September 2001

The Meaning of Jacob Jacob, a simple name, is easy to say, easy to spell, and easy to remember. Jacob comes from the Hebrew origin, “Supplanter”. Supplanter means one who follows another’s heel. My name fits me. To me, Jacob means someone who is smart, funny, and outgoing. I am very smart, at least I think so. In real life, I am not that funny, but some people think that I am funny. I am sometimes outgoing because if I really want to be someone’s friend I just go up and ask. But I love my name.

To the younger generation, The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do it. Young man, Young woman, I say to you, my friend, you are a world changer, a difference maker, and a leader. Set the bar high, set it so high that your peers around you think that you will never succeed in your dreams, because I did it. Nobody thinks I could possibly manage to change the world , nobody sees me being the next Billy Graham or Clayton Jennings. Everything is impossible

Francis Bacon once said, “In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.” This shows that you truly cannot have or see a good thing without also knowing what bad looks like. There are billions of people in this world, the best and brightest people are those people who have overcome that darkness. Those people know what darkness is and have experienced it first hand, therefore they shine so much brighter. These people who have seen darkness and who shine so bright because

The passage of time is something humans can not control, yet time still goes on. Sometimes, people live in the past, or sometimes people can forget the past, but time touches everyone. People also go through loss. Whether it be loss of a person, tradition or perhaps even memory. Both texts, “Forgetfulness” by Billy Collins and “Once More to the Lake” by E.B. White both deal with the themes of the passing of time and loss. Through their writing, these two authors show their meanings of these themes

This piece of writing is a monologue of the letter Fred (main character) wrote to Mary in the night just before the death of his friend, Ken. After his death, Fred changes and decides to confess his love since he has been crushing on her for a while. Fred has always felt lots of jealously towards Ken because he [Ken] was and had everything he [Fred] wanted like a good education, good looks, and wealth. Ken was basically considered the ideal male in the society of the short story. It is based on the

When Leah was seven years old, her cousin pushed her into the lake. She remembers the shock, quickly followed by the sharp slap of the water, and the water enveloping her, pulling her closer to the bottom. The falling feels longer every time she thinks of it. In reality it could only have been a few seconds at longest before she started flailing, pulling herself closer to the sky, breaking the surface of the water to yell at her cousin. “You needed to learn how to swim,” her cousin says later, pulling

Through all the years of my life as a wolf, I have learned the important fact that a wolf must never eat too much. On a Saturday morning, I woke up feeling hungry; like a wolf. Since the last time I had food was two days ago, I had to find food quickly. So, as usual, I started walking out of my house and wondered around the forest. However, something special caught my eyes. On the far end of the eastern part of the forest, smoke rose into the clouds. “That’s new,” I said to my self as I started heading

"Okay, lets do this." Keke put down all the stuff. Lilly looked at the time on her watch and huffs out. "It took you forever." Lilly bitterly rolls her eyes, Keke shrugged and got out the outfit. "Lilly calms down it will only take ten minutes to get to the party, and it is only 10'o clock." Keke was pretty chill about all of this while Lilly, on the other hand, was tense up. I, on the other hand, was scared out my mind, my nose still hurts and head, but, luckily for me my nose stop bleeding but

I always hated that bitter taste when I wake in the morning. I dared myself not to open my eyes in my small apartment. I put on my glasses, washed my black hair, and fed my husky Chloe …and that was when I got the call. I rushed to the office to respond as quickly as possible. “When did you get the call,” answered Kyle. “7:30-I think,” I said. We both entered the boss's office to discuss what had happened. “Kyle and Mary, I have some bad news,” the boss said. “I know,” I replied. “Me too,” followed

Did you ever wonder why good things do not tend to long? Everything has to end at some point. Including good memories, things, or living beings. Those are the things that, once they are long gone, we wish they could have last forever; but, unfortunately, that’s not how things work. The novel “The Outsiders”, written by S.E.Hinton, is an example of a beautiful novel which makes the reader understand the importance of good things. This novel became famous as soon as it was published (1960’s) and still