A loss of innocence is inevitable. It cannot be so that an individual may live without the purity of their soul being stained, for it is within human nature to be destructive. Although this[…]
Tag: freedom
This Loving
I love you. We’ve all heard these words before. We’ve said them before. We’ve given them out like they were candies wrapped in little blue boxes with silver strings, we’ve imagined them into our[…]
Protector – Tormentor
REMEMBER THE MOON SURVIVES by Barbara Kingsolver Remember the moon survives, draws herself out crescent-thin, a curved woman. Untouchable, she bends around the shadow that pushes himself against her, and she waits. Remember how[…]
Pride and Prejudice – Polished Critical
Discuss the significance of an individual’s attempt to live unconstrained by convention or circumstance. The Pursuit of Happiness When an individual tries to pursue their happiness, society’s convention and expectations represent as a[…]
A Society’s Conventions – Polished Critical
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 – Pride and Prejudice Society’s conventions act as the moral[…]
Painting By Night
What do these texts suggest about an individual’s capacity for self-sacrifice in the face of compelling circumstances? (Polished Personal) Creative Response to “Dancer” with connections based on the imagery of darkness and light to represent[…]
Porcelain Berry Vines
What do these texts suggest about an individual’s response to the constraints of convention or circumstance? (Polished Personal) Creative Response to Wilmer Mills’ poem “Diary of a Piano-Tuner’s Wife” with connections from the ideas of rebellion[…]
Flame and Frost
Ice is an unwavering anchor, a cool and handsome medium that can be sculpted to perfection. In ice, there is reason and purity, but there is also a sense of restriction and exile. While the[…]
History Obliterates
Marco Verch via Compfight I hear wailing in the streets and hear the hearts of millions that once beat, break into silence for just a moment. One moment… The moment. It’s the moment that decided[…]
When I Die
When I die – please do not confine my body in a coffin. I will recklessly rebel against restriction, and not rest until freed. Instead, transform my corpse into ashes. Ashes that will float along harmonious winds, fly carelessly amid evergreen[…]