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My name is Madison and I write during my spare time. I began writing last semester with my college newspaper and have continued to do it as a hobby rather than a career pursuit.

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Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: My greatest accomplishments: 61 of 147

Although I have lived a few short days of the legal adult age thus far, I can look back on my life and reminisce on my accomplishments within the past few years. Hands down, however, I would have to choose losing 50 pounds at the age of 15 as at the top of my list. Looking back on the plump, naive, and insecure girl I was, I...
Relationships & Family > Dating Commentary Creative ways to ask a date to the prom: 3 of 7

Creative prom trips for the boys: Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty, and now the ever-popular Enchanted. All of these movies provide young girls a charming, unrealistic idea of romance at a young age so that when they reach the age where boys are no longer "cooties", but "cuties", they anticipate a fairy-tale...
Politics, News & Issues > Politics, News & Issues (Other) The media bias in politics: 16 of 32

What ever happened to a campaign based on integrity? This question reverberated during the election cycles of the nineteenth and twentieth century, and is once again being posed today. The Presidential Campaign leading up to the primary was nothing short of newsworthy. The feature stories of major news corporations such as C...
Politics, News & Issues > Political Issues The problems with nationalized health care: 26 of 37

Imagine being pregnant with rare identical quadruplets and being on the verge of labor when the news comes that there are no more maternity beds available in the local hospital. This is exactly what happened to Karen Jepp, a 35-year-old Canadian woman of Calgary, Alberta in August of 2007. She and her husband "drove 325 mile...