To mommy and daddy’s misbelief, this girl is not California dreaming tonight. Despite the fact that she hasn’t spent a summer away from the golden coast, she is excited to leave her roots for the southern depths of Georgia. Even though she describes herself as a wannabe Georgia Peach, she will always admit that Katy Perry was correct in saying California girls are unforgettable just like this summer will be.

This summer is all about sipping that ice-cold beer in her firs

Summer bucket lists are for chumps, for nitpickers, for those who spend the entirety of their day squandering, rectifying the same list over and over again until they finally glaze over, snatch a glimpse at their watch and shrug, “Well, looks like it’s time to hit the hay!”
But I think it’s necessary to confess that I too used to fall into the chump category, as I spent countless hours rewriting and reanalyzing every last detail on a miscellaneous lists that were supposed to liven up on

Old people, stroke patients, and persons with disabilities- these are the people who occupy a great place in my heart along with those street children and underprivileged individuals begging for alms on the overpass, knocking to every car’s window, and wiping the shoes of every passenger on the jeep.

Surely, it’s my grandmother who taught me (not literally taught, but it’s one thing I really have learned for my whole life staying with her.) to be like this, to feel compassion to thos

During my first week in Haiti, I met a precious little girl named Rosaline. We rode into this little village and about 50 vibrant kids chased after our tap-tap and started cheering, "The whities are here, the whities are here!" It was quite the scene that unfolded. We sat in the back of this pick-up truck and witnessed how riled up people could get just by our presence. I was laughing with them, smiling at them, and waving to them. Their happiness and joy was infectious. But then I saw th

‘’Carl Sandburg… the real Carl Sandburg?” Me, a lowly college sophomore, meeting a literary giant. “Yes, ma’am, in the flesh.” The voice was deep and resonant; the man was tall and silvery-haired. I extended my mittened hand which he gallantly raised to his lips.

“Louis, my friend,” he continued, “is this one of your students? I can’t believe this lovely child is going to be a school teacher. What a waste--she looks more like a dancer or an actress.”

Like most little girls

The young generation of today all have one thing in common: technology. They seem always to be bent over their cell phones, tablets, and laptops, spending every waking hour “keeping up to date” on the newest information. Teenagers and college students often seem to spend most of their news time following unimportant things like who will get drafted in the NFL or what is going on with the Kardashians. However, there are so many other things happening that will actually have an effect on our

The economic troubles of faraway countries that do not speak English, rarely interest most Americans, much less young adults. We blithely ignore the economic instabilities of Greece and Cyprus if we even hear about them at all. However this is a dangerous attitude to have. The economic instability of the European Union is on one hand a danger to our own economy and on the other a lesson we must learn from. Watching how these countries’ economies destabilize can teach us lessons about how to avo

Rehtaeh Parsons was just another girl, living a normal life in Nova Scotia, Canada. However, unlike any other girl, she succumbed to a trauma that no one would wish on his or her worst enemy. She was gang raped by several boys at the age of just fifteen. Horrific enough as this was, one boy apparently took and released a photo of the young girl being assaulted to the public, unleashing a reign of bullying on Parsons.
Technology has been the best and worst thing to happen to our society.

At age eighty-seven, a woman that truly changed the world passes away. Not many politicians or peace fighters leave behind an all-enduring legacy, but Margaret Thatcher – the first female Prime Minister of Britain – did. Creating a radical revolution, she opened the doors of freedom for all, with firm principles and an agenda set in stone; accordingly, she earned a reputation as, ‘the Iron Lady’.

The story of Margaret Thatcher is an important part of the lives of young people today,

In the news I’ve been hearing a lot about the gay rights debate and all opinions on the subject, especially where I live in Utah. People are very upset about the thought of same sex marriages in Utah mainly because of the mass population of LDS people in the state. I personally think that it is important to address this problem because we have been ignoring it for so long. I think that we need to respect the people who are standing up for what they believe in, even though most of the world is w