Vodka

It’s freshman year and my mom helps me move cross country from Colorado to Nebraska, unload my stuff from the mini-van in giant rolling laundry carts into McGloin Hall, my home for the next nine months. McGloin is supposed to be just for sophomores but all the freshman dorms filled up so they stuck me in there, too. It’s half-reward, half-punishment, newer and nicer but isolated, tucked and hidden by deep green deciduous trees on the far end of campus. Like new cellmates, my new roommates and I

Charlotte Diaz sat on her bed and started out the window. Her finger lightly tracing the cascaded rain drops on her window. She sighed and hugged her knees close to her chest. Her tears began to fall and mirror the raindrops outside. Charlotte could still hear the loud shrieks and arguments of her parents taunting her. Charlotte was supposed to be a happy seventeen year old teenage girl but much agony hid behind her clouded dark brown eyes. The once popular bright eyed curly brunette now hid behind

Quite frankly, Marinette was surprised herself, she’d never been much of a drinker save for those night’s when she and Alya switched out ice cream for some wine Alya managed to sneak out of her house. Either way, she braved through the bitter taste of vodka, enjoying the warm feeling building in her stomach, at least now she could blame her flushed cheeks on the alcohol. “Girl, don’t you think you should slow down, a little. Not that I’m complaining or anything, but you should at least eat

Music, Alcohol, Drugs, and Tobacco Encyclopedia Britannica defines music as, “art concerned with combining vocal or instrumental sounds for beauty of form or emotional expression, usually according to cultural standards of rhythm, melody, and, in most Western music, harmony”. Music was considered beautiful at one time. Musical artist in this day and age put their drive to succeed well before their personal morals. The explicit language warnings on music covers are not enough. The foul language

Little Do They Know: The World of Advertising Art 1A Visual Literacy Vanessa W 1:00 Nicholas A Zahn University of California, Santa Barbara While the world of advertising has been responsible for creating trends and impacting culture on a monumental level, the constant manipulation and force-feeding tactics behind these agencies has created a capitalist monster that is detrimental to society. Praying on the emotions of citizens, the rent-seekers have created a mentality valuing excess

College Life and Alcohol A while back I was involved in a small gathering in my own dorm room where the consumption of alcohol was taking place by many college students under the legal drinking age limit. Although I was not drinking, the fact that I was socializing and allowing this to take place in my room put me under the position of a facilitator. This position is just as problematic as if I were to actually consume alcohol myself. The residential life handbook states that alcohol consumption

minimum .5 GPA by the end of twelfth grade. In highschool students should have eight classes, and four need to be designated to drug and alcohol proficiency. The other four should be the students choice. At sports events the school needs to offer vodka, whiskey, beer, pot, crack, weed, marijuana, cigarettes, etc in their concession stands. When the students complete highschool, most should go to college and earn a degree in drug and alcohol science. They need to learn all about the substances so

I sit across from her, admiring her golden waves bouncing off her shoulders and her brown eyes eagerly telling the same story over.We share like best friends and laugh about the events from my day. I remember, my mom isn’t always this person with a contagious smile and witty come backs. I look at her and remember how disoriented, and sick she is. I see the best and worst of my mom, and the first in my family to understand. I remember the day I recognized  the horrifying disease she had. Alcoholism

her one night after working at the homeless shelter. She fell in love with him. Sarah was so desperate for love because she did not have a father figure in her life so she was searching for acceptance and a boy. One night they hung out, Ethan had vodka and Sarah drink it because Ethan told her to. A boundary she broke was the drinking but she would not let him get all over her. She was scared of what would happen. A few days later Sarah saw Ethan kissing someone else and she felt like she was worth

couch in Jimmy Page’s house. Come morning, Led Zeppelin’s road manager tried to wake Bonham and with no response, he began to worry. John Henry Bonham died that night, September 25, 1980 at the age of 32 (Kelley). He had consumed “40 measures of vodka” (Kelley) and died mere hours after passing out due to the shocked state of inhaling vomit. Who knows where Zep would have ended up if they had never lost beloved Bonzo. Unfortunately, all good things must come to an