Most children are influenced by their hometown, aligning with the belief that a person is a product of their environment and molded by their surroundings. I, however, have been shaped by not only the culmination of my cultural experiences, but also the constant lack of stability from a nomadic childhood. From an early age, I developed an independence from finding comfort in stagnancy that has served me well throughout my academic and athletic careers. I have no issue with steadiness,...

The noble art of disagreement, the rhetoric that has both exalted and vilified the ideas of society, has grown despondent from its origins of Aristotelian debate. To be the tenth man of Israel, the devil’s advocate, the Helmuth von Moltke, and the one out of twelve to say innocent, exudes a quality that has too grown despondent of modern society- leadership. However, to generalize leadership in this prose as a proclamation of moral rectitude and human nature would sulk...