Prompt: What do these texts suggest to you about the forces that inhibit or encourage an individual’s actions? Education is a large part of the development of the world because it gives individuals an[…]
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Personal Response – My Father’s Lost Home
Reference: About my Father’s Plot to Get Home Thesis and Context: When an individual must deal with the prospect of an uncertain future, they create an illusion of certainty by denying the existence of[…]
Free Choice for June – A Letter to My Motherland
With the Black Lives Matter movement going on, I have been thinking a lot about the subject of racism. I have been noticing that a lot of people close to me have fallen prey to[…]
Free Choice for April – The Scientist and the Specimen
I only ever love in waves… Too much Then too little Too much Then too little You’re a saint to me, That is, Until you unveil your ugliness Until my patience wears thin and my[…]
Analysis of Moishe the Beadle – Night Response
“They called him Moishe the Beadle, as if his entire life he had never had a surname.” (Pg.3) A man as awkward as a clown who lives an impecunious existence is not typically a character[…]
This I Believe: The Power of Personal and Intentional Change
“I believe in the power of intentional and positive change within an individual. Changing myself for the sake of gaining self-confidence, and therefore, being more independent has been very positive for me and has made[…]