Coco Lee

Music a Luxury of a Survival tool? Music is a survival tool Have you ever felt so lost before? Have you ever had to plug your headphones in and just lose yourself in a day dream? Can music change your perspective on life? Is music a luxury or do we need it to survive? We need music to survive, our hormonal, depressed teenage years. All teenagers are struggling with trying to figure out who they are, what they are going to do, and many other things. When people put on their favorite song, they

Loud cheers erupt from the back room of the restaurant as a group of laughing teenagers bond after their final theatre performance. Older folks turn their heads as their crinkled eyes and lips turn upward at the memories of their own youth. Restaurants are places filled with happy people often celebrating some sort of occasion. Maybe parents are taking their kids out to reward them for good grades or a wonderful band concert. It makes sense, then, that everyone would be in jubilant spirits. Often

“Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted.” (Aldous Huxley) Young adults take things for granted: basic things, simple things, everything. Wasting food, not realizing what freedom means, not valuing education, and using up any readily available resources, has become a part of the daily routine without anyone realizing it. A rising problem amongst our age bracket today is young adults take what they have for granted, not realizing the long term consequences

There are many similarities and differences in “Pobre Manolito“ by Elvira Lindo and “Ramona’s World” by Beverly Cleary. In the category of similarities, the readers can see that both books are about the day to day life of the children and how they see the world, their opinions about the grown ups and how their interact and learn new things in their environment. In the differences, the reader can see how they are different from each other in the way they act and the culture, how girls and boys act

“Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the End.” - John Lennon The Quote above says that everything will be fine at the right time or when someone has been fulfil his goals in life. Like stories in the books or movies it only end when the character resolve all the problems his been facing all the time. But when the story add another problem it means that the story is not yet been done and should be continue until it find its way to be done. It also means like whatever happens

At some point in life almost everyone is going to end up in a nursing home. The phase of ageing causes the elderly to go through a phase of mixed emotions of loneliness and depression. Students should volunteer in their local community because it can benefit the elderly, the volunteers themself and the community. Older students are more and likely to volunteer than younger students ( “volunteering”). Younger students want to spend more time on playing video games , hanging out with friends and

Anne Frank: a young Jewish girl who lived in Europe with big dreams, and an even bigger heart. She had the jaw dropping ability to touch the hearts of millions around the world with her heart wrenching story swirling within the pages of her diary. She wrote down all her feelings in her little red checkered diary with the hopes of living to see it published and red by little children all over the world. Unfortunately, only half of that statement is true. Reading Anne Frank’s diary is a truly mind

Everyone has friends, and usually they are people with similar personalities. Some are similar to the point that it is shocking. They seem to walk, talk and even eat the same. Others are so different that people wonder how they can stand each other, let alone be friends. That’s what people usually think of my best friend Gaby and I. Whenever we are together, I also wonder how we became so close. She and I are extremely different; our temperaments, personalities, and work ethics are on two opposite

Growing up, I had no father to raise me, I was raised by a single mom and that had a major impact on my life. I didn't want to keep on living because everything seemed pointless and I constantly felt unwanted, useless, and worthless. Even though I wanted to, I couldn't tell my mother these problems, seeing how she was already struggling trying to face many problems of her own. To start with, my mother grew up without the help of anyone; her father was an alcoholic and her mother passed away when

This research essay is based on Andries Gouws' series of oil paintings entitled 'Hiding Behind Simple Things'. The reason that this specific series of artworks has been chosen, is because it fits in almost perfectly with the theme I have chosen to embark upon, in terms of subject matter, medium, composition, and style. Both artworks analyze society’s oblivion to life, and how the beauty in life so often goes unnoticed. It comments on how society has become entrapped in the rat race of modern day