WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST…?
To help celebrate Halloween, The Storytellers Society of Ventura College wanted to know…what scares you the most? And in six words, you told us. ..
The Handmaid’s Tale Essay Contest
The One Book One Campus selection for the Fall 2017–Spring 2018 academic year is Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale, a compelling and dist..
The Need for a Degree
In today’s world, it is believed that a college degree is absolutely necessary in order to have a successful career. Charles Murray writes, “Economi..
Painful Seconds
And within seconds, he was gone.
Her tears rushed down his chest.
A painful cry filled the room.
I grabbed on to my pillow, comforting myself.
M..
Lilacs
Lilacs expanding
with beautiful scent, a gift
the room clothed with life
quick analysis on writing down the bones essay
Writing down the bones
In 12th grade I was placed to retake an 11th grade English class and to someone who would worry about how they appeared to o..
The Waste Land 2
The Waste Land II
Part I: The Resurrection of the Living
1978 is the year of joy, dancing
Sticks in a black abyss, bouncing
Balls search..
I Am Here
I Am Here
I have been shifting in and out of consciousness as cars shift gears,
accelerating on the minds freeways of perception glimpsing myself ..
A Field of Sunflowers
Sunflowers
are the most grotesque of all fruit.
They stare into me
as if I were looking down the gullet
of a squawking bird
with an open beak;
..
Minha Mãe (my mother)
She brought me
into this world
Alone, she
for me, she
Fought
She was proud.
Never ashamed.
Alone,
but with
Conviction.
Turbulent..