Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the role self-perception plays when individuals seek to reconcile the conflict between illusion and reality. In conflicting situations, individuals tend to[…]
Category: Taylor
You can run, but you can’t hide
How convenient it can be to lie, how painfully simple to cover up how you’re hurting inside, and how isolated one can become from hiding behind a deceitful smile. Shallow Creek was an idea just as shallow[…]
Personal Response to Text: A Sight, A Sound, A Smell
Response to: The Stricken Children Prompt: What do these texts suggest about the role adversity plays in shaping an individual’s identity? A sight, a sound, a smell. When any specific one of these are mentioned,[…]
New vs Old
The south has always had a connotation attached to it; one with slavery and segregation written on its label. The old south: cotton fields with large and extravegent plantation houses; racism and slavery was the normality, it[…]
Grade 1
Southeast elementary. South middle school. High school. There’s four elementary schools, two middle schools, and one high school. A northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest, a north and a south, and one city. I met him[…]
Lost: Innocence
A word. To express love and encouragement. To be pronounced with the imitation of a baby’s voice by an adult or elder. To be filled with pure happiness and fulfillment. Until the word is used to[…]
Too busy.
I was in the car one day. Yes, the car. I sat in the passenger seat. The car that cost money to buy. The car that costs money to maintain. The car that costs[…]
Believing in believing…
I believe in believing. But what is believing? Perhaps it is when the mind constantly reiterates to the heart the details it has gathered from the outside world in its efforts to persuade you into believing something similar[…]