The impact significant events have on an individual’s ability to determine their own destiny” -=-=- I like to walk at night. I find it relaxing. I find it so calming to be able to[…]
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The Forgotten Genocide – Cultural Seminar
This was the poem that I wrote as a response to our Cultural Seminar: written from the perspective of a victim of this tragedy. It is rather short, but I ended up writing this when[…]
Our most dangerous weapon
People get inspiration from the oddest of places. My inspiration for this post came from the people on my school bus. And, surprisingly, I really love my school bus. It is the home of many[…]
Advice that would have been useful ten years ago
I tried something totally out of the box for this critical essay and focused on one single event over the course of two paragraphs, contrasting the advice someone was given for success versus the failure[…]
When There’s a Will…
“The ways in which individuals struggle to restore honor and certainty” A king. One simple word has defined life or death, fortune or poverty, recognition or obscurity – but above all: honor and certainty. A[…]
The Most Original of Characters
Quotation (N) …rich, not gaudy, For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station Are of a most select and generous chief in that. Neither a borrower[…]
A perspective from up here
It’s no big secret that I am a tall person. Rather, I mentioned this in my ‘Portrait Of’ presentation; one is bound to hear me before they see me. But when someone does see me,[…]
Twolius Caesar
Julius Caesar. Possibly the first Shakespearean play (after Romeo and Juliet of course…) that I have ever known about. Shown to me as a film back in Grade Eight, it was the first play that[…]
How many heroes?
There’s very few books that I pick up from the library while browsing that are really, really good. Anna Seidl’s No Heroes is a perfect example of a book that I picked up on a[…]
Semester I reading ladder:
Following is a list of all the books that I have read, in no particular order, over the course of this hectic first semester. (I’m assuming textbooks do not count here, unfortunately) Books: (Title –[…]