![Life in Reverse](https://blogs.uakron.edu/firstyearvoices/wp-content/uploads/sites/862/2012/12/cave2.jpg?w=470&h=140&crop=1)
by Ashley Cosher “‘Wir werden Amerika,’ we are going to America, is the only thing I remember from the conversation with my parents. I was…
![The Salesman](https://blogs.uakron.edu/firstyearvoices/wp-content/uploads/sites/862/2012/12/grand-canyon1.jpg?w=470&h=140&crop=1)
by Noor Hindi The store was alive. The city was dead. Anorexic wallets, water shortages, lack of food; this was only the beginning. But his…
![A Monster](https://blogs.uakron.edu/firstyearvoices/wp-content/uploads/sites/862/2012/12/hot-spring-1.jpg?w=470&h=140&crop=1)
by C.L. A handsome young man stands before me in a dimly lit kitchen. Tall, now strikingly slender with a tamed afro of curly blond hair…
![Actions Speak Louder: The Spoken Word](https://blogs.uakron.edu/firstyearvoices/wp-content/uploads/sites/862/2012/12/flowers-meadows_w725_h544.jpg?w=470&h=140&crop=1)
by Hannah Stewart Introduction What does the word “slam” mean to you? Perhaps you see someone getting thrown against a wall, or a plate clattering…
![V-J Day in Times Square](https://blogs.uakron.edu/firstyearvoices/wp-content/uploads/sites/862/2012/12/forest-meadow_w725_h544.jpg?w=470&h=140&crop=1)
by Sarah Urbank Imagine city streets crowded with people cheering, dancing, and embracing. Music fills the air as streamers made from rags and toilet paper…