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Work: Privilege or Punishment?

“For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger Most of us were forced to sweep the floor or do the dishes when we did something bad in the eyes of our parents. […]

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Too Many Voices

“There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.” -1 Corinthians 14:10 My most recent piece consisted of a possible reason for the decline in religious worship in America. This reason was the absence of firm truth and doctrine within some churches. Today, my […]

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Religion in America

“Religion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.” -Christopher […]

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Leave Nothing but Footprints

“Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. All things share the same breath – the beast, the tree, the man… the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports. Take only memories, leave nothing but […]

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Give Back. Give Hope.

Tonight my family and I had a nice dinner at Chili’s in Lenwood, California.There were cops, in uniform, running around the restaurant serving food, filling drinks, and bussing tables. The reason why Barstow Police Department decided to help out tonight was to help raise donations for the St. Jude Children’s Hospital. The envelope shown above […]

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College Football: Week One

Football fans were in Heaven yesterday as the 2015-2016 college football season began. Saturday revealed some Heisman hopefuls, some possible busts, and couple of teams looking to prove the critics wrong. Josh Rosen, the Quarterback for UCLA, did not fail to impress throwing for 351 yards and 3 touchdowns. Many sports analysts even compared Rosen’s […]

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Being Proactive

“In fact, our most difficult experiences become the crucibles that forge our character and develop the internal powers, the freedom to handle difficult circumstances in the future and to inspire others to do so as well.” -Stephen R. Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is a well respected book. Although being published over […]

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Introduction

Hello everyone, I am Andrew Espinoza, although most refer to me as ‘Drew’, and I am very excited to begin my first blog. I am an athlete, a junior in high school, and love spending time with friends and family. I love to play football, which I am currently playing right now, and basketball. I […]

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