Phillip Lopate’s “The Art of the Personal Essay” is a collection of assorted personal essays from amazing and celebrated writers, for example, Wendell Berry and Wole Soyinka. Two great essays from Lopate’s book would have to be Wendell Berry’s “An Entrance to the Woods”, which is a stellar essay about his renunciations, and Wole Soyinka’s Read more…
End of the Year Reflection I have learned many things this year, whether from difficulty or success. These are some of the feelings, experiences, and lessons I’ve learned on my first year in middle school. I remember the first day of school. My hands were sweating more than a NBA player Read more…
B.P.’s Cover-up and Local Response On the eve of BP’s catastrophe, its man-made disaster that killed eleven of its workers and numerous innocent animals, bankrupting thousands of businesses on the Gulf of Mexico, the Minerals Management Service, the agency that supposedly regulates and manages oil companies’ leases of our natural resources, was sitting on its hands. Read more…
2011 CTY Reflection Fourteen young students entered bravely into the unknown classroom. With their innocent eyes wide open, they were bewildered by the brick walls and the dim atmosphere in which they were suppose to spend eight hours a day for the next three weeks. The sunlight that was peering through the narrow windows Read more…
Center for Talented Youth: Lancaster, PA As I walked down the hallway to my room, I noticed something – there were pictures of squirrels on all of the doors. (I would later learn that squirrels meant first years at CTY.) I was rather pleased with my picture: a terribly obese squirrel Read more…
