When the bell rang to signal the end of the school day, the first thing Ava did, after stuffing a pile of textbooks into her locker, was race over to the vending machine located in the back of the cafeteria. She whistled as she walked, with a skip in her step, and a gleam in her eyes. This was the first Friday of her senior year. She told herself that things were off to a good start. When she reached the machine, she pushed the E7 button to receive her prize for making it through the week – a...

You can learn a lot about a person by looking at the stickers they have on the back of their laptop. I have two stickers for my university, one for a brand of outdoor gear, two that I bought in the Great Smoky Mountains on my senior trip at the end of high school, and one with the Bible verse 1 Corinthians 16:14. By examining these pieces of myself that I have chosen to display to the outside world, you can learn that I attend a certain university, that I enjoy hiking and have visited the...

Although there are several different ways a person can come to believe in Christianity, the way Denise Levertov found her faith was...