The power of a screaming silence
Quiet warrior. Silent threat. A couple of names I’ve been called with so much meaning behind them. So, why try to pull me out of my element and further punish me if I refuse to conform?
Opinion
Reaction to Michael Sam reveals media hypocrisy
As an avid football fan, I was surprised to see the media’s reaction to the first openly gay player, Michael Sam. Honestly, I didn’t think it deserved that much attention. Last time I checked, most football fans don’t care about the love life of the players.
Tell me I can’t and I bet I will
He told me I couldn’t do it. He told me I wasn’t capable of being the class valedictorian or salutatorian. So I did it.
The Unaffordable Don’t Care Act
The media is packed with information on the new healthcare bill, commonly known as ObamaCare. Despite the complexity of the law, new statistics are coming out suggesting that millennials are actually not signing up.
You are threatened and you are a threat
Telisia Espinosa, at 10 years old, has been sexually abused by three men.
Diary of a self-proclaimed doormat
I was raised in a house where no matter who the adult was, no matter what you thought of them, they were still your superior and were to be respected. To some of the people on my swim team, the fact that I so blindly did whatever my coach asked me to do was seen as a form of brown-nosing, and I was doomed the moment he made me a captain.
A Taco Too Far: How Four Days of Taco Bell Made Me Feel
It was a simple goal. All I had to do was eat nothing but Taco Bell for an entire week. The final objective would be to race the 1500 at the University of Tampa at the end of the week and see how my time and place compared to the past week’s race and regular diet.
Messages and Menaces: My Week of Online Dating
Online “dating” is more prevalent than ever, but what are you really getting out of a relationship online? Read about Emily Topper’s experience on the dating website OkCupid!
Finding success in failure
I had tears rolling down my face as the car sped out of the town I had lived in for 18 years. I cried for joy and out of sorrow for leaving the only home I ever knew.
