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Rejuvenation and Wellbeing
What do we need to understand? Moreover, for ages, we have talked about this, but often, it is hard to perceive the process and see the positive progress. The most crucial one that needs our observation and attention is lifestyle. We are fond of living a desirable life by expecting to live happy and healthy…
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What A Leader Wants, What A Leader Needs
One of my proudest accomplishments in my life is that I have volunteered faithfully with the U.S. Air Force Auxiliary, Civil Air Patrol. I volunteer as a career counselor and have been doing this for over nine years. We follow the Air Force’s curricula so we can advance. Civil Air Patrol has a Cadet program…
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Poetry- My Father
My father,Son of a black man.Descendant of the lineage,Of fierce but indomitable lions,Whose presence set panthers to their feet;Whose roars make the greatMount Putu to shudder in fret.My father,A man abstemious with words,But when he speaks,His verbosities carry wits,Like that of a sage’s.A man whose words sound,Like music to the ears,And remedy to a broken…
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Poetry- My Guiding Hand
I have lingering words I think it’s time to let out I’ve been keeping them locked in a cage, collecting dust From childhood days to now, so grown You’ve been my anchor, my rock, my own It’s been a long time coming, But I finally push the pen to paper to let you know. I…
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Planning A Vacation- Comedy Or A Struggle
Everyone hopes to go on a vacation and share in family memories. Saving enough money to pay for a week away from the confines and demands of work and home is what families plan a year in advance for. The vision of what that vacation will be, sets a high bar to achieve. The dreams…
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How To Manage Missing An Old Friend
In middle school, I became friends with a girl called Erica* (Not her real name, of course!). For two years, Erica was my everything and since we were in boarding school, I saw a lot of Erica. We ate breakfast, lunch, and dinner together, went to class together, had the same friends, and hung out…
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World Environment Day
The month of June serves as the season to appreciate the great outdoors; it has several holidays that will remind us to cherish and protect our planet. We celebrate nature with World Environment Day (June 5) as well as other nature-related holidays. Environment can be defined as a sum of all the living and non-living…
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Prom Preparations
When I started my freshman year of high school, I met a girl named Charlotte, and we quickly became best friends. We had a lot of things in common, like singing, acting, doing ballet, playing the violin, and talking about the latest boys we had crushes on. However, it turns out that we both liked…
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Poetry- Sunday
Take a moment to appreciate the sky She said from far, far away Not knowing my above is a gray, shapeless chill Restricting my veins with the closed and finite Overcast is one way to describe my sky I find it more like a cloak Not that covers me But that hides all things I…
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Pieces Of Us
Blood raced through Alabama’s veins as she longed to understand where her DNA came from. Of course, Alabama understood intellectually that the origin of her DNA came from her two biological parents, but this knowledge was not helpful when she did not know them yet. Her primary prayer had been the same for sixteen years’…
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Poetry- My People
The night is so grim, So are the paths of my people. Like the overflow of the River Nile, Torrents of tears wash away their smiles. The cedarwood is so indomitable, So are the will of my people. In spite of the roughness of the way, They still manage to survive day by day. The…
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Writers Block – A Writer’s Nightmare
As writers, we all love to sit down at a computer looking at a blank document, ready to start writing our next piece. Our heads are full of creative ideas as we start to type; the words flow flawlessly across the page, and a smile comes across our faces. The excitement builds as the creation…
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