PROMPT: 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 illusions and reality. (June 2014) When faced with[…]
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Manipulation for the Sake of Safety (Polished Critical Essay)
Prompt: …The role of honesty when an individual experiences tension between optimism and reality Text: A Streetcar Named Desire A lack of honesty is not always born of malicious intent. It is instead created[…]
Polished Cold Critical – Memory and Reality to Direct Action
*For my free choice I decided to polish the cold critical we did in class as I struggled with this prompt. I wanted to solidify and develop my ideas, though I still feel that they[…]
Lost at the Start: Polished Personal
The role that societal conventions play in an individual’s quest to overcome circumstance When thinking about my goals in life and all the things I’ve ever wanted to accomplish, I think of how a lot[…]
Wealth, Prosperity, Love, and Responsibility… and Several Other Terrible Things from The Great Gatsby: Polished Critical
Discuss the ideas developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the ways in which individuals take responsibility for themselves or others. The Great Gatsby; F Scott Fitzgerald One[…]
Lineal Transition of Honour and Certainty – POLISHED CRITICAL
The ways in which individuals struggle to restore honour and certainty. Lineal Transition of Honour and Certainty Honour is the only way in which individuals can control others’ perspective of them, in that an[…]
Polished Critical- Happiness Through Broken Conventions
Discuss the significance of an individual’s attempt to live unconstrained by convention or circumstance. Society can often be the most influential factor in determining the course of an individual’s life. The rigidity of convention and[…]
A Destructive Truth – Polished Critical
Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the significance of idealism and truth in an individual’s life. (June 2009) It is common to see[…]
Polished Critical–The Discrepancies Between Idealism and Truth
Shall each man find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have his mate, and I be alone? ~ Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the significance[…]
Middle Syndrome -Polished Personal Response
What do these texts suggest to you about an individual’s capacity for self-sacrifice in the face of compelling circumstances? Support your idea(s) with reference to one or more of the texts presented and to your[…]