In high school, I had a friend who refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance, and it was one of the more scandalous events to strike my small-town Louisiana high school.
I’d been saying it every morning...
Comprised heavily of the millenial generation, U.S. college students enjoy one of the greatest freedoms one can have access to: education. These students have an opportunity many outside of this country...
Do you like being stranded? Being severely limited in terms of job opportunities? Being a second-rate citizen?
Then I have the perfect thing for you — not having a vehicle!
You can save your time...
Everybody has an accent, even if they don’t realize it. We all talk differently, and no two people sound exactly the same.
But do we deserve to be made fun of for our accents?
That’s...
I remember being held home from school by illness as a child. Even if what I had wasn’t particularly contagious, my parents still felt it prudent to isolate me until whatever was ailing me passed....
Growing up, we shape our views with the information our families, our friends, the people around us and the shows we watch provide.
With hundreds of channels and almost unlimited access to the Internet,...
When I put in my two weeks’ notice at my table-waiting job two weeks ago, it was with at least one eye on fall break. I was lucky -- not only in that I got someone to cover my shift on what should...
I didn’t apply to work at Highland Coffees last February because I needed a new job, and I didn’t do it because I needed more money. What I desperatley needed was a change in my lifestyle.
Before...
When I started my college career, I had no clue what I wanted to do with my future. I took parents and family members’ advice and majored in accounting.
Throughout three semesters, I grew as an individual...
I spend about 23 hours a week watching shows and developing feelings for characters and situations that aren’t real.
Except for the occasional “Keeping up with the Kardashians” episode...
Louisiana still has more self-identifying Republicans than the national average, according to a new Gallup poll released yesterday — no surprise there. But the other findings from the survey could...
No one likes going to court, whether it’s for the mundane speeding ticket that you totally didn’t deserve or the stuff of nightmares for your bank account — lawsuits.
While some litigation...
