Michael Gryboski:  

Life Principle of Acceleration in my life (part 1) From what I can tell, since 2003, the first full year that I made myself read at least one chapter of Holy Scripture every day, my endeavors to spread my beliefs to the world has gradually produced increased blessing. AD 2003 The transition begins from sheltered literary efforts to public success. As this year began I had some mostly fiction works written or typed at home. Near the end of the year, as the first semester of 11th Grade was drawing near to an end, I had to do a Heckling Speech for Speech 1. My thesis was “Christianity is a Positive Influence on Government”. It was a total success, as I stayed on topic when speaking, effectively answered all challenges (including four from the teacher), and received an A+ on the assignment. AD 2004 April 21st, AD 2004 was when I would next increase my public activism. This time it was outside of the classroom and literally outside of the TC Williams High School building. This date was the Day of Silence, which was a nationally performed pro-gay event. In response to this activism, I performed what I called the Benevolent Counteraction. That day I passed out 100 copies of a fact sheet I wrote up contrasting the Civil Rights Movement and the Gay Rights Movement. Another victory, as only a few copies were discarded and I ended up printing more upon request. In the fiction department, I took Creative Writing and got consistent A’s. My work finally got to have an audience and got mostly positive feedback. AD 2005 To help bolster my waning AP Government grade for the 3rd Quarter I wrote up an essay called “Hagiophobia”, a critical analysis of the moral values issue of the now defeated 2004 Kerry-Edwards Campaign. The work saved my grade for that quarter. April of this year brought another Day of Silence, but it also brought another Benevolent Counteraction. This one was not as successful as the first one, but it still involved large scale outreach. The big victory, though, was Praesidium, which occurred on June 7th, AD 2005. Praesidium was an AP Government project on public policy theme being the insertion of material in the academic curriculum critical of the General Theory of Evolution as well as alternative theories. I received a long applause and a B+ for my efforts. As though this public outreach during my senior year and specifically this calendar year 2005 was not enough to note, I finally got published. As I went to George Mason University, I go...Expand for more