August 2009
6 posts
these are my goals
tomorrow// make a list of future goals ; go running; if you end up sitting around go to the city or SOMEwhere; write
future//find a sociology OR writing internship; take INTERESTING CLASSES; live a little.
writing sample:
Desegregate student body, embrace growing diversity
Julia Aaker
Published: Friday, April 24, 2009
Updated: Saturday, April 25, 2009
image by Saman Bemel-Benrud
St. Olaf faces a conundrum: it adheres to its Lutheran-Norwegian roots, yet it seeks diversity on campus. There might be an array of majors and social beliefs on campus, but in terms of socio-economic, cultural and religious diversity,...
writing sample:
Please puff the magic dragon, stop drug-related crime
Published: Friday, March 13, 2009
“The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it was good,” (Genesis 1:12). The Chinese did it thousands of years ago at the same time they discovered the use of iron, a time considered the zenith of...
Writing prompt.
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Write for ten minutes, incorporating a common proverb, adage, or familiar phrase (“between the devil and the deep blue sea,” “one foot in the grave,” “a stitch in time saves nine,” “the whole nine yards,” “a needle in a haystack,” etc.) that you have changed in some way, as well as five of the following words:
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Let’s try a writing prompt
“Describe the person’s hands”
There was motor oil; those thick lines of black between the pink of his callused flesh and the yellowing of his nails had been commonplace for the past 32 years. There had been a soft spot on the back of his hand where he once burned himself in his mother’s kitchen. Creases in his skin broke up the blistered...
