Prompt: …Impact significant events have on an individual’s ability to determine their own destiny? Theme Statement: When an individual is emotionally hurt by witnessing a significant event in the life of another person, they may[…]
Category: Tarannum
Alone in the Crowd: Polished Personal Response
What do these texts suggest to you about the interplay between how individuals perceive themselves and are perceived by others? (June 2012) Theme Statement: When an individual is unable to relate their self-perception to the[…]
On the American Dream.
I don’t think the American Dream is “bad”. Ironically, many of the books I have read that revolve around the idea of the American dream support a much more hopeless view on the dream[…]
China: A Feminist Perspective – Polished Response
Prompt: Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the conflict between pursuing a personal desire and choosing to conform. Response to “I went to jail for handing out feminist stickers in[…]
“Purpose is but the Slave to the Memory”: Death and the Desire to Restore One’s Honour and Certainty (Hamlet Critical Essay)
Prompt: Discuss the ideas developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the ways in which individuals struggle to restore honour and certainty. “Purpose is but the Slave to the Memory”: Death and[…]
“A Five-Year-Old Could Have Done That”: The Case for Modern Art
“Art is so pretentious.” “If I were to scribble on a canvas, would it be shown in galleries?” “Anyone could have done that. Why is it even considered art?” *** In[…]
So Good It’s Haunting: The Ghost of Old King Hamlet Character Perspective
“Doom’d for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away.” (1.5. 10–13)[…]
Apologizes. (Portrait Of… Poem)
There are so many things that I wish I could take back in this world – I feel as though I have given too much of myself away to ever be whole again. And if[…]
All Those Silly Little Things
No blog can possibly be complete without a rant, so here is mine. Because I was the oldest child, and because I was the first child to experience growing up in a different country, I[…]
Critical: The Effect of Self-Perception on the Conflict Between Illusion and Reality
Prompt: The role self-perception plays when individuals seek to reconcile the conflict between illusion and reality. Illusions are generally viewed as the quintessence of escapism; through the creation of false ideals, one may find the[…]