You may write me down in history but today is not the day. I am all around you, if only you’d look around. One might call me Mother Nature or perhaps the Great Mother, I[…]
Month: January 2017
Reading Ladder: August 29 – Jan 21
In no specific order: Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 – 159 pages Frankenstein by Mary Shelley – 280 pages Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad- 188 pages Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe – 148 pages[…]
Home.
Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. This class has been my home since my very first day three years ago.[…]
Where There’s A Wall – Joy Kogawa
Where there’s a wall by Joy Kogawa is a piece that contains several layers of meaning. But according to Joy Kogawa’s past of adversity against the Canadian government and her experience in Japanese Interment camps,[…]
Poetry Seminar Personal: Black X
TERE is a bondage worse, far worse, to bear Than his who breathes, by roof, and floor, and wall, Pent in, a Tyrant’s solitary Thrall: ‘Tis his who walks about in the open air, One[…]
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[…]
Signing Off.
“It was sunsets that taught me that beauty sometimes only lasts for a couple of moments, and it was sunrises that showed me that all it takes is patience to experience it all over again.”[…]
Personal Response to Remember the Moon Survives
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 you[…]
Free Choice Blog – To my AP class
Dear AP class of 2016-2017, I cannot believe that another semester has come and gone, time has certainly gone by so quickly to the point where I felt like I was just starting class yesterday.[…]
Idealism in the Face of Corruption – Polished Critical
Idealism often blinds individuals from the truths of society, thus leaving them vulnerable to the sharp realities that they may face when they encounter the judgments of their surroundings. When one’s sense of self is[…]