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 11, 2020 | 2003 Idea Contest Essays, 2003 Third Place Winner Essays
I wasn’t part of a vast crowd of smiling automatons. I can safely say that without clouded perception. When I hear that the nation is at war, I feel the weight and resonance of sadness: when I see visible poverty while stepping 10 miles out of my own town, yet...
by RVML | Apr 11, 2020 | 2003 Idea Contest Essays, 2003 Second Place Winner Essays
Last year I was getting ready to take my SAT II’s in composition when I asked a friend what type of essay I would have to write. She told me that the prompts were really easy; last year she had gotten the topic: “How has the world become a better place in...
by RVML | Apr 11, 2020 | 2003 First Place Winner Essays, 2003 Idea Contest Essays
The music begins, unfurling on the night air. It hits me, awakening my feet, rushing up my legs, out to my fingers and the very top of my head. My neck lengthens, my shoulders pulling back as I cast a glittering smile across the audience like a net to reel them in....
by RVML | Mar 29, 2020 | 2003 Idea Contest Essays
While I sit here taking into consideration my many pastimes and interests, there is one that rises above the rest, one extra ordinary fixation that I treasure and love above all the others. It is the one thing that I always adore even through the difficult and...
