COURAGE Courage is a trait; it helps create heroes and aids in the destruction of villains. People all over the world have gained this trait and used it to protect what they believe in and what they love. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was an African-American social rights activist who fought for Read more…
FAMILY Family is usually defined as one’s blood relatives. Your family can make you smile; they can cheer you up when you are down. Mother Teresa, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, once said, “Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile Read more…
This is an example of an expository essay where the student followed three different patterns: Sequencing, Cause and Effect, and Description. Good job, Jonathan! Hurricane Irene The Mid-Atlantic Region is experiencing some winds up to fifty miles per hour and most states in that area are in very high chances of flooding. Both regions Read more…
SIG, Princeton Reflection My feelings about the Summer Institute for the Gifted before I left for the sleep-away school, were: nervousness, worry and fatigue. I felt the opposite while I was there. I had a fascinating and memorable time. A few months before SIG, my mom announced that I was going to Princeton sleep-away Read more…
Lizzy has been reading “The Art of the Personal Essay” edited by Philip Lopate, for some time now. It is a lengthy collection of the best personal essays from the past four hundred years. When she read Edward Hoagland’s “The Courage of Turtles”, Lizzy was inspired to respond to the essay with one Read more…
