The moment was fleeting, and I knew I had to soak it up. Quick, quick, before it's all over. I pulled my favorite red scarf tighter around my neck and tried to take in as much as I could of my surroundings. Grey clouds drifted in lazily and settled a few miles down the Seine, somewhere around the Louvre. Posh French women hurried past; a Vespa zoomed by, its driver's long hair flowing behind him; a couple strolled by hand...

Power is, in my opinion, a great example of the domino effect. A big topic in media is consistently about the corruption in our power (read the news and there is a good chance you will always find something about the government abusing it), but I have found that I think a good deal of that comes from being powerless. I think power and powerlessness stem from each other, and corruption pervades both. Think back to all of the movies...

Je suis: the most common French translation simply meaning "I am", and a simple title that says a lot. On the surface, I am a girl, a daughter, a friend, a lover of food, a writer, a dreamer, a storyteller. But I don't necessarily think that one word can define a person; I think it's the intricacies that make up who you are. Everything in your life is essentially a story of what you do and who it makes you....

Although I don't come from any sort of film or show biz family, film is something that caught my eye from an early age. I've always been a movie person; my ardent love for film probably officially began around the time I became obsessed with the movie "Spirit" at age five and really peaked when I found a select number of films that just had a special affect on me as I entered adolescence. "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", ...

I've always had a love for writing (in fact, for a long time I wanted to major in English and become an author) so I fortunately didn't feel as if the personal statements and supplemental essays required by all the schools I applied to was very harrowing. In helping my friends, who were going through the same process as I was, the best advice I could give them was just to not rush into writing your essays; instead, reflect on...