Stories by The kNOw (Page 4)
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It Sucks To Be Excluded
By The kNOw Youth Media, Various Authors
April 22, 2010
"I often tried to fit in but something told me that was wrong. I wasn't being myself and I believed I was different for a purpose. I no longer cared about what others thought of me because I am free to be who I really am knowing that other people like me for me..." >>More
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As My Hair Turns Gray, I Move Back Home
By Donny Lumpkins, YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia
April 8, 2010
"Now, a year after moving back home, now that I’m finding the gray hair, I feel older, a little more bitter. Less Peter Pan and more Hook. I’m without excitement, like a candle burned, melted and stuck to a counter. Home should be where your heart is, but I made my own home and I lost it. I feel like my home doesn’t exist anymore..." >>More
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Singled Out At School: What It Feels Like To Be Kicked Off Campus
By Patrice Word
April 1, 2010
"I walk to school like any other day, but I know the back gate will be closed so I head for the front. Looking through the gate I see one of my friends. I call her on my cell phone. We laugh and watch each other from a distance and make plans to meet in the front. Then we hang up. A minute later, my friend calls me back saying the Vice Principal just got on his walkie-talkie and told the Campus Assistant in the front not to let a girl with a school book in, and she is on the phone. I don’t believe it. I laugh it off and hang up with her again..." >>More
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Celebrating The Women In Our Lives, In Honor Of Women's History Month
By The kNOw Youth Media, Various Authors
March 18, 2010
"My mom gave birth to and raised eleven children. She is an awesome person, always giving and kind. No one else makes my life as great as she does. She can’t really speak or understand English but she knows that education is the key to a successful future. She literally does everything for all of my siblings and me..." >>More
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If An Earthquake Hit Tomorrow...
By The kNOw Youth Media, Various Authors
March 10, 2010
As communities in Haiti and Chile recover from the damage of recent quakes, The kNOw writers share how family and loved ones become a priority in the wake of natural disasters. >>More
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Safe Zone Report: When Parents Argue
By The kNOw Youth Media
March 9, 2010
At an emotional Safe Zone forum last week, youth participants confessed their deepest fears on the topic of parents and guardians who argue and fight too much, connecting how this stress created by the adults in the household often lead young people to make bad decisions. One youth explained how she has often had to use herself as a shield so that her mother would not physically hurt her father, while another youth explained (after the forum) that whenever his parents fought, he would leave the house to abuse drugs... >>More
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“Students United Will Never Be Divided”
By Dasen Thao
March 5, 2010
"I am a freshman at California State University, Fresno. On March 4, 2010, I joined hundreds of other people in a march to advocate for better higher education and stop the budget cuts in our state. None of my friends went, but still, I went with the crowd and I got on the bus that took us to the march location. Immediately, I was asked to help make signs..." >>More
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Participating In The Census Is Like Voting For Yourself
By Jean Melesaine, Silicon Valley De-Bug
February 25, 2010
"I remember when the Census form came to my house 10 years ago. I was 14. My mother and father, both immigrants from Samoa and living in our low-income American neighborhood, were focused more on shopping for bottled water, flashlights and survival kits. The Y2K scare was more popular in my house than any survey could ever be. That is what the Census was to them: just another survey to be thrown out..." >>More
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Success After Gangs
By Rebecca Plevin, Vida En El Valle
February 16, 2010
"As he sits in a conference room at the Fresno County Economic Opportunities Commission's Local Conservation Corps office, dressed in his green uniform and an orange work vest, López struggles to talk about his dream college degree or career..." >>More
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I Dis/Agree That Fresno Is The Drunkest City: Youth Views On A New Social Label
By The kNOw Youth Media, Various Authors
February 9, 2010
A health magazine recently identified Fresno as the drunkest city in the United States, based on death rates from alcoholic liver disease, alcohol-related car accidents, binge-drinking in the past month, DUI arrests, and DUI penalties. Youth from The kNOw had a mixed-bag opinion about whether this new label was right or wrong. >>More
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Divorce, Stepdads, And Arguments: The Truth About My Family
By The kNOw Youth Media, Various Authors
February 3, 2010
"One of the struggles I have with my family is that my mom keeps running back to my stepdad and my mom’s side of the family doesn’t like him. I don’t blame them. He used to mistreat me. I say “used to” because he got busted for drugs. When he got out of jail, he went to a halfway house and was calling and going over to my mom’s house..." >>More
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The Silly Things I Do When No One Is Watching
By The kNOw Youth Media, Various Authors
January 22, 2010
"When I think no one is looking, I make faces that I think will be attractive to a guy. I remember one time, when I was walking by this office, and I guess one of the windows happened to be a two-way mirror, I stopped to make the face I wanted this boy at school to see. Then suddenly..." >>More
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Homes Built For Large Families Collapsed In Haitian Quake
By Adolphe Saint-Louis, New America Media
January 19, 2010
"But when the earthquake came, we lost everything. So did all the people in my neighborhood. The floors of the houses fell, one on top of the other. By now, everyone around the world has seen the pictures, but you cannot imagine what it looks like until you see it with your own eyes..." >>More
The Road To College: The Stress Of Following Your Dreams
By Emmi Grooney, YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia
January 5, 2010
"I’m currently a senior in high school, and by the end of January I'm supposed to be all done with all my college applications. At the moment I've finished all my Cal State University applications to San Jose, Hayward, San Diego and Sacramento. After learning about the 30 percent fee increase for the University of California system, it reestablished that I don't really want to go to a UC school..." >>More
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My Wish For 2010
By The kNOw Youth Media, Various Authors
December 31, 2009
"My goals for 2010 are to gain all my mom’s trust that I lost from her. I want to get my work permit and driving permit. I want to see my nieces and nephew again. I want to work hard this year in school so that I can graduate early. Most of all, I want my family back together like how it was before this year started..." >>More
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Facebook: Making The Past No Longer A Thing Of The PastBy Shamako Noble, Silicon Valley De-Bug
December 15, 2009
"It used to be the case that when you would graduate (or drop out) of high school or college, you would leave a job or some staple of your life or a city and when you did, you left behind all of things that came with that experience. That might have been your friends or your family, that might have the activities and groups that you loved, or it might have been the past that you were very intentionally trying to leave behind..." >>More
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The House Party Where 12 People Got Shot
By The kNOw Youth Media, Various Authors
December 3, 2009
When two young men started shooting during a late-night Fresno house party on Saturday, November 28, 2009 oveinr rival tagging crew disputes, twelve people became wounded. In an article by The Fresno Bee, Police Chief Jerry Dyer noted this has been "the most wounded in a single shooting incident in Fresno in recent memory." Here, youth from The kNOw express their concerns about the incident, and the need for more positive things for teens to do. >>More
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Thoughts On Thanksgiving
By The kNOw Youth Media, Various Authors
November 25, 2009
"Thanksgiving for me has changed significantly over the years. When I was a child, from what I can remember, it was just the four of us: my mom, dad, brother and me. We never had anyone over, it was only us..." >>More
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Who Asked Us? Youth Voices On Class Size
By New America Media, Commentary, Various Authors
November 23, 2009
"In my early years of schooling, I don’t think I ever remember feeling crowded in class, except in second grade. It felt like our classroom was very full. Not only that, but during the year, we switched from one teacher to another teacher. The classroom was always loud..." >>More
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When To Say "No"
By "MM"
November 19, 2009
"My weakness is giving in to people. Since I was little I always gave into people and never said “no,” “I don’t want to,” or “naw, I’m kew." For instance, if my older sister asked me for money I would just give it to her without question, even though I knew I needed that money..." >>More
