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Summertime
Summer is my favorite season because it’s warm and you don’t have to put on a bunch of gear to go outside. It’s easier to run around and play sports, like swimming. I like to play soccer in my backyard and swim at the beach. -
Love Fast, Die Young
Love is not just romantic, or I guess romantic love is not the most important kind of love. Someone can feel completely whole without ever being in a romantic relationship and that's okay, because love is whatever we want it to be. -
He had a Dream
He had a dream
But not one of soaring skies and indigo seas.
A man who believed
That we could all live happily in harmony.
He is long gone
But his dream lives on.
Come sisters and brothers
Together we will stand -
Bullies
From a little experience of being in middle school, I've realized that people do get bullied a lot. I have personally seen people get bullied in the halls, cafeteria, the gym, and sometimes in their own classrooms. -
The Ability to See True Internal Emotion
Us humans have five original senses; taste, sight, touch, hearing and taste. These senses are pretty great and help us live our lives every day but what if we just had one more. -
Try to understand: A reflection on Holocaust Remembrance Week
If you remember the first time you heard the word “Holocaust” and it was with your dad in the car on the way home from Hebrew school and you were ten years old, then maybe you would understand. -
Create Action Past Social Media
It is easy to get swept up in social media trends, with different issues coming to light every day, it can be difficult to know what to focus on or how to support causes past the like button.
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A Thousand Ships
Did you read the Iliad and get upset by the sex slavery that wasn't touched on in your english lessons? Did you read the Odyssey and notice how nearly every woman was spun into a homewrecker, a succubus. -
My beach library
My ideal library would be on a beach in Maine. The library would be in the stone wall that separates the grass from the sand. -
My Only Hope
There might be nothing I hope for more than the ability to hold balance in life. Monetary balance, career balance, and personal balance. -
MAC MONEY JONES
WEEK 13 (Dec. 5-10)
Hope: What is something that you really, really hope for – now or in the future? Why is it so important to you?