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...

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...

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 goal....

My life purpose is to be a healing influence in the life of my dad, to love and cherish him, to accept him just like he is, and to walk with him through this ordeal in his life.

I feel, in life, one of the most precious things you can have are memories. Without them life would be plain, and bland, good times and memories are the beauty of a mind.

Throughout my life I have realized that life is nothing but a game. There is a start and a finish or ultimate goal that we must all accomplish. Not everyone will accomplish this goal, thus making the game a challenge. My life goal, as reflected by my piece, is to one...

The eye in the center of the page represents my life. It has pictures of farm animals, dog, geese and sheep because I plan to have a farm when I am older. The eyebrow above the eye has pictures of space. It represents the sky above me and how beautiful it is. The...

I feel that life is the purpose of life. To live and share love, sorrow, happiness and life is worth living for and loving for.

"It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end." Ursula K. LeGuin has summed up, in these few words precisely, how I see life. Setting goals and limits for yourself is excellent, but, after all is said and done, it's what...

A wandering soul striving to learn more of what life is. Someone to lend a helping hand when life sends you for a spin. I'm a daily reminder to stop and smell the roses as my path changes with 90' angles. I love to laugh in the faces of those whom tried to bring me...

My collage represents my purpose of life. The background is a baseball. I chose to put a baseball in the background because I want to be a professional baseball player when I grow up. Inside the baseball I made someone helping someone else up. This shows that one of...

My idea for this collage was to convey some sort of feeling of past, present future. I chose to do this because I feel that one’s life purpose is not chosen automatically, instead our purpose is a product of our life, and how we have experienced it. I use the repeated...

My collage expresses my life purpose on a career and personal level. At my age it is difficult to pinpoint exactly what is my life purpose. The flower sprouting from the brain in my collage represents my desire to learn. So, through learning and growing I will...

What is my life purpose? To teach and influence those around me to rise above negativity, let truth and honesty thrive, and most of all let our drive and our passion....rule us. When we reach for these goals, our hands outstretched, the seemingly unreachable happiness...

Last summer, I did a six-week long homestay in Toyama Prefecture, Japan, and I'm currently sharing my room with a year-long Japanese exchange student. Since going to Japan and studying Japanese language and culture, I've felt that learning about other cultures is...

Live and let live is to create a utopia in your mind. Live everyday to the fullest, you never know what's coming up next. Life is an adventure just waiting to be unleashed.

I offer my collage as a metaphor for my life, not yet defined but budding and ready to bloom. I am a young woman growing up in a world full of excitement, sadness and sometimes hate. As people we go through tough times, and as young people we go through learning...

Everyone talks about wanting world peace and eternal happiness. Everyone seems to believe that if you just talk about it or blame someone else for ruining it, you can achieve it. I believe, as Gandhi once said, and as the poster summarizes, "You must be the change you...