Broad prosperity

Men and women ARE different, and how we interact with the opposite sex is significant, and depicted about how we view our roles in society. I just had an interesting conversation with two 20-something women* about male/female dynamics in budding relationships. Laney's been married one year, Mona's been dating a guy for one month, and me, married for 5 years.  Read More »

What is the state of the modern American mind? Where is our society headed, and how did we get where we are? What is our responsibility to our fellow man? How do we achieve progress in these uncertain times? What is “progress,” anyway?  Read More »

http://www.dailyevergreen.com/story/27432
To the winner go the spoils
Gregoire needs to govern as herself, not channel Dino Rossi

Derrick Skaug
The Daily Evergreen
Published: 01/20/2009  Read More »

I wanted to write about how to save, no, change lives but this is a more pressing matter.

I make friends easily with people but it's quite hard for people to become enemies once I befriend them and they befriend me but it has happened that I choose to stop talking to people because it was just unhealthy.  Read More »

My chosen genre for my piece of essay writing was a diary of my two week holiday in Corfu – Greece; I detailed my perceptions and experiences for each day throughout my vacation. The decision to create this form of written work was not reached easily.  Read More »

I recently read Angela’s Ashes for my high school AP Language Class. It was a very depressing and sad novel, but interesting all the same. The following is a section of a critique I wrote about it….  Read More »

If you've had an eye on the news the past week, you'd know that today is the 10th Anniversary of the Columbine shooting. For those reading who might not be old enough to remember (wow, that's a hell of a thought for me), April 20, 1999 was the day that two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, went into their school with the intent of killing more people than Timothy McVeigh killed at the Oklahoma City bombing. What ended up happening was a school shooting that was covered so quickly by the media that it essentially turned into a circus of badly reported news. As a result, all the "facts" known about Columbine couldn't be farther from the truth, and after ten years, people are just now seeing the real facts.

They were bullied? They were part of the Trench Coat Mafia? They listened to Marilyn Manson? Yes, everything you think you know about Columbine is wrong.  Read More »