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Written by Jason Gray, a 10th grader at Hueneme High School.
Leadership doesn’t have a single meaning. Throughout my experiences with leadership, I’ve found it to be a very complex word. Sometimes you can lead others through talking, sometimes through examples, or sometimes just by believing in them. The one thing that I see all too often though, is confusing leadership with power.
Dictating oth...
Written by Lucy, a Ventura County junior in high school.
Hatred drives Hatred.
Love drives Love.
When a tiger attacks,
The victim strikes
And a fight begins
And never ends
Until one ends.
The Hatred.
Hatred.
Because Hatred
Makes Hatred
When you are broken
Do you smile at the breaker?
No.
You crush the breaker
Til the breaker crushes you more.
So quench the urge to fight...
The following poem was written by our weekly writing group, The Green Walls Writer’s Project, in Zoom in 2020. Each person wrote a sentence about achieving their goals and then we put them all together to form a powerful poem.
You encourage me to want to do my best daily
Because it’s not about me,
It’s about what I did that was greater than me.
Scalpel in my hand to save others,
That’s ama...
Written by Ava Li, a BRITE youth spokesperson.
L is for listening.
A good leader doesn’t just drone on and on about their ideas and their ideas only.
They don’t just open their mouth, but they open their ears.
E is for enlightening.
A good leader enlightens their crowd.
Their message is heartfelt and powerful, inspiring people to take action and do what’s right.
A is for articulate.
How ...
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