Warning – major spoilers ahead! Even worse – lots of plot retell! Also please collapse the ‘contents’ menu – those are just quotes. Memoirs of a Geisha is my biggest guilty pleasure. Despite the novel’s[…]
For A Reason – Night Personal Response
“We could bear nearly any pain or disappointment if we thought there was a reason behind it, a purpose, to it.” — Rabbi Harold Kushner, When Bad Things Happen to Good People. Many I[…]
Have courage – and persevere: A Rhetorical Essay
Rhetorical Analysis regarding the choices Albright makes to convey her message to the audience. Response to “LINK” and “page 10 and 11” Madeline Albright’s commencement speech to the Mount Holyoke College graduating class employs the usage of perspective[…]
Hide and Seek – Free Choice
“Each day the traders are kidnapping our people … This corruption and depravity are so widespread that our land is entirely depopulated.” “Twa Mwe, a Kwango chief. Indigenous leaders often faced the[…]
Free Choice for April – The Scientist and the Specimen
I only ever love in waves… Too much Then too little Too much Then too little You’re a saint to me, That is, Until you unveil your ugliness Until my patience wears thin and my[…]
A Choice – April Free Choice
So, the title does seem a little misleading but this is a murder mystery, or at least my attempt at a murder mystery short story based upon a six-word story from creative writing: A body,[…]
Nothing New – Free choice
I was drawing for an art assignment; the first one since the school closed. The purpose of the art piece was to draw how you were feeling (in lieu of the virus). I remember that[…]
Through the eyes of a Nightingale
Never again. My beautiful voice, no longer of beauty. Inaudible and unheard, suffocating and gasping for a breath of freedom Perhaps, if we all sung, not then will my song be quieted and disregarded. Perhaps,[…]
Love; a Requiem, Epistle, and Journey
Requiem The thin layers of will and faulty delusion, I make my way up higher and higher, never fulfilled; life was greed and greed was life. Oh, the exhilarating landscape I had been promised,[…]
sehnsucht
I chose my featured image because I believe it shows the beauty and happiness one that can be found from the smaller/simpler things in life, such as reading a book. Sehn·sucht Noun A German[…]