The last thing a seven year old girl should have to deal with, or even understand, is a family becoming empty. This usually is a result of divorce or significant opinions that don’t agree within the family members. However in my family, my brother made the decision to become a soldier in the United States Army. Being so young I don’t remember much besides the few flashbacks of the small images that caused my distress. A room that...

When I applied to the University of Colorado at Denver, I kept in mind...