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Reebok

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Reebok what are you doing? I understand that you are trying to push new technologies but this, This is horrific. I don’t even know what to say.

They look like a running shoe had a horrible disfigured child with the Nebuchadnezzar.

This model is called the ATV 19+, a shoe for UFC star Rampage Jackson. This sneaker is meant to be an all terrain trainer, but it looks like you could roll an ankle with the slightest movement.

This is the simply the worst sneaker I have ever seen. You have creator some of the most classic sneakers of the past 20 years and yet this is the best you could come up with?

Reebok you should be ashamed.

A collection of Haikus

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Thoughts lie on smooth stones
Water rushing across them
They erode in time

The head of a pin
covered in dark graphite
a mouse’s pencil

a light far away
slightly to far to reach
a path of lost dreams

Man of Fury

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I am a man of fire and fury

I leave a wake of destruction and fire in my path

As I cross oceans they become steam.

Deserts become mountain ranges of glass in my wake.

I walk through cities and around me civilization Is gone.

The shapes of words

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Lets start with a letter.

A letter would be the theoretical point of the word world

points can be arranged in many ways, as can letters.

letters form words as points connect to form lines.

Lines are manipulated to become shapes and curves.

Words are manipulated to become sentences.

Lots of sentences create paragraphs, essays, books, and meaning bursts from the pages.

Lines form into shapes and shading, they form the paintings and images.

meaning is formed from the seemingly insignificant parts of our universe.

Finals and the pressure that comes with them

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Right now I am taking a break from analyzing my interview notes and filling the gaps in my history knowledge to speak about finals.

This is the first time I have felt really concerned about every. single. one. of my finals. I am on the border of A/B in all of my classes and these finals could mean the difference between going to the college I have had my eyes on, Northeastern, and losing this option forever.

This is a huge pressure on me and I am concerned with what the results might be.

History is one of my strong points and I have been studying, but there are definite gaps in my knowledge.

Journalism has been kicking my butt all year. We have one last article to write before the end of the year and the final grades. This has me very stressed about my grade.

English is something that I am not very nervous about due to my knowledge of the material being tested.

Calculus. Oh god. Calculus is going to be a nightmare. I am going to have to ace this final to oblivion to even consider an A. I have been studying a lot and am planning on going to the 2 and a half hour study session for extra review.

Physics is one of my stronger points and I am actually excited to take the final and I am prepared for it.

Finals should be… Interesting.

Now back to Writing the Journalism final that I have been dreading.

Moments

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The moments that stay with us are often peculiar

They are difficult to explain

It may be the first time we talk to a friend

Or the last

As I have grown older memories have grown fuzzier

while others keep their clarity

What decides the memory hierarchy?

Are these the moments that define us?

When we are at our greatest

or worst.

We struggle to find meaning in the moments we remember

And even if we find what we are looking for, why ruin the simplicity of the memory.

Ronnie Fieg

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The big news in the sneaker community is often dominated by Nike, Jordan, and Adidas. Occasionally, an Asics, New balance, and recently Puma sneaker appears to become a phenomenon. These are often attributed to small sneaker boutiques and collaborations. The story of the owner of both Kith boutiques, one in Manhattan and one in Brooklyn, is a classic rising from nothing to the top of their field.

Ronnie Fieg has created some of my favorite designs of any sneaker. He has collaborated on countless gel lyte III’s including popular models such as the “Salmon Toe”, “leather back” and the upcoming “selvage denim”
The Famous Salmon Toe

Leather Back

The upcoming Selvage Denim Asics Gel Lyte 3

He started at David Z, a popular shoe and boot store in New York. Here he moved up in the ranks from stock boy all the way up to buyer for the store. It was here that he was able to realize his passion for sneakers. Working at a place like David Z or Kith is a dream of mine, but I am stuck at a boarding school during the school year. He moved on to start Kith, his own sneaker boutique in New York city which has been massively successful and has started his own clothing brand by the same name.

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cell

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Faced with insurmountable odds life succeeds.

This may be my favorite trait of life.

The resilience and adaptation to our environment has literally made us who we are today.

When I lose myself to the stresses of every day life I think of the odds that I would succeed to this point.

I am an insignificant group of cells in the overall scheme of things

yet the success of my genetic material has been traced back to the first genetic organism.

I share a piece of genetic material and family with every single living organism on the planet.

Although this pertains to every human on the planet not just me.

The whole of life can be looked at as various mutations and blind luck.

I am happy because that means there is always room for opportunity when all seems lost.

An Idea

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An idea is hard to silence.

It builds in one’s mind

Slowly at first

Gaining traction

It begins to take up the real estate of the mind

Shrinking other ideas

But an idea cannot disappear

It is always there

Waiting for its moment

Always living.

Just a simple Idea

People Around Us

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We look to the people around us as a support group

Improvised experts in our life

A group of people that know us the best

Like a herd of elephants crossing Africa

We keep these people close as we make journeys

These people are told everything

And are sometimes told nothing

The people around us should be more than friends

They should become Family