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Student's Writings
February 22, 2025

Inspiration—a topic each student approached with a unique blend of creativity and emotion. QUINN transports us to LA’s Skid Row to find it. What is inspiration, and where can you find it? Most people are inspired by their parents or other role models. Others are inspired by others' failures in a desire to be better than they were. Inspiration is defined as “the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially something creative.” If you think about it, you can find inspiration anywhere. You can find your inspiration through art or music or speeches. You can also find inspiration through drugs or alcohol or hurting others. So now you understand how important it is to find the right kind of inspiration.  I saw a short documentary from a guy who does this series. The series includes interviews of random people he finds on the streets, I guess. Most of them have similar issues. The channel on youtube is called Soft White Underbelly. The one that stuck out to me most was about a woman named Rebecca… a transgender woman struggling with addiction living on Skid Row in Los Angeles, California. I can’t exactly remember how this interview came to be. It seemed like the interviewer had seen Rebecca on the streets often. Anyways, Rebecca spoke about how she grew up in New York. Her parents died when she was young, so she was in and out of foster care. She said nobody really wanted her because she was trans. Eventually, at only sixteen years...

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Student's Writings
February 22, 2025

Inspiration—a topic each student approached with a unique blend of creativity and emotion. KHORI uses the vision of the Khori she wants to be years from now. Inspiration.. something that we all want, something that we all need. In my life I've been inspired by many things, but my biggest inspirations are my mom, my best friend ,and the most important inspiration is my future.  My mom inspires me so much and she doesn’t even realize it. She shows great resilience and compassion.  My mom grew up very poor in the city. She never had time for herself because her mom was always working and she had to take care of her brother. On top of all the struggles she faced, she still was able to get into Western and go to college. She maintained good grades and she was just overall a really smart person . Then she faced another really hard obstacle, which was me!  My mom had me in college and she didn’t know what to do. On top of having a baby she was able to still go to college and get a job. She ended up saving her money and moving to the county where she was able to raise me and take care of me. It’s really just me and my mom since my dad and other siblings don’t live with me. Whenever I need something, I turn to her. I may argue with her and disagree with her a lot but that will never change the fact that I love her...

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Student's Writings
February 22, 2025

Inspiration—a topic each student approached with a unique blend of creativity and emotion. JORDAN finds it in a heavy metal drummer with a big heart. I’m inspired by a lot of things. I connect with the way lines are drawn on a piece of paper, the feeling of anger or sadness from colors on a painting, and the weight of a clay sculpture. In the past year, there’s been one person that inspired me the most. His name is Joey Jordison and he used to be the drummer for Slipknot. Since I grew up as Christian, I used to think that something bad would happen to me if I started listening to metal music, like I wouldn’t go to heaven in the afterlife. I was scared of metal because I was taught that it was evil. I was scrolling through the internet one day and I found this show on Netflix. It’s called Aggretsuko and it’s about a red panda named Retsuko who has an average office job in Japan. People in higher positions treat her like she doesn’t know anything and insult her at work. Some of her co-workers constantly annoy her by giving backhanded compliments or invading her personal space. She gets rid of her stress by venting through death metal at a karaoke bar. Watching a few minutes of the show made me pause for a moment. I could relate to this character because she bottles up her emotions and acts as a doormat for other people at her job. I started watching the show...

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Student's Writings
February 22, 2025

Inspiration—a topic each student approached with a unique blend of creativity and emotion.  LYRIC experiences it through the portals of the cartoon & movie multiverse. Cartoon creators, voice actors, and movie actors really inspire me. I have always wanted to do voices of cartoon characters and act in shows and movies. I feel very inspired by how creative people can be when they make cartoons and movies. I want to be like them some day, creating cartoons, doing voice acting, and being a movie actor.  I am specifically inspired by Disney and Nickelodeon voice actors. I want to be a Nickelodeon voice actor doing different voices from different cartoons, this is a dream job that I would never get tired of because I'm doing the things I love the most. But let's stop talking about reality inspiration and get fictional.  There I am in the cartoon and movie multiverse going through portal by portal, meeting the characters of cartoons and movie actors that inspire me the most. I ended up in the Guardians Of The Galaxy movie where I see the character I've been waiting to meet for decades. there he was! Drax, the one and only! He saw me and came up to me saying “What are you doing here? You’re not supposed to be in space.” I told him the backstory of me being a multiverse traveler, how he inspired me to be an actor, and how cool it was when he used to be in the WWE before he retired. I had a good time...

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Student's Writings
February 2, 2025

The students were tasked to write about DANGER. Hector told of the frightening time his then 3-year old brother wandered out of the house to explore the neighborhood. A three-year old was out and roaming the streets by himself. He had just learned how to walk and made sure to take advantage of this new found freedom.  My mom had gone to use the bathroom for a second and left my little brother downstairs. I was upstairs, minding my own business. My mom called out for me and she asked me if my brother was with me. I said no because I thought he was with her. I walk downstairs and see the front door slightly open. My mom started to panic and she rushed outside to find my little brother. She was so loud that it caused our next door neighbor to come outside and ask what was going on. My mom said that my brother had run out of the house and she couldn’t find him. My neighbor ran out of her house barefoot to help look for my brother. We all took different routes and I ran around half the block screaming my little brother's name. My heart was racing and, in that moment, I felt like I could run a whole marathon.  I asked this man sitting on the porch if he had seen him and he said he’ll keep an eye out. I kept looking and it ended up on me now finding him. Defeated, I walked back to my house and found...

