“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” -Herman Cain Do you remember that high school superlative “Most Likely to Succeed?” When you look back in your old yearbook, you see the boy and girl that were the most […]
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The second Yakezie Writing Contest (YWC) voting is now live! Over the past 10 days, 11 Yakezie Writing Contest Committee (YWCC) members have gone through 1,049 essays to select the Top 60 finalists to be published on the Yakezie.com homepage. It’s taken an enormous amount of teamwork and it was certainly not easy to select […]
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Dear Applicants, Thanks to all who followed instructions and applied for our second Yakezie Writing Contest. We received well over 1,000 submissions and it will take at least a couple weeks to get through them all to select the finalists to be published and voted on. Given the number of submissions exceeded our expectations by […]
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Technical Issues Explained As some new readers have noticed over the past 48 hours, Yakezie.com has been experiencing some technical difficulties. The latest scholarship was listed on Fastweb.com thanks to Little House’s community outreach efforts, and in a matter of a few hours, we received over 6,000 additional visitors from the site, or nearly 6x […]
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We’re pleased to announce that the second Yakezie Writing Contest is now live! We are expanding the applicant pool to include college students who are paying the majority of their tuition on their own in addition to high school students or younger. The first contest was a success thanks to all of you, and we’d like […]
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Dear Community, Happy New Year! It’s with great pleasure that we announce the winners of the HowtoSaveMoney.com Yakezie Writing Contest. We received thirteen essays from America and one from Singapore for a chance to win a contest pool of $1,000. Originally, we had only planned on awarding $500 to one winner. However, thanks to the […]
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With a sigh, I breathed, “I just can’t get the character I guess.” Paralyzed by the camera’s blinking red light and surrounded by talented actors who intimidated me, my cheeks flushed bright crimson. I forgot my lines and butchered the monologue; I dove in headfirst and choked. “You are enough, just as you are,” Greg […]
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Striking good looks. Sturdy, commanding voice. Undeniable knack for adventure. Quick wit. These are a few of the defining qualities attributed to the archetype most people imagine when they think of ‘A Hero’. However, consider the concept of ‘Your Hero’, and the archetype dissolves. This is because real life heroes come in many different forms. […]
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