Yes, the one that was due in October – because I posses the unique ability to accidentally write a critical when I was supposed to write an AP essay. I am just the epitome[…]
Author: Hijab
Chalk Pastels and a Childhood Soul – “Siren Song” Polished Personal Response
Note: I have been turning this post over and over in my head as though to plan its perfect execution, but it just wasn’t piecing together the way my truth had revealed itself to me.[…]
Imprints – Polished Personal Response
Imprints …the conflict between pursuing a personal desire and choosing to conform (Jan 2011) Response to “The Jackhammer Syndrome” and the visual, Diogène ou la Lucidité (2005) The women in my life speak in[…]
Dimming the Glare: Seeking Illusion to Remedy Reality – A Streetcar Named Desire Polished Critical
*A Public Service Announcement for My Beautiful, Intensely Stressed-Out Geniuses: There came upon me, once, a dark time in my life where I assumed the onesie was a rather childish, silly article of[…]
Margaret Atwood’s “Siren Song” ~ AP Poetic Analysis
Prompt: Write a well organized essay in which you discuss how the poem’s controlling metaphor expresses the complex attitude of the speaker. (1996) As if attesting to the legacy of centuries of amalgamation, the[…]
Take 2: The Stone Angel Semi-Polished Critical Essay
* I say semi-polished because this essay’s not exactly a priceless gem – think more along the lines of “diamond in the rough that is not actually a diamond but a sugar crystal, and no[…]
We’ll Know Better Next Time
There’s a thought I’ve been turning in my head, over and over; I can’t seem to make sense of it, and every time I try to fight its dizzying waves, I find myself carried[…]
The Thousand Splendid Suns Between Our Souls
“Laila watches Mariam glue strands of yarn onto her doll’s head. In a few years, this little girl will be a woman who will make small demands on life, who will never burden others,[…]
A Day in the Life of…
So, last year in Psychology we were doing these day-in-the-life-of assignments where we tried to put ourselves in the shoes of those who suffer from mental illness. I was assigned panic attacks, and so here’s[…]
A Selfless Kind of Love- China Cultural Seminar
Presentation Link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yYYV9rVTuFGtrYx6YOMZ2Plt-6KmzOzObwp0bxweOrs/edit#slide=id.p Prompt: Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the conflict between pursuing a personal desire and choosing to conform. Below is my Cold(ish) response to the[…]