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Student's Writings
February 2, 2025

The students were tasked to write about DANGER. Kendall writes about learning that an older & wiser friend “wasn’t nearly as smart” as she thought she was. My whole life has been centered around danger… ever since I came out of my mother! My first interaction with danger was when I came into the world with a fever. They made me stay in the NICU for 16 days before I could come home. My mother stayed with me of course, but as my fever progressed, it started to become apparent to everyone that I would be in there for a while. As the days went on, my visitors list got shorter. Soon enough, it was just me and my mom. On night 15 is when my mom asked the nurses if I could sleep in the room with her rather than with the rest of the babies. This is the night my fever started to go down. Not only was my fever completely gone, it was the first night I slept soundly.  When I was first brought home, my family didn’t make a big fuss or anything. No one came to see how my mom was , or how I was. It was just a normal day. Nothing stopped or started. They had apparently started selling some of my things because they didn’t think I’d be home at all. My life since then has pretty much been just that. No big fuss or anything. I mean I don’t mind now, but when I was a kid I...

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Student's Writings
February 2, 2025

The students were tasked to write about DANGER. Khori writes about how much fun waterparks can be…until they aren’t.   There was only one time in my life where I've felt true danger. I was 7 years old and it was my birthday. When I was younger, I would  spend my birthday going to waterparks because my birthday is in the Summer.  My family and I would go to a waterpark and, afterwards, have a party at my house.  It was the same routine every year. Until my 7th birthday!From what I remember, everything was normal. My cousins were trying to drown me or get me on the big slides as usual. But I remember this waterpark was kinda different. This waterpark had a lazy river. For people who don’t know what a lazy river is, it's a pool that moves around in a circle constantly pushing you forward. The point of it is just for you to glide with the water without having to swim.  I wanted to get in the lazy river so bad but my mom kept saying no because I wasn't tall enough. I had to watch all my older cousins enjoy the lazy river without me. I was not going to let that slide. So I begged my mom constantly until she let me… but she told me I could only go if it was with her and my little cousin, Mason. So we walked down to the lazy river and she put me in first and she told me to hold on....

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Student's Writings
February 2, 2025

 The students were tasked to write about DANGER.  Jordan writes about a clown whose painted-on smile hides a mask of menace. I’m sitting in an old diner eating a burger and fries with a drink. I’ve never gotten food here before, but I’m really enjoying it. Out of the corner of my eye, I see a figure in black and white. It looked like the figure was staring at me from across the diner. I didn’t want to show that I was uncomfortable, so I ignored the staring and finished my food.  I put my money on the counter and left. I started feeling tired after eating so I decided to go home. On my way home, I passed by the figure in black and white again. I started to get really creeped out because this was the second time I saw this person. I turned around to see if he was following me and he was waving at me with a huge smile on his face. I felt chills when I saw the figure waving at me. I’ve never felt this sense of danger before. My heart started beating at a rapid pace and my lungs ached. I started running because I felt like I needed to get away from this situation as soon as possible. I kept running until I couldn’t anymore. Coincidentally, I stopped just a few blocks away from my house.   I get inside and lock all of my doors and windows. I got settled and turned on my TV to watch a movie. Maybe...

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Student's Writings
October 25, 2024

"FAMILY…functional, dysfunctional, uniquely personal." - Don Riesett, Writing Mentor & Teacher It was a typical Friday afternoon. I had just finished praying Maghrib and decided to watch some TV. My mother came downstairs all dressed up and said, “Let’s go.” I was confused at first, then quickly realized that we were supposed to visit the mosque and pray. I felt really tired from playing basketball so I tried to convince my mom to go without me. She wasn’t happy that I was trying to get out of going to the mosque so we had a whole argument about me not valuing my religion and culture enough. She got frustrated and left without me. I didn’t have to pray, read the quran, go to the mosque, or celebrate all the holidays. I felt like she was being unfair to me and unappreciative. I went to sleep early that night. The next day, I woke up feeling bad about letting my mom go to the mosque alone so I decided to apologize. But before I could do anything, I found myself in someone else's bed and it was way more stiff than mine. I got up and went to the bathroom to splash some water on my face to fully wake up. I looked in the mirror and saw that I had switched sides. I’m caucasian! I have straight long hair and my voice is different. What kind of voodoo magic is this? I rushed down the steps and found that my house is not my house. I entered...

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Student's Writings
October 25, 2024

"FAMILY…functional, dysfunctional, uniquely personal." - Don Riesett, Writing Mentor & Teacher Family to me may be different to other people. My family is full of murderers , drug addicts , and people who need to go to therapy. They don’t know how to express their emotions so most of the time problems go unsolved and they carry it with them. They don’t know how to talk to kids. I have witnessed, on several occasions, how my family’s words have negatively affected a child's life and view of themselves.  I got lucky with my mom because she actually treats me like a person. My aunt's kids hate her. They come to my mom for basically any problem they have. Although my aunt and mother share the same parents, they have completely different emotional responses. My aunt(who is the oldest) was raised by my grandmother. My grandmother is a writing within itself so I am not going to talk about her today. but let's just say she is an old ax. My mother, on the other hand, was raised by my grandfather. He was much more patient and empathetic. I believe this shaped my mother and my aunt  into the people they are today. It's just very ironic because my aunt is more successful than my mother. She knew she had to get away from my grandmother.  I plan on being the person to break the trauma curse in my family. When I make it big and have plenty of money, I want to put all of them in therapy...

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