Age: Under 18

Essays written by people Under 18 years old.

February 18, 2016

Independence

Life is not a game, neither a fairytale. It is for real. For instance, getting dumped into a trashcan freshman year or your "friends" telling you how you need to calm down and stop being you. To stop being embarrassing....
February 18, 2016

I Believe in Life

I believe in life. I hear it all the time "Live every moment to the fullest." This quote can mean many different meanings depending on how you interpret it. My interpretation is don't take things for granted. I do it...
January 25, 2016

Learn to Have a Voice

I believe that having a voice in something that you invest in, whether it involves time or money, will build you into a stronger person. All my life, I have grown as the one to be taken advantage of, only...
November 16, 2015

Change Is Good

I believe change is good. Many people think that change is something to fear and avoid. Even at my young age I can see this is pointless. Unlike death and taxes (which adults love to point to as the only...
October 27, 2015

Respect

As a young boy, I experienced my parents arguing with one another. In fact, I even experienced the view of my father being kicked out of his own home by my mother, yet my father seemed to have no problem...
October 27, 2015

Art

This thing I believe in, it is everywhere, and it can be simple or magnificent. This thing is a part of my soul; it keeps me going in certain aspects. It is beautiful if you have the right eye. This...
October 27, 2015

Failure

In order to succeed you have to fail. I’ve failed many times before and I wanted to give up. I’m almost certain that all people who’ve made something of themselves failed multiple times. In this essay I want to explain...
October 14, 2015

Respect

As a young boy, I experienced my parents arguing with one another. In fact, I even experienced the view of my father being kicked out of his own home by my mother, yet my father seemed to have no problem...
September 8, 2015

We’re All Different in Our Own Ways

By all outward appearances, Joshua Yuchasz is a regular teenager. But his classmates still tease him about the thing that makes him different. Yuchasz believes it’s our differences that deserve respect.