In the sixth grade, my English teacher told us to write about an event in our life that we were looking forward to most. While I wanted to write I was looking forward to my wedding day the most, my teacher...

It’s a sad day in society whenever tragedy strikes. It’s an even sadder day in society when tragedy no longer surprises a nation. However, what I find truly devastating is when we blame and attribute...

If your birthday is not in February, there are basically two days to care about, Valentine’s Day being one of them. While some may oppose the holiday focused on love, it is nevertheless a day filled...

"Honestly, I was very surprised and flattered. [I was]  honored my classmates chose me and the other guys to represent them."  What do you think of this year’s theme for courtwarming? "I think it's...

What was your reaction after hearing you were one of the nominees? "I was actually pretty surprised because there are a lot of good dudes that are seniors that deserved it as much as I did.  So when...

Then a freshman at Jefferson Junior High School, sophomore Larrell Green walked into his locker room ready to prepare for the last two football games of the year against West Junior High School and Oakland...

On my first day of high school, my mother drove me to school. I felt the same lag that I usually felt on the first day; I was excited to see my friends, but I didn't want summer to end. In the weeks...

Olmsted Falls, Ohio only has a population of 15,000 people and is the quintessential example of small-town suburbia. After moving there in eighth grade, I soon learned Olmsted Falls was everything about the suburbs that everyone hates; it was small, and it was boring. And whoever created the movie Mean Girls must’ve lived there at one point in their life. I had the same sense of astonishment that Cady Heron, played by Lindsey Lohan, had in Mean Girls, walking into the Olmsted Falls Middle School cafeteria for the first time, as she did during the lunch room scene in the movie. Each table held a stereotypical "clique" that one would only imagine to see in a film. There were band geeks, cheerleaders and football players, kids with skateboards, kids with piles of books, kids who would not stop singing and kids judging the outfits of students who would walk past their table.

When I was a younger, I worshiped the man known as Walt Disney. Walt Disney could solve all my problems with any of his films. I grew up yearning to be a princess and was constantly on the lookout for...