prompt: … the difference between desire and destiny when individuals face uncontrollable circumstances. theme statement: An individual’s destiny completely inhibits their efforts in achieving their desires and aspirations, rendering themselves useless in uncontrollable circumstances –[…]
Tag: Motherhood
A Selfless Kind of Love- China Cultural Seminar
Presentation Link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yYYV9rVTuFGtrYx6YOMZ2Plt-6KmzOzObwp0bxweOrs/edit#slide=id.p 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. Below is my Cold(ish) response to the[…]
A Mother’s Nature: Polished Personal
This piece is an honest attempt at a CPU (Critical, Personal, Universal) personal response to an excerpt from David Guterson’s Snow Falling On Cedars. The excerpt is set in an American relocation camp in 1941 just[…]
Polished Personal: What it Means to be a Mother
What do the texts suggest about an individual’s capacity for self-sacrifice in the face of compelling circumstances? Responding to the picture: Mother and Child, Malaga, Spain, 1996 Prose Form: Online News Article We can’t really[…]
Useless Guilt – Polished Personal
Prompt: The nature of motivations that direct an individual’s course of action (January 2013) Below is my Polished Personal in response to the poem Useless Boys by Barry Dempster. In the poem the writer explores the[…]