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Bread and butter, ham and eggs, Maggie and Pete. All three pairs fit together seamlessly and cannot stand alone. However, one pair is different: Maggie and Pete. In Maggie: A girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane, Maggie and Pete’s … Continue reading →

I’ve carried a persistent weight on my chest since the age of eleven. This weight sometimes feels like 1000 pounds, it never goes away, it’s painful. This weight is my breasts. I was the first person to develop breasts in … Continue reading →

In over three hundred years, nothing has changed. From the time of the Puritans in the seventeenth century, to modern Americans today, people’s morals have remained the same, poor. Although people can seem nice to others, it does not mean … Continue reading →

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them” – Dalai Lama. Since the beginning of humanity, more specifically, since people became self-conscious, the question of what is … Continue reading →

Home: the place where one lives permanently, especially as a member of a family or household. This puts my home at Latitude: 42.58348, Longitude: -71.054034, the place where I live permanently as a member of a family. But this is … Continue reading →

Throughout the novel, Pearl can be seen as a joy in her mother’s life, but this is a false joy as it is always accompanied by pain and mockery. In the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Pearl is … Continue reading →

Slamming through the gears, racing through the corners; every turn calculated and precise. The engine gets warm, the road opens up. More up shifts, more speed, more adrenaline. Every corner instilling more confidence in the rider, and more rotations in … Continue reading →

“Please come back to get me Mom. I can’t survive on my own.” “Are you alright Kenny? You were so excited to be away from us just a few hours ago.” “I hate this place. I don’t want to be … Continue reading →

Most often a sin is only committed once, but that is not always the case. The worst sins are the ones that occur multiple times. One sin that occurs multiple times is procrastination. Procrastination is a sin that has always … Continue reading →

My name is Liliana Ball and I am from Brooklyn, New York. I Really enjoy traveling and have spent many months in places like Hawaii, Arizona and Ecuador and The Galapagos Islands. I consider myself to be an avid writer … Continue reading →