Author Archives: abbiekauck

Salvaging the Coral Reefs  Where do you see yourself in 20 years? Maybe at the peak of your career, or maybe starting a family, unfortunately, if carbon emissions don’t decrease it’s likely you’ll find yourself at the start of a climate catastrophe. Climate change is caused dominantly by human influences in an attempt to obtainContinue reading “Persuasive Paper”

Women and Gender Roles in the Middle East Women all across the globe have unfortunately faced times of extreme oppression, including the United States. Consequently, women in the Middle East are still subjected to this treatment and lack rights that many women in the world do have in this day and age. Although the UnitedContinue reading “Informative/expository Draft”

Everything Happens for a reason I remember the day like it was yesterday, I came home from school on a hot, sunny, September afternoon. It was the Wednesday of September 27th.  I was in the 7th grade. I came home to find my Mom sick in her bed. She was laying there, helpless, and IContinue reading “Narrative Draft”

I’m afraid to express my feelings I don’t want to seem a certain way I don’t want to be high maintenance When it comes out, I explode Can’t you just read my mind so I don’t have to tell you? Bottle it up, until it’s full It all comes out at once I want oneContinue reading “Can’t you just read my mind? Poem”

A day that you’ve dreaded for a year and a half It’s time to go, and start the next chapter in your life Leave behind you family and friends “It’s the best time of your life!” They say I don’t want a fresh start I don’t want to leave I don’t want to be forgottenContinue reading ““See you later” Poem”

I am from the United States of America I am from Elmhurst, IL I am from a family of Redbirds I am from three siblings I am from a two-parent household I am from a large extended family I am from a town that expects too much I am from parents that hold high expectationsContinue reading “Where I’m From Poem”

The best is yet to come. There’s always a rhyme or a reason.

Dear incoming freshman in college, I know, you’re terrified. I was too. Scared to leave home, my family, my boyfriend of three years. I know, you probably cry everyday like I did, and everything you do seems like it will be the last time, it’s not. Everything will always be waiting back at home forContinue reading “Love Letter Project”