Posted by Daniela Contreras Blogs, Eastlake News, Premier Saturday, August 18th, 2012
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I romanticize struggle; there, I said it.
Beneath every blessing, every privilege I enjoy and all the luck that has been on my side, I am unable to say I truly deserve it all. I blame the infallible feeling that tells me nothing is worth having without struggle. I live in a spacious Eastlake Greens home I know many would be glad to reside in. My parents provide me with more than I need (and deserve for that matter). And what do I have to show for it? Absolutely nothing.
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Posted by Daniela Contreras Blogs, Eastlake News, Premier Saturday, June 2nd, 2012
Helmets: it seems simple enough to grasp their skull protecting significance. I did not wear one, I refused to wear one. I spent an entire day riding a beach cruiser around Coronado, wearing nothing but short shorts and a coral- striped t-shirt while the wind carried all my cares away. My excuse (and that of millions) has been immortalized by rapper Drake’s lines: my excuse is that I’m young.
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Posted by Daniela Contreras Blogs, Eastlake News Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
By Daniela Contreras,
Eastlaketimes Staff Writer
What is it about this nation of ours, one that makes it a mission to instill in the minds of millions the “concrete” concepts of liberty and freedom across international lands and foreign seas that yields a vast amount of political indifference? Why is it that today’s youth (myself included) shamelessly finds a way to voluntarily turn its back on politics: the very institution that when is ignored, readily accepts a substantial amount of power to do, well, exactly what it wants to? Why are the citizens of the United States of America so relaxed when it comes to the actions of their government? I would bet anything that most people find it unnecessary to find any answers at all to these questions.
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