Dear AP class of 2016-2017, I cannot believe that another semester has come and gone, time has certainly gone by so quickly to the point where I felt like I was just starting class yesterday.[…]
Category: Bryna
Polished Critical – The Art of Independence
Prompt – Discuss the significance of an individual’s attempt to live unconstrained by convention or circumstance. The means and ways of which an individual lives is ultimately decided by the norms of the society that[…]
Poise And Propriety: A Pride And Prejudice Review Upon Feminism
To be quite honest, Pride and Prejudice was a novel that I did not enjoy. After a few hours of agonizing torture, of trudging through sophisticated language and dreary woes of the average 18th century[…]
Polished Personal
Personal Response An individual’s capacity for self-sacrifice in the face of compelling circumstances. Focus: In the face of compelling circumstances, individuals can find an inner strength to overcome adversity through sacrificing a certain aspect of[…]
Personal Response – Where There’s A Wall by Joy Kogawa
Where there’s a wall There’s always more than One Two, Three, Four. Above and below No escape No ladder No door Just iron bars and suffocating darkness that clings to you like a cloak. Laboured[…]
A Letter to a Racist
Dear Donald John Trump, Sr: In the face of the ongoing US election, one could imagine that you are elated – smug, even – considering on how many states are swinging towards your favour. But[…]
Prometheus and Frankenstein
The tale of Prometheus and the tale of Frankenstein (both Victor and his monster) are stories that mirror each other in such a way that it serves to be a cautionary tale to those who[…]
They were just a couple on Fire ( Or more aptly named: Falling in love with the Sun )
Author’s note: This piece explores the idea of passionate love. From this post, I believe that love, at its essence, is both selfless, and selfish. However, the forgiveness wrought from a loved one is absolutely[…]
One Skinned Cat
Whenever she looked at the tiger pelt nailed to the wall of their summer cottage, there always was this curious feeling of guilt. Of shame. Despite the fact that it wasn’t her fault that she had[…]
The art of Paranoia and Obsession
This emulation from Lady Lazurus by Silvia Plath is a tribute to my past self and the struggles where I have faced extreme paranoia and obsession for a whole year. I have done it again One day in[…]