…about the impact significant events have on an individual’s ability to determine their own destiny. The Tangled, Destined Indian Polished Personal I often wonder about the strange, misplaced events and nuances that occur in[…]
Category: Alissa
A Deformed Resilience Resulting from a Lack of Empathy
“… the ways in which an individual’s resilience is shaped by empathy.” A Deformed Resilience Resulting from a Lack of Empathy POLISHED CRITICAL It is not uncommon to witness in[…]
Antigone’s
Discuss the ideas developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the human need to make a commitment or renounce a course of action. Death, one may argue, is an end to which[…]
Confusion in the World
There is so much – so much confusion in the world. Is it even a world – could I say? – it’s small, cheap, confusing in its absence of anything holy. The rim of that[…]
Sunflowers
What do these texts suggest to you about an individual’s response to the constraints of convention or circumstance? Poem: “Diary of a Piano Tuner’s Wife” by Wilmer Mills Sunflowers In the days when my grandmother[…]
The Succumbing Syndrome
Polished Personal – What do these texts suggest about the conflict between pursuing a personal desire and choosing to conform? The Succumbing Syndrome I suppose if you wanted to know about me – my[…]
Girlhood
“Some of us can recall the exact time in which we reached certain milestones on life’s road – the wonderful hour when we passed from childhood to girlhood – the enchanted, beautiful – or perhaps[…]
An Empath’s Frequencies
To me, life is extremely colourful. Every word has a flavour and every colour has a character. When I go out into nature, the oxygen in my lungs is so extremely abundant that I can[…]
What I Know For Sure
We can’t all be stars… but we can all twinkle. These are the words that have been on my bedroom wall since I was ten years old. These words I believe. I loved to learn[…]