Presentation Link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yYYV9rVTuFGtrYx6YOMZ2Plt-6KmzOzObwp0bxweOrs/edit#slide=id.p Prompt: Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the conflict between pursuing a personal desire and choosing to conform. Below is my Cold(ish) response to the[…]
Category: Hijab
Chasing Green Lights and American Dreams
An Apology: I’m so sorry this is like, two weeks late. I blame the school system (cough cough CHEMISTRY cough cough EXAMS), my lack of time management (I really did try; I had a resolution[…]
Renewal- Polished Personal
Prompt: The ways in which individuals deal with the prospect of an uncertain future. Text: “The Road Past Altamont” & “My Father’s Plot to Get Home” & “Habitar La Oscuridad” General Thesis: When individuals[…]
To Break the Chains of Convention: Ophelia’s Story
Prompt: Discuss the ideas developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the ways in which individuals struggle to restore honour and certainty to their lives. To lead a life as a[…]
She is Ophelia (By Kelley & Hijab)
INTRODUCTION (Kelley): Ophelia. She is a young noblewoman of Denmark, the daughter of Polonius, sister of Laertes, and potential wife of Prince Hamlet. She is a pawn, a traitor, a breeder of sinners, a woman[…]
A Sea of Fragments
When I look into the mirror, I cannot help but do so with a tense kind of anticipation. My nerves gush forth in waves of intense trepidation, a salt water sea filling my lungs[…]
The Heavens, The Earth and The Boy In Between
Experience is simultaneously the builder and the breaker of an individual’s soul; it tints the lens with which we view our pasts, and cautions us on the tools we use to construct our futures. Our[…]
Growing Up in Neverland
Ever since I was little, I wanted so desperately to fly. I wanted to press my palm into the fabric of the sky, paint the earth with the colours of the sunrise. Flight occupied[…]