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A More than One-Dimensional Review of Cheating
For some reason, this is how a train of thought starts these days — I get miffed. Since this happened multiple times this week, I had to ignore the fact that I'm supposed to write the most boring essay about the structure of Bladdeley's working memory model, and instead release my thoughts on an outlet.
By Maura Dudas8 years ago in Humans
Love Shadows: Part 7
You'd think hating someone for so long wouldn't make you feel much watching them rot on their death bed. Seeing her mother lying in a hospital bed dying, weak and helpless from her own sickness should’ve only filled her with joy. Lena wanted to be just as heartless as her mother had been most of her life at this very moment. Maybe then, she would've been prepared to see her in this final state of damnation.
By Sharlene Alba8 years ago in Humans
It's Tough Being a Black Movie Star
Today, I read an article on realcoolnation.com about Black Panther star Winston Duke, or M'Baku, and his choice of a dating partner. First, in case you didn't know, I have not seen the movie as yet while I am on vacation in my native island of Trinidad and Tobago. I was elated to know that Winston hails from the sister isle of Tobago. My people are doing big things abroad. I'm also part of the diaspora in Canada where I work as a Supervisor for Nestle. Seeing the sacrifice Winston made to move abroad and his success now resonated with me and continues to motivate me to achieve my dreams. In the newspaper on the island and Facebook, lots of locals were praising him for his success, representing the islands and of course his looks (for the ladies). But as they say, with great success come great hate. The black online folks started dragging Winston about his choice in a dating partner. His girlfriend is Meesh, who is half white and half Asian. For some reason, a Black actor that represented the pride of an African culture in a movie for some reason can only date a black girl. This is not only isolated to him. Other black stars like J Cole and the actor from Marvel's Luke Cage, to name a few, have been dragged for dating lighter skin girls or—let's call a spade a spade—not dating a black girl. This infuriates me because to me it's society's way of telling me who I can date and who I can't. Not sure if you can see my profile picture, but I am of African decent as well (not all Islanders are black FYI :)).
By Jelani Baptiste8 years ago in Humans
A Story of a Small Town Girl in Kansas
I am an assembly mechanic at a small aircraft machine shop. I've never really been a girly girl and I've worked in a male dominated profession my entire life. I got married young, very young; I was only 18. I would like to give a brief account of my life before Kyle (my first ex husband; yes, I have two). I was raised mostly by a step mother who did not care much about me and my grandmother on my father's side. My father is an alcoholic and my mother was addicted to Meth for nine years. After the age of 5, I only saw her once or twice before I was 14 or 15. (Excuse my lack of exact ages. I don't have many memories of being a child.) So in short, when I met Kyle at age 16, I was starving for love.
By Alondra Atkinson8 years ago in Humans
'Wonder'
Today, I watched Wonder by Palacio. I didn't know what this movie was going to be about, I just saw the book and thought it would be a good one to read. Since I haven't been able to buy the book, I decided that watching the movie would be good enough for a bit.
By Cheyenne Spring8 years ago in Humans
How Do You Know Someone Is 'The One'?
I really want to answer this question because, like others who may have asked the same thing, I struggled with it myself for years, especially when I started to seriously date and have relationships. I started having desires to get married when I was young, and it became my almost every thought: boys, dating, relationships, marriage, having kids. I actually thought something was wrong with me because of how often I had these thoughts and desires, especially with how young I was. I remember praying to God and going into scripture hoping to find something about me, almost directly, that I could apply to my life to answer the questions I had about who do I look for when it comes to my future husband, how do I know if he’s the right one for me, etc. And I’d end up becoming depressed because I felt God wasn’t helping me because I wasn’t getting the answers I was seeking as well as I was reading the Bible almost like a fortune cookie to help with my specific life when it’s really a narrative about Jesus and how he redeemed humanity. As I’ve grown up and my walk with Jesus has grown, my perspective on that question changed as well as what it really meant.
By Sophia Rosado8 years ago in Humans
