Skin is the first true "layer" that we see of a person. Knowing that, we all desire to have smooth acne free skin. Many people know that avoiding the sun will fight off the inevitable wrinkles, sun spots and years of aging just a little bit longer. But our diets play a huge role not only in our body shapes but for our skin as well. The saying, "you are what you eat" rings true.
My scariest ghost story moment was in fifth grade. A few girls and I had recently heard about the “Bloody Mary” game. Upon hearing of it three other girls and I decided that we were brave enough to try it in the school bathroom.
With Halloween approaching, ghost stories will be told and continually repeated in the cavities of our minds. These stories have a strange way of worming into our thoughts.
Bean sprouts, carrots, tomatoes and squash. who would’ve thought these plants would have made a difference?
The Real Food Challenge chapter (RFC) at the University of California, Irvine thinks so. Whether or not the food we eat is real — meaning that it was actually grown in soil and not chemically enhanced — affects society.
UC Irvine is a well-known Asian-dominated community, the ethnicity making up 50 percent of the school’s overall undergraduate student population. While there are numerous other cultures and ethnic groups on campus, many are not represented as fully as that of the Asian community. Other races and ethnicities individually make up less than 22 percent of UCI’s undergraduate population.
I’ve always known that kids are smarter than they seem. From my experience with kids — whether it was taking care of my family members’ babies, watching friends’ siblings grow up, or tutoring children at my job — it was always easy to see that they had some hidden knowledge about the world.
Steve Jobs, the former co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc. and Pixar Animation Studios, is considered one of the most successful individuals of his lifetime. Born from an unwed graduate student, put up for adoption and a dropout of Reed College after just one semester, Jobs at 21 — the age he had co-founded Apple — had no idea that he would someday lead one of the most flourishing companies in the world.
