Morgiekun writes about being a vegetarian.

Author's Note: I know that some of the words used in this article are very large and hard to understand, and I'm sorry if you have a hard time reading them. Just try to understand them to the best of your abilities. Thanks!

Why I Became A Vegetarian

I haven't been a vegetarian for very long. Just a few days, actually. It was during the Superbowl, and my dad brought out this huge rack of ribs. And that's when it hit me. Something actually died for this.

Of course I'd known that something had died for it before, but it didn't seem that bad. But when I saw that rack of ribs, eating meat just seemed, so, well . . . wrong.

So I did my research, and I actually found out that there are many types of vegetarians.

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Kindell ponders the meaning of wealth.

Author's Note: This was and English assignment. We had to write about an abstract word. My angle was making the reader redefine their meaning of the word "Wealth".

Over history there have been many great leaps achieved by mankind. The impossible was made possible. But at what cost was greatness attained? There were many grand empires won by creating a path of destruction and decimation. Was our moral code compromised on the journey to wealth? We have overlooked the wealth that we already have in the search for monetary wealth. We create two spectrums of wealth when we pillage and plunder the land for all its gold and silver, eventually losing all of the wealth in love and friendship that we already had. This creates a divide between those who have money and those who do not.

The Native Americans of South America had a profusion of monetary wealth and they didn't even realize what they had. To them, wealth was their relationship with their gods. They lived completely fulfilled lives without realizing that they had a colossal amount of material wealth. Imagine the fear that the Native Americans felt when these strange people entered their land and started searching through their villages for something that they never valued.

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