Surely. Surely – this was the night that I was going to die. For an instant, in that narrow cut of light, I saw a face that seemed to have been transported directly from the[…]
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Filtered Mirrors – Polished Personal Response
Prompt: What do these texts suggest about the ways in which individuals respond to the conflict between illusion and reality? (June 2014) I would like to believe that I am tough. That I can[…]
Unwavering – Personal Response to Pride and Prejudice
The concept of marriage – although it is important to the plot of Pride and Prejudice – holds an even deeper meaning for insight into Elizabeth Bennett’s character. Through the first proposal from Mr. Collins,[…]
Robert Frost – AP Poetry Analysis
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his[…]
To Prove a Villain
“The villains were always ugly in books and movies. Necessarily so, it seemed. Because if they were attractive—if their looks matched their charm and their cunning—they wouldn’t only be dangerous. They would be irresistible.”― Nenia Campbell[…]
Dear Grandma
Dear Grandma, I think I loved you. You were not, in fact, my grandmother. But rather you were someone who took the place of one I never had, and for that I am eternally grateful,[…]
Butterflies – Response to the Story of an Hour
“She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long.” –Kate Chopin I live, but I cannot fly. I[…]
Polished Critical Essay – SCND
Hamartia …the role self-perception plays when individuals seek to reconcile the conflict between illusion and reality. How one perceives themselves is often their downfall—for nothing tears a person apart more than their aspirations to become[…]
A Letter to War ~ Free Choice
Dear War: I saw you in the news today. You looked the same as you always did. You were wearing a scarf woven out of the threads cast by fear and hatred; power and insanity.[…]
Polished Personal ~ Colour in a Grey World
I stood there—watching her spin around and around; soaring high above my head, laughter spewing out of her rosy lips and her golden mane being carried by the autumn wind. Her innocent face—so much like[…]