You’re addicted. To people telling you that you’re pretty. To people telling you that you’re smart. To people telling you that you’re on the right track. To opinions. The reason we struggle with feeling[…]
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No Love for Nobu – Memoirs of a Geisha Character Analysis
Warning – major spoilers ahead! Even worse – lots of plot retell! Also please collapse the ‘contents’ menu – those are just quotes. Memoirs of a Geisha is my biggest guilty pleasure. Despite the novel’s[…]
light in the waters – a return to romance
As a gently cynical pessimist, I thought it a good idea to look at the positive – and I do have quite a bit of free time on my hands, so while I work on[…]
each – for valentine’s day
To: you already know who it is 😉 Each moment with you I try my hardest to grasp. For those seconds of love can’t cease to elapse. A tired truth stays hidden behind those[…]
Dance of Dreams – PP (Polished Personal) Exam
Although the following song is unrelated to my personal response, it did inspire quite a bit of my piece and connected well to the text: the nature of human longing and how an individual’s[…]
boots to fill – an appreciation post
There’s a day left in the semester. I should be studying for my many exams coming up, and yet here I am – reminiscing. Reminiscing about the person I was before this class, and who[…]
Birth of a Rancher – Death of a Salesman: Polished Critical
…the significance of an individual’s attempt to live unconstrained by convention and circumstance. Before an individual is born and has the chance to establish the ways in which they want to find success in their[…]
Their Eyes of Constraint – Their Eyes Were Watching God: Polished Critical
The significance of an individual’s attempt to live unconstrained by convention or circumstance. When individuals seek to fulfill their endeavors, they can be constrained by convention and circumstance: that is, the inability to follow[…]
Entrancing and Romancing – The Complete Series
The following is a series I originally began to write in November for creative writing class. My heart poured out words upon words, and it ended up being a five-part series that I thought[…]
Drowning in Uncourageous Instability – Hamlet Polished Essay
Drowning in Uncourageous Instability … the role emotional courage plays when an individual experiences separation. Emotional stability is what allows an individual to maintain healthy levels of emotions within them, and many[…]