One part desperate; one part vulnerable. A pinch of no security and layered with uncertainty mixed with hope. Walk down the streets of any city and you will witness this recipe in the hearts of any beggar or homeless person. The actual ingredients of a homeless person are living rough, dispossessed, destitute, on the streets, without a roof over your head, and itinerant.
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Jenna Brown is a junior at Chapman University. She is a Business Administration major with an emphasis in Marketing and a minor in Leadership Studies, but thoroughly enjoys this writing thing. At 5’1”, her towering stature has led her to dream of a career as a player in the WNBA, or as America’s Next Top Model. Her sarcastic humor and outspoken nature can be attributed to her roots in Jersey (thanks Keenan’s!) and Woody Allen. She enjoys frozen yogurt, rain, and “Grey’s Anatomy.”
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Olga Doktorov is a junior at Boston College. Her majors are Secondary Education and History. She truly enjoys working with children. She also likes birds. Her hobbies are dancing, listening to music. and going to the theater. She moved from Saint Petersburg, Russia only 18 months ago, and now resides in Wellesley, MA with her husband and cute little parakeet Sunny.
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Steve Flaherty may look like a wee freshman Geophysics major at Boston College, but it’s what’s inside him that counts. You may recognize Steve in such literary classics as Wuthering Heights, Gone with the Wind, and the Communist Manifesto. Steve Flaherty enjoys succeeding and averting disaster. If presented with the choice between an ice-cold root beer and the secret to life, Steve would choose root beer. Steve does not condone and never has condoned evil. He is the eleventh task of Hercules, which Hercules is yet to complete.
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Jackie Otto is a freshman at (unfortunately) Chapman University in Orange, California. Jackie wrote a story when she was sad one day and that is why you are reading her biography. That's the type of person she is. She does not really get along with kids her age, at least Californians, and so she finds herself having fun most times by herself. She enjoys hard rock from the 80's like Motley Crue, Guns n' Roses, and Van Halen, and pays dearly for it when driving with passengers who like rap or chick music.
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Kim Heil is a freshman at Boston College majoring in Elementary Education adn Studio Art. Kim enjoys swimming, hanging out with friends and working with children. During High School she went on many service trips one of which inspired her to write this piece. Her current goals include going skydiving and completeing a triathalon!
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Laura Holzwasser has lived her entire life, before attending Boston College, in a suburb of Boston called Sudbury, MA. Sudbury is about as exciting as what she likes to call its claim to fame, the "Mary had a Little Lamb Schoolhouse," which many people are shocked to find out actually exists. Despite her clumsiness and difficulty mastering walking up and down stairs, Laura has spent 15 years of her life practicing gymnastics, surprisingly with relatively no injuries.
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"Pa."
I can still say it, but silence echoes whenever I do. No response, no wink of the eye, no kiss or big grandpa hug, not even a simple wave hello.
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There is a place in this world where you can feel the thunderheads rolling in before you can see or hear them. There's a subtle but electrifying energy in the ground, a vibration that only a runner can sense. As 83rd Street rushes by under my sneakers, I can feel myself getting closer to this place where the concept of unity with nature is a reality. In this place your past is closer to the present than you could ever believe and your future is yours to catch. This place is my truly my home.
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Securely tied to a pier in an all-but-dead historical port, she rested. My second home. My favorite home. Waves lapped gently at her hull. Sun glistened on her spray-soaked bow. Keona. For me, she was more than a boat. She was a refuge, a fortress, a cozy hideaway from all my problems, a dry haven in the incessant Seattle rain.
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