Melissa's Page

Relationship Status:

Single

About Me:

I just graduated from Brenau in May with a Bacholer's degree in History and Political Science.

I love politics and reading about the different women who have impacted America and the World!

Brenau Status:

Alum, Supporter

Your Campus:

Gainesville

Your Living Hero(s)

Angela Merkel, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Nelson Mandela, Gloria Steinem

Favorite Movie(s)

The Notebook, Cold Mountain, Star Wars, Radio, Remember the Titans, Father of the Bride Part 2, Hotel Rwanda

Your Favorite Star Wars Episode

III

Favorite Back to The Future

I

Favorite Patick Swayze Movie

Dirt Dancing

Your Favorite Read(s)

A Thousand Splendid Suns, Tuesdays with Morrie, Traveling Light, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Secret Life of Bees, Purple Hibiscus, Feminism is for Everybody

Favorite Band/Musician

The Fray, One Republic, Switchfoot, Maroon 5, Dido, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Gavin Degraw, Jack Johnson, John Mayer, Justin Timberlake, Lifehouse, Matt Kearney

Favorite TV Show(s)

Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice and Brothers and Sisters

Favorite Quote(s)

"Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves."
-Wuthering Heights

-"Once someone is in your heart they are never truly gone."- Mitch Albom's For One More Day

"I cannot change yesterday. I can only make the most of today and look with hope toward tomorrow".
-Unknown Author

" I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing".
-John 15:5

" The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning".
-Morrie Schwartz, from Tuesdays with Morrie

"Within ourselves there is a deep place at whose edge we may sit and dream."
-Lehrman

"Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure. Where your treasure is, there is your heart. Where your heart is , there is your happiness. "- Saint Augustine

- "He just riding around in THE POPE MOBILE!"
-Discussion on the Pope in my Latin American class

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
-THE FRAY "How to Save a LIFE"

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
-Mahatma Gandhi

"Feminism has taught me to honor the fullness of my womanhood and the solidness of my body that hosts my life."-Abra Fortune Chernik "The Body Politic"

"Ignorance is a sickness which we all are suffering from."
-Dr. Ouattra

What Do You Want to do When You Grow Up?

Work for a NGO and travel all over the world helping women

Favorite Website

http://www.savedarfur.org