I’m surprised by the motivation to do my blog every week. When I first started writing my blog, I thought that it is only going to last a couple of weeks or months. I didn’t think that I would get to the point where I would be almost one year done with blogging. Keeping up the motivation for this blog hasn’t been easy. There have been many times when I have told myself that skipping a week won’t matter. No one will care if I don’t write for just one week. I remember a couple of months ago I thought about what would happen if I quit. But the truth…
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How Nellie Bly Changed the World
Anyone who knows me knows that I love Nellie Bly. The thing is that before Istarted school and learned all about journalism, I didn’t know who Nellie Blywas. You probably don’t either so here’s a little bio about her. Her name isn’t actually Nellie Bly. Her name was Elizabeth Cochran and shewas born 1864. When she was just 19, she read an article called “WhatGirls are Good For” and she became enraged. She replied back to the paper with her own version of the story. The editorwas so impressed he asked her to write an article. She wrote the article“The Girl Puzzle” which was about what women go through when…
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The Man Who Moved A Mountain
If I asked you who Dashrath Manjhi was, would you know? The one thing I love most about history is that there are so many stories that some don’t get as much attention as other do. When it comes to Dashrath Manjhi, he doesn’t get that much attention. When I first learned about him, I was looking at a comic, but when I started learning more about him I realized that his story is about love, perseverance, and determination. Dashrath was born in India in a small village in a broken family. At a young age he ran away and worked in a coal mine. When he returned to his…
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Why is Love Important?
In many ways, this is a hard question. We don’t think about love as something that is important although we know it is. When thinking about this question, you might feel stumped. I know I did. Love has been a big part of my life and in many ways, I have shown my love for multiple people. But why is it important? In one day, how often do you show love? In my average day, I show my love to sleeping, school, by helping random strangers when they need help, my family when I call about their day, to my friends when I talk to them. On any occasion, I…
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What Is Love?
What is love? The first thing to come to your mind may be a popular song that was made in the ’90s, but its a topic that has been debated. Some may think that it is just some form of attraction, attachment, or passion. For most of my life, I didn’t know what love was. I knew that I loved my parents, my sisters, and my friends, but besides that, I couldn’t have told you what love was except defining it as “a feeling”. There are so many movies out there that just made me even more confused. I would see many couples fight, not communicate, or just run away…
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Am I Committed to Change?
I remember the first time I lost a friend. She lived right down the street from me and even though she was weird, I remember her well. Her hair looked like mine. In the sun, it shined a bit blonde but the red can still be seen even on the brightest of days. Her teeth were a bit cooked like her personality, but she had the best imagination possible. We would make so many worlds in our heads. The sad part is that I don’t remember these stories, I just remember her. I remember her brother showing me what had been done with his teeth, I remember her basement where…