I just want to take this moment to sincerely apologize for my lack of preparation for the first presentation of our AP year. I know some of you don’t know me very well, and I[…]
Tag: Happiness
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“But it is not an easy happiness. It is not a happiness without a cost.” A Thousand Splendid Suns (page 380) Khaled Hosseini SAY This quotation is found towards the end of A Thousand Splendid[…]
Ted Talk: Heir to a Garden Heart
part 1: (child) When I was a child, my favorite flowers were tulipa tardas, these tiny pale yellow star-shaped blossoms. In the spring, they are the first to bloom and the first to die,[…]
The American Nightmare
Note: I’d like to preface the essay just to show some gratitude for Megan, Siddharth, and Claire for teaching us and for inspiring much of what I have written about in the essay.On the Friday before[…]
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[…]
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[…]
The Ways Individuals Pursue or Compromise Their Happiness- Polished Critical
Discuss the ways in which individuals pursue or compromise their happiness I decided to write a compare and contrast essay, comparing and contrasting Catherine Earnshaw and her daughter Cathy Linton. I focused on how individuals[…]
a breaking of convention to obtain happiness – polished critical
Discuss the significance of an individual’s attempt to live unconstrained by convention or circumstance.
Liberating the Soul
This is my Poetry Seminar Response and what I think about the poem. Invictus is a hopeful poem, a poem that when you think you have reached the end of the road, teaches you to[…]
The Wonders Of A Diary
Below is my polished personal response to Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise.” A lot of it is very personal and actually originates from my actual diary entries from 5th grade, and it represents a major[…]