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Night Terrors

January 20, 2017January 20, 2017 carmenmlCarmen

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

January 15, 2017January 15, 2017 carmenmlCarmen

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[…]

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Unwavering – Personal Response to Pride and Prejudice

December 17, 2016January 23, 2017 carmenmlCarmen

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,[…]

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Robert Frost – AP Poetry Analysis

November 8, 2016January 12, 2017 carmenmlCarmen

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[…]

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To Prove a Villain

October 14, 2016 carmenmlAP Class

“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[…]

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Dear Grandma

September 11, 2016 carmenmlCarmen

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,[…]

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Butterflies – Response to the Story of an Hour

January 21, 2016 carmenmlCarmen

“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[…]

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Polished Critical Essay – SCND

January 21, 2016 carmenmlCarmen

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[…]

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A Letter to War ~ Free Choice

November 14, 2015November 22, 2015 carmenmlCarmen

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.[…]

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Polished Personal ~ Colour in a Grey World

November 6, 2015 carmenmlCarmen

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[…]

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