From Booksmart to Streetsmart…Ish The Importance of Balanced Experiences in Success Hello. For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Shyla. I have been an AP ELA student since grade 10.[…]
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On Legacy and Leaving
*This post began as an analysis of the idea of a legacy but organically developed into more of a spoken word/personal response. A lot of what I posted this year was impersonal and analytical. While[…]
Polished Critical: Dependency on Others and Illusions to Compromise Happiness
Dependency on Others and Illusions to Compromise Happiness “…the ways in which individuals pursue or compromise their happiness” Attempts to establish a long-term state of satisfaction in one’s life, happiness, may be accomplished[…]
Polished Personal: Fear and Foresight to Allow for Introspection
Fear and Foresight to Allow for Introspection “What do these texts suggest about the interplay between fear and foresight when individuals make life-altering choices” Responding to James Lasdun’s poem “To a Pessimist.” In making life-altering decisions,[…]
Titania: Character Perspective (Nimrat, Tarannum, Shyla )
Titania’s Pursuit of Personal Desires and Conformity Quotation: Come, sit thee down upon this flow’ry bed While I thy amiable cheeks do coy, And stick musk roses in thy sleek, smooth head, And kiss[…]
Polished Cold Critical – Memory and Reality to Direct Action
*For my free choice I decided to polish the cold critical we did in class as I struggled with this prompt. I wanted to solidify and develop my ideas, though I still feel that they[…]
The Wars – Cruelty to Incite Extraordinary Perceptions of the Ordinary
“In literary works, cruelty often functions as a crucial motivation or a major social or political factor. Select a novel, play, or epic poem in which acts of cruelty are important to the theme. Then[…]
Poetry Seminar Personal Response – “turkish red” in Relation to the Euphrates River
* Below is my personal response to the Turkish Poetry Seminar that I did with Ibukun. I chose to analyze the historical, current, and religious significance of the Euphrates River (as referenced in line 13)[…]
Quotation Presentation: Perspective to Promote Purposeful Ignorance in Pursuit of the Unknown
This blog is the continuation of the emulation/matter from my Quotation Presentation. The quotation used for my presentation is taken from Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaids Tale and reads,“What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created[…]
A Literary Analysis of Ísland in relation to Icelandic Independence
This is my personal response to the cultural seminar my group did (or will present in January) on Icelandic Independence. I chose to analyze the poem we had used in our presentation under the lens[…]