Hey girls, today I’m going to talk to you about how to get him back in your arms, before he moves on and finds another girl. Relationships end all the time, I should know because I’ve helped dozens of people in your situation before, and guess what? Plenty of broken relationships get repaired! If your […]
Review: Transcending Conquest: Nahua Views of Spanish Colonial Mexico
Stephanie Wood begins Transcending Conquest with a twelve-page foreword in which she describes not only her methodology and source base, but also her motivations for pursuing this project. Perhaps as a preemptive defense-she notes that some might dismiss her as “lacking sufficient authority” to approach the Nahuatl codices as an American English-speaker-Wood spends a great […]
Write Your College Application Essay This Summer
The summer before the senior year of High School is a time to unwind after a tough junior year. The summer is also a great time to get a head start into the college application process. It is a time to gather information about potential schools, a time to visit some actual campuses and to […]
How to Write a College Admissions Essay
Writing college essays is one of the most challenging aspects of the college application process, and it is also one of the most important. For the most part, students looking for college admissions assistance have already earned the G.P.A.s and standardized test scores that colleges and universities will use to judge them. They have already […]
Writing Skills: Use the Correct Word for the Context
This is my second article on writing skills. In this article, I want to point out some words that are often incorrectly substituted for the proper word. Spell checkers will not catch these errors because the word that is used is spelled correctly; it just isn’t the right word in the context where it is […]
Narcissism and Today’s Society
“It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self – love.” – Voltaire The subject of ‘Narcissism’ has intrigued us for many decades, but social scientists now claim that it has become a “modern epidemic”. The term ‘Narcissism’ originated more than 2000 years ago when Ovid wrote the ‘Legend of Narcissus’, which […]
Thank You for Calling
Is is just me or has anyone else called a place of business … as in a retail chain of sorts … or a restaurant … seeking certain information and you’re received with a bombarding 30 second or more greeting script promoting sales that are of no value to you and are unintelligible because the […]
The Aberfan Tragedy – The Village that Lost its Children
“All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, all things wise and wonderful, the Lord God made them all” – Refrain from a hymn sang in British school assemblies during the 1960’s. Life is precious and young life is most precious as it embodies the future and the chance to create a brighter […]
Home School High School – What About Taking a Gap Year?
It seems like the idea of “taking a gap year” is growing in popularity among homeschoolers. A gap year is a period of time (usually between 6 months and a year in length) where the high school graduate takes a job or does some volunteer work to gain experience before beginning their college career. […]
The Value of Working Hard For Your Dream School
No matter what the situation of the economy or the changes in the job market, the one fact remains that there is no better bang for your buck than college. An undergraduate education should be valued for many reasons including the gain of critical reasoning skills, the close network of potential professionals you’ll meet, and […]