“Do what today others won’t, so tomorrow, you can do what others can’t.”-Brian Rogers Loop Success. It’s simple enough, right? Achieve what you set out to and you will feel successful. In reality, it is not that simple. You may achieve what you set out to achieve, then not feel like a success. So then […]
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It’s amazing to think that football, “The Sopranos,” a puddle of genes, and a couple dozen potlucks shaped who I am today. I’m what is called a “mixed plate” in Hawaiian pidgin – a person of mixed ancestry. In the same way a “mixed plate” is an assortment of tasty foods, I’m a mixture of […]
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I grew up around the largest concentration of white poverty in the United States. My family comes from Central Appalachia in eastern Tennessee, a place that – despite the economic prowess of the United States – remains mired in poverty, lack of educational opportunity, and poor healthcare access. For many people in this region, success […]
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I suppose to begin this you should know a few things about me: I grew up on a dairy farm in a small town Pennsylvania. As the youngest out of five, I was denied the much desired stereotypical status of the spoiled youngest child, and instead can be paralleled to Atlas with the dependency my […]
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When I think back on the first eighteen years of my life, few moments stand out more than four weeks in the summer of 2010. I was blessed with the opportunity of a lifetime as a volunteer at a special needs foster home in China. The foster home in which I volunteered is named for […]
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I hear the sounds of laughter and singing as I walk into the choir room. Seeing me, the students stop their chatter, move into their assigned spots, and stand at attention, waiting for rehearsal to begin. Sitting at the piano with a warm smile, I start to play some simple exercises to warm up their […]
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A Fur Coat, An Exotic Pet, and Expensive Ketchup By: Emily Guin No musically inclined person can deny that the lyrics are clever and the beat is catchy. In fact, it is for these reasons that the song “If I Had $1,000,000,” by Canadian pop band Barenaked Ladies, topped music charts in the early 1990s. […]
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Despite my Japanese nationality and origin, I have been studying English ever since I was three. I was born in an obscure little town in southern Japan to a family in which everyone had graduated from a Japanese school. However, by the time I became aware of my surroundings and situation, I was already at […]
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