by RVML | Apr 28, 2020 | 2003 Idea Contest Essays
I can still remember that first feeling. As I sat there, in a room where about a dozen other preteen kids, all, like me, dressed in costumes. I was dressed as an elephant, with a gray sweatshirt and sweatpants, as well as a hat with a trunk on it. We were the Willow...
by RVML | Apr 28, 2020 | 2003 Idea Contest Essays
With a loud, dry crack, the doors of the long abandoned shelter were shattered open. Many decades had passed since any instance of light had been released into this realm. This space, my space, was now being invaded. Am I to be moved again? Am I to be torn away from...
by RVML | Apr 25, 2020 | 2005 Idea Contest Collages
Our generation of youth in this country especially is lucky, we have no great depression, no great war; we do not live in constant fear or famine, and without these burdens, it offers us the opportunity and invites us to reach out our free hands to work and improve...
by RVML | Apr 25, 2020 | 2005 Idea Contest Collages
We don’t know about the future, but it is certain there will be problems, and the future may even be more difficult than the present. Even now, the world is facing uncounted problems. There is always news of war, terrorism, disaster, murders and accidents. The...
by RVML | Apr 25, 2020 | 2005 Idea Contest Collages
There is nothing concrete I can point to as my clear life’s purpose. I do not have a legible map of my life that illustrates exactly who I will be and what I will do. Thus it is difficult to define something that I see as my purpose, which implies a coherent...