To Be Of Use Response

The people I love best
strive to accomplish every task with their best ability
always with a positive attitude
that comes across as a warm light that shines over everyone.
They believe in the idea,
as a dreamer fighting
reckless but powerful.

I love people who open themselves to the world,
a butterfly slowly developing, a young child's
attachment with their mother, with enormous care
who listens and learns but never judges,
who shows compassion, someone honest.

I want to be with people who fight
for what they want, who stand up and lead
who take on something new, someone
progressive with open ears to others.

The combination of dreamers and realists keeps stability
Balance controls reason with imagination
Allowing everyone to blend together, while
Still opening a door to independent success.

-Breeana P.

It's Time for a Change...Go to College!

I never thought that this year's College Week would have such a huge impact on my view of college. After Mrs. Elliott's descriptions of how much she loved college and how it changed her life for the better, I feel that everyone should have a similar opportunity. Whether you feel ready for a change of school experiences or not, you should go to college, because from what I've heard, the experience is phenomenal and the memories that are created will stay with you for an eternity. I hope that everyone attends a college, whether large or small, junior or university, private or public, and enjoys their time there. Remember to keep your grades high and reach for the moon so if you fall you will land amongst the stars.

Good Luck,
     Shanyce R.

Never thought it was true...

That you can change the way you think…the way you live…the way you see the world…the way you perceive yourself and others. You are stuck but all you can do is wonder. You think about the past, you see the present in an entire different way, you envision the future as a more positive place. You come back…normal yet confused - questions racing throughout your mind. Seemed simple enough didn’t it? You realize that the mind is the most complex system that can think and visualize more than we are capable of realizing consciously. There is a fine line between reality and fantasy and the human mind separates them while combining them at the right moments in perfect harmony. Always think…we should think at a faster rate than we know.
Roberto L.

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

At the end of the story, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, it is clearly stated that Alice's Adventure was completely a dream. During dreams we enter into a state of darkness, which exposes us to mystery and the unknown. Throughout Alice's whole journey there was a sense of not knowing who she was, what the characters meant while speaking, and why the animals were acting as they were. The archetype of the color black allows 'darkness' to be associated with it so the reader understands inside knowledge about what chaos was occurring to Alice, and the unconscious thoughts that were spreading throughout her dreams. Looking down the rabbit hole provided her with complete darkness and not being able to see what was below. She was entering into chaos of the unknown, little did she know. By the end of the story she leaves back through the darkness as she slowly awakes.

Breeana P.

Introductory to Girls

I ask them to take a girl
And try to understand her,
Explore her inside and out
just like a novel

or simply use their words to ask her how she feels

I say try to put her pieces together
like a complex puzzle,
or explain what she's like as if she were the prompt to a persuasive essay

I want them to give her their ears and their hearts
and teach her to trust them,
but all they want to do is judge and criticize her
like she was some $7 matinee movie.
They begin to tease her, because they know
deep down she's too good for them.

By Stephanie Rose

What is literature to all of you?

As a warm-up for the upcoming essay we should all put what our basic ideas have been and see where that takes us. Here's mine:
Literature is the compilation of our darkest struggles and our greatest triumphs; it is the union of practical thought with a world created in our minds, it combines the human experience with the wonders of our imagination; it explains tangible concepts by intangible means; it is a portal to another time and place, and it is a reflection of our culture, and more importantly - our inner most selves.
So what do you think? agree? disagree? comments? And what is your literature?
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Alice in Wonderland Drug Referencing

Although Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by novelist Lewis Carrol is not admittedly proclaimed to be a drug-related novel, references and quotes such "down the rabbit hole" give the story a connotation that can easily be related to the hallucinogenic drug commonly known as LSD. As the main character, Alice sits next to a river bank while her older sister reads to her she begins to drift into a dream-like state; while in this dreamy state, Alice sees a white rabbit run past her dressed in a coat and carrying a clock. Her dreamy hallucination implies that Alice is experiencing phenomena that seems other-worldly even before entering Wonderland.

While slowly falling, literally and figuratively, through time down the rabbit hole, strange objects float past her. The deeper she falls down the hole and into a different state of mind, the more strange and random the objects are.

Falling down the rabbit hole is now a common term for entering a sub-conscious state of hallucinations after inducing LSD. The novel helped develop appropriate slang for the mind-altering drug. Psychedelic rock group Jefferson Airplane released and acid rock single titled "White Rabbit" which refers to the novel by Lewis Carrol in its lyrics.

Roberto L.