Through Sania and Malika’s poetry seminar last year, “On Reason and Passion,” by Kahlil Gibran, I was exposed to my own “facade,” my own “soul,” my own hypocrisy. This is my personal response to the[…]
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The Malleability of Convention
*This is the finished version of a cold critical I had written, it is not the one I handed in as a polished. I posted it for feedback, in case anyone would like to comment[…]
Polished Critical, The Pursuit of an Ideal without Accountability to Truth
The Pursuit of an Ideal without Accountability to Truth “Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the the significance of idealism and truth in an individual’s life.” Idealism,[…]
Polished Personal: Dependency on Illusions due to a Lack of Truth in Reality
*I have decided to use this piece as my polished personal, not the piece I previously posted. Dependency on Illusions due to a Lack of Truth in Reality What do these texts suggest about the[…]
Polished Personal: The Foundation of Personal Integrity; Courage
Polished Personal Response to “Courage” by Anne Sexton “Courage” – Anne Sexton It is in the small things we see it. The child’s first step, as awesome as an earthquake. The first time you rode[…]
of all that i have learned
“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” – Albert Einstein of all that i have learned of all that i have been taught perhaps the most important,[…]
The Significance of Dreams in “Jane Eyre” and “Wide Sargasso Sea”
*I don’t have exact page numbers, just chapters, for some quotes as I did not have a copy of Jane Eyre or Wide Sargasso Sea when writing this – I returned them without thinking of[…]
Biographical Analysis of Lord Byron’s “The First Kiss of Love”
Lord Byron’s “The First Kiss of Love” – School of Criticism (Biographical Lens): “Discuss the ideas developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the way in which individuals pursue or compromise their[…]
For Those Who Have Yet to Hear Her Voice
*This piece is probably the most personal (from a time in my past) out of all I have written and is a change and challenge for me in that sense. Usually I write from a[…]
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in Relation to Frankenstein
In relation to Frankenstein, as written by Mary Shelley, there are many points of intersection between both reality and the stories portrayed in Shelley’s novel and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Coleridge’s[…]