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Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Family: 4 of 51

Sis "Look at that mannequin's funny nose!" I was piggy-backed behind her, a giggling mop of unruly curls and bright brown eyes, ogling from tall shoulders all that she would show me. We were in State Street, the queen of Quincy's department stores, in a time when department stores still ruled the concrete coasts of small Mid...
Politics, News & Issues > Political Issues The Electoral College: Does my vote matter?: 1 of 5

We are the masses, you idiot In the summer of 2000, a 90-pound, middle-aged schoolteacher threatened to beat me senseless. My trouble started when I was buying an old Maxfield Parrish print at an antique shop in Asheville, North Carolina. As I was waiting in line, the woman next to me asked me whom I was going to vote for in...
Creative Writing > Essays Essays: Drug addiction: 28 of 33

My friend Danny described it as a state of "optionlessness." Danny was not afraid to create a word when he found conventional vocabulary insufficient; what he lacked in stature, he compensated for with his mouth. OPTION-LESS-NESS he would boom it from the back of smoke-dank rooms, night after night, in a voice powerful enoug...
Politics, News & Issues > Political & Economic Theory The case for the separation of church and state: 48 of 54

1.7 Billion Reasons Baskin-Robbins might offer 31 flavors, but they have nothing on Christianity. With more than 1.7 billion practitioners comprising 20,800 denominations worldwide, Christianity caters to the most finicky of tastes (Tobin). There are Catholic Christians, and there are Protestant Christians. There are Baptist